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Shaping Our Future thru Collective Impact Educate to Lead
Shaping Our Future thru Collective Impact • Achieve the Soroptimist Mission • Measure sustainable improvement • Increase the socio-economic status • Recognition • Attract more resources
Shaping Our Future thru Collective Impact • Women’s Opportunity Awards • LiveYourDream.org • Soroptimist - your cause of choice
Shaping Our Future thru Collective Impact • Collective Effort • Bigger Impact • Public Awareness • More Members • More Support and Resources
Shaping Our Future thru Collective Impact • Women’s Opportunity Award – 1972 • Every year – 1K recipients • in 19 countries and territories • Improve socio-economic status • Heightening women’s self‐esteem • Confidence to be positive role models
Shaping Our Future thru Collective Impact 85% of WOA recipients report an increased standard of living within three years
Shaping Our Future thru Collective Impact • A 2012 survey of the 2008‐2009 WOA recipients suggested these would be most helpful: • 75%: Funding for further education or training • 38%: Funding to start a business • 33%: Online support group for WOA recipients • 29%: Mentoring by a local Soroptimist member • 29%: Tax or financial advice • 20%: Online Mentoring
Shaping Our Future thru Collective Impact Raquel Arreola Ruiz 2012-2013 SIA President http://play.pointacross.com/6fyxpwahx90o
Shaping Our Future thru Collective Impact • $.81 of every dollar goes to programs: • WOA • VRA • Soroptimist Club Grants for Women and Girls • Soroptimist Project Matching • Soroptimist Disaster Grants for Women and Girls • STOP Trafficking • Workplace Campaign to End Dom Violence • $.19 goes to fundraising efforts • $0 goes to administrative costs
Shaping Our Future thru Collective Impact Educate to Lead • Past Quadrennial Projects: • Project SIerra2007 - 2011 • Project Independence: Women Survivors of War 2003 - 2007 • Limbs for Life: A project for victims of land mines 1999 - 2003
Shaping Our Future thru Collective Impact The SIA board’s direction to the organization is to create and demonstrate a sustainable, measurable, evidence-based change in society (increased) by working together, as a team (collective), through programs that will empower women and girls to take control of their lives to improve their socio-economic status, and live their dreams of a better life (impact). This is what our new direction, Increased Collective Impact, stands for.