Our Favorite Organizations
“[Y]ou shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. ”
Through education, coalition building, and organizing, WTTP works to raise issues of gender equity within tech and telecom policy, empower women’s rights advocates to engage on tech and telecom policy, and convene gender equity leaders and industry leaders to promote partnerships and learning. Our scope spans across technology issues, including privacy and online safety and well-being, to telecommunications issues, including broadband access, digital empowerment and media ownership. Learn more about WTTP today.
Equal Rights Advocates fights for gender justice in workplaces and schools across the country. Since 1974, we’ve been fighting on the front lines of social justice to protect and advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and people of all gender identities through groundbreaking legal cases and bold legislation that sets the stage for the rest of the nation. Donate to ERA today and tell them Joi Chaney sent you!
Girls Inc. is a nationwide nonprofit organization that believes that girls are powerful and critically important to their communities. Girls Inc. affiliates serve girls ages 5-18 in cities and towns across the United States. Girls Inc. provides opportunities that equip girls to lead healthy and physically active lives, to achieve academically, and to advocate for themselves and others. Girls Inc. recognizes that poverty, prejudice, and inequality continue to hold some girls back and we work with girls to overcome obstacles caused by those systemic barriers. Donate to Girls Inc. DC today and tell them Joi Chaney sent you!
Fair Elections Center is a national, nonpartisan voting rights and election reform 501(c)(3) organization based in Washington, D.C. Our mission is to use litigation and advocacy to remove barriers to registration and voting, particularly those disenfranchising underrepresented and marginalized communities, and to improve election administration. Donate to the Fair Elections Center today and tell them Joi Chaney sent you!
The Pearl and Ivy Educational Foundation, Inc. (PIEF) is a 501(c)(3) organization whose primary mission is to provide scholarships to deserving and exemplary college-bound high school seniors and continuing college students in the District of Columbia. PIEF serves as the fundraising arm of its sister organization, Xi Omega Chapter, the oldest and largest graduate chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. established in Washington, DC. Donate to PIEF today and tell them Joi Chaney sent you!
For our 20th Year Anniversary, Spring 1998 of Alpha Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, launched established a need-based scholarship fund at Howard University for incoming or current undergraduate women. Donate to the AKA 47 E.N.V.Y. Scholarship Fund at Howard University today.