Spark's Grantees

Our Model

The primary way we sparked change was through a grantmaking program in which Spark members gave their time, money, and expertise to support grassroots women’s organizations.

Informal grantmaking can be done through a giving circle, a form of participatory philanthropy where individuals pool their resources and jointly decide where to invest them. To learn more about how you can start your own, download Spark’s How-To Guide.

Mfariji Africa

2015 Grantee
Since Mfariji started coming to our school it's been a complete turnaround. I’m happy that now I can get equal study hours with the boys in my class.

— Kawila, a girl who dreams of becoming a doctor.
After receiving a grant from Spark, Mfariji Africa launched the Sanitary Sanity Campaign (SSC) in 10 schools in Kitui County, Kenya. This campaign provided 386 school-aged girls with sanitary pads and underwear, and offered training on reproductive health, menstrual hygiene, academic excellence and leadership skills.

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Grantees

2019

  • Neges Kreyol

    Haiti

    We are a group of girls and young women working in rural communities in northern and northeastern Haiti to combat all forms of discrimination, social inequalities, physical, sexual and verbal abuse faced by Haitian girls and young rural women. We envision a future where young rural women are self-reliant, have confidence in themselves, are in charge of their bodies, & are empowered to make their own choices.

2018

  • Tanma Federation

    Malaysia

    Tanma, meaning ‘strong’ in Burmese, is a cooperative run by and for refugee women from Myanmar. They stand together to develop projects and activities through handicraft, fair trade, empowerment and livelihood programs.

  • Human Rights Common Platform

    Armenia

    Human Rights Common Platform’s (HRCP) main goal is to create a collaborative platform for women to encourage democratic participation, to develop human rights and to reach social justice for all. HRCP aims to achieve advancements of women’s rights in Armenia, elimination of gender stereotypes, gender-based violence and discrimination. The target groups are women, people living with disabilities, refugees, and people living with HIV/AIDS. Spark will sponsor their program focused on integrating refugee women from Syria into Armenian society.

  • Alipato Project

    Berkeley, CA

    The Alipato Project is the first and only nonprofit that obtains economic justice for survivors by suing their batterers in civil court. They also defend the free speech of survivors by bringing anti-SLAAP motions on their behalf. In order to increase their impact, they host legal clinics, teach MCLE classes, and provide resources to the future generation of Domestic Violence lawyers. Their work helps survivors regain a sense of physical security from economic freedom. So far they have won $375,000 for survivors, and are still going strong! Their spark grant helps them train more lawyers to be part of their team.

  • Frailty Myths

    Oakland, CA

    Frailty Myths is a nonprofit founded by four diverse people based in the Bay Area with one mission: to change the world by reconnecting women, trans and gender nonconforming folks with their inner strength. To achieve this, they combine intentional conversations about strength, leadership, and patriarchy, with hands on workshops in topics traditionally dominated by men, like woodworking, sailing, and climbing. These workshops support and inspire women, trans, and gender nonconforming folks to become change-makers and leaders. Their spark grant will help them more than double their collection of tools to serve their increased demand from participants.

  • Aspire

    Egypt

    Aspire is a youth led organization dedicated to ending violence against women in Egypt. At the heart of our mission is mobilizing the community to create a cultural shift and empower women though awareness, education, and support resources to survivors. We target vulnerable young girls and women in the most fragile communities in Egypt. We believe that power shared is power multiplied. Our work adopts a community-based approach to establish a support network for violence survivors and prevent more women from being victimized through capacity building and access to reproductive health services. We empower violence survivors and marginalized women giving them a hope for a better future for them and their children

  • Fearless Collective

    South Asia

    Fearless Collective is a collective of artists and social change makers that use participatory art practices to move from fear to love in public space. We create alternative, people-led narratives that engage personal histories, cultural and political realities and tell stories of universal resilience through visual campaigning, storytelling workshops and affirmative techniques. Since 2012, Fearless has created 27 large scale murals in collaboration with nine communities around the world. Fearless Collective has its heart and roots in South Asia, is fiscally sponsored in the U.S.

