"When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed."

-Maya Angelou

Why Donate to Giving Joy?

Your donation empowers women entrepreneurs worldwide to build sustainable livelihoods and transform their communities. By supporting our microgrants and mentorship programs, you help women launch and grow businesses, uplift their families, and advance gender equality.

Here's why your gift matters more than you might think:

  • Small grants, outsized impact. Our grants are modest, up to $500, so nearly every dollar you give goes directly to a woman entrepreneur, not overhead. That efficiency means your donation stretches further here than at organizations built around larger, costlier grants.

  • A proven multiplier effect. Since 2018, Giving Joy has funded 112 women entrepreneurs across 37 countries. By 2025, our 100+ microgrants had cumulatively benefited nearly 7,000 people directly and an estimated 70,000 indirectly. When you fund one woman, you're really funding her employees, her family, and her community.

  • You're closing a real, measurable gap. At the current pace, it will take over 150 years to close the global economic gender gap. Giving Joy attacks that gap at its root, financial independence, rather than waiting for policy change to trickle down.

  • More than money. Grantees don't just receive funds, they join a global alumni network for mentorship, resources, and mutual support, so your gift keeps paying dividends long after the check clears.

  • Transparency you can verify. Giving Joy is a certified 501(c)(3) with published annual reports and a Candid profile, so you can see exactly where funds go.

What People Are Saying

  • “What began as a modest $500 grant has ignited a powerful movement — one now led by 17 courageous women who stand taller, speak with conviction, and act with unwavering resolve in the face of injustice. The Giving Joy grant didn’t simply fund a training; it sparked the rise of a new generation of grassroots paralegals — many of them survivors — now championing dignity and justice in their own communities. As we look ahead to our joint graduation event in August 2025, we carry Giving Joy’s name with us — a living testament that even the smallest acts of trust and belief can sow seeds of transformation that last a lifetime.”

    Giving Joy Grantee: Zintle Khobeni de Lange, Founding Director of The Great People of South Africa | May 2025, South Africa

  • “I am proud to support Giving Joy! After 30 years of working in the field of international development, I am a firm believer in the power of supporting women entrepreneurs to create real and lasting change. Supporting Giving Joy is an important part of my giving strategy to support efforts related to women and girls. I am incredibly impressed with the grantees and the impact that something as modest as a micro-grant can create. Plus, I am quite confident in how Giving Joy is run - operating costs are kept (amazingly) low so that the maximum resources can go to the grantees.”

    Giving Joy Donor: Ashley Gasque | September 2024, Mexico

  • “It's great to read stories of how women's lives are being transformed by their own initiatives one woman can do great things that can benefit the entire community when she has been supported. Every support counts.”

    Giving Joy Supporter: Alice Apio | July 2024, Uganda

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