Rise Up Together in India: Vidhu’s Story

Rise Up Together’s India Country Lead Vidhu Prabha shares how her experience growing up in India led her to gender equity advocacy and how Rise Up Leaders in the country—including a growing number of male allies—are creating meaningful, lasting change.

Rise Up Together in the US: Claudia’s Story

Rise Up Together US Leaders, Denise Dunning, Josie Ramos, and Claudia Romero

Rise Up Together’s Associate Director of Programs Claudia Romeu shares how her daughter inspires her work and explains about the important work Rise Up Together is leading to advance gender equity in California and the U.S. South.

Powering Women in Action in India

Rise Up Together invests in leaders to improve the lives of girls and women in India, Brazil, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, and the United States in partnership with Cummins Inc. The Cummins Powers Women Initiative, a monumental investment in proven programs like Rise Up Together that create large-scale impact in the lives of girls and women, launched globally in March … Read More

Rise Up Together

Listen to us, and change begins. Believe in us, and the world shifts. Invest in us, and we all rise together. Rise Up Together activates women and girls to transform their lives, families, and communities for a more just and equitable world through investment in local solutions, strengthening leadership, and building movements.

Rise Up Together Guatemala – Veronica’s Story

In 2009, Veronica Buch was selected to join Rise Up Together’s first cohort in Guatemala. In the last decade, Veronica has mobilized girls, women, and their allies to create a more just and equitable country for girls and women – including successfully advocating to ban child marriage in Guatemala. Now Veronica’s daughter Melody follows in her mother’s footsteps – organizing … Read More

Rise Up Together Malawi – Faith and Memory

Rise Up Leaders Faith Phiri and Memory Banda work to mobilize women and girls to enact change in their communities surrounding child marriage and harmful sexual practices. In partnership with Rise Up Together, Faith and Memory continue to empower girls to raise their voices to end child marriage and harmful traditions so that all Malawian girls can achieve their full potential.

GEI California 2019

Rise Up Together is investing in California leaders through the Gender Equity Initiative to improve the lives of girls and women, in partnership with Cummins Inc.

2018 Annual Breakfast Recap

Rise Up Together welcomed allies, friends, and fellow supporters to its 2018 Annual Breakfast for a powerful celebration of visionary leaders rising up to improve the health, education, rights, and well-being of girls and women around the world.

2018 Annual Breakfast – Denise R. Dunning

Speaking at Rise Up Together’s 2018 Annual Breakfast, Rise Up Together Founder and Executive Director Denise R. Dunning discusses her father’s influential role in her life and work for gender equity.