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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 02/10/2026

Rise Up Leader Sadia Khan worked hard to protect survivors of forced marriage. This week, California signed AB 2534, recognizing it as abuse under the state's Domestic Violence Prevention Act. Read Sadia's story 🔗 www.riseuptogether.org/global-good-…

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 01/10/2026

A year ago, Rise Up Together became an independent 501(c)(3). But our story started in 2009, working alongside local leaders advancing gender equity and justice. Read our 2025 Annual Report: www.riseuptogether.org/rise-up-toge…

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 30/09/2026

In Delhi, women are less than 3% of the transport workforce, pushed out by unsafe conditions and nowhere to report harassment. Rise Up Leader Hari Sharma is changing that. Read his story: www.riseuptogether.org/global-good-…

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Tunaweza Empowerment Organization @tunawezaempower.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We warmly congratulate Gloria Ochola, our team lead at @tunawezaempower.bsky.social, on her selection to the @riseuptogether.org Leadership & Advocacy Accelerator – Kenya Cohort 2026. We celebrate you and the leadership you bring to the movement. #RiseUpTogether #GenderEquality #TunawezaAt10

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 28/09/2026

At 12, on a train in Buenos Aires, Denise Dunning watched a girl not much older than her ask for help while passengers looked away. She promised herself she'd do something. That promise became who we are. www.riseuptogether.org/meet-dr-deni…

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 24/09/2026

13 laws, policies, and programs. 24.7 million people. One year. That's what Rise Up Leaders advanced in 2025. Our annual report shares how they did it. Read it and pass it on. 🔗 www.riseuptogether.org/rise-up-toge…

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 18/09/2026

This International Equal Pay Day, we're honored to stand alongside the leaders and communities working toward a world where women and girls are valued and paid equally. #EqualPayDay #GenderEquality #EconomicEmpowerment #FinancialInclusion #EqualPay

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 17/09/2026

In partnership with Cummins India Foundation, we're proud to introduce the first grantees of our Climate Solutions Lab! Meet all the leaders! 🌎 www.riseuptogether.org/meet-our-fir…

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 15/09/2026

Patricia Torres Sánchez came to the 2026 Mexico Accelerator with a vision for change. She left with new advocacy tools and a community of leaders advancing change in their own ways. "Some are driven by love, others by pain, but each has created a unique path for advocating and creating change."

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 11/09/2026

🧵 7/8 - Rise Up Leader Grace Nansamba is working to change that through advocacy that could reach more than 2.3 million girls. We partner with leaders like her to help turn bold ideas into lasting change.

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 11/09/2026

🧵 6/8 - In Kenya, that is about 1 million girls losing up to 39 days of school a year. Not for lack of ambition. Because existing laws guaranteeing free sanitary towels for girls in public schools fall short.

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 11/09/2026

🧵 5/8 - You wouldn't see anything happen. She just misses a few days every month and slips further behind.

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 11/09/2026

🧵 4/8 - By the third day, she has a choice no girl should have to make: go to school without the supplies she needs or miss another day of learning.

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 11/09/2026

🧵 3/8 - At school, she stays in her seat. She does not raise her hand. She does not stand up. She watches the clock.

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 11/09/2026

🧵 2/8 - She folds a piece of cloth into her underwear and hopes it holds through the day.

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 11/09/2026

🧵 1/8 - It is a school morning. A girl wakes up, and her period has started. There are no pads at home this month.

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 09/09/2026

Proud to have had our Kenya country representative, Naomi Monda, in Nairobi last week for the 2nd EAC regional conference on education. ✨ That belief sits at the heart of how we work. Grateful to Naomi for representing it. 🙌 #EACREC2026 #CommitmentsToImpact

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 08/09/2026

Today is International Literacy Day. In 2019, Rise Up Leader Sarmad Muhammad Soomar wrote a children's storybook, Wo Kahani, so kids in Pakistan could grow up seeing girls as leaders and boys as caregivers. It's now reached more than 5,000 children across six countries. 🌎#InternationalLiteracyDay

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 04/09/2026

This World Sexual Health Day, we stand with those working to change the systems that limit access, challenge stigma, and ensure everyone has the information, care, and agency to make decisions about their own health and body. 🌎

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 04/09/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Rise Up Leader Aminah Elster, who has been selected as a 2026 Echoing Green Fellow! We’re thrilled to see Aminah’s leadership recognized – and proud to have her as part of the Rise Up Together network. Congratulations, Aminah! 💜

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 03/09/2026

Applications for our 2026 Leadership Accelerator in Maharashtra, India closes September 20. Local leaders working toward gender equity: training, competitive grant funding, and a six-day in-person workshop in December. Apply now 🔗 bit.ly/RUT-India-2026

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 03/09/2026

Today, we join people around the world in mourning the passing of Gloria Steinem — a trailblazing feminist, writer, activist, and lifelong champion for gender equality. Rest in power, Gloria. Your voice — and your belief in the value of every one of ours — will continue to resonate. ❤️

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 03/09/2026

Your free vote can help fund local leaders! This month, Rise Up Together is a featured nonprofit in CREDO Mobile's September giving program, and you help decide how the funding is distributed. Voting is free and open to everyone! 🔗 Vote here: www.credodonations.com/organization…

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 31/08/2026

Kinda chic to swipe through. 🌎 This is the work Rise Up Together backs every day: local leaders driving change across education, health, economic opportunity, and climate.

