By providing a personalized, intimate online shopping experience that aims to inspire and delight women, myShape commits to serving and celebrating each and every woman as an important and unique individual.
myShape expands this mission to enrich the lives of women everywhere through partnerships and initiatives with organizations dedicated to helping women achieve physical, economic and emotional well-being. We also aspire to empower women of limited resources through collaboration with pioneer programs designed to nurture income-generating endeavors for women, both domestically and internationally.
myShape’s current philanthropic initiatives include:
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Starlight Starbright Foundation Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation |
myShape encourages a community of social consciousness, and we welcome your recommendations for organizations deserving of attention and support. If you would like to submit an organization to be listed on our site, please email us at outreach@myShape.com.
The organizations listed below are among our other favorites and/or those that have been referred to us by our customers and members. Please consider supporting the efforts of these organizations.
American Association of University WomenAAUW promotes equity for all women and girls, lifelong education, and positive societal change. AAUW consists of The Association and AAUW Educational Foundation. The Association, with more than 100,000 members, 1,300 branches, and 550 college/university institution partners nationwide, advocates education and equity. The AAUW Educational Foundation is the world's largest source of funding exclusively for graduate women.
American Heart Association
Too few people realize that heart disease is the number one killer of American women, not just men. The AHA Go Red For Women is a nationwide movement that urges millions of people across the country to help make a difference in the fight against heart disease. February 1st is National Wear Red Day, during which the color red and the red dress become symbols for the ability all women have to improve their heart health and live stronger, longer lives. myShape encourages our customers to show their support of this important cause by wearing red on February 1st and contributing what they are able in time and/or money to the American Heart Association.
Angel Network
Oprah's Angel Network was established to encourage people around the world to make a difference in the lives of others. Oprah's vision is to inspire individuals to create opportunities that help underserved people rise to their own potential. The Angel Network supports charitable projects and provides grants to non-profit organizations across the globe that share in this vision.
The Breast Cancer Site
The Breast Cancer Site helps fund free mammograms for women in need–low-income, inner-city and minority women whose awareness of breast cancer and opportunity for help is often limited. Your click on the "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button is paid for by site sponsors, and mammogram funding is provided to clinics throughout the U.S. through the efforts of the National Breast Cancer Foundation.
Dress For Success
Dress for Success is an international not-for-profit organization that promotes the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support and the career development tools to help women thrive in work and in life. Since 1997, Dress for Success has expanded to more than 80 cities in the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands and the U.K. To date, Dress for Success has helped more than 350,000 women work towards self-sufficiency.
FINCA International
FINCA International's mission is to provide financial services to the world's lowest-income entrepreneurs so they can create jobs, build assets and improve their standards of living. FINCA’s vision is to become the leading global microfinance institution by providing financial services to more than one million clients annually by 2010, while operating with the highest commercial principles of performance, transparency and sustainability. FINCA International has launched the Village Banking Campaign, which will enable FINCA to double its impact: to use the power of microfinance to extend loans, microinsurance, and savings to one million poor families by 2010 so they can effect their own development.
HERA Women's Cancer Foundation
The mission of HERA Women's Cancer Foundation is to stop the loss of mothers, daughters, sisters, grandmothers, aunts, wives, partners and girlfriends from ovarian cancer by empowering women to take control of their health, and research scientists to find new directions in early detection, treatment, and prevention, and communities to provide support.
KaBOOM! National Campaign for Play
KaBOOM! is a national non-profit organization that envisions a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America. Celebrating twelve years of service in 2008, KaBOOM! rallies communities to achieve better public policy, funding and public awareness for increased play opportunities nationwide; provides resources, including training, challenge grants, and publications for communities that wish to plan a new playspace on their own; and brings together children, business and community interests for a select number of community playspace builds each year.
Kids with Cameras
Kids with Cameras is a non-profit organization that teaches the art of photography to marginalized children in communities around the world.
KIVA
Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world. When you make a loan, you are helping a real person make great strides towards economic independence and improve life for his or herself, family, and community. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates and track repayments. Then, when you get your loan money back, you can re-lend to someone else in need.
National Center on Adult Literacy
NCAL's mission incorporates three primary goals: to improve understanding of youth and adult learning, to foster innovation and increase effectiveness in youth and adult basic education and literacy work, and to expand access to information and build capacity for literacy and basic skills service provision.
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
It is the mission of NCADV to work for major societal changes necessary to eliminate both personal and societal violence against all women and children.
NCADV has partnered with The Wireless Foundation on the CALL TO PROTECT program. Through the collection of deactivated cell and wireless phones, an important tool has been provided for victims of domestic violence who may encounter emergency situations. The lifeline provided by donated phones has literally saved lives over the course of the partnership. Click here to donate your used wireless phone.
NISPED NEGEV Institute for Strategies of Peace & Development
NISPED's concern with sustainable human development, societal transformation and the reduction and resolution of tension and conflict led to the establishment of the AJEEC: the Arab-Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment and Cooperation. AJEEC works within Israel, with Jewish and Arab populations. We focus on the creation of a more just Israel, in which both populations will share equal civil and human rights.
Pantene Beautiful Lengths
Pantene Beautiful Lengths inspires women and men to donate their healthy hair to create wigs for women who have lost their hair due to cancer treatments. In order to make the most beautiful, realistic and durable wigs, donated hair must meet these requirements.
Project Africa Global, Inc.
Project Africa Global, Inc. works in partnership with international communities to achieve healthy and productive societies. PAG reaches out to the most vulnerable and marginalized populations, in concert with local partners around the globe, to build long term solutions addressing urgent health issues with a particular focus on: Orphans and Vulnerable Children, Women’s Health, HIV/AIDS and Youth Delegates for Global Citizenship. PAG’s approach places communities, youth, and health education at the center of its activities, based on the belief that only through the development of strong healthy global communities can socio- economic well-being be achieved.
Share your Soles
Share Your Soles is always looking for people interested in making a difference in kids' lives. One dollar buys a gallon of bleach to sanitize 100 pairs of shoes. Contributions are also appreciated in the form of lightly worn shoes, click here to donate shoes.
United Nations Development Fund for Women
UNIFEM is the women's fund at the United Nations. Established in 1976, it provides financial and technical assistance to innovative approaches aimed at fostering women's empowerment and gender equality. Today, the organization's work touches the lives of women and girls in more than 100 countries. UNIFEM also helps make the voices of women heard at the United Nations—to highlight critical issues and advocate for the implementation of existing commitments made to women.
Women’s Alliance
The Women's Alliance is a national organization of independent community-based members who provide professional attire, career skills training and related services to low-income women seeking employment.
Women for Women International
Women for Women International helps women advance from being victims in war-torn regions to attaining stability as survivors to becoming active citizens in their communities.
Work Options for Women
Work Options for Women's mission is to help low-income women gain the skills and confidence they need to work their way out of the cycle of poverty and into self-sufficiency. Through an innovative and comprehensive job-training program, they aim to provide women with the tools for success.
