Let's make International Women's Day one of the biggest giving days of the year

Across the world, there are thousands of reputable women-focused charities working tirelessly to support and advance women. 

IWD GIVING is a worldwide call-to-action for individuals, groups, and organizations to support women-focused charities on International Women's Day (IWD). 

From large-scale global philanthropic entities to grassroots groups, their gender equality work can be highly impactful.

Will you step forward to nominate a relevant charity as a recipient of your IWD fundraising and/or promotional activity?
 

IWD as a pivotal moment to support women-focused charities 

Anyone, anywhere, can help elevate visibility of women-focused charities and support them in much-needed fundraising.

While charities appreciate financial donations, the giving of time, resources, and professional services is also valued. Even distributing a charity's information and resources to encourage engagement can help raise awareness about their existence and work.

Will you invite personnel from a relevant charity to speak at, participate in, and/or host a stand at your IWD event?
 

Together, we can 'Support the Supporters'

Supporting the supporters is a core ethos of IWD, evidenced by the vast range of useful information and collaborative resources made available to support IWD planning and activity.

Anyone can help support the work and success of women-focused charities, or charities that maintain a gender focus within their wider remit.  

IWD is a movement. Historically, the day has existed since 1911, and with its long history, continues to provide an important opportunity for collective action by gender equality advocates worldwide.

Everyone, everywhere can participate in IWD and that's what makes it so inclusive - not exclusive.

Supporting the supporters means always involving as many diverse and wide-ranging groups as possible and actively supporting them in their efforts to forge gender equality.
 

Let's get behind IWD GIVING

For many years, the IWD website has actively encouraged and helped facilitate direct donations to a range of women-focused registered charities, with the largest known single amount being a hefty six-figure sum. As always, 100% of the financial donation was paid by the donor directly to the registered charity. 

Through IWD GIVING, donors engage and collaborate directly with the charities to provide financial and/or in-kind support and, in many cases, long-term high-impact relationships have ensued continuously over many years.

With such proven success of charities being supported, it is an obvious direction to open up IWD GIVING to many further registered charities worldwide.

Furthermore, there's an incredible untapped opportunity to be seized. If every IWD event on the planet included an element of support for women-focused charities, imagine the incredible opportunity to accelerate action.  

To support this mission, a brand new collaborative IWD GIVING DIRECTORY is being built up over time as a practical and fundamental resource for IWD Event Managers, organizations, and donors who believe in the spirit of collective momentum. The Directory lists a range of registered charities working to forge gender equality across various areas, and further entities are invited to participate.
 

Ways to participate in IWD GIVING 

Through collective collaboration IWD GIVING can be successful in helping to accelerate action for women worldwide. 

Please consider some of the ways below that hopefully may align with your IWD activity. 

1. Donate financially to a women-focused registered charity directly 
    
2. Invite a charity to attend and participate in your IWD event
    
3. Fund the ticket cost for charity personnel to attend an IWD event
    
4. Invite a charity to speak at your IWD event
    
5. Host a charity stall at your IWD event  
    
6. Distribute information and/or resources from a charity at your IWD event
    
7. Introduce a women-focused charity to your company
    
8. Tell your favorite charity about IWD GIVING and invite them to participate
    
9. Tell charities when you see relevant grants made available
    
10. Comment, like and/or re-post the social media posts of women-focused charities
     
11. Include a weblink from your website to a women-focused charity
     
12. Volunteer your services to your favorite women-focused charity
     
13. Write articles about the work and impact of your favorite women-focused charity
     
14. Actively participate in activity your favorite women-focused charity hosts
     
15. Subscribe to newsletters of women-focused charities to stay informed
     
16. Donate a prize for a charity raffle or auction
     
17. Leave a gift for an impactful women-focused charity in your will

Step forward in solidarity

So, will you get behind IWD's long-term "Support the Supporters" philosophy by helping make IWD one of the biggest giving days of the year?

Will you actively help drive IWD GIVING to its highest and successful level possible?

Plus, companies providing useful platforms, products and services for the charity sector are also welcome to collaborate. 

Non nobis solum ....