Commits grants to NGOs addressing economic inequities faced by women as its next Impact Challenge.
08 Mar, 2021 - 03:16 PM IST | By indiantelevision.com Team
NEW DELHI: In a blog post timed for International Women’s Day, Google has put out a call for applications for charitable initiatives focusing on anything from “barriers to economic equality” to “cultivating entrepreneurship.” The tech giant announced a range of programs as well as grants worth $25 million to fund works of non-profits and social enterprises that are committed to empower women and girls.
“Women and men remain on unequal footing and these inequalities have worsened in the wake of Covid2019,” Google.org president Jacquelline Fuller said in the post. Fuller cited a statistic showing that women in the US alone have lost more than 5.4 million jobs in 2020, according to the National Women’s Law Center. Since the coronavirus pandemic started, other organisations have also so
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Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman speaks during the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Rob Carr/Getty Images)
PALM SPRINGS, CA A colorful mural featuring Los Angeles native Amanda Gorman, the poet who read her work at President Joe Biden s inauguration and at the Super Bowl, is now on display in downtown Palm Springs.
Los Angeles-based artist MisterAlek painted Gorman surrounded by butterflies and the word unity. The scene depicts the Los Angeles native s powerful reading of her original poem The Hill We Climb at the Jan. 20 presidential swearing-in ceremony in Washington, D.C., which thrust her into the national spotlight.
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