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 31/08/2026

That's what locally led looks like. Local leaders are the architects of gender equity and justice. We bring the training, funding, coaching, and networks that help their work last. ✊

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 31/08/2026

It all adds up to lasting change. Policy that shifts, decisions that open up, and power that stays in the community long after the grant closes. The system, not just the symptom.

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 31/08/2026

And they're never doing it alone. Each leader joins a cohort and a global community doing the same work, trading ideas, sharpening each other's proposals, and opening doors no one could open alone.

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 31/08/2026

The support doesn't stop there. In-country staff stay on for coaching and technical support, from budgets to stakeholder strategy, as the plan turns into action.

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 31/08/2026

Then the funding follows. It goes straight to the leader, not through a middle layer. Most projects are funded for a full year, with the chance to renew, so there's room to build something real.

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 31/08/2026

It starts with training. Leaders join our Accelerator, sharpening strategy, messaging, and policy skills, and shaping all of it into a project that's entirely theirs. The foundation. 🌎

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 31/08/2026

So where do we come in? Rise Up Together is a global organization advancing gender equity and justice in education, health, economic opportunity, and climate resilience. We don't hand leaders a blueprint. We help them build their own.

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 31/08/2026

The architect here is the local leader. They already know their community, and they can see exactly where the system is failing it. It starts with them.

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 31/08/2026

What does an architect do? They picture something that doesn't exist yet, then bring together everything it takes to build it. Hold that thought. 🧵

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 27/08/2026

Rise Up Leader @amikamota.bsky.social was incarcerated in both of California's women's prisons. Now she's helping rewrite the rules inside them. Through Sister Warriors, she and her team went from sharing testimony to drafting legislation themselves.

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 26/08/2026

Around the world, Rise Up Leaders are turning that power into action: strengthening education, improving health, expanding economic opportunity, advancing climate solutions, and changing policies and systems so they work better for women and girls.

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 18/08/2026

These numbers aren't inevitable. Around the world, local leaders are changing the policies, practices, and systems behind gender inequality, and building a more just future for women and girls. Which fact surprised you most?

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 18/08/2026

About four in five people displaced by climate change are women and girls. By 2050, the crisis could push up to 158 million more women and girls into poverty. 🌎 Source: UN and UN Women

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 18/08/2026

About 1 in 4. Just over a quarter of the world's national parliament seats are held by women, and at the current rate, equal representation is more than a lifetime away. Source: UN Women

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 18/08/2026

No economy on earth gives women the same legal rights as men. Worldwide, women hold about two-thirds of the rights men do, and closing that gap could add more than 20% to global GDP. Source: World Bank, Women, Business and the Law 2024

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 18/08/2026

Nearly 1 in 3. About 840 million women have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetime, and it starts young, affecting roughly 1 in 6 adolescent girls. Source: WHO (2025), via UNFPA

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 18/08/2026

123 years. At today's pace, that's how long it will take to close the global gender gap, and no economy has closed it yet. 🧵 A thread: 5 facts that change how you see gender justice.

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 13/08/2026

Joyce and Ntokozo met at our South Africa Accelerator and built Zizojik'Izinto, Things Will Turn Around, to strengthen women's political representation in KwaZulu-Natal. 1,600+ advocates trained, plus a government commitment. 🔗 www.riseuptogether.org/global-good-...

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Global Good News: A Stronger Democracy for Women and Girls in South Africa - Rise Up Together

When Joyce Nomagugu Msomi and Ntokozo Madlala first met at the Rise Up Together South Africa Accelerator in 2020, they quickly realized they shared more than a passion for gender equity – they shared ...

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 10/08/2026

What does it take to change your community? These leaders have an answer. At our Mexico Accelerator, changemakers like Eréndira Bárcena Vital, Cristin So we want to hear from you: what is one change you want to see in your community? Tell us in the comments.

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 05/08/2026

The people closest to a problem are closest to the solution. That belief is the whole reason Rise Up Together exists. New here? This is the best place to start. Swipe through to meet us.

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 01/08/2026

Flashback to our Accelerator in Nigeria. Our Director of Strategic Partnerships, Jennifer Broome, saw how Rise Up leaders work every day for dignity, safety, and opportunity at home. Lasting change starts with local leaders. Where in the world are you reading this from? 🌍

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 27/07/2026

"Small, structurally aligned actions can unlock bigger systemic change." Rise Up Leader, Belinda Crawford

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Rise Up Together @riseuptogether.org · 23/07/2026

What happens when you put a room full of local leaders together for one week? They leave with the skills, strategy, and network to change systems back home. A look back at our Leadership and Advocacy Accelerator in Kenya, where that change starts. #RiseUpLeaders #RiseUpTogether #GenderJustice

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