Women across the world are doing tremendous good, yet all too often, we never hear of the work done, the nonprofits started, and the communities changed by the compassionate action of local women. To raise awareness about small and growing nonprofits and organizations started by and serving women, I’ll be showcasing them in an ongoing series, Extending the Circle. Extending the Circle is designed to be an entrance point through which others can contact the organizations profiled, share information, collaborate, and further publicize the good being done by women across the globe.
Click here for information on how to suggest a group to Extending the Circle
In Extending the Circle, I’ll ask questions designed to evoke a sense of the organization, its people, and its mission, as well as basic information about how the greater community can contact and help each group. The profiles will be publicized through standard social networking, connections with women’s media, and other venues, including, ideally, forays into mainstream media (which often overlook the work and accomplishments of women).
Groups profiled at Extending the Circle will be able to freely use and share what’s posted here (this entire site maintains a Creative Commons Attribution – Share Alike License). If you are a writer or news organization, and want to use the answers provided below as the basis for your own story, please do two things: 1. Credit this site as an information source; 2. Contact the person named in the organization to let them know about your story. Preferably, you’ll contact them for additional information before your story posts!
Extending the Circle asks these questions
- What does your organization look like, and feel like, today?
- How does this relate to where you want to be, and what you would like the organization will look like, in a year or five years?
- What types of programs or services do you offer, to whom, and where? (If not answered as part of above.)
- What personal experiences inspired you to create / run this organization?
- What are the primary obstacles you face, or have faced?
- What help have you received so far?
- What help do you need from those in affluent areas or countries?
- What help do you need from those in your area or country?
- What / who inspires you?
- What do you think connecting with other women, and women’s media, would do to help you?
- What message do you believe all young women need to hear?
- What message do you believe the people of the world need to hear?
- What’s the best way to contact you / the organization?
- Website/blog
- Phone
- Other
- Can you send a photo?
- Can you send updates about your progress occasionally, to be published?
Your thoughts?
Are there any other essential questions Extending the Circle should ask of all groups?
Do you know of any women’s nonprofits or groups, anywhere in the world, that should be featured? If so, can you provide contact information? And, if the group does not have an English-speaking or writing contact, can you translate?
Do you have any suggestions or comments?
Why, and disclosures
I’m doing this because I believe deeply that it needs to be done.
I’m not charging for or generating any income directly from Extending the Circle posts, nor do I receive income the organizations about which I write, or media venues, for producing Extending the Circle. If for some reason I do write about an organization that pays me in any way, I’ll disclose the fact.
How to submit an organization to Extending the Circle.
Click here for information – it’s easy to submit an organization!
Thanks, and looking forward to hearing from you!
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Excellent idea, Kelly! I’d like to help spread the word as well as assist the nonprofits I workwith in developing a profile to post here. Thanks, so much, for your work!