Rise Up

A special thank you to our Leadership Council, including Ana Casanueva & Jodi Morris for your strategic guidance and unwavering support! 🙏 Your dedication and support strengthens our work and ensures we can create lasting change. #WeekOfThanks2024

To all of you, our steadfast supporters, thank you for standing with us! 💜 You are an integral part of the global movement for gender equity and justice. It takes all of us, working together, to make transformational change happen. As many of us in the U.S. gather with friends and family to give thanks this week, we want to say thank you for your tenacity in this fight. It matters now, more than ever. 🌍 #WeekOfThanks2024

A heartfelt thank you to Tides for supporting Rise Up’s mission! In partnership with the Advancing Girls Fund, we will continue to expand opportunities for BIPOC leaders worldwide and amplify their impact for girls. #WeekofThanks2024

To the 800+ Rise Up Leaders advocating for equity in education, health, and economic opportunity around the world: THANK YOU for your leadership! ❤️ Your partnership, vision, and commitment to advancing gender equity and justice inspires us every day and keeps us hopeful for change. Thank you for making the world a better place for women, girls, and gender-nonconforming people. #WeekofThanks2024

🎉 Welcome to Rise Up’s Week of Thanks! 🎉 This week, we’re shining a spotlight on our powerful Rise Up global community. To start, we’re sharing heartfelt messages from our Co-founders, Denise Raquel Dunning, PhD and Josie Ramos, reflecting on their gratitude for the journey they embarked on together 15 years ago. Join us in celebrating the people, partnerships, and passion driving our work forward! 💜 #WeekofThanks2024

📢 We’re #Hiring! Rise Up is looking for a Grants & Contracts Coordinator to join our team and support the operational and administrative management of grants and contracts. Position Details: ✔️ Full-time, remote (within the U.S.) ✔️ Permanent role (open until filled) If you have experience in grants and contracts administration or financial management for nonprofits, we’d love to hear from you! 🔗 Learn more and apply here: https://lnkd.in/gHQzYTD Know someone who’d be a great fit? Please share this opportunity! #HiringNow #HiringAlert #DevelopmentJobs #FundraisingCareers

On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honor and affirm the humanity and human rights of transgender people globally. 🏳️⚧️ The featured Rise Up Leaders are working tirelessly to ensure trans communities around the world have access to education, health care, economic opportunities, and the resources they need to thrive. Their efforts remind us of the urgent need for justice and equity for people of all gender identities. Follow and support their work at: Alianza Translatinx , Safe Access , PINK Center 🏳️⚧️ , People For Change , Conexão G - Grupo LGBT nas favelas & The Transgender District

🌟 Meet Namrata! 🌟 Since joining Rise Up in 2021, Namrata has been an invaluable Project Manager in Rajasthan, India. She helps manage our Leadership Accelerator training program in India, including selecting outstanding leaders, providing local context to our curriculum, developing training materials, and coordinating with trainers for impactful sessions. We’re so grateful for everything you bring to the team, Namrata! 🌱 #RiseUpTeam #EmployeeSpotlight

📣 Co-authored by Rise Up' founder, Dr. Denise R. Dunning, and Cummins CEO Jennifer Rumsey, this insightful op-ed highlights the urgency for leaders to invest in girls. Girls are the future, let's nurture that future! Read more: https://lnkd.in/g2_vRmb9

ICYMI: Rise Up Co-founders, Josie Ramos and Dr. Denise Raquel Dunning, were recently featured in the news. 📰 🎉 🌍🤝💡 Josie shared with East Bay Magazine how Rise Up partners with local leaders in California and worldwide to strengthen gender equity and justice in education, health, and economic opportunity. In California, specifically, Rise Up Leaders are working on issues such as Black maternal health, housing equity, criminal justice reform, transgender rights, and school safety, among others. https://lnkd.in/gxmn9KAt 💰⬆️👧🏾 Denise co-wrote an op-ed with Cummins Chair and CEO Jennifer Rumsey explaining that we will not be able to advance women’s leadership without addressing the enormous obstacles that girls face around the world. https://lnkd.in/g2_vRmb9 What did you think of these stories? Let us know in the comments!