Women Win

02/04/2026

Innovation in sport rarely begins in institutions — it much more often starts in communities. 🚵 That is where encouragement and support to experiment, innovate, fail, and try again should flow. 🧪

Our latest article, “Sports for Innovation: Supporting Experimentation Turns Ideas into Change,” explores how grassroots ideas grow into wider systems change when they are met with credibility, trust, flexibility, and visibility. The stories of Ignite365 innovators show that innovation is rarely linear. It requires space to experiment, adapt, learn, and refine. 💡

Read the full article and explore how sport is being used as a catalyst for social impact 👉 https://o365innovationhub.beehiiv.com/p/sports-for-innovation-supporting-experimentation-turns-ideas-into-change

Beyond Sport

09/03/2026

For International Women's Day, we're turning to our partners and grantees to celebrate how they use the power of sport and play to change the playing field for gender justice. 🏃‍♀️⚽🛹

From football pitches to coding labs, from community spaces for young mothers to financial literacy games — sport and play are so much more than recreation. They're how girls, women and gender-expansive people come together, build power, and rewrite the rules.

When girls play, they learn to stand up, speak up, and lead. And when girls lead, the world changes. 💪

02/02/2026

"Youth sports are most powerful when they are fun, accessible, and transformative; when they promote positivity, welcome inclusivity, and encourage growth, connection, and empowerment. It is a space where every child can belong, every voice is heard, and the lessons of empathy, teamwork, and resilience extend beyond the field into everyday life." — Reimagining Youth Sport: A Decision-Making Playbook for Youth Agency

Ashoka, an innovator of the Collective365 and part of the Olympism365 Innovation Hub, recently published the "Reimagining Youth Sport: A Decision-Making Playbook for Youth Agency". More about the playbook here ➡️ https://beyondsport.org/2026/01/29/reimagining-youth-sport-ashokas-playbook-for-advancing-youth-agency/

Beyond Sport

From coaches to funders, the decisions shaping youth sport matter. In a new playbook on reimagining youth sport, Ashoka invites leaders across the global sport ecosystem to rethink priorities and center youth agency in how sport is designed, delivered and experienced.

29/01/2026

This moment in history can feel overwhelming—but it’s also a moment for smart, collective action.

The evidence is clear: investing in women-led movements accelerates progress on climate, democracy, and human rights—and women’s and feminist funds are critical to making that investment reach where it matters most.

That’s why hashtag , a new campaign to mobilise $600M USD annually for feminist movements, is so timely. It is about scaling the feminist funding ecosystem, making visible what’s already working, and moving resources to the right hands at the scale this moment demands.

Learn more ➡️ accelerate-together.org

18/11/2025

📅 Applications now closed

Apply for FREE STEM by December 1! 🚀 thefreestemfund.org/who-can-apply

🙋‍♀️ Watch the Application Webinar in English, Spanish, French, Arabic, or Russian to get support with your application 👉 thefreestemfund.org/webinar

This round offers two-year grants to organisations advancing STEM education and training for adolescent girls, women and young people, with a special focus on Latin America, Asia, and Africa (including North Africa). 🌎

FREE STEM, a collaboration between Women Win and the Optiver Foundation, is dedicated to narrowing the gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. It supports girls, women, and young people, especially those from underrepresented and marginalised communities, to become leaders and changemakers in STEM. 💡🔬

14/11/2025

We are celebrating 5 years of Equal Play Effect! ⚽

Equal Play Effect - a collaborative effort by The WE United Project , Common Goal, Creating Chances, and Women Win - shows what it looks like when we stop waiting for systemic change to happen for us, and instead decide it will come from us.

Read the Equal Play Effect 5-Year Impact Report to witness an approach that has shifted mindsets, power, leadership, policies, and resource flows, and strengthened connectivity across a network of leaders committed to advancing gender equity through the world’s game ➡️https://www.common-goal.org/Content/downloads/EPE-5Y-Report_Final.pdf

05/11/2025

Join us today at ICFP for a session on Moving Towards Joy: Supporting Pregnant Adolescent Girls & Young Mothers 🤸

🌟 With partners Asociación AMA, Empodera - Transformação social pelo esporte, Vijana Amani Pamoja and MOM IN BALANCE and joined by Girls Not Brides we will explore what changes when we move beyond individual projects and build a coalition of partners that together centre joy, play, dignity and justice for young mothers.

