May 09, 2012Timotea, PeruUsing her loan to:purchase more livestock. How she’s nurturing another’s potential:She is ensuring her children are receiving an education and provided for so they can pursue a better life. Srey, CambodiaUsing her loan to: purchase more land for agriculture How she’s nurturing another’s potential:Provides school tuition for her children and hopes to expand her home to accommodate caring for her parents. Nurture Potential with Kiva joinFITE, powered by Kiva, aims to create Financial Independence Through Entrepreneurship for women and mother’s worldwide. On May 13, 80 countries around the world will celebrate the same thing: Moms. They nurture our potential…
April 27, 2012Looking for a meaningful gift for Mother’s Day? Now you can give a gift that gives back many times over. Prosperity Candles creates beautiful gifts that also help moms around the world to rebuild their lives. Each gift arrives with the name and photograph of the woman who made it, enabling you to connect with her directly through the Prosperity Candle website. Take a look at their gift guide for ideas! Be sure to choose joinFITE in the “How did you hear about us?” section during check-out.
April 26, 2012In March, joinFITE played the World’s Largest game of TAG, a social media game that invited people to “share” a joinFITE social media message and TAG a friend. For each message, $1 was contributed towards funding a loan for a woman entrepreneur. In total we were able to empower more than 150 women entrepreneurs like Phalla, a wife and mother of three residing in the Takeo Province of Cambodia, who will use her loan to purchase a generator to run an electricity business for her village. meet some of the joinFITE entrepreneurs …
April 25, 2012Thursday, March 8, 2012 marked the 101st International Women’s Day (IWD). Dermalogica Founder Jane Wurwand, in partnership with the Business Civic Leadership Center, had the opportunity to share her story and her mission to empower women globally when she appeared on a panel at the United Nations to discuss Financial Inclusion for Women. The panel discussion highlighted the innovative ways Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurs, international organizations and NGOs are enhancing financial inclusion of women around the world. Panelists included Pam Flaherty, CEO of Citi Foundation, Nadereh Chamlou, Senior Advisor for World Bank, and Thomas Stelzer, Assistant Secretary-General UN Department of…
April 11, 2012joinFITE recognized International Women’s Day at the United Nations.
March 02, 2012Jane Wurwand is the founder of Dermalogica and the driving force behind joinFITE, an active philanthropy platform, in partnership with Kiva.org and dedicated to empowering women through financial independence. Championed by Dermalogica and its quarter-century investment in the financial independence of women, joinFITE loans help female entrepreneurs to start or grow a business and build better lives for themselves, their families, and their communities. I’m Jane Wurwand. Today I am the founder and owner of Dermalogica, the leading professional skin care product globally, and The International Dermal Institute, the industry’s largest post graduate training schools for licensed skin care…
