Invest in Women

Obstetric fistula is a childbirth injury caused by obstructed labor that leaves a woman leaking urine, feces, or both for the rest of her life. Often abandoned by society, women with fistula suffer stigma, shame, and isolation. The only cure is surgery. Fistula Foundation funds these procedures at no cost to the patient, working to end their needless suffering at an average price of just $619. Fistula Foundation funds almost 80 partners in Kenya and 27 other countries across Africa and Asia. From 2023 to 2027, we plan to provide 80,000 surgeries, because we believe no woman should endure a life of misery simply for trying to bring a child into the world. In 2022, We See Beauty Foundation supported free surgeries for women in Kenya, where dedicated medical teams provide care that allows women to return home healthy and full of hope for the future.

The mission of Carroll Gardens Association is to foster a community where residents and families of all income levels in Southwest Brooklyn’s neighborhoods can live, work, and thrive. Carroll Gardens Association, Inc. fulfills its mission by preserving and developing affordable housing, enforcing quality housing management practices, promoting small business economic development, and providing and linking residents to social services and resources to improve the quality of their lives. The Carroll Gardens Association was formed as a strong grassroots neighborhood organization that organized in the 1960’s. It was incorporated in May of 1971, as a not-for-profit organization chartered by the State of New York, to assist the disadvantaged and to create a spirit of community participation and comradeship by making the interests of one the interest of all.

The Carolina Textile District (CTD) is a network of values-aligned textile manufacturers in the United States working to manufacture hope and build communities through sustainable textile manufacturing. The Carolina Textile District was founded in 2013 to support the health and sustainability of the domestic textile industry, preserve our heritage craft, and revitalize communities by supporting small to medium-sized domestic textile manufacturers, domestic entrepreneurs, and the next generation of workers, leaders, and consumers. CTD is part of The Industrial Commons, a 501(c)(3) founded in 2015 with a mission to rebuild a diverse working class based on locally rooted wealth. They accomplish their mission by founding and scaling employee-owned social enterprises, creating industry networks, and delivering a suite of workforce development and youth engagement programs. The Industrial Commons has been nationally recognized for innovative, worker-first economic and workforce development strategies.

Hot Bread Kitchen’s mission is to create economic opportunity for women and gender-expansive people, immigrants, and people of color through job skills training, food entrepreneurship programs, and an ecosystem of support in New York City. Hot Bread Kitchen exists to uplift, empower, and support women, while working relentlessly by their sides to achieve their career ambitions. Hot Bread Kitchen’s work builds on a 15-year history of providing support services, skills coaching, job placement and entrepreneurship programming as well as our vast connections and employer relationships that put workers and small businesses on a path to economic security and mobility.