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.
Honduras
Adelante Foundation
Partner Since: 2007
Current Funds Granted: $35,000
Focusing on rural, under-resourced areas of Honduras, WE-funded microloans through partner Adelante enable women to start small businesses.
Haiti
Fonkoze
Partner Since: 2016
Current Funds Granted: $33,330
Through Fonkoze WE funds healthcare supplies and the training of female micro-finance clients so they can operate rural community health stores.
San Diego
International Rescue Committee
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.
Guatemala
Multicolores
Partner Since: 2022
Current Funds Granted: $18,600
Multicolores supports an association of Maya women artist in rural Guatemala through creative and economic development.
Uganda
Nyaka
Partner Since: 2014
Current Funds Granted: $60,000
Through a partnership with Nyaka, WE provides vital loan funding to thousands of grandmothers caring for children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS.
El Salvador
OEF de El Salvador
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
Partner Since: 2022
Current Funds Granted: $10,000
WE funding supports a new service for female Corps members to provide them with down payment assistance to purchase a personal vehicle.
Mexico
Via International
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.
San Diego
Girls Invest
Partner Since: 2019
Current Funds Granted: $10,000
Girls Invest helps adolescent girls from low-income backgrounds in San Diego gain financial literacy, build a savings account, plan for the future and more.
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