"One Woman Initiative" Announces First Grants to Women's Organizations in Five Nations
Year-Old USAID/State Department/Private Sector Initiative Unveils Initial Aid to Local Groups; Chair Carly Fiorina, USAID’s Lisa Chiles and CAFAmerica’s Saxon-Harrold Report on Progress.
Reflecting the combined efforts of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. State Department and leading private sector interests, the One Woman Initiative was launched on May 12, 2008. Since its inception, OWI and its leaders have focused on how to raise funds and award grants totaling $100 million over the course of five years to support organizations that directly assist women in the countries with large Muslim populations. CAFAmerica (http://www.CAFAmerica.org), a member organization of the Charities Aid Foundation International Network, is managing funds raised for OWI from individual and corporate contributions.
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