Rising Tide: Empowering Low-Income Women

Rising Tide: Empowering Low-Income Women showcases innovation and women tackling the issue of empowerment and poverty.

Notable time-points:

Inspiration: Maya Angelou: 8:22 min mark
Empowerment: Living Sober: 15:01
Low-Income Struggles: 20:05
Refugee Perspective: 33:40
Women and children in poverty: 39:40
“Poverty is a state of the pocketbook – Not a state of the mind” 45:22
Policy: Factors of Women 53:12
Foundation Data on Giving: 1:14:20
Social Enterprise: 1:43:20
Take Aways: 1:49:18

Speakers:

Teleange’ Thomas, Senior Program Officer, Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland
Andrea Debiasio, Executive Director, Edna House
Fatimah Zahra, Seeds of Literacy Program Graduate and College Graduate
Saraswati Gurung, Refugee Collaborative Of Greater Cleveland
Natalie Leeks-Nelson, Executive Director, Providence House
Amy Hanauer, Founding Director, Policy Matters Ohio
Zohra Zohri, Vice President of Social Sector Outreach, Foundation Center
Jill Rizika, Executive Director, Towards Employment
Coleen Fisher, Board Treasurer, Northeast Ohio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Jessica Morrison, Family Programs Manager, Habitat for Humanity
Lisa Evans, CEO, LNE & Associates, VErge Inc, and Signatures Style Lounge