📅 Wednesday, November 5th
⏰ 7-9PM
📍 Room L, 3rd Floor, Agora Convention Cente
🎧 Interpretation in English, Spanish, and French
➡️ Register here: https://forms.gle/7zNSjwKfMmdjWeEo6

04/11/2025

📅 Applications now closed

The FREE STEM Fund has opened a new call for applications. This round will offer two-year grants to organisations advancing STEM education and training for adolescent girls, women and young people, with a special focus on Latin America, Asia, and Africa (including North Africa). 🌎

FREE STEM, a collaboration between Women Win and the Optiver Foundation, is dedicated to narrowing the gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. It supports girls, women, and young people, especially those from underrepresented and marginalised communities, to become leaders and changemakers in STEM. 💡🔬

Applications are open until 1 December 2025. If your organisation or group is driving inclusive innovation and equity in STEM, hurry up and dream big!

👉 Learn more and apply at thefreestemfund.org/who-can-apply

⁉️Questions? Register for the Application webinars in English, Spanish, French, Russian and Arabic here: thefreestemfund.org/webinar

Optiver

03/11/2025

Find Women Win and Secure Futures partners at the International Conference on Family Planning 🗺 stop by our Booth 53 or join our session🤸 Moving Towards Joy: Supporting Pregnant Adolescent Girls & Young Mothers 🤸

🌟 With partners Asociación AMA, Empodera - Transformação social pelo esporte, Vijana Amani Pamoja, and MOM IN BALANCE, and joined by Girls Not Brides, we will explore what changes when we move beyond individual projects and build a coalition of partners that together centre joy, play, dignity and justice for young mothers.

📅 Wednesday, November 5th
⏰ 7-9PM
📍 Room L, 3rd Floor, Agora Convention Cente
🎧 Interpretation in English, Spanish, and French
➡️ Register here: https://lnkd.in/ezdt7n-a

29/10/2025

Secure Futures partners are coming to the International Conference on Family Planning! 🌎

Join our session, Moving Towards Joy: Supporting Pregnant Adolescent Girls & Young Mothers 🤸

🌟 With partners Asociación AMA, Empodera - Transformação social pelo esporte, Vijana Amani Pamoja, and MOM IN BALANCE, and joined by Girls Not Brides we will explore what changes when we move beyond individual projects and build a coalition of partners that together centre joy, play, dignity and justice for young mothers

📅 Wednesday, November 5th
⏰ 7-9PM
📍 Room L, 3rd Floor, Agora Convention Cente
🎧 Interpretation in English, Spanish, and French
➡️ Register here: https://forms.gle/7zNSjwKfMmdjWeEo6

27/10/2025

🤖 Exploring Responsible AI in Sport for Development

Great insights from the recent Olympism365 Innovation Hub community session on how AI can drive positive change across sport and society. 🌍

The discussion focused on real-world experiments using AI for language inclusion, deep research, and knowledge sharing. One highlight: NOVA, an AI learning companion that offers real-time, multilingual, and personalised interactive experiences. Check NOVA out here ➡️ https://o365innovationhub.beehiiv.com/

Many of the 77 innovators across 42 countries in the O365 Innovation Hub are already using generative AI for Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, curriculum design, and communications. We heard inspiring examples from:
💡 Impact Academy Egypt, who have used AI to plan training space renovations.
💡 Gastro Forestry Project Indonesia, who are building an AI agent for environmental monitoring and data management.

As AI continues to influence how we design and deliver sport for sustainable development, the Olympism365 Innovation Hub is creating spaces for shared learning and exploration. By bringing together diverse stakeholders, practitioners, experts, and innovators, we’re on a collective learning journey of how AI can be understood and applied responsibly, from ethical considerations to real-world case studies. ⚽💡

🚀 The Olympism365 Innovation Hub is a collaboration between the International Olympic Committee, Beyond Sport and Women Win designed to support a diverse community of innovators leading new and impactful approaches to sport for sustainable development.