Ultimate goal: For girls and boys to have the same graduation rate from secondary school. Money raised since March 2013: Since the film's release last year, donations of $2 million have been received by the Girl Rising fund and then distributed to their partners, including CARE and Partners in Health. It uses the film, which aired on CNN, as well as a school curriculum, to raise awareness about how education can transform a girl's life. Mission: The group made a film (also called Girl Rising) that uses celebrities, including Keys, to narrate the real-life stories of nine girls who struggled to get an education. "We would keep fighting poverty, connecting women to markets, supporting women and girls, and preventing gender-based violence."Īlicia says: "We are here to improve education for. What they'd do with unlimited funds: "We would keep helping families in the poorest communities on earth lift themselves out of poverty," says Feagans. Now CARE is helping the Peruvian government adopt these new ways. "We developed a program to make the clinics more accommodating." Where these changes were implemented, maternal mortality dropped 50 percent, says Feagans. "In these villages in the Andes, we found indigenous women didn't feel welcome," says spokesman Brian Feagans. Ultimate goal: Eliminating severe poverty by striking at the roots of the problem, like gender inequality and injustice.Ĭurrent project they're proud of: CARE has been working with communities in Peru to find out why women weren't going to health clinics. Percent of budget spent on programs and services : 90.1 percent They also provide food, shelter and supplies during natural disasters, in refugee camps and in war zones. Mission: CARE works with 97 million people in 87 countries to reduce poverty through gender-equality-based programs. Here's a look at some of the globally focused organizations that made Keys' list.Īlicia says: "We are here to raise families out of poverty." Keys and the nonprofit groups hope to turn all this hype into a better world. Keys has donated $1 million to be split among 12 groups and released a new song, "We Are Here," to get even more attention.Īlready, two organizations have matched her $1 million pledge, and her song has more than half a million YouTube views. The goal is to connect her millions of fans with reputable organizations tackling big issues, from hunger and poverty to LGBT rights and gun violence. The pregnant Grammy winner posed nude (in a G-rated way) with a peace sign painted on her baby bump to promote her new movement, We Are Here. "People won't be able to ignore this visual." "It's time to get people's attention," singer Alicia Keys told The New York Times this weekend.
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