Featured Programs
Maisha Yetu: Media Campaign for Our Lives
In 2002, working with a $1.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the International Women’s Media Foundation created the Maisha Yetu project to enhance the quality and consistency of reporting on HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria in Africa. Maisha Yetu was created to give African media the means to become more responsive to their communities and to magnify their efforts in reporting on health. Maisha Yetu means “Our Lives” in Swahili
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Program Initiatives -- United States
In the United States, the IWMF has supported women in the media through workshops and seminars on management, opportunities in new media and coverage of specific beats (health care, elections, business, finance).
Most recently, workshops to help women journalists develop leadership skills
have been offered by the IWMF around the country. Materials and resources from
these workshops are available as self-directed lessons in the IWMF's Online
Training Center.
A snapshot of recent U.S. programs can be found at the links below:
Women Reaching for the Top: Initiatives for Media Leadership
This project was designed for women journalists in mid-level positions in print, broadcast and Internet media in the United States. More than 160 women took part in six leadership development workshops held in Boston, Miami, New York, San Francisco and Washington, DC, from February 2002 – June 2003.
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Women Journalists of Color in the U.S. Media
These leadership workshops were developed to help provide minority women journalists with the skills they need to make their voices heard in newsrooms.
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