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“Because Lori Sokol tells the truth about her own story — and listens with her heart — thirty diverse women have told her the truth of their lives. ‘She Is Me’ takes us from global to personal.” – Gloria Steinem
Many of founders of non-profits are visionaries…they also have much to teach us about showing up as your authentic self to the workplace.
From her organization, the Loreen Arbus Foundation, to her long list of other philanthropic work, Arbus has committed herself to girls, women and those with disabilities. The latest in the series “My Passion, My Philanthropy.”
With her foundation Do A Little, the philanthropist has done more than a little for women and girls around the world. The latest in the series “My Passion, My Philanthropy.”
While this is her paramount philanthropic passion, Syms saw early on that gender was often forgotten in important areas of American society and has worked to change that.
Helping to drive social change opened up Lauren Embrey’s world in ways she never imagined. And now here we are, finally, with a woman as the presidential nominee of a major party. The first in our series, “My Passion, My Philanthropy.”
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Join me in offering talented female directors support. Anyone who can help financially can promote female directors either directly or through an organization. I believe that’s the way to get women out of their Hollywood rut.
A new wave of social-change philanthropy is focusing on endeavors that run on a for-profit basis. The idea is to encourage a more businesslike approach to solving the world’s pressing problems and earning a return on investment in the process.
Margot Franssen, founder of The Body Shop Canada, says women are often squeezed into lives that are too small and her philanthropy rebels against that.
Barbara Dobkin believes that “if you can’t see it, you can’t be it.” That’s why she tells the story of her own philanthropy: so other women who can afford to fund women will follow suit.