Women ChangeMakers

Backing bold leaders

Brazil + India (2010–2022)

WomenChangeMakers backed bold women social entrepreneurs building solutions for women and girls across Brazil and India. We invested in high potential leaders, helping strengthen their leadership and organisations so they could grow, adapt and create lasting change.

Partnerships built for the long term

Every partnership was built for the long term, combining flexible funding with strategic guidance, technical expertise and access to a global network of peers and partners. From education and health to livelihoods, justice, housing and energy access, these ventures grew into resilient organisations whose work to advance gender equality has continued long after our support ended.

At a glance

Years of supporting leading social entrepreneurs.

US$3.7M

Invested in partners from São Paulo to Rajasthan.

Social ventures supported

26M+

People reached

“Womanity helps people, entrepreneurs, or projects that fight for and maintain the rights of women and girls as a whole, especially in developing countries.”

Amanda Meskauskas

Coordinator, Casa Angela

Meet the ChangeMakers

15 extraordinary leaders. 15 organisations. Countless lives changed.

Safeena Husain

Educate Girls (2013 - 2015)

Denise Dora

Themis Gênero e Justiça (2018 - 2020)

Juliana de Faria

Think Olga / Eva (2018 - 2020)

Aparna Hegde

Armman (2017 - 2021)

Alice Freitas

Rede Asta (2012 - 2014)

Panmela Castro

Rede Nami (2014 - 2016)

Bia Kern

Mulher em Construção (2014 - 2016)

Anke Riedel

Casa Angela (2016 - 2020)

Lilian Prado

Acreditar (2016 - 2020)

“As the first WomenChangeMakers Fellow in India, I experienced firsthand the power of this incredible initiative.”

WomenChangeMakers believed in Educate Girls when we were still finding our feet as a young organisation with big dreams. Their support gave us the confidence and capability to transform those dreams into measurable outcomes for millions of girls. The combination of core funding, strategic mentorship, and long-term commitment enabled us to build a resilient organisation, one that could continue driving systemic change in education well beyond the grant period.

Safeena Hussain

Founder, Educate Girls