Candid

JULY 2, 2021

Announced at the Generation Equality Forum convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France, the Gates Foundation's commitment will focus on three areas: women's economic empowerment, health and family planning, and leadership. Ford Foundation press release 06/30/2021.

Open 91

Open Empowerment Press France 91

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Areas served: US (primarily Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, & New Orleans), Mexico, Haiti. They believe that when grassroots women’s organizations provide vital services to their communities, women can build new skills, step up as leaders, and mobilize for rights-based policies. The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation.

Empowerment 81

Empowerment Grant Fund Resource 81

Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

Areas served: US (primarily Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, & New Orleans), Mexico, Haiti. They believe that when grassroots women’s organizations provide vital services to their communities, women can build new skills, step up as leaders, and mobilize for rights-based policies. The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation.

Empowerment 104

Empowerment Grant Fund Resource 104

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2009

This kind of constituent empowerment effort as an organizing strategy is smart. It's also expected that today might be the day that President Obama repeals the so-called "Mexico City Policy" or "global gag rule" - also excellent fodder for bloggers if or when it happens.

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Blogger Mexico Empowerment America 20

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Jose sits on various economic development boards: the Oakland Workforce Investment Board, the Bay Area Business Advisory Board of Directors for the Consulate General of Mexico in San Francisco, and the OneCalifornia Bank Advisory Board. He came in the '70s when there was still the Bracero Program in Mexico. How'd you get here?

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Oakland San Francisco Companies Business 61

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

They would help to identify, what were the needs, what were the communication and information needs that women doing this work have, what are the kinds of solutions and support that would help them do their work more effectively on the local level, and help them really and meaningfully influence policy? You could just feel the energy.

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Green Global Action Network 40

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

They wouldn't know she had stood with Gandhi in his resistance to the British, and supported his policy of nonviolent resistance to British colonialism. Finally, Mexico City passed legislation that made it possible for abortion to be legal in the first 12 weeks of a pregnancy, groundbreaking for a Catholic country like Mexico.

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Global Fund Interview United States 44