About us

Women’s WorldWide Web (W4) is an online crowdfunding platform aiming to promote girls’ and women’s empowerment worldwide, in cities and in rural areas, in both developing and developed countries.   Harnessing the power of digital connection, W4 mobilizes vital support—both financial and in-kind—for organizations doing grassroots work to protect girls’ and women’s human rights and to promote their empowerment.   Collaboratively, we work to ensure that girls and women everywhere have access to education, healthcare, economic opportunities, the exercise of their rights, and [...]

Our passionate team of social entrepreneurs founded W4 in response to the urgent global need to protect girls’ and women’s human rights and to unleash the huge potential benefits—for everyone—of accelerating girls’ and women’s empowerment.   Of the 1.4 billion people living in extreme poverty today (less than $1.25 per day), most are girls and women.  Moreover, girls and women are disproportionately affected by violations of their human rights.  This undermines their capacity to live dignified, healthy and fulfilling lives [...]

Women’s WorldWide Web (W4) invites individuals and organizations to support grassroots girls’ and women’s empowerment initiatives around the world in a variety of ways, both financially and non-financially.         Giving   W4’s fundraising platform mobilizes crucial financial support for grassroots organizations (non-governmental organizations and social mission microfinance institutions, whose mission is to combat poverty) that are working to protect girls’ and women’s human rights and promote their empowerment.   Our field partner organizations work at the community [...]

W4 is an innovative (ad)venture: the first online collaborative platform worldwide dedicated  to empowering women.   Investing in girls and women has been proven to be the smartest, most effective way to achieve sustainable development and progress for communities and societies—at every level, from the local, community level to corporate, national and international levels.   Indeed, it is globally acknowledged that achieving Millennium Development Goal n°3 — gender equality and empowerment of women — is a prerequisite for achieving all [...]

Get involved in women’s empowerment around the world.   Your donation will help women and girls across the globe, to create their own solutions to poverty.         Several ways to give 1. Make an online donation   You can safely donate online with your credit card directly through the secure Paybox system, or through Paypal’s secure payment system.   2. Write a check   If you prefer to send a check, please make the check payable to [...]