Our Flagship Organizations
An International Network of Leaders in Girls' and Women's Empowerment
COMPREHENSIVE RURAL HEALTH PROJECT
LOCATION: Maharashtra, India
FOUNDING YEAR: 1970
LEGAL STATUS: Non-profit, Non-Governmental, FCRA
STAFF: 50 full-time, 50 part-time, 75 community volunteers
YEARLY BUDGET: <$500,000
MISSION: To mobilize and build the capacity of communities to achieve access to comprehensive development and freedom from stigma, poverty, and disease.
AREAS OF FOCUS: Healthcare, Community Development, Agriculture
PROGRAMS: Community Health Workers, Training, Adolescent Girls and Boys Programs, Hospital, Mobile Health Team, Organic Farm, Artificial Limbs
YEARLY REACH: 30 Project Villages, 50 Village Health Workers, 800+ domestic and international trainees, 5,000+ hospital patients treated, 250 artificial limbs
STRENGTHS: Gender, Organizational Sustainability, Training
AREAS TO SUPPORT: Governance, Impact Assessment
BOXGIRLS SOUTH AFRICA
LOCATION: Cape Town, South Africa
FOUNDING YEAR: 2009
LEGAL STATUS: Non-profit, Non-Governmental
MISSION: To build safe communities by strengthening girls and young women through education, leadership development, and violence prevention in disadvantaged communities.
AREAS OF FOCUS: Sports for Development, Girls’ Empowerment
PROGRAMS: After School Girls’ Program, Holiday Programs
YEARLY REACH: 850 female students, 4,000 community members
STRENGTHS: Impact Assessment, Gender
NAZ FOUNDATION INDIA
LOCATION: Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore India
FOUNDING YEAR: 1994
LEGAL STATUS: Non-profit, Non-Governmental, FCRA
STAFF: 90
YEARLY BUDGET: <$1,500,000
MISSION: To build vibrant ecosystems that: energize and enable individuals from excluded communities to realize their potential and act as agents of change; expand partnerships, networks, and linkages to catalyze a critical mass of such leaders; and engage and influence governments, businesses, and other stakeholders to take this movement to scale.
AREAS OF FOCUS: Health, rights, and gender in Sport for Development, HIV/AIDS & Sexual Health, LGBT
PROGRAMS: Young People's Initiative (sport and life skills), Care for children living with HIV&AIDS, Trainings, MSM helpline
YEARLY REACH: 21,176 adolescents (among them 95% girls) through Naz India, and 26,763 through partnerships
STRENGTHS: Advocacy, Partnerships, Youth Empowerment, Child Protection
AREAS TO SUPPORT: Child participation, opening up network opportunities in sport for development alliances, Organizational Sustainability, gender transformative programs for boys (to enhance outcomes for girls).
SEITENWECHSEL e.V
LOCATION: Berlin, Germany
FOUNDING YEAR: 1988
MISSION: To promote the rights of women/lesbians/trans* /inter* and girls in sports and to fight discrimination.
AREAS OF FOCUS: LGBTQ, Sport for inclusion, Empowerment of girls in sports
PROGRAMS: Sport Clubs, School Sport Programs, recreation programs for girls
YEARLY REACH: 950 members, 50 to 60 coaches
STRENGTHS: Inclusion, LGBTQ+, Sport Club Development, projects for girls in sports,
MOVING THE GOALPOST
LOCATION: Kilifi, Kwale, Mombasa and Tana River, Kenya
FOUNDING YEAR: 2002
LEGAL STATUS: Non-profit, Non-Governmental
STAFF: 30
MISSION: To positively influence communities by working with them to provide skills and opportunities for girls and young women to achieve their full potential through football.
AREAS OF FOCUS: Sport for Development (Soccer), Girls's and young women empowerment.
PROGRAMS: Football, Education, Livelihood, Health, Child Protection, Young Men as Equal Partners
YEARLY REACH: 9,000 registered girls between 9 and 25 years.
STRENGTHS: Use of football to empower girls, community and stakeholder engagement and management; child safeguarding in sport.
