CHIME FOR CHANGE highlights projects with global non-profit partners
Building on its six-year legacy of funding more than 425 non-profit projects with156 partners in 89 countries, directly benefiting more than 570,000 girls and women globally and reaching more than 3 million family and community members, CHIME FOR CHANGE is pleased to announce its support of the following new projects with global partners working to empower the next generation of leaders and realize a more equitable world:
- Equality Now: connecting and mobilizing young women activists to drive progress on human rights in the Middle East and North Africa;
- Global Fund for Women: developing young leaders in Hong Kong, Brazil and Mexico, who are organizing across the pressing issues facing women locally;
- Ms. Foundation for Women: funding innovative approaches to movement-building and activism centered around women of color in the United States;
- UN Women: increasing women’s political participation and representation in Brazil;
- Vital Voices: empowering youth to address gender-based violence in Italy through innovative and interactive programming;
- Women Deliver: connecting outstanding young advocates with the platforms, people and resources to amplify their influence.
Additionally, Gucci is pleased to continue its support for UNICEF as a founding partner of BEYGOOD4BURUNDI, an initiative with CHIME FOR CHANGE Co-Founder Beyoncé Knowles-Carter to bring safe water to the most vulnerable women and children in Burundi, as well as for Artolution, a non-profit organization bringing public arts programming to refugee and vulnerable populations around the world to foster empowerment and social justice through self-expression. Through CHIME FOR CHANGE, Gucci is also expanding its partnership with I Was A Sari, a social enterprise to train women from marginalized communities in India to become artisans.
To learn more about the projects and impact, visit the below:
- Mexico: Creating Structural Change by Connecting the Feminist Movement
- CHIME in the Arab Region: Convening Intergenerational Activists for Women’s Rights
- CHIME for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
- CHIME in Brazil: Women’s Political Participation and Representation with UN Women Brazil
- CHIME in India: Changing Women’s Lives with I Was a Sari
- CHIME in Italy: Supporting Justice for Women and Girls in Italy
- CHIME and Youth Leaders Around the World: Women Deliver’s Young Women’s Leadership Initiative
- CHIME in the United States: Transformational Change through the Innovation Grants Initiative with the Ms. Foundation for Women
- CHIME in the Arab Region: Connecting and Mobilizing Activists for Gender Equality with Equality Now
- CHIME in Hong Kong, Brazil and Mexico: Catalyzing Next Gen Leadership for Gender Equality with the Global Fund for Women
- Gucci Launches CHIME T-Shirt on Reproductive Rights for the Cruise 2020 Collection