Shaping Our Future thru Collective Impact

Educate to Lead

Shaping Our Future thru Collective Impact

• Achieve the Soroptimist Mission

• Measure sustainable improvement

• Increase the socio-economic status

• Recognition

• Attract more resources

Shaping Our Future thru Collective Impact

• Women’s Opportunity Awards

• LiveYourDream.org

• Soroptimist - your cause of choice

Shaping Our Future thru Collective Impact

• Collective Effort

• Bigger Impact

• Public Awareness

• More Members

• More Support and Resources

Shaping Our Future thru Collective Impact

Shaping Our Future thru Collective Impact

Women’s Opportunity Award – 1972

Every year – 1K recipients in 19 countries and territories

• Improve socio-economic status• Heightening women’s self‐esteem • Confidence to be positive role models

Shaping Our Future thru Collective Impact

85% of WOA recipients report an increased standard of living within three years

Shaping Our Future thru Collective Impact

A 2012 survey of the 2008‐2009 WOA recipients suggested these would be most helpful:  • 75%: Funding for further education or training• 38%: Funding to start a business• 33%: Online support group for WOA recipients• 29%: Mentoring by a local Soroptimist member• 29%: Tax or financial advice• 20%: Online Mentoring

Shaping Our Future thru Collective Impact

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Raquel Arreola Ruiz2012-2013 SIA President

Shaping Our Future thru Collective Impact

$.81 of every dollar goes to programs:• WOA• VRA• Soroptimist Club Grants for Women and Girls• Soroptimist Project Matching• Soroptimist Disaster Grants for Women and Girls• STOP Trafficking• Workplace Campaign to End Dom Violence

$.19 goes to fundraising efforts$0 goes to administrative costs

Shaping Our Future thru Collective Impact

Shaping Our Future thru Collective Impact

Past Quadrennial Projects:• Project SIerra 2007 - 2011• Project Independence: Women Survivors of War 2003 - 2007• Limbs for Life: A project for victims of land mines 1999 - 2003

Educate to Lead

Shaping Our Future thru Collective Impact

The SIA board’s direction to the organization is to create and demonstrate a sustainable, measurable, evidence-based change in society (increased) by working together, as a team (collective), through programs that will empower women and girls to take control of their lives to improve their socio-economic status, and live their dreams of a better life (impact). This is what our new direction, Increased Collective Impact, stands for.