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Women's Causes (General)

Kiva
Kiva's mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.
www.kiva.org

CARE
An international anti-poverty organization that concentrates its programming on the empowerment of women and girls.
www.care.org

World Pulse
A community for global issues through the eyes of women.
www.worldpulse.com

Global Fund for Women
Grants funds to organizations across the globe that focus on women's issues.
www.globalfundforwomen.org

Gendercide
Discusses all women's issues that deal with unnecessary loss of women and girl's lives.
www.gendercide.org

Women's Trust
Focuses on microlending, education and healthcare for women and girls in Ghana
www.womenstrust.org

Global Action for Children
Focuses on all children's issues worldwide from abuse, illness, child arranged marriages etc.
www.globalactionforchildren.org

International Museum of Women
Based in New York but IMoW has the majority of it's exhibits online.
www.imow.org

Global Giving
Connects donors of all levels with community based projects that need support.
www.globalgiving.com

Unifem
Is the United Nation's development fund for women. They support women empowerment and gender equality across the globe.
www.unifem.org

Huarou Commission
Organizes grassroots women's groups throughout the world that support/fight for various causes.
www.huairou.org

White House Project
Supports women that want to run for political offices as well as discusses how women in politics can change the future.
www.thewhitehouseproject.org

Global Girl Media
Connects girls throughout the world using new media.
www.globalgirlmedia.org


Education and Microcredit

Women for Women
Helps women survivors of war rebuild their lives and strengthen their communities and their role within them.
www.womenforwomen.org

Kiva
Allows you to give microcredit loans (in any amount) to entrepreneurs around the world.
www.kiva.org

Namaste Direct
Provides microcredit loans, vocational training and education to women in Guatemala.
www.namaste-direct.org


Maternal Mortality

One Heart
Their goal is to save the lives of women and children in Tibet one birth at a time.
www.onehearttibet.org

Wings
Is strengthening Guatemalan families through reproductive health and education.
wingsguate.org


Trafficking

Gems
"Girls Education and Mentoring Services" works with girls ages 12-21 in New York City who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking to exit the commercial sex industry and develop to their full potential.
gems-girls.org

Not For Sale
Site focuses on global human trafficking, slavery and sex trading.
www.notforsalecampaign.org

The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women-International
Works internationally to stop sexual exploitations in all it's forms.
www.catwinternational.org

Stop Exploitation Now
Focuses on sexual exploitation and abuse in Southeast Asia.
www.stopexploitationnow.org/

The Polaris Project
Combats human trafficking and slavery that is happening in the US.
www.actioncenter.polarisproject.org

End Human Trafficking
Mainly in the Americas, founded as part of the anti-slavery movement in 2004.
www.endhumantrafficking.org