  • Earthspring International Outreach

    Nigeria

    Earthspring International Outreach (EIO) services women and children in prisons as well as victims of conflict. They identify gaps in laws, policies, and government programs that overlook the most vulnerable and then help build a safety net that better takes into account their needs.

2017

  • Mosintuwu Institute

    Indonesia

    Mosintuwu Institute is a grassroots community–based organization in post conflict zone Poso, Indonesia, that works to raise the voice of women and children to involved in post conflict development, as well as work to increase their empowerment and agency through economic, political, and cultural change. Spark sponsor “Women’s Bank” which is an economic solidarity movement using recyclables as a tools to mobilize community for collect garbage, barter the garbage with food, change the garbage to be a creative product . With the “Women’s Bank” the women could support their income, prevent domestic violence, and protect the environment.

  • Azaadi

    India

    Azaadi is a feminist organization in India that works towards prevention of sexual harassment in the workplace, while challenging gender norm, roles and stereotypes in Indian media, pop culture, institutions and political spaces. Azaadi makes use of experiential learning and humorous messaging to facilitate open, honest and practical conversations. Spark will sponsor the execution of a sexual harassment audit at workplace in Bangalore, India.

  • LONA

    Bay Area, CA

    Lona is a non-profit organization that invests in women's ability to create economic opportunities for themselves and others. LONA currently supports mission-driven women in Northern California through grants, pro-bono services and access to "social capital," offering the funding and support that many women need to jumpstart their education or entrepreneurial dreams. This initiative empowers women to obtain financial success in whichever way they deem fulfilling. As a result of one woman's financial success, a broader population of women and girls is impacted, thereby advancing economic opportunity for their community as a whole.

  • Roatan Peer Health Exchange

    Honduras

    Roatan Peer Health Exchange aims to empower young people with the knowledge, skills, and resources to make healthy decisions. The rates of teenage pregnancy and STDs are incredibly high on the island of Roatan, Honduras. We do this by having Honduran medical students and visiting health professionals teach our peer health ambassadors aged 13-26 about reproductive health topics, who then go into schools and communities to teach these same topics in a fun and interactive ways to their peers. Spark will sponsor transportation, healthy snacks and further development of the reproductive health program.

  • Women Advocacy Project

    Zimbabwe

    Women Advocacy Project (WAP) is a community-based organization in Zimbabwe that works to raise the voice and profile of women in the country, as well as work to increase their empowerment and agency. Spark will be sponsoring their “Give us books, not husbands” Child Marriage Abolition Campaign designed to mobilize communities for the elimination of child marriage in Zimbabwe, informing local communities of the effects child marriage has on young girls, and petitioning the government to allow the rule of law on cases concerning child marriage.

  • ARTE

    New York, NY

    Art and Resistance Through Education (ARTE) harnesses the artistic, socio-political, and community power of youth of color to amplify their voices and organize for human rights change. ARTE is dedicated to cultivating the next generation of social justice leaders creating public works of art that seek to transform the way communities best understand and realize human rights in their own neighborhoods, and in the context of the greater global society. ARTE’s workshops take place in schools, community-based organizations, and in jails, culminating in the construction of a public art project.

  • NexGene Girls

    San Francisco, CA

    NexGeneGirls is a nonprofit dedicated to providing opportunities in STEM-related fields to young women of color in underserved communities. NexGeneGirls has served over 300 girls through workshops, trainings, mentoring, and internships by providing a multi-generational teaching and substantive, hands-on science experience for African American female high school students. Through education and mentorship, NexGeneGirls aims to address a multitude of root causes that challenge young women in the Bay View/ Hunters Point community, including gender inequality, poverty, education, and economic livelihood.

  • New Women New Yorkers

    New York, NY

    New Women New Yorkers is the first nonprofit dedicated to empowering young immigrant women in New York City. Spark will sponsor the scaling of their flagship LEAD program. LEAD is a free professional development program whose primary goal is to help young immigrant women enter the United States workforce. Through grassroots, transformative leadership, they empower participants to become role models and agents of change for their communities.

