Women Making A Difference

Jacqueline Novogratz

CEO, Acumen Fund (@acumenfund) and author, The Blue Sweater (www.thebluesweater.com)
417,945 followers |

Kjerstin Erickson

I run FORGE, an international nonprofit that facilitates human-driven peacebuilding and reconstruction in war-torn African communities.
324,395 followers |

Penelope Trunk

author, blogger, entrepreneur
128,113 followers |

Dambisa Moyo

Economist & author of Winner Take All & NYTimes bestsellers Dead Aid & How The West Was Lost. Named by @TIME as one of 100 most influential people in the world.
62,742 followers |

Tamar Weinberg

mom. author. social media consultant. mashable sales. appsylum. entrepreneur. email me via my website's contact form. if it's not spam, i'll respond.
35,113 followers |

Kate Sheppard

Reporter at Mother Jones covering energy, environment, reproductive rights, etc. Contributor with Current's Countdown. Also like: running, bikes, books.
29,131 followers |

Global Fund forWomen

Resource mobilizer for women's rights worldwide. Standing w/ women since 1987.
29,067 followers |

#MomsandBrands

Home of the #MomsandBrands Twitter Parties. Connecting moms to great brands and worthy causes. MomsandBrands@gmail.com
22,309 followers |

Zainab Salbi

Women's rights activist, humanitarian, author, public speaker, & media commentator.
13,597 followers |

85Broads

A global network of female game-changers who invest in each other's success. Named ForbesWoman Top 100 site for women.
13,121 followers |

Leila C. Janah

Samasource CEO & adventurette.
12,535 followers |

Solar Sister

Light. Hope. Opportunity. Using the power of women's enterprise to distribute clean energy technology in rural Africa.
11,268 followers |

thewomensconf

The Women's Conference - The Nation's Premier Forum for Women. We empower women to be Architects of Change.
10,564 followers |

Mariéme Jamme

Educator, Proud African who is seeking positive narratives for Africa by speaking, writing and connecting people. I believe that I'm here because you are.
10,528 followers |

Women Thrive

Ending Poverty by Empowering Women
8,730 followers |

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Journalist, Author of NYT Best Seller The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, 2011 TedX Women opening speaker and the Council on Foreign Relations
8,430 followers |

Alanna Shaikh

International development optimist & skeptic, global health & int'l dev blogger at Blood & Milk, UN Dispatch. TED fellow. All tweets my opinion not employer's.
7,453 followers |

Stacey Monk

Girl with a wide-open hopeful heart. Mad scientist behind social good experiments like @EpicChange, #ToMamaWithLove, #EpicThanks, #TweetsGiving & #TwitterKids.
7,428 followers |

Lucy Bernholz

Philanthropy wonk
7,130 followers |

Women for Women UK

You can now #SponsorWomen through the UK office. Also, join our next #RunforCongo on 3rd of June in Regent's Park, London.
6,809 followers |

Jennifer Barr

Social Media Marketing Specialist. Consultant, Co-Curator @TEDxBerkeley, Marketing Manager TEDxSiliconValley @tedsv
6,584 followers |

P. Mimi Poinsett MD

Snarky crone, mama pediatrician of da boi who likes skittles, wears a hoodie. Peace Be Active, peace and hair grease.
6,537 followers |

Marianne Elliott

Advocate, writer & yogini: author of Zen Under Fire (Penguin), a memoir about Afghanistan. HuffPo blogger. La directora de @labocalocanz
6,070 followers |

Intl Museum of Women

The International Museum of Women (IMOW) is an online museum that inspires creativity, awareness, and action on vital global issues for women.
5,563 followers |

Avril Benoît

Global & humanitarian news bird | Director of Communications, Médecins Sans Frontières #MSF Doctors Without Borders @MSF_Canada [Views own, etc.]
5,462 followers |

Linda Raftree

Tweets & links about ICT4D, youth and community development, governance, NGO ethics, smart aid, travel, life and sometimes capoeira. [personal acct]
4,205 followers |

SocioLingo Africa

Passionate about Africa. I blog & tweet about social issues. Re-tweets not endorsement, only a sign of interest.
4,021 followers |

Heather LaGarde

Technology & Innovation Advisor, Global Health, Open Source, TEDxChapelHill, Music, Haw River Ballroom, & all things Saxapahaw.
3,794 followers |

Becky Straw

Co-founder & Chief Adventurist at @Ad_VenturePro. Blogging about my adventures here: http://www.beckystraw.com
3,669 followers |

GlobalWomenLeadershp

Global Women’s Leadership Network develops women who dare to transform their organizations, communities, and the world. Follow on Facebook http://fb.com/gwlnet
3,583 followers |

SHE

We thrive on disrupting the status quo. Our SHE28 initiative addresses girlsʼ & women's lack of access to low-cost, eco-friendly menstrual pads.
3,568 followers |

Rachel Strohm

Conflict & governance • Development economics • Central Africa • Research manager @Poverty_Action • See Favorites for interesting articles
3,498 followers |

Nicole Hunter

writer-activist, creator of PeaceThroughFiction creative reading method, presenter & blogger 6th Pan African Reading Conference, Dar Es Salaam
3,339 followers |

Christine Egger

#empathy #process #learning. #seamless #enterprise. #open #data. #meaning #method #alignment.
2,916 followers |

Women In the World

Stories and solutions about women and girls.
2,852 followers |

GlobalWomen'sIssues

Making women a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy. Find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/#!/dos.sgwi. Currently on duty: Varina
2,614 followers |

scarlettlion

Photographing here, there, and in between. Especially in between. http://www.scarlettlion.com
2,339 followers |

