This edition of the Business of Giving features Judy Vredenburgh, president and CEO of Girls Inc., a nonprofit that works in schools to serve girls growing up in poverty. The organization focuses on ...

To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. Research tracking thousands of children has found that growing up poor doesn’t just shape a girl’s circumstances — ...

A 2023 report by UNICEF found that 23% of adolescent girls in Nigeria had missed school due to menstruation. This multifaceted challenge, encompassing lack of access to sanitary products, inadequate ...

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (KCRG) - A Girl Scout from Cedar Falls received the Gold Award for her push to fight period poverty in schools, a project that led to the development of Iowa Bill HF883. Elle Smith, ...

If you’re not born with a silver spoon, then you have to work twice as had to be successful because it is never easy to maintain success. Poverty is a mindset; you have to wean yourself of it. Leaders ...

The core mission of the World Bank is a world free of poverty on a livable planet. Measuring poverty on a regular basis using timely and relevant data is critical to tracking progress toward this goal ...

In a nation striving for progress, a silent crisis continues to erode the potential of millions of its young women: menstrual poverty. This multifaceted challenge, encompassing lack of access to ...