An International Women’s Day Challenge, are you ready? ONE person and ONE action is all it takes to build a world that is safer and more equitable for women and girls. Here is your chance to be this person. #10WAYS10DAYS: A 10 ACTIONS IN 10 DAYS WOMEN’S DAY MOVEMENT 10/10 campaign organisers believe that 10/10 is an opportunity for individuals to participate in a great movement leading…
#TimeisNow for Rural and Urban Activists Transforming Women’s Lives, this year’s team for International Women’s Day. The theme for International Women’s Day, 8 March, is “Time is Now: Rural and urban activists transforming women’s lives.” People around the world are mobilizing for a future that is more equal. This has taken the form of global marches and campaigns, including #MeToo in the…
Bloomberg Global Chief Marketing Officer, Deirdre Bigley and business leaders from top brands in tech, business, media, and entertainment publicly declared they will push the MAKERS movement forward by supporting more women-led businesses, investing in more girls in STEM, achieving pay parity and more. Today at the 2018 MAKERS Conference in Los Angeles, Bloomberg LP joined more than 40 companies…
Why do I abandon working at Amazon, as a Marketing Manager to spend five years working in an Unpaid Internship. In 2012-2017, I spent 5 years from architecture to internet marketing, from ad agency to an unpaid intern to product marketing manager at Amazon, where I learned a story of the opposite direction. 2017年是我来美国的10年， 也是自己自我沉淀和转型的一年。 2012-2017年，我用了5年，从建筑转专业到互联网营销，从广告公司Unpaid intern（无薪水实习生）奋斗到亚马逊产品营销经理，演绎了一个学渣逆袭的故事。 2017年，用了5天决定从亚马逊辞职，一切归零，去做我热血了5年的创业事业。 刚出来的那周就有不少小伙伴们，私信说很期待我的“辞职文”，那几周心里和脑子都很乱。特别清楚的记得辞职后最后几天，开始轮流和公司的同事、大佬喝咖啡，许多人替我可惜，说我是“leave money…
Congratulations to Social Entrepreneurs and Seniors at University of Pennsylvania Selamawit Bekele and Antoinette Zoumanigui on receiving $99,900 through the President’s Engagement Prize for Project Y.V.E.T.A. “Project Y.V.E.T.A. will contribute toward building economic resilience for a generation representing not only Senegal’s, but Africa’s future,” said Antoinette Zoumanigui, Class of 2017 at University of Pennsylvania. “Centered on skill development and accessible quality education will help drive…
Congratulations to the Founder and CEO of the Global Connections for Women Foundation, Lilian Ajayi-Ore on her latest feature in Forbes Woman Africa. The Editor of the magazine, Renuka Methil, caught up with Lilian in their October – November issue about “Africans in the Diaspora.” “I am a women and girls global advocate, who believes in the importance of creating programs…
Cardi B is officially the First Female Rap Artist to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 since Lauryn Hill’s Doo Wop in 1998. In her rise from the Bronx to the Billboard charts, Cardi B has been many things frequently deemed capable with uncertainties in pop culture, because of her past as an exotic dancer, an Instagram celebrity, a reality TV…
Lilian Ajayi-Ore, Founder and CEO of the Global Connections for Women Foundation (GC4W) was invited to Speak, by the Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of Guinea to the United Nations, the Permanent Observes of the African Union to the United Nations and the Acting Execute Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund to participate in a high-level event…
The world welcomes a new First Female President of Singapore and the first Malay president in 47 years, Her Excellence, Halimah Yacob. SINGAPORE: Former Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob is set to be Singapore’s first Malay president in more than 47 years, after the Elections Department (ELD) said on Monday (Sept 11) that only one individual qualified for the inaugural reserved…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: We’re happy to announce that for the third consecutive year, the Global Connections for Women Foundation (GC4W) has received the Best of Manhattan Award in the Charity Organizations category, selected by the Manhattan Award Program. On September 7th, 2017 — Global Connections for Women Foundation, one of the leading international non-profits of the millennium in the areas of gender equality, women empowerment, and youth…
