The Girls Rights project funds grants both locally in the San Francisco Bay Area and internationally that improve the rights of girls and contribute to their development and empowerment.
Featured Organizations
SHE CAN
Matches mentors in the US with girls seeking to go to college in the US. The mentor helps secure a scholarship in the US and helps the girls succeed in college while developing a lifelong connection.
Tahirih Justice Center
The Tahirih Justice Center provides legal services to girls and women seeking asylum in the US for gender-based claims.
Soccer Without Borders
Helps girls in Nicaragua gain athletic and leadership skills while earning a scholarship to school.
Equality Now Adolescent Girls Legal Defense Fund
Helps fund groundbreaking legal cases seeking to define and protect girls rights throughout the world.
Equality Effect
Takes on groundbreaking legal cases to secure the rights of girls to live free of violence in Kenya and Malawi.
Girls Rights Project Grants 2022
Total Giving: $397,000
Educational / Empowerment
SHE-CAN
Boys and Girls clubs
Room to Read
Soccer Without Borders (Nicaragua)
BAWSI
Ecole de Choix (Haiti)
CREA (Nicaragua))
Sacred Valley Project (Peru)
Rise Up (Int’l)
Nurturing Minds (Tanzania)
Rain in the Sahel. (Niger)
Educate2Envision (Honduras)
Colors of Connection (Congo)
Asian University for Women (Asia)
Creative Life (Thailand)
Himalaya Foundation
Chicuchas Wasi (peru)
Flying Kites
Ladakhi Sisters (India)
Citizens Foundation(Pakistan)
Sahar(Afghanistann)
Unatti
U-Go
Anti-trafficking/Anti-Violence
Nomi Network (Cambodia, India)
Aapne Aap (India)
Freedom Story (Thailand)
Iempathize (US) Everfree (Uganda / Phillipines)
Himalaya Foundation
World Without Exploitation
Freedonm Firm
Health
Panzy Foundation (Congo)
Projet Jeune Leader (Madagascar)
Legal Reform / Human Rights
Equality NOW (Adolescent Girls Legal Defense Fund)
Equality Effect (Kenya, Malawi)
Tahirih Justice Center (US)
Hastings Center for Gender and Refugees(US)
Madre
Lift Our Voices
No Means No
Center for Reproductive Rights
Human Rights Watch
Every Woman Treaty
General Girls/Womens Equality
Harvard University Women In Public Policy
Global Fund for Children (International)
Cambodia Children’s Fund (Cambodia)
PLAN (International)
Global Fund for Women
How Women LEAD (Nepal)
Vital Voices
Women Moving Millions (International)
Feminist Majority Foundation (US)
Ignite (US)
Alliance for Girls (San Francisco Bay Area)
Stanford Center for Gender Equality
CARE
One Sky
Georgetown Institute for Peace and Security
WFN
Journalism
The 19th
Fuller Project