
Help Willpowered Woman Grow
Willpowered Woman focuses on empowering women. We educate at high schools, universities, colleges and businesses to prevent intimate partner abuse and support women who have been affected. We were founded in February 2016 and in that time, with the help of many volunteers, we were to able accomplish a lot. You can read our 2016 Impact Report HERE
The CEO, Caitlin D'Aprano has been working on Willpowered Woman full-time since October 2015 and has decided it's time to expand! We want two full-time staff so we can have an even bigger impact and start to put our future plans into action.
We are raising $50,000 to have two fellows join us full-time for one year. We have already secured Alena who will focus on outreach and community impact and will be looking for another fellow, once we get the funds together.
The $50,000 will cover office space and salaries which are subsidized by our partner, Atlas Corps.
Why Support Willpowered Woman?
Our Founder Caitlin D’Aprano is an intimate partner abuse survivor.
After only 4 weeks of marriage, her husband strangled her 3 times. She left with nothing; no visa, nowhere to live and no job. She had escaped to an emergency shelter and was looking for temporary housing, when she contacted nonprofits, the first question she received was, “Do you have children?” When her answer was no, 98% of nonprofits said they couldn’t help her.
There was every reason to go back to her husband: love, family, a roof over her head, but she prevailed against all odds. The amount of willpower it took her to persevere was tremendous, it felt like a force of nature. That’s when Willpowered Woman was born.
It's important to help women without children because 1 in 4 women in abusive relationships become pregnant against their will (forced pregnancy). Willpowered Woman wants to prevent a woman from having to go back and increasing her risk of forced pregnancy due to lack of resources.
Thank you for supporting Willpowered Woman: without you, our mission would not be possible.