Supporting Organizations
If your organization supports a 5th Women's World Conference, we encourage you to CLICK HERE to list your organization's name, mission statement, number of members and website address. The organizations listed alphabetically below are separated into two groups: NGOs and Other Organizations & Grassroots Movements that support a 5WWC.
United Nations Non-Governmental
Organizations (NGOs)
Supporting a 5th Women's World Conference
A World Institute for a Sustainable Humanity (A W.I.S.H.) is an international nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide models and support for life sustaining activities that integrate solutions to poverty and the environment while fostering self-reliance.
Enabling Ministry Pakistan is a libro-progressive Christian service ministry started in 1995 as our response to the Christian Brick Makers around Lahore District, Punjab, Pakistan. Our entire activities circle around bringing hopes and liberation assistance to the girls and women whose parents or guardians either bartered, sold, exchanged in marriages, bought in prostitution for debts and financial gains or who are at the risk of being sold. (680 members)
Findhorn Foundation is an educational charitable trust
and welcomes over 14.000 visitors a year for tours, educational programmes
and international conferences. The Findhorn Foundation through its
Ecovillage Project is a major resource for environmental education,
local, nationally and internationally.
Friends Welfare Association is non-governmental, non-profit,
non-political and non-sectarian organization, that was established
in Pakistan in 2002. This organization is registered under the society
act of 1860. Its main focus is to contribute to poverty alleviation
and rural development through holistic, participatory and gender balanced
approach and to provide quality education to needy,
homeless children and to protect children from all kinds of abuses
(physical, mental, social).
Human
Traffic Awareness Partnerships' mission of the Human Trafficking
Awareness Partnerships is to bring the issue of human trafficking to
the forefront of public awareness.
Mama na Dada-Africa is a non-profit, non-governmental organization formed by and for African women to support the empowerment of the African girl child. We are a registered charity in Bondo District and Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa. Our mission is to reduce the vulnerability to exploitation of girls in Africa through: Research into the barriers to girl’s education and development; Promotion of access to education, both formal and informal; Training to build self-esteem and learn life skills.
Marylanders for Progress is a not-for-profit, apolitical organization founded in 1999 to assist the people of Maryland County in Liberia rise themselves from the ruins of war, to develop improved living conditions though sustainable economic empowerment, education and health care with women at the forefront.
The
Sound Essence Project, a Washington State Nonprofit
Corporation, is a collaborative international gathering of people with
the intention to create a cross cultural network of resources in an
environment of mutual learning with an emphasis on cultural sustainability.
Through the confluence of our respective wisdom's, we hope to converge
traditional practices with sustainable ways of life to create a profound
partnership which expands world community and peace through education,
herbal medicine, sound, color, and cultural communion.
Nurses
Across Borders humanitarian initiatives is an international
charitable non-government, not-for-profit organisation. Founded
in 1999 on the recognition that the vast majority of people worldwide
enjoy poor health care delivery services, arising from the dangers
of inadequate health care facilities, crises and conflicts, droughts,
disaster and famine, detrimental to full and good health. It is
the belief of NAB that health is everybody's business. (500 members)
Unity of Divine Love: Our mandala logo is a symbol of our wholeness and interconnectedness as a ministry of spiritual leaders, healers, teachers and lightworkers - all in service and ministry to one another and our world. We are an organic organization and intersect, flower and allow the LIGHT OF GOD to shine through us creating a beautiful kaleidoscope.
Vessels
of Peace is an international, multi-faith, spiritual
peace and service network for women. We believe that the path to a
peaceful humanity lies through the hearts of women; we must show the
way. We are committed to supporting women in learning to embody peace
in all aspects of their lives and to presence it in the world. (325
members)
WFWP International is a non-profit, nongovern-mental, international
organization in General Consultative Status of ECOSOC and DPI Associates
with the United Nations. WFWP Chapters adhere to the principle that
women, working together, taking initiative and empowering one another
across traditional lines of race, culture and religion to create healthy
families, are resolving the complex problems of our societies and world.
Therefore, WFWP works to provide women worldwide with: the knowledge,
tools and support needed to create peace at home, peace in our communities,
our nations and our world.
Women's
Global Connection, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit offering a virtual
gathering place for sharing women's wisdom, experience, and spirituality
for the purpose of nurturing transformative change and building
a just and sustainable global community.
