Get involved with IWD GIVING in 2025

The world comes together for International Women's Day (IWD) on March 8 to celebrate women's achievements, reinforce commitment to gender equality, and rally for change. IWD also provides a key opportunity to support women-focused nonprofit organizations and help elevate their visibility. Consider the impact if all IWD events incorporated an element of women-focused charitable fundraising and/or promotion.

Let's support the supporters

IWD has been around for well over a hundred years, but so too have many of the issues impacting women's equality.

With the huge volume of events registered on the IWD website each year by users worldwide, a massive opportunity exists to catapult women's advancement even further. With a call-to-action for all IWD 2025 EVENTS to include an element of women-focused fundraising and/or promotion, the world steps forward to actively 'Support the Supporters' in forging gender equality.

2025 sees an expanded IWD GIVING program and, in addition to the free IWD 2025 PLANNING TOOLKIT, IWD event organizers can access key resources and an IWD GIVING DIRECTORY to support fundraising activity across the IWD GIVING ecosystem.

An expanded IWD GIVING program for 2025

The IWD website serves as an important hub for elevating IWD GIVING on March 8 and maximizing year-long fundraising. With almost 30,000 charities having self-registered an account via the IWD website to date, a recent consultation process invited input to guide the growth of IWD GIVING for 2025 and beyond. The consultation remains ongoing, yet so far 91% of women-focused charities surveyed confirm that IWD provides a key fundraising opportunity for their organization. 98% of women-focused charities surveyed seek for their stories to be heard, their impact understood, and their brand reinforced. IWD GIVING can deliver on this.

IWD GIVING encourages direct donations to women-focused nonprofit organizations. 100% of funds raised to date through IWD GIVING have gone direct to IWD Charities, with the largest single unrestricted donation being a hefty six-figure sum. Building on its success to date, 2025 sees IWD GIVING open up to a far greater number of organizations.

World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) former CEO, Anna Seagall, last year commented: "Our connection with International Women's Day is a very important partnership for us. It provides an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of millions of girls and women worldwide and to come together across sectors to raise awareness of the need for greater progress on gender equality. Through Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting we are breaking gender bias, discrimination, and stereotypes, and we are supporting our girls and young women to do the same."

What do philanthropic organizations say?

In response to wide-scale consultation with charities worldwide who had registered via the IWD website, the introduction of an IWD GIVING Directory was well received. Here's what some charities said: 

• "Giving us such an opportunity will help expand the reach of our campaigns and increase global recognition."
   
• "We love this direction as it helps us highlight that financial support is required to create real change." 
   
• "IWD GIVING is a wonderful opportunity and helps us learn, connect, and network with further organizations all over the world."
   
• "International Women's Day provides a significant platform to advocate for gender equality and drive meaningful change. By strategically planning and executing fundraising activities, we can effectively mobilize support and make a tangible impact on the lives of women and girls right around the world."
   
• "Partnering with IWD goes a long way in creating more awareness about our work and reaching even more people."
   
• "We believe this is an amazing opportunity and can truly provide great support for collaboration between similar charities working together."

Who is the IWD GIVING Directory for?
 

The IWD GIVING Directory is for organizations and individuals who would like to research and potentially interact with key philanthropic entities that support women, such as:

• organizations looking to provide financial and in-kind donations
   
• grantmakers exploring the work and impact of women-focused activity 
   
• IWD Event Managers seeking to build fundraising into their IWD event activity
   
• professional associations encouraging philanthropy from its membership
   
• educational institutions seeking to engage their communities in philanthropic ways
   
• individuals considering donating their funds, time or resources
   
• the general public interested in women's advancement
   
• the media looking to help feature women-focused philanthropic activity  

IWD fundraising is successful to date

Donating to a registered nonprofit organization that works for the advancement of women and girls can support its impactful work. There are many highly commendable non-profit groups worldwide.
 

 

"We're grateful for our long-standing partnership with International Women’s Day that provides us with significant funding to help girls achieve their fullest potential, driving change on important issues of gender equality, in their communities and the world.”

- Imogen Fitzpatrick, Head of Strategic Partnerships, World Association of Girl Guides & Girl Scouts

"The IWD Charity Alliance is a huge success for Nomi Network, both in funds raised and exposure to new supporters. Subsequently, we've secured multiple new monthly donors and additional organizations, and we're potentially collaborating with a global company on a large-scale employee giving campaign. We're beyond thankful for IWD's promotion of Nomi Network and look forward to our continued work towards empowering women to reach their full potential." 

- Senior Development Associate, Nomi Network

Consider supporting IWD charitable organizations

While 2025 sees many organizations participating in the IWD GIVING ecosystem, learn about some of the organizations IWD has continued to elevate for many years.

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Philanthropic organizations are invited to participate

Registered nonprofit organizations seeking to learn more about participating in IWD GIVING should submit the IWD GIVING Participation Form located in their IWD Account.

Interest from organizations providing useful fundraising products and resources for charitable organizations and member bodies worldwide are also invited to get in touch to explore collaboration.