Leading with Care: How Women Around the World are Inspiring Businesses, Empowering Communities, and Creating Opportunity

Inspiring Future Lionesses

Achieving these lofty goals isn’t easy, but the program’s approach displays a keen sense of innovation. The first step is to have high-profile WNBA players, especially those whose personal struggles reflect the plight of the very women with whom CARE works, lend their passion and support. This means spokeswomen like Dawn Staley, the three-time Olympic gold-medal winner who launched the Dawn Staley Foundation to provide opportunities to at-risk youth, or Cappie Pondexter, the 2007 WNBA Finals MVP who helps kids reach their potential with basketball clinics and self-esteem workshops.

These “lionesses,” as Sheila Johnson would call them, have helped raise awareness of CARE’s work through public service announcements ...