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Lucy Brooks

Closing the Gender Gap in E-Commerce in Africa

  • Posted by Lucy Brooks
  • Categories Country specific, e-commerce, Equality, Featured, wegg® blog, Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global blog
  • Date April 18, 2022
April 18, 2022
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“Prior to COVID-19, women were beginning to thrive online. Action now can reverse the pandemic’s impacts and ensure that women entrepreneurs can lead the future of Africa’s digital economy.”
-Alexa Roscoe and Anne Njambi Kabugi, International Finance Corporation

Brookings has released their Foresight Africa 2022 Report,

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Lucy Brooks

wegg® Celebrates International Women’s Day

  • Posted by Lucy Brooks
  • Categories Equality, Featured, Gender challenges, wegg® blog, Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global blog
  • Date March 7, 2022
March 7, 2022
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“What’s the greatest lesson a woman should learn? That since day one, she’s already had everything she needs within herself. It’s the world that convinced her she did not.”
– Rupi Kaur

March 8th, 2022 is recognized worldwide as International Women’s Day!

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Lucy Brooks

Canada Funds the Renewable Energy Enterprises of African Women Entrepreneurs

  • Posted by Lucy Brooks
  • Categories Country specific, Equality, Featured, Finance, wegg® blog, Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global blog
  • Date February 7, 2022
February 7, 2022
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“A just and inclusive energy transition, one that alleviates energy poverty and mitigates climate change, requires understanding the financing needs of entrepreneurs who we are depending on to deliver the world’s energy access goals.”
-Gareth Zahir-Bill, Shell Foundation operations director

The Energy Entrepreneurs Growth Fund (EEGF),

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How to prepare for Black History Month
Laurel Delaney

How to Prepare for Black History Month

  • Posted by Laurel Delaney
  • Categories Equality, Featured, Seasonal, wegg® blog, Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global blog
  • Date January 31, 2022
January 31, 2022
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Black History Month (BHM) beginning February 1st is an annual observance originating in the United States, where it is also known as African-American History Month and has received official recognition from governments in the United States and Canada, and more recently has been observed in Ireland,

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Lucy Brooks

Maya Angelou’s Quarter Will be a Milestone for Women Everywhere

  • Posted by Lucy Brooks
  • Categories Country specific, Equality, Featured, Finance, wegg® blog, Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global blog
  • Date January 24, 2022
January 24, 2022
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In anticipation of Black History Month 2022, the late American poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou will become the first African-American woman to be honored on a form of U.S. currency. The U.S. Mint announced recently, “that they will release up to five new quarters per year to celebrate distinguished American women,”

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Lucy Brooks

Help Women Entrepreneurs Build Back Better Through Exporting 2022

  • Posted by Lucy Brooks
  • Categories Business, Equality, Featured, Inspiration, wegg® blog, Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global blog
  • Date November 29, 2021
November 29, 2021
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November 29, 2021

Our Friends:

We want to report some good news as well as a challenge requiring attention, yours and ours.

First, the good news. 

According to the GEM 2020/21 Women’s Entrepreneurship Report, released last week,

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Lucy Brooks

BAND-AID® Releases Collection of OURTONE™ Diverse Bandages

  • Posted by Lucy Brooks
  • Categories Business, Equality, Featured, Innovation, Inspiration, wegg® blog, Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global blog
  • Date August 23, 2021
August 23, 2021
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After making a promise to consumers in June 2020 that they would create a line of Black and Brown bandages to serve the diversity of our world, BAND-AID® has finally launched this line. In their announcement, BAND-AID explained,

“We are committed to launching a range of bandages in light,

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Olympic Champ, Wear What You Want
Laurel Delaney

When You Are An Olympic Champ, wegg® says ‘Wear What You Want’

  • Posted by Laurel Delaney
  • Categories Equality, Featured, Inspiration, Leadership, wegg® blog, Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global blog
  • Date August 2, 2021
August 2, 2021
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The earlier shock over the Norwegian female beach handball players at the Olympics being fined for daring to declare that they felt better in tiny spandex shorts rather than tinier bikini bottoms (and act on their own desires) was not revisited because handball is only an Olympics Youth sport,

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34 crayons of many different colors are tightly arranged in a clumped circle against a peach colored background
Lucy Brooks

Crayola’s Mimi Dixon Creates Crayons Exhibiting 40 Global Skin Tones

  • Posted by Lucy Brooks
  • Categories Business, Equality, Featured, Innovation, Inspiration, wegg® blog, Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global blog
  • Date July 26, 2021
July 26, 2021
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“Sometimes in pioneering your footsteps are going to be the only ones on the mountains. It doesn’t mean that it’s the wrong thing to do. It just means that it’s unchartered territory.”

-Mimi Dixon, manager of brand equity and activation at Crayola

Last year,

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Gender equality and global leadership
Laurel Delaney

U.S. Is a Global Standard-Setter for Gender Equality and Women’s Leadership

  • Posted by Laurel Delaney
  • Categories Equality, Featured, Gender challenges, global women entrepreneurs, Leadership, wegg® blog, Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global blog
  • Date July 19, 2021
July 19, 2021
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As the U.S. government reconsiders the contours of its relationship with China, the U.S. Biden-Harris administration’s renewed global diplomacy presents a unique opportunity to engage with China from a position of strength.

Alongside American innovation, military might, and global partnerships,

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