I wanted to do more. I meet so many women, all over the world, and everywhere there’s this groundswell of women’s empowerment. This is our time as women. But, frankly, I believe that one of the biggest obstacles for women is that we aren’t[...]

  W4 was thrilled to speak with Leonilda Pena Renaldo, an inspirational gender diversity specialist who works to connect, empower, and support women in the corporate world through the power of "no-fear networking".   [...]

        W4 spoke with Mariela Dabbah, inspirational leader of The Red Shoe Movement, about the challenges that women face in the workplace and what her movement is doing to improve career development opportunities for women around[...]

    The Afghan Women's Writing Project (AWWP) works to promote Afghan women’s empowerment and economic independence by strengthening their writing and computer literacy skills, all the while encouraging the inclusion of[...]

This week, W4 is proud to feature a wonderful article by our friends at Women’s Voices Now (WVN) that raises awareness about the crucial work of the School of Leadership Afghanistan (SOLA) and the Afghan Women’s Writing Project[...]

Innovative, sustainable models of social business are improving lives around the world; how can these models gain more visibility and trigger social change on a wider scale?   Karine Levy-Heidmann and Adèle Galey, both 25-year-old[...]

On International Men’s Day, W4 celebrates the boys and men across the globe who are standing up to defend girls’ and women’s human rights, along with organizations—such as Equal Community Foundation in India—that are working tirelessly[...]

A social business, as conceptualized by 2006 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, is a venture whose mission is to achieve a specific social or environmental goal. This might be to ensure safe drinking water for a community, to[...]

"Cooperatives are a reminder to the international community that it is possible to pursue both economic viability and social responsibility."                                    United Nations Secretary-General[...]

Women’s Worldwide Web interviews Kathy LeMay, CEO of Raising Change and author of The Generosity Plan.   Kathy LeMay is an activist, author, and CEO of Raising Change, an organization dedicated to raising capital for philanthropic[...]