FemSMS: Compassionate text-based information for women in Ukraine & crisis zones.

The network aims to provide women in crisis in Ukraine with rapid access to information and resources.

StrengthIN: Where Wellbeing Meets Global Transformation

Invest in the world’s first evidence-based initiative focused on overlooked human needs including self-worth & connection━ needs virtually ignored in global crises.

Girl-talk-Girl: Mobile Digital Storytelling and Gender- based Violence

Through this project, young women at risk of experiencing gender-based violence (GBV) engage in mVoiceWorks©, then produce and share mobile digital stories based on their lived experiences. Their stories serve as a platform to spark peer-to-peer dialogue internationally, exploring both unique and common experiences with respect to the GBV that is ever-present in the lives of young women. 

United States and Russia: From 2014-2016, funded by two awards from the US State Department, Girl-talk-Girl developed and scaled a dynamic collaboration between young women in New York City and St. Petersburg.

Ukraine: In 2017, with funding from the US Embassy in Ukraine, Footage implemented Girl-talk-Girl with young women internally displaced by armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine and Crimea.

Chile: In 2018, with funding from the US Embassy in Chile, Footage implemented Girl-talk-Girl with first generation women students in the School of Psychology at Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile.

Kazakhstan: In 2022, Footage will continue Girl-talk-Girl in Almaty Kazakhstan — scaling up the program through our unique peer leadership model and delivering training for crisis centers across the region. In 2020, Footage implemented Girl-talk-Girl with university students and young women survivors of violence in Almaty, Kazakhstan. This project is sponsored and supported by the U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Kazakhstan.

Her{connect}Her: Narratives and Connection among Young Refugee and Migrant Women

This program engages young refugee and migrant women worldwide in empowering narrative workshops. Through story sharing, Her{connect}Her cultivates participants' innate agency, belonging, and resilience while fostering compassion and empathy among local and global communities. Hope, dignity, and community are significant themes as this project prioritizes young women as experts on their needs and agents of change while offering them an inclusive network. For this work, Footage was granted a Vodafone Americas Foundation Give Away Award. Thus far, Footage has provided Her{connect}her in Sweden, France, Greece, and the UK.

PowerTools: Using the power of storytelling to end GBV and promote equality across Russia

This program engages Russian organizations across the Core Region, Siberia, Russian Far East and Urals in a series of interactive online training sessions focused on the power of using storytelling in ending the growing pandemic of gender-based violence (GBV).

US-Russia WebinHERS: Dialogue, Inclusion, and Gender-based Violence

After consulting with young women throughout the US and Russia, as well as the professionals who work with them, we will be providing in-depth educational and interactive webinars on GBV in 2020. This project takes an intersectional and participatory approach and is funded by a Peer-to-Peer Dialogue Program Award from the US State Department.