World Pulse is the leading network using the power of digital media to connect women worldwide and bring them a global voice. Today nearly 60,000 women and allies from more than 190 countries are connecting through World Pulse and changing their lives - including those using internet cafes and cell phones from rural villages to urban metropolises. They believe that when women are heard, they will change the world.

Their mission is to lift and unite women’s voices to accelerate their impact for the world. Through their growing web-based platform, women are speaking out and connecting to create solutions from the frontlines of today’s most pressing issues. With a focus on grassroots women change leaders, their programs nurture community, provide media and empowerment training, and channel rising voices to influential forums.

Pioneering the effort to use interactive media to empower women, today women from nearly every country in the world use World Pulse to speak out and connect. Their stories are being picked up by the BBC, CNN, TED, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the UN, the Huffington Post, and more. By networking on their site, women are finding jobs, starting new programs and businesses, launching women-only cyber cafés, and finding international speaking opportunities that are changing their lives and lifting their communities.

World Pulse has grown from a kitchen table to a global network, partnering with over 40 top international organizations empowering women. The voices of their network are reaching millions worldwide.

World Pulse is a nonprofit social media enterprise headquartered in Portland, OR, USA.

What they do

World Pulse is an action media network powered by women from 190 countries. Through their programs, they lift and unite women’s voices to accelerate their impact for the world. By connecting women through digital technology, they bring women’s voices out of the shadows and on to the world stage

They Bring Women a Global Voice

Their online community is a sanctuary where every woman with access to the Internet can be heard and connect with women across the world to solve global problems. New ideas and solutions rise from the ground up as women speak out from remote regions and hot spots via Internet cafés or cell phones.

They Magnify the Power of Women’s Voices

Their editorial desk and digital action campaigns promote the most powerful community voices and community solutions to major media outlets and influential forums. They vet, package, and channel women’s stories—in their own words—to forums like CNN, the Huffington Post, the UN, and the U.S. Department of State.

They Equip Women with Tools to be Vocal Agents of Change

They equip grassroots women to become empowered leaders and vocal agents of change through their annual online citizen journalism and digital empowerment training program called “Voices of Our Future.” Each correspondent is matched with a professional vision mentor and editorial mentor who support her to develop her vision. World Pulse publishes their stories and three correspondents are selected each year to travel to the US for their nation-wide speaking and media tour, World Pulse LIVE.