2016

  • African Youth Alliance Group

    Cameroon

    The African Youth Alliance Group is a women led organization that aims to improve the education and living conditions of women and young girls in rural Cameroon. AYAG empowers women and girls through the creation of clubs to encourage discussion, peer mentoring, leadership, skills education and by organizing community events. Spark sponsors the establishment of new clubs in Mbessa Village where 300 women and young girls will be trained in women’s rights, gender-based violence and production skills of arts and crafts, soap and body lotion for personal use and income generation.

  • Resources and Outreach for Liberia

    Liberia

    ROL is a non-profit organization actively combatting Liberia’s high rate of sexual and gender-based violence against girls by empowering, educating, and providing a safe space for their stories to be heard. Spark supports ROL’s Project READ (Restoration Education Arts Development), an initiative that creates safe places for girls ages 12-18 to discover new worlds through books, mentoring and coding programs; beginning with the opening of a female-run library café and support center for girls. Spark also supports Project READ’s global social change initiative, Project GirlSpire; a blog/online magazine promoting sisterhood, female empowerment and the equal rights of women and girls by telling their stories.

  • Ruraq Maki

    Peru/Bolivia

    Ruraq Maki is a non-profit based in the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes that creates economic opportunities for low-income female artisans, through education and connecting artisans to the fair-trade global marketplace. Spark sponsors their Yanamilla Prison Project in Peru, helping incarcerated women receive a fair and just income for their traditional, hand-embroidered products.

  • Kyusa

    Uganda

    Kyusa is a non-profit in Kampala, Uganda that offers creative, online learning tools for school dropouts, empowering them to achieve their educational goals in a way that recognizes their strengths and turns their passions into careers. Spark sponsors a 3-month skill building program for 10 young women who are at risk of being abused by virtue of living in an urban slum and being out of school.

  • SWEAT

    South Africa

    SWEAT (Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce) supports sex workers to access their human rights in South Africa with the goal of achieving a legitimate sex work industry in which informed, empowered and safe sex workers are able to make choices about their working lives and health. Spark supports SWEAT’s Mothers for the Future Program, Feminist Program, and Empowerment Program.

  • AnnieCannons

    San Francisco, CA

    AnnieCannons is a 501(c)(3) training human trafficking survivors in tech skills (from testing to full stack development), helping them build software solutions targeted to help communities vulnerable to trafficking, and connecting them with software’s vast income opportunities. A Spark grant will help fund additional instructor and TA positions so that multiple classes of human trafficking survivors can be taught at once.

  • Willpowered Women

    San Francisco, CA

    Willpowered Woman works with, supports and creates community for 16 to 34 year old women without children, who are being abused or have been abused. A Spark grant will help serve 100 women through Willpowered Woman’s reproductive coercion prevention class.

  • The Doula Project

    New York, NY

    The Doula Project is a non-profit organization based in New York that provides free compassionate care and emotional, physical, and informational support to people across the spectrum of pregnancy. They created a model of care that seeks to advance a new vision of holistic pregnancy support: a doula for all reproductive choices. Their vision is to create a society in which all pregnant people have access to the care and support they need during their pregnancy. A Spark grant will help build their birth doula program by increasing the number of trained doulas to fully serve their clients.

2015

  • Ara Trust

    India

    Let Us Stay Alive (LUSA) helps underrepresented and vulnerable women and girls of the Nyaruguru, Gisagara, Huye, and Nyanza districts of Rwanda receive women’s rights education and skills to promote economic security, improving their quality of life. Spark sponsors training on improved cooking stoves for economic gain.

  • Let Us Stay Alive

    Rwanda

    Let Us Stay Alive (LUSA) helps underrepresented and vulnerable women and girls of the Nyaruguru, Gisagara, Huye, and Nyanza districts of Rwanda receive women’s rights education and skills to promote economic security, improving their quality of life. Spark sponsors training on improved cooking stoves for economic gain.

  • RuWCED

    Cameroon

    Rural Women Center for Education and Development (RuWCED) is a grassroots organization based in Ndop-Cameroon. It seeks to assist rural women and children to survive the challenges of HIV, cultural discrimination, violence, lack of access to education, poor health and sanitation. A Spark grant will ensure 8,000 schoolgirls receive sex and reproductive health education.