Women's
Intercultural Network (WIN) is an international
non-profit organization, consultative to the United Nations, based
in San Francisco, CA, that links women and girls across cultures, globally
and locally for collective action on common critical concerns. WIN's
goal is to ensure that the voices of all women and girls are heard.
Women's
Interfaith Encounter Association is dedeicated
to promoting peace in the Middle East through interfaith dialogue and
cross-cultural study. We believe that, rather than being
a cause of the problem, religion can and should be a souce of the solution
for conflicts that exist in the region and beyond. (100 members)
Women's UN Report Network (WUNRN) is a non-governmental organization to implement the conclusions and recommendations of a United Nations Study on Freedom of Religion of Belief and the Status of Women From the Viewpoint of Religion and Traditions (E/CN.4/2002/73/Add.2). This study is a major, universal, comprehensive U.N. approach to intolerance and discrimination against women based on religion and traditions. (1000+ members)
Women's World Summit Foundation is a non-profit, non-confessional,
International NGO with United Nations consultative status (ECOSOC,
UNFPA, DPI) to help implement women's and childen's rights and the
United Nations Millennium Development Goals MDGs. Women and children
represent 75% of the world's population and need to be involved in
creating the space in which they live - a world for equality, development
and peace.
Other Organizations & Grassroots Movements
Supporting a 5th Women's World Conference
34 Million Friends of UNFPA was started to ask 34 million Americans to give at least one dollar to make up for the Bush Administration's refusal to release $34 million to the UNFPA every year.
Belle Aurore Productions believes that the world needs the voices of women's experience and is dedicated to bringing those voices to life on the stage and through readings of poetry, prose and plays written by women.
Birthing Project USA is the only national African American maternal and child health program in this country. We are a volunteer effort to encourage better birth outcomes by providing practical support to women during pregnancy and for one year after the birth of their children.
The
Center for Touch Drawing disseminates the simple yet
profound process of Touch Drawing for therapeutic, healing, creative
and spiritual applications.
Circle Connections is a membership organization that helps people start, revitalize, sustain and connect their circles. We provide resources and personnel for starting circle structures within existing and new organizations, as well as offering support to help revitalize, maintain, sustain and connect existing circles through our events, trainings, online media broadcasts, monthly conference calls and our website.
Circles of Ten Peace Circles is a membership organization where we gather in circles to identify what peace means to us and to translate that vision into action that benefit ourselves, our communities and the world.
The purpose of the Commission on the Status
of Women
of the City and County of San Francisco is
to
ensure women and girls equal economic, social, political
and educational
opportunities throughout the city.
Cosmic
Cowgirls INK: Art and Books That Turn Lives Into Legends
is a revolutionary woman and girl owned nationwide independent
membership based empowering media publishing house. The focus
of our work is the collaborative creation of journals, workbooks
and workshops designed to illuminate, inspire and inform the journey
of a woman's life. Our work is to gather women's wisdom to be
shared through the collaborative creation of art, books, music
and movie designed to inspire, inform, and illuminate the journey
of a woman's life.
The
mission of Cybercoven is
to create safe space for all people and to provide a close-knit online
community that supports healing the Earth and ourselves.
The
Cyntax Foundation is a philanthropic organization established
to commit its resources to activities intended to aid in the empowerment
of at-risk groups of women and children in Southeast Asia. Initially
projects will be undertaken in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam,
and Myanmar - with eventual expansion of programming into the
Indian subcontinent. This work will be accomplished through initiatives
such as micro-lending, SME (small to medium enterprises) technical
assistance, and capacity building through education and training.
Democracy in Action is a grassroots movement of women working to bring about progressive change in South Dakota and is committed to informing and energizing voters and creating a climate where progressive candidates are elected.
The mission of Earth Mama Healing is to assist and provide safe healing space for women and girls of the African Diaspora to gather to connect, release and heal. By conducting ceremonies, ritual work, workshops and retreats that will facilitate positive life changes.
Feminist.com is an online community and hub of resources
and information dedicated to women's equality, justice, wellness and
safety.
The
Feminist Peace Network is dedicated
to building an enduring peace, with the ending of violence towards
women and children as a first priority. This group is dedicated to
the urgent need to immediately work towards providing shelter, food,
education, and a safe environment for women and children in all parts
of the world, as well as creating economic conditions to ensure these
rights in the future. A strong bias towards matriarchal thinking is
assumed. F.P.N. is a global network, open to pacifists and feminists
of all denominations, nationalities, and persuasions willing to share
ideas and work together across borders and cultures to achieve these
goals. At the present time, the group is open to women only.
