Global Grassroots

Global Grassroots

Global Grassroots is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2004 by Gretchen Steidle Wallace that supports conscious social change for women in post-conflict societies. Through personal transformation work and social entrepreneurship training, Global Grassroots helps marginalized women and genocide survivors reclaim their lives and discover their value to society through the development of their own ideas for social change. Global Grassroots then offers seed funding grants and 12 months of advisory support to launch those projects that advance the well-being and rights of women. Finally, Global Grassroots engages in creative campaigns to raise awareness of critical women’s issues globally.

In 2005, Global Grassroots launched its work in the refugee camps of Eastern Chad among refugees from Darfur, Sudan. In 2006, Global Grassroots expanded its program among widowed genocide survivors and sexual assault victims with HIV in Kigali, Rwanda. Its Stop War Against Women Project is a multi-media research and advocacy project investigating sexual violence during conflict across eleven countries in Africa.

Global Grassroots is the charitable and advocacy arm of the documentary film, "The Devil Came on Horseback", a Break Thru Films production in association with Global Grassroots and Three Generations. The "Devil Came on Horseback" tells the story of an American witness to genocide, former U.S. Marine, Brian Steidle, who served as an African Union military observer in Darfur for six months. Founder, Gretchen Steidle Wallace is a producer of the documentary film, and co-author of Steidle's memoir, also titled "The Devil Came on Horseback", published by PublicAffairs.

References


* [http://www.globalgrassroots.org Global Grassroots website]
* [http://www.thedevilcameonhorseback.com/action The Devil Came on Horseback website]
* [http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=36975a7c-224c-438a-9538-130b9e5cdd91 "New Republic" "The Truth Will Not Set you Free", by Richard Just, August 2008]
* [http://www.jeffersonscholars.org/news/35_under_35.pdf Gretchen Steidle Wallace named one of the 2007 Top 35 Women Under 35 by "World Business Magazine"]
* [http://www.diversitymatters.info/episodes/Season4/friend122807.mp3 "Diversity Matters", "Social Entrepreneurship for Women’s Wellbeing Worldwide" An interview with Gretchen Steidle Wallace, broadcast Friday December 28, 2007]
* [http://www.globalgrassroots.org/UpliftingDarfur.pdf "Fit Yoga Magazine" August 2007 feature on Global Grassroots, "Uplifting Darfur" by Mara McFalls]
* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb1437/is_200701/ai_n19223643 "Variety Review" of The Devil Came on Horseback, by Robert Koehler, January 2007]
* [http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/movies/25hors.html?ex=1186027200&en=9b2ebe348cb23186&ei=5070&emc=eta1 "New York Times": review of The Devil Came on Horseback, by By Manohla Dargis, July 25, 2007]
* [http://www.forbestraveler.com/beneficial-travel/voluntourism-in-rwanda-story.html "Forbes Traveler", "Helping Rwanda" by Bruce Northam, June 10, 2008]
* [http://www.globalgrassroots.org/gWallace.pdf "her circle ezine" "In The Southern Stretches of the Sahara" by Gretchen Steidle Wallace, Fall 2006]


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