  • Mfariji Africa

    Kenya

    Mfariji Africa was founded in 2012 by a local young woman to address issues affecting teenage girls in marginalized areas in Kenya through provision of sanitary towels and reproductive health training. Mfariji Africa’s main programs include The Sanitary Sanity Campaign (SSC) and Mfariji Clubs. SSC provides sanitary materials to school-going girls from disadvantaged social and economic backgrounds to reduce absenteeism from school. Mfariji Clubs were created to establish continuity in schools in which Mfariji Africa already had roots. Through the clubs, they provide reproductive training and mentorship programs throughout the year. A Spark grant will cover the distribution of sanitary towels to 1,000 disadvantaged school-going girls in 2015 to make it possible for the girls to stay in school during menstruation.

  • The BuSSy Project

    Egypt

    The BuSSy Project began in 2006 as a student-directed performance of the stories of Egyptian women’s experiences of womanhood, exposing real women’s stories and providing a space for free expression on issues that society was failing to address. Today, BuSSy is an independent theater project that tackles the complexity of gender issues from the perspectives of both women and men. The medium of theater allows the project to reach a large body of people while providing storytellers with the opportunity to publicly reclaim the truth as they experienced it. A Spark grant will cover the initiation of “BuSSy 13+,” a story-telling workshop and performance based on real stories from Egyptian high school students.

  • Red Dot Foundation – Safecity

    India

    Safecity, registered as Red Dot Foundation, was founded in 2012 by a group of women concerned about the prevalence and treatment of sexual harassment in India. They took action by creating Safecity, an online platform documenting personal experiences of sexual harassment and abuse in public spaces. On Safecity’s website, women can anonymously report where they experienced street harassment, then the data is aggregated as hot spots on a map indicating trends at a local level. Safecity also complements the crowd map with educating around identifying sexual harassment, cultural biases and stereotypes that compound the problem, and the laws relevant to the issue. A Spark grant will cover workshops for 500 children, 500 youth, and 500 parents providing education on the issue.

  • Essie Justice Project

    San Francisco, CA

    Essie Justice Group harnesses the collective power of women with incarcerated loved ones to end mass incarceration and gender inequality. Their dream is to turn pain to power for the millions who live silently struggling beneath the stigma and sadness of a loved one’s incarceration. Using an innovative healing to advocacy curriculum designed by and for women, they seed groups for women to give and receive support and to access their collective power as caretakers, leaders, and advocates. A Spark grant will support the launch of one group of 15 women in the San Francisco Bay Area to help create the flagship base after which other Essie groups will be modeled

  • BLK Projek

    New York, NY

    BLK Projek is a Bronx-based organization that uses urban farming and food justice programming to promote the physical and financial health of women and children in marginalized communities. A Spark grant will cover operating costs for both the Libertad Urban Farm and their South Bronx Mobile bus, including stipends for volunteer farmers.

2014

  • Vicony’s Global Success World

    Cameroon

    VGSW was founded by a group of women who came together to provide accurate socio-economic information and services to their local community. The organization uses innovative approaches including technology and social media to encourage women’s economic empowerment and involvement in their community’s electoral process. A Spark grant will cover training 150 women on civic education and participation through capacity building workshops.

  • The Alternative Bridge to Community Development

    Philippines

    AB2CD, Inc. empowers out-of-school girls and women to address their own poverty issues through development education, plus equips girls to be able to neutralize prospects of becoming girl-brides, victims of human trafficking, and gender-based violence. A Spark grant will cover general operating costs for vocational training for the girls, an adult literacy program for their parents, supplemental workshops offered to both, plus monitoring and evaluation.

  • Advocates for Sustainable Health

    Nigeria

    A4SH’s mission is to improve the quality and availability of health services provided to pregnant women and mothers in Nigeria. A4SH’s signature program is the Safe Delivery Program, which helps pregnant women attend antenatal care visits and receive safe delivery kits. A Spark grant will cover 4 additional interventions in hard-to-reach communities plus provide 100 safe delivery kits to facilities in each of these communities. It will also help A4SH pursue further outreach to women by providing post-natal kits to women who completed the antenatal care visit requirements.

