About Us
Local and Global Partnerships
WE funds women’s economic empowerment efforts around the world, including small business loans, training, education, and other holistic support services with high-impact nonprofit organizations. Our grants target programs serving women who might not otherwise have the access, opportunities, and resources to overcome poverty without these funded programs. To date, WE has been able to award over $2.8 million in vital grants to 15 grant partners in 9 countries.
Find out how we partner with local organizations worldwide to create opportunities for women’s economic empowerment and help women overcome challenges of financial exclusion, lack of business or other training, and gender-based violence.
San Diego
International Rescue Committee
WE STAR Program
Partner Since: 2006
Current Funds Granted: $50,000
In San Diego and El Cajon, WE’s funding of a business incubator has enabled women in low-income communities to start and strengthen over 890 local businesses.
Honduras
Adelante Foundation
Empowering Female Entrepreneurs program
Partner Since: 2007
Current Funds Granted: $30,000
Focusing on rural, under-resourced areas of Honduras, WE-funded microloans through partner Adelante enable women to start small businesses.
Uganda
Nyaka
Grandmother Microfinance Program
Partner Since: 2014
Current Funds Granted: $51,000
Through a partnership with Nyaka, WE provides vital loan funding to thousands of grandmothers caring for children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS.
Baja California, Mexico
Los Niños de Baja California, Mexico
ESTIMA and Migrant Solidarity for Women
Partner Since: 2014
Current Funds Granted: $30,000
WE supports ESTIMA and Via Migrante, two programs of Via International that build support for women working in the sex trade and the trauma of migration.
El Salvador
OEF de El Salvador
Entrepreneurial and Empowered Women Program
Partner Since: 2022
Current Funds Granted: $20,000
With WE support, OEF launched a pilot microloan project for the social and economic empowerment of women that provides business development support.
San Diego
Urban Corps of San Diego County
Auto Tech Training Program for Female Corpsmembers
Partner Since: 2022
Current Funds Granted: $20,000
WE funding supports a new service for female Corps members to provide them with down payment assistance to purchase a personal vehicle.
Baja-Southern California region
Tipey Joa Native Warriors
Women’s Empowerment through Arts and Vital Enterprise (W.E.A.V.E.)
Partner Since: 2026
Current Funds Granted: $10,000
Their work supports Indigenous women across the Baja and Southern California border region, many of whom face poverty and threats to their cultural preservation.
Uganda
Rooted Wisdom Africa
Stitching Futures Program
Partner Since: 2026
Current Funds Granted: $8,000
Their work in rural, south-central Uganda empowers families to overcome the constraints of poverty and champions girls’ and women’s education. A WE seed grant of $8,000 will support their pilot program to provide women and girls with vocational training in sewing and business skills
San Diego
SDSU School of Social Work
Reaching Women Experiencing Homelessness: An Economic Empowerment & Recovery Project
Partner Since: 2026
Current Funds Granted: $10,000
Their work is offering pathways to stability, dignity, and a brighter future for one of the most vulnerable groups of women experiencing poverty in San Diego.
Nepal
Sunsar Maya, Nepal
Women’s Literacy Program
Partner Since: 2026
Current Funds Granted: $10,000
Sunsar Maya, an organization dedicated to providing women with education, vocational training, and economic pathways that strengthen their families and communities. The WE grant will support their Women’s Literacy Program, providing vocational and agricultural training and support to 300 women in Nepal.
Uganda
Buhoma Community Conservation and Development Initiative
Skill-Building for Women
Partner Since: 2026
One-time Grant: $10,000
Their work serves women in the Batwa community in Uganda, an Indigenous people who were displaced from their ancestral homeland in the early 1990s. Today, many still face discrimination and live in extreme poverty. WE will provide a one-time grant of $2,000 for BCCDI’s entrepreneurship program for the purchase of sewing machines and microloans for start-up capital.
Past Partners: Local and Global
WE has funded a variety of life-changing programs in the past years, some of which include:
- Dreams for Change, San Diego
- Grameen de la Frontera, Sonora, Mexico
- Hunger Project: Africa Food Farmer initiative, Benin, Africa
- PCI (Project concert international), San Diego
- Women’s Trust, Ghana, Africa
- Proyecto Matria, Puerto Rico