Bonnie Koenig

Consultant: NGOs engaging internationally and Author: Going Global for the Greater Good
2,233 followers |

Kavita N. Ramdas

Mira's Mom, Social Entrepreneur, Feminist, Human Rights Activist, Philanthropist, Executive Director, Ripples to Waves Program, Stanford University.
2,089 followers |

Allison Cross

Reporter/editor at the National Post in Toronto. Vancouver native. Lover of travel, puns and coffee. Opinions here are my own.
2,022 followers |

Saundra

Aid critic, donor educator, SmartAid advocate. Independent thinker, independent voter, pretty tired of U.S. politics.
1,924 followers |

Gardens For Health

We believe in food security for-all and by-all. We invest in the livelihoods of the chronically ill, to grow their own nutritious food. Now working in Rwanda.
1,855 followers |

Penelope

Human rights. Development. Global Issues. West Africa. [Franco-American in Toronto] [UN Dispatch contributor]
1,750 followers |

Evelyn Namara

Program Coordinator at Solar Sister, Inc. ✽ IT/Tech Chic. ✽ Social Entrepreneur ✽ ♥ ICTs for development ✽ FOSS advocate ✽ Blogger ✽ CEDPA alumni (GWIM55)
1,729 followers |

Heather Fleming

co-founder @Catapult_Design, YGL, world domination, kindness, orange circus peanuts, design instructor at CCA, sometimes Stanford, blah, blah, blah
1,680 followers |

Amy Carol Wolff

Doing cool things with cool people who are looking to change the world.
1,476 followers |

Christina Jordan

Ashoka fellow (E. Africa) in a former life, Evolutionize It (Belgium) is my latest global gig for good. I'm practicing to be an angel when I grow up.
1,433 followers |

gloria charles

intentional about empowerment and peer-led education as a tool for raising confidence and aspirations of the marginalised. My words alone.
1,378 followers |

Saba Gul

Founder @BagsForBLISS. Excited by business solutions to poverty, female empowerment. Engineer, social entrepreneur, @BeUnreasonable Fellow, Pakistani.
1,370 followers |

Maternova

We are a global marketplace for ideas & tools that save mothers & newborns. We track innovation and sell low-cost life-saving technologies.
1,363 followers |

@itsjina

I can write, report, shoot, script, voice, edit, produce, and blog, in any order you choose, anywhere you like. Also, I can read.
1,353 followers |

Because I am a Girl

A global campaign by @PlanAustralia to show that investing in girls gives great returns and is a key to ending poverty.
1,332 followers |

Caroline Mailloux

Foreign policy, global health, #socent, innovation, #NPO management, design, CSR. I ♥ Providence - and irony. Tweets are mine.
1,326 followers |

Maura O'Neill

Chief Innovation Officer at USAID.
1,291 followers |

Susan Birk

Writer-editor, medicine & healthcare. Interests: Community benefit initiatives, environment, non-profits, social causes, social media.
1,207 followers |

Mari Kuraishi

Co-Founder and President of GlobalGiving. Recovering Japanese Sovietologist. Enthusiastic foodie.
1,202 followers |

Trisha Olsson

Working in Corporate Social Responsibility. Enchanted by all things geek, social entrepreneurial, 5th dimensional and meditative. And inappropriate jokes too.
919 followers |

Tumwijuke Mutambuka

867 followers |

The Ihangane Project

We support projects developed by communities hardest hit by HIV that strengthen health/economic infrastructure & create sustainable solns to health needs.
699 followers |

misswretched

Afropolitan. Anthropologist. Researcher.
651 followers |

The Niapele Project

Promoting community-based initiatives to address the needs of vulnerable children in Liberia. Tweets by @penelopeinparis and @megan215
440 followers |

Willa Shalit

Social entrepreneur, Fair Trade activist, artist, merchant, mom, knitter, traveler
393 followers |

Pships in Enterprise

We are a non-profit social enterprise committed to improving the lives of women through economic empowerment.
374 followers |

Megan215

Also tweet @niapele
363 followers |

Girl Effect USA

354 followers |

Heidi Krauel

Impact Investing and Social Enterprise Champion -- looking for transformative ideas driving financial returns alongside environmental and social impact
329 followers |

Divinity Barkley

Proud @USCedu alum, Youth Development Manager @YMCA_Milwaukee and doting mother to Nyah Adeola!
310 followers |

Cori Shepherd Stern

idea scout.
294 followers |

Colleen Duncan

An engineer turned business development enthusiast in African economies. Sometimes a writter, when the mood strikes me. A curious student of life's complexity.
254 followers |

ces_eandco

CEO, E+Co (@eandcoenergy).
191 followers |

Connie K. Duckworth

Founder & CEO of ARZU STUDIO HOPE. Follow my organization @ArzuStudioHope and our newest initiative @PeaceCord!
126 followers |

Shannon Schott

I love people and giving back and that is why I work for Mercy Ships. Check them out www.mercyships.org
59 followers |

Gina Porto Spiro

Interested in all things int'l dev/law/finance/energy/NewYork/Spanish futbol.
57 followers |

mary nankinga

Programme Associate & Central Regional Cordinator & Jinja. Working with Solar Sister which brings Light,Hope & Opportunity
44 followers |

Lilliane Akurut

Regional Coordinator for Solar Sister for Eastern Uganda. Bringing light, hope and opportunity to women entrepreneurs.
10 followers |

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