  • Community Women’s Enterprise Network

    Uganda

    CWEN was founded by a group of passionate young women looking for new opportunities for women in their communities. CWEN’s mission is to build the entrepreneurial capacity of women to overcome economic and social barriers and achieve self-sufficiency. A Spark grant will support 41 low-income, high potential female entrepreneurs through CWEN’s Women on the Shelf project. Women on the Shelf focuses on cultivating and strengthening the capacity of women entrepreneurs through branding, packaging, marketing, and merchandising so their products will fetch higher prices, doubling their incomes and expanding their markets locally and globally.

  • Young Feminists Movement

    Pakistan

    Young Feminists Movement, based in Northern Pakistan, is a self-organized collective of young women aged 15-25 that empower girls in their rural communities. They provide 5-day trainings for girls around equal rights, reproductive health and abuse prevention, plus they promote activism around girls’ and women’s rights and gender equality. A Spark grant will cover scholarships for 50 girls to attend the leadership trainings.

  • Guerreiras Project

    Brazil

    Based in Rio de Janiero and Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Guerreiras Project uses futebol as a tool to address harmful gender norms with the aim of promoting a more equitable way of being. They carry out workshops, trainings, multimedia exhibitions, and presentations for youth participants in low-income communities. They train professional female futebol players as ambassadors of women’s rights and gender justice. These ambassadors then teach at-risk youth about social justice issues in their communities. A Spark grant covers expansion of the community workshops to build off of the momentum from the men’s FIFA World Cup in Brazil as a platform to promote gender justice through 2016.

  • Youth Leadership Empowerment and Achievement Program

    Oakland, CA

    Y-LEAP is a young women’s empowerment program founded by Oakland native, Nakia Dillard. Y-Leap’s mission is to encourage, coach, and inspire young women in Oakland to become leaders, peer-to-peer educators and successful goal achievers using the power of their minds. A Spark grant will cover 5 scholarships for youth members upon completion of their workshop trainings and 1 laptop.

  • Project Window

    New York, NY

    Project Window provides girls ages 11-15 in low income housing projects in Far Rockaway and surrounding communities with opportunities to reach their full potentials and face life with confidence. Through mentoring, educational assistance, and organized sports and dance, Project Window teaches self-awareness, the importance of education, and strong interpersonal skills. Participants learn there’s more to life than what they see through their windows. A Spark grant will support 15 girls’ participation in their summer day camp providing a safe space while school is out of session.

  • Serenity House

    Oakland, CA

    Serenity House was founded by a survivor of rape to create a safe environment for other survivors and to provide the transformative resources necessary to move from a life of hopelessness to a life of recovery. The program includes daily group sessions focused on self-esteem, life skills, incident writing, healthy relationships, healing from sexual abuse and HIV-AIDS, testing and prevention. Serenity House also provides case managers, individual counselors and drop-in services. A Spark grant will support outreach to victims involved in sex trade on San Pablo Avenue in Oakland.

2013

  • Roots of Health

    Philippines

    Roots of Health provides sex education and clinical services to young people in Palawan – one of the poorest and most vulnerable island provinces in the Philippines. The organization trains college students to communicate age-appropriate, culturally specific, real-time health education to young people in the Philippines. Their innovation is a text hotline that serves 1,000 teens a month. A Spark grant will increase cell phone load for the text hotline service, enabling Roots of Health to serve more young people.

  • Uganda Women’s Water Initiative

    Uganda

    Uganda Women’s Water Initiative (UWWI), is a local chapter under the Global Women’s Water Initiative – an organization that trains local leaders in water, sanitation, and hygiene strategies (WASH). Located in the rural district of Gomba, UWWI trains women in WASH technologies for improved health and sustainable development. A Spark grant will help cover costs for toilets, water filters, kitchen gardens, and briquette training in 10 Gomba communities.

  • Women LEAD

    Nepal

    Women LEAD, is the first and only leadership development organization for young women in Nepal. Women LEAD is run by passionate, driven young women under 25 and over half their team are program alumnae. By “paying it forward” their programs have a multiplier effect and not only transform the lives of participants, but also impact other young women in their schools and communities. A Spark grant supports their intensive year-long skills building program, mentoring, and peer network.

