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Women’s WorldWide Web (W4) is Europe’s first crowdfunding platform dedicated to girls’ and women’s empowerment, in both developing and developed countries. W4 is a registered 501(c)(3) organization in the United States, and a non-profit association in France (Association “Loi de 1901”), that aims to empower girls and women to find their own solutions to driving development. By establishing field projects across Africa, Asia, Latin America, the United States and Europe, W4 works to ensure the protection of girls’ and women’s human rights and girls’ and women’s access to the constituents of development: in particular, access to technology, healthcare, schooling, earning opportunities, the exercise of their rights, and political participation. ==History== British-born social entrepreneur, Lindsey Nefesh-Clarke, is the Founder and Managing Director of W4. After her B.A. at Cambridge University, Nefesh-Clarke joined Human Rights Watch in New York. She worked for several years in Cameroon and Côte d'Ivoire for UNICEF and later for 6 years with Paris-based humanitarian organization, Children of Asia, which operates educational sponsorship programs in Southeast Asia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lindsey Nefesh-Clarke Biographie )〕 In 2008, Nefesh-Clarke trained with Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, founded by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus, obtaining a qualification to implement microcredit programs for the alleviation of poverty. Nefesh-Clarke developed the business plan for W4 in the framework of a year-long ‘International Consulting Project’ during her Executive MBA studies at ESCP-Europe business school in Paris. Named “MBA Student of the Year” by the Association of MBAs and The Independent newspaper in 2009, Nefesh-Clarke officially launched W4 on International Women’s Day 2010 (March 8, 2010) with her ESCP-Europe colleagues and an international team of volunteers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.topmba.com/mba-programs/executive/executive-alumni/mba-alumni-profile-lindsey-nefesh-clarke-escp-europe )〕 The W4 crowdfunding platform has been online since January 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.glowing.co/wisdom-cat/portrait-of-a-woman-lindsey-nefesh-clarke/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Women's WorldWide Web (W4)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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