Our Impact

Measuring Impact WISE
To measure the impact of your support on women’s lives, WE launched WISE: Women’s Impact, Sustainability & Empowerment Project. WISE tracks data that reveals the real-life value of your financial support over time.
Women Impact Sustainability and Empowerment (WISE)
The Women Impact Sustainability and Empowerment (WISE) project is our data-driven assessment tool to evaluate how our funding of micro-loans, financial training and other social supports lead to sustained improvements in the women’s lives. WISE gives us the data that tells the concrete story of positive change. WISE incorporates metrics from four areas to measure women’s progress across WE-funded projects:
Financial Literacy
This indicator measures the benefits of the educational components of our funding. When women increase their financial literacy to manage their own finances, to create and sustain a business, they acquired tools to provide better for themselves and for their families.
OUR IMPACT
80% of Proyecto Matria clients increase their ability to make informed financial decisions and created business plans.
Change In Provider Role
Measuring whether self-sufficiency and self-confidence in the ability to maintain one’s own finances had an impact on the way women operated within their own households as the provider.
OUR IMPACT
7 out of 8 participants in the Dreams for Change program experienced a positive change in her role as a provider for her household.
Change In Decision Making
The data behind this metric seeks to evaluate whether access and control of economic resources further supports women’s autonomy and decision making ability for themselves and on behalf of those that they care for.
OUR IMPACT
100% of Proyecto Matria clients maintained or improved autonomy in a decision-making role within the family.
Business Sustainability
The ability of women participants to sustain their businesses over time is a key element of long-term success.
OUR IMPACT
72% of businesses funded by microloans in the Via International program has long-term income making potential.
Women Impact Sustainability and Empowerment (WISE)
The Women Impact Sustainability and Empowerment (WISE) project is our data-driven assessment tool to evaluate how our funding of micro-loans, financial training and other social supports lead to sustained improvements in the women’s lives. WISE gives us the data that tells the concrete story of positive change. WISE incorporates metrics from four areas to measure women’s progress across WE-funded projects:
Financial Literacy
This indicator measures the benefits of the educational components of our funding. When women increase their financial literacy to manage their own finances, to create and sustain a business, they acquired tools to provide better for themselves and for their families.
OUR IMPACT
80% of Proyecto Matria clients increase their ability to make informed financial decisions and created business plans.
Change In Provider Role
Measuring whether self-sufficiency and self-confidence in the ability to maintain one’s own finances had an impact on the way women operated within their own households as the provider.
OUR IMPACT
7 out of 8 participants in the Dreams for Change program experienced a positive change in her role as a provider for her household.
Change In Decision Making
The data behind this metric seeks to evaluate whether access and control of economic resources further supports women’s autonomy and decision making ability for themselves and on behalf of those that they care for.
OUR IMPACT
100% of Proyecto Matria clients maintained or improved autonomy in a decision-making role within the family.
Business Sustainability
The ability of women participants to sustain their businesses over time is a key element of long-term success.
OUR IMPACT
72% of businesses funded by microloans in the Via International program has long-term income making potential.
$2,100,000
WE has funded over $2.1 million to poverty-alleviation programs in the US & Worldwide.
20,000
Women who have gained better access to loan, training, funding to start micro-enterprises.
40,000
Number of loans and recycled-loans provided to women through funds established by WE.
$7,300,000
$7.3 million in initial loan amounts and recycled loans extended to women.
Where We Work


Stories Of Impact

Vivian | San Diego, CA
Vivian from San Diego, CA Honoring a Local Mother and her PerseveranceVivian is a Corpsmember and...
Maria Aracely | El Salvador
Maria Aracely is a young, single, and resilient mother at the age of 22. She lives with her 3 year...
Micaela | Guatemala
Micaela from Guatemala “I have faced diverse challenges in my life but I consider myself a strong...