Give to Gain: Investing in Her Future

This year the P&G Alumni Foundation in partnership with the P&G Women’s Leadership forum are partnering for International Women’s Day March 8th 2026.    This year’s theme Give to Gain, feels deeply personal for all P&G Alums.  

A Story of What “Give to Gain” Really Means

One of our previous P&G Alumni Foundation grant award winners, the Sherbro Foundation Sierra Leone, led by P&G Alum Grant Champion Arlene Golembiewski, shows exactly how powerful this model can be.  Sherbro Foundation Sierra Leone has a clear mission: lifting rural Sierra Leone from subsistence living to self-reliance through education and economic opportunity. They plant seeds of change — believing lasting transformation happens when communities lead it themselves.

Every morning Abibatu Kamara walks to her three-acre farm with confidence she did not always have.  A divorced mother supporting five family members, Abibatu once survived on petty trading, earning barely enough to feed her household day by day. Everything changed when she joined the Let Them Earn program, supported by Sherbro Foundation. Through an interest-free loan and modern farming training, she gained the tools to transform overgrown land into productive farmland.

Today, she:

• Grows peanuts, rice, and cassava for reliable harvest cycles
• Hires local laborers, creating jobs for others
• Covers food, school fees, and farm expansion costs

But the real gain goes beyond income. Abibatu now makes her own farming decisions. She speaks up in village meetings. She is respected. She is secure.  When we give wisely, women gain independence — and entire communities rise.

The Multiplier Effect of Your Gift

This year, the P&G Fund for Gender Equality will match all donations up to $50,000 through the end of April, 

Your gift goes further. And the impact multiplies.

Consider what your generosity can do:

• $50 can help a Sierra Leone woman farmer buy peanut seed that triples her income.
• $100 can help an African woman learn basic business skills — increasing her income from $1.35 to $4.19 per day, moving toward a livable wage.
• $250 can fund a farmer loan that doubles a family’s farm size from 2 to 4 acres.
• $500 can help 50 Sierra Leone farmers learn small business skills they have never had access to — or test the business idea of an aspiring entrepreneur in Colorado.
• $1,000 can help 50 farmers learn modern growing methods that double or triple incomes — or equip at-risk young Italian adults with tools to become future gelato-makers.

These are not abstract numbers. These are women like Abibatu.

A Challenge to Our Alumni Community

Here’s a simple challenge:
Consider giving $100.

For many of us, that is manageable. For a woman entrepreneur in rural Africa, it can change the trajectory of her income, her children’s education, and her long-term stability.

Give to Gain is not just a theme.
It is a principle we lived at P&G.
When someone invested in us, we grew.

Now it’s our turn.

Let’s come together as a global alumni community.
Let’s fully unlock the $50,000 match.
Let’s fund her future.

When she gains, we all do.