  • Japanese Multicultural Relief Fund

    Oakland, CA/Japan

    Japanese Multicultural Relief Fund (JMRF) organized the first national multi-lingual, peer-to-peer hotline for minority women, run by minority women, in Japan. JMRF helps these survivors of Fukushima combat displacement, isolation, and poverty. The hotline receives about 50 calls a day, more than can be answered with current capacity. A Spark grant will help increase the amount of calls JMRF can field in a day.

  • Turning Point

    New York, NY

    Turning Point is a community-based, non-profit organization addressing the culturally specific needs of Muslim women and children, who are survivors of domestic violence. Turning Point offers comprehensive social services to these survivors. Turning Point has been a safe haven for over 750 Muslim women, girls, and children to date. A Spark grant will support Turning Point’s Direct Social Services for Women and Children

2012

  • Akili Dada

    Kenya

    Akili Dada provides scholarships, mentors and leadership training to bright young women scholars from low-income families. Empowering the next generation of Kenyan women leaders, Akili Dada partners their scholars with mentors from a network of Kenyan women leaders in medicine, finance, media and government. After connecting girls with scholarships and a growing network of peers and mentors, Akili Dada’s scholars join a leadership training program. The curriculum is designed to help the girls become agents of change in their home communities while achieving academic excellence, self- awareness and a strong sense social responsibility. Spark supports Akili Dada with pro bono services and in-kind donations.

  • Asylum Access

    Tanzania

    Asylum Access was founded to make refugee rights a reality in Africa, Asia and Latin America, where 99% of the world’s 16 million refugees remain. Previously, Spark supported Asylum Access’s Empowering Refugee Women Project, which successfully engaged refugee women in Ecuador through community leadership and policy advocacy. The participants advocated to change the Ecuadorian constitution – and won. Spark is partnering with Asylum Access to replicate this project in Tanzania. The sustainability of the project hinges on participants obtaining legal status through residency permits. These permits will empower 100 women to engage in Asylum Access programming without fear of deportation and other forms of retribution.

  • Estrategia

    Peru

    Estrategia operates a number of successful job-training programs that place hundreds in jobs at local bakeries, pharmacies and schools. Spark is supporting the expansion of their program that trains women in the manufacturing of pre-fabricated construction supplies. Participants receive income from the sale of cinder blocks and education in construction management and urban development. Estrategia seeks to train 30 local women, who will subsequently train and employ an additional 150. Spark supports Estrategia with a grant.

  • The Komera Project

    Rwanda

    The Komera Project provides scholarships for girls whose families cannot afford their secondary education. In addition, Komera girls participate in an intensive training program in social entrepreneurship. The training is intended to give graduating scholars the skills to embark on their own grassroots ventures.

  • Impulse

    India

    Northeast India, with its open and unmanned international boarders, is a hotspot for human trafficking. Truck drivers from all over India coerce young northeastern girls into fake marriages, child labor, and sex work. Impulse has sought to intervene by running a comprehensive network of stakeholders involved in rescuing and rehabilitating trafficked victims. Before the intervention of Impulse, there was no other workable anti-trafficking system in the Northeast that used a holistic network approach. Impulse has intervened in 137 (and counting) cases of human trafficking. Spark supports Impulse with a grant and pro-bono services.

  • MADRE – Sister Salons

    Guatemala

    Spark is partnering with MADRE to launch Sister Salons for Guatemala. Based in Barcenas, Guatemala, 15 initial participants – all survivors of domestic violence – will receive counseling, job training and medical referrals, as needed. As a result of the project, women will be equipped to work as hairstylists, strengthening their ability to care for themselves and their families and become agents of change in their community.

  • Pentok Institute

    China

    The Leadership Winter Camp Program will provide 15 girls – ages 15-20 – with trainings on leadership development and English literacy. The participants are selected from Tibetan nomadic villages in Qinghai, Western China. Additionally, the winter camp focuses on women’s empowerment in a variety of ways. The curriculum includes daily discussions of strong women figures, inspiring women guest speakers, and exercises and games to strengthen the girls’ self-confidence.

