Women's Initiative for Self Empowerment (WISE)

Give to Our Girls

2025 has been a major challenge for all nonprofits, WISE included. With financial challenges ahead, WISE continues to stand firm in our mission. We are taking steps to ensure our immigrant and refugee programs remain uninterrupted and that plans for the organization's financial sustainability is priority.

Your support is vital to our financial resilience. When you donate to WISE, you make an impact that will last generations of immigrant and refugee women, girls, and those on the feminine gender spectrum. Your support funds a diversity of opportunities and activities that foster the education and skills development of our women and girls so that they can pave their own futures. Our work includes but is not limited to:

College & career readiness	Healthy relationships	Sexual violence prevention & education
Self-advocacy	Community volunteerism	Leadership skills development
Financial literacy	Arts for healing	Parent support & advocacy
Self-care & mental health	Health & nutrition	Civic participation

51% of our $20,000 giving goal is complete! Help us raise an additional $10,000 by the end of 2025.

About WISE

WISE is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit working to support immigrant and refugee women, girls, and those on the feminine gender spectrum in their journey of self-actualization through culturally-responsive education, advocacy, systems change and resource development. WISE hosts 4 programs:

Girls Getting Ahead in Leadership (GGAL) --- an academic support and leadership skills development program for 6th-12th grade immigrant and refugee girls or youth on the feminine gender spectrum.

Healthy Relationships --- a program under GGAL that ensures youth know how to practice healthy communication, set boundaries in their relationships, identify healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviors, and take action when they feel unsafe.

WeLEAD --- a college and career navigation program for immigrant and refugee women or adults on the feminine gender spectrum.

Learn more at www.womenofwise.org.