Gateway
to the Heart is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit educational and
spiritual organization which serves as an evolutionary educational
model for holographic integration through the spiritual, mental,
emotional and physical bodies by way of offering awareness programs
that assist in the process of positive transformation of individuals
and their communities.
Gather the Women is a global
community of women
committed to practicing compassionate and
collaborative
use of their
personal power.
Global Fund for Healing mission is to build capacity and link scalable global projects that promote personal, community, and/or planetary wellbeing.Focus areas include environmental sustainability, cultural restoration, and spiritual fulfillment as defined by those most directly impacted by the project.
Kore
Leadership is a collective of women dedicated to developing
leaders who are well-equipped to meet the extraordinary challenges
of contemporary work and life, and whose actions arise from their “ground
of being,” that profound source of authenticity, insight,
and joy within every person.
In
Sweet Company: workshops, retreats, keynotes and advocacy that
connect women to their inner wisdom, passion and purpose.
The Millionth Circle: Circles encourage connection and cooperation among their members and inspire compassionate solutions to individual, community and world problems. We believe that circles support each member to find her or his own voice and to live more courageously, and intend: • to seed and nurture circles, wherever possible, in order to cultivate equality, sustainable livelihoods, preservation of the earth and peace for all. • to bring the circle process into United Nations accredited non-governmental organizations and the 5th UN World Conference on Women. • to connect circles so they may know themselves as a part of a larger movement to shift consciousness in the world.
New Moon Media's mission is to help girls, ages 8 to 15, discover their unique voices and express them in the world in ways that matter.
The
Power Integration Center is both a global community
and a collection of projects all packaged and manifested into products
we can 'sink our teeth into.' Our purpose is to provide tools,
resources and opportunities for people to connect to peace, power and
passion through truth. (500 members)
SisterSpace.net: An on-line radio for women to speak to women. Sister Space, is a developing global community for women from different countries, all walks of life, diverse ideologies, and cultures. Sister Space is a place where women can speak openly, without judgement. A place where women can learn, be challenged, network and receive support from each other.
SistaTreats!™
is an opportunity for you to spend time in beautiful homes in spectacular
places and with the support of other like minded women and a great
staff touch the places inside yourself that need to be held, pampered
and acknowledged.
Sophia's Portico offers a safe haven to explore opportunities for growth in earth centered and feminine spirituality. Inclusive of creeds, cultures, genders and races, Sophia's Portico seeks to nurture spiritual growth in an atmosphere of peace, freedom, dignity and justice. All seeking personal empowerment, supportive community, and emergent paradigms are welcome to participate in ritual and formative events.
The Sophia Women's
World Conference scheduled for May,
2010, will build on the United Nations four World Conferences on Women
and the UN Platform for Action Declaration-Beijing 1995. The conferences
and the Platform for Action have created a worldwide women's movement
to advance the status of women and girls. It includes a vast network
of millions of people engaged in human rights, fundamental freedoms
and social development.
SpiralMuse Mission: Connecting women, Shaping the world. In addition to circles other programs for women, SpiralMuse provides webspace for women's self expression and a gorgeous victorian home in S.F. for gatherings, circles, events, and more.
The
Spirit Dove
Mission:
to promote peace around the world and to empower,
inspire and support women.
Women's Circles with a spiritual centre in order to create
a strong voice in the world. Every women has a wise woman living in
her - we are coming together to invite the wise women to come out and
become an active force of love in the world. A project to initiate
the feminine principle in the world.
WITH
Forgiveness is a international multimedia project, created by Susyn
Reeve and Sheri Rosenthal, to illuminate the path to compassion and
unconditional love for ourselves and others by: • Identifying
and Transforming the fear-based beliefs and judgments that cause human
conflict, pain and suffering. • Providing specific techniques
and practices to assist people in the ultimate transcendence of these
beliefs through the action of forgiveness, compassion and unconditional
love. • Offering worldwide resources to nurture the fruits of
forgiveness, including: peace, reconciliation, cooperation and world
peace. • Creating community to support our process of forgiveness.
Women's Corps MISSION: to reflect the Divine Feminine, uplifting and empowering our sisters around the world.
Women's
Perspective Mission: To
provide educational experences that inspires women to align their spiritual
and economic power for the compassionate use of money in the world.
Woman Wisdom Corp provides multi-media educational programs to empower women and girls worldwide.