  • Sweet Dreams Sewing Cooperative

    San Francisco, CA

    Sweet Dreams is a student operated small business that has its own line of products: hand-crafted lavender eye pillows, aromatherapy dream pillows, neck pillows, yoga mat bags and zip cases. 12 young female entrepreneurs rotate management responsibilities: finance, marketing/sales, and production. They make decisions cooperatively and profit share according to time spent working. The project is incubated by Turning Heads, a vocational arts education and entrepreneurship training program for at-risk, young women ages 14-20. Spark supports Turning Heads with a grant and pro-bono services to support the expansion of Sweet Dreams.

  • Young Women of Color HIV/AIDS Coalition

    New York, NY

    In 2006, 25 young women ages 13-25 from the five boroughs of New York City joined forces to address the lack of quality, youth-friendly and responsive, comprehensive sex education available in their communities. The young women – some of whom were HIV positive- turned frustration into fruition by forming The Young Women of Color HIV/AIDS Coalition (YWCHAC), a youth leadership program that trains peer health advocates. Each summer, a cohort of 25 young women develop advocacy skills and create public service announcements and campaigns to educate their peers on sexual health and other reproductive justice issues. Spark supports YWCHAC with a grant and pro bono services.

2011

  • Akili Dada

    Kenya

    A non profit organization registered in Kenya and an international award-winning leadership incubator nurturing a generation of girls and young women from underprivileged backgrounds whose commitment to the underserved will transform their communities.

2010

  • Akili Dada

    Kenya

    A non profit organization registered in Kenya and an international award-winning leadership incubator nurturing a generation of girls and young women from underprivileged backgrounds whose commitment to the underserved will transform their communities.

  • Haiti Relief Fund

    Caribbean

  • WOZA Zimbabwe

    Zimbabwe

  • Young Women's Freedom Center

    San Francisco, CA

    The Young Women's Freedom Center creates leadership pathways for system involved and formerly incarcerated women and girls of color to inform and lead our work and to lead the movement for social justice - advocating on behalf of themselves, their sisters, and leading the way towards freedom and liberation of all women and girls.

  • Freedom House

    San Francisco, CA

    Freedom House works closely with law enforcement and community partners to identify survivors of human trafficking, and to provide them with the care and services they need to rebuild their lives. Through our innovative aftercare model, Freedom House is breaking the cycle of exploitation and creating new futures for survivors.

2009

  • Young Women's Freedom Center

    San Francisco, CA

    The Young Women's Freedom Center creates leadership pathways for system involved and formerly incarcerated women and girls of color to inform and lead our work and to lead the movement for social justice - advocating on behalf of themselves, their sisters, and leading the way towards freedom and liberation of all women and girls.

  • Maitri

    San Francisco, CA

    We are a free, confidential, nonprofit organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area, that primarily helps families from South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka among others) facing domestic violence, emotional abuse, cultural alienation, human trafficking or family conflict.

  • Women to Women

    Ecuador

2008

  • Young Women's Freedom Center

    San Francisco, CA

    The Young Women's Freedom Center creates leadership pathways for system involved and formerly incarcerated women and girls of color to inform and lead our work and to lead the movement for social justice - advocating on behalf of themselves, their sisters, and leading the way towards freedom and liberation of all women and girls.

  • The Blue Planet Project

    We work with organizations and activists in both South and North to protect water for people and nature for generations to come. This includes working with local organizations and activists on grassroots struggles to protect democratic, community control of water, and building a movement to see the full implementation of the human right to water and sanitation.

2007

  • Abuhujumutima Association

    Rwanda

  • Oasis for Girls

    San Francisco, CA

    Oasis for Girls partners with young girls of color, aged 14-18, from under-resourced communities in San Francisco to cultivate the skills, knowledge, and confidence to discover their dreams and build strong futures.

  • The Makana Project

    Jordan

  • CAMFED

    Tanzania, Zimbabwe

    CAMFED invests in girls and women in the poorest rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa, where girls face acute disadvantage, and where their empowerment is now transforming communities.

  • Afghan Institute of Learning

    Afghanistan

    The mission of AIL is to provide education, training and health services to vulnerable Afghans in order to foster self-reliance, critical thinking skills, and community participation throughout Afghanistan and Pakistan.

  • The Vietnam Scholarship Fund

    Vietnam

  • Cordoray

    Peru