“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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“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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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