Finding specific female focus for feel-good philanthropy
Financial Times, 8/24/07
Melissa Berman, president and chief executive of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, says there are three strategies or ways to think about funding with a “gender lens”:
- Giving to women: in other words, to organisations that are directly helping women and girls. For example, Afghan Women Leaders Connect (www.afghanwomenconnect.org), which funds non-governmental organisations that help women and girls and are led by women