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Karama (Arabic for Dignity) strives to empower Palestinian women, children and adolescents and develop the local community by providing a safe haven for learning, cultural awareness and recreation away from the violent streets.

Avalon Center works to end domestic and sexual violence by breaking the cycle of abuse through education, prevention, shelter and support services in the greater Williamsburg and Middle Peninsula communities.

1. The Corporation's mission is to provide emergency shelter and support services to victims of domestic violence, intimate partner violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking and/or human trafficking; empower survivors/victims to create safe and self-sufficient lives for themselves and their children; and to educate and increase the public's awareness of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking and associated issues.

is to work at provincial, district and school levels, together with partners, to create positive societal attitudes, policies and practices that promote equity for girls in terms of access, retention, performance and quality of education.

The Women’s Housing Coalition provides permanent, affordable, service‑enriched housing combined with individualized supportive services (case management, advocacy, life‑skills training) to formerly homeless, low‑income individuals and families in Baltimore, with an emphasis on helping residents achieve long‑term stability and self‑sufficiency.

The Habitat International Coalition (HIC) is the global network for rights related to habitat. Through solidarity, networking and support for social movements and organizations, HIC struggles for social justice, gender equality, and environmental sustainability, and works in the defense, promotion and realization of human rights related to housing and land in both rural and urban areas.

Our mission is to protect innocence through technology. We partner with a global force of child exploitation investigators, police officers, prosecutors and digital forensic experts to rescue children from sexual abuse and apprehend predators. Our CPS Technology has led to the rescue of 2,200 children and the arrest of 9,600 predators.

from the website: "MAC helps people traveling to, from, and within the Midwest access a safe abortion by assisting with travel coordination and costs, lodging, food, medicine, childcare, and emotional support."

Our mission is to change culture from the inside out through person-to-person sponsoring and educational programs that include the development of mind, body, spirit and emotions. We see our work as the beginning of a multi-generational movement whose leaders are empowered to preserve cultural beauty and diversity and to embrace personal responsibility in a global context.

Women Thrive Worldwide’s (Women Thrive) mission is to advocate for change at the U.S. and global levels so that women and men share equally in the enjoyment of basic capabilities, economic assets, voice, access to decent livelihoods, and freedom from fear and violence. We ground our work in the realities of women living in poverty, partner with locally based women’s organizations, and create powerful coalitions to advance the interests of women, families, and communities worldwide. Our vision is a world in which women and men work together as equal partners to secure better lives for themselves and their families.

The mission of Women Against Abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence, and to lead the struggle to end domestic violence through advocacy and community education.

They combine scholarship, media, & activism to amplify the voices of Indigenous matriarchs in the Red Power movement into modern struggles. The 2018 film Warrior Women, co-directed by Christina D. King & Dr. Beth Castle, highlights some of these stories.