On the Centennial of the Turkish Republic, we are grateful to Ataturk and the founders for establishing the foundations for gender equality in Turkiye…   read more

  Turkish Women’s Initiative (TWI) board members Ayca Altintig and Sema Basol were prominent participants at the Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA) conference on read more

What began as a simple fundraising idea has grown into a fun way to prepare and share well-known Turkish cuisine with friends old and new. read more

    As with the rest of the world, we watched with shock and sadness at the revelation of the devastating February 4 earthquake in read more

    On January 4, we launched the pilot program of Sparks USA for immigrant women at Alliant University in San Diego.  Using the signature read more

  This is the theme of six short videos created by Turkish Women’s Initiative. Each video features an inspirational story of what it takes to read more

TWI’s ongoing Ignite programs are designed for immigrant professional women. The goals are to help the women develop greater understanding of U.S. culture; gain deeper read more

You are invited to join us for a free pilot program as a participant in an initiative to help immigrant women thrive. Are you a read more

First Virtual Summit on FacebookLive watched by over 3,000 peopleYear #11 for TWI’s “Sparks” leadership program for university women in Turkey culminated with its customary read more

Early this year, the stories of TWI’s Sparks program history and some of its many successes were printed and published in book form. The authors are read more

Beginning November 2019,  donors to TWI can now contribute via Global Giving (www.globalgiving.org), the largest global crowdfunding community connecting nonprofits, donors, and companies in nearly every country. This is another read more

TWI sends a huge “thank you” to all who attended the November 16 “Stories of Courage” celebration and who also supported the Sparks Program with such read more

The Sparks Program has kicked off its 10th year of leadership skills training for university women in Turkey, expanding now to four cities. With growing read more

In competition for a social responsibility project award from the Credit Bureau Financial Institution, Hanife Yalciner’s project came in second place in the health and read more

Zehra Morcimen, a 2018 graduate of Ege University, was a key member of a three-student team that won second prize from the prestigious Scientific and read more

Beginning the Sparks 2018-19 academic year in Turkey, one student will be selected to receive the “Jeanne Nidorf Compassion and Social Change Award.” This award, read more

– showing once again how young women can bring change to their own lives and communities Thanks to TWI’s signature Sparks Program in Turkey, children read more

The third showing of TWI’s “Stories of Courage” took place in April in Southern California, with actors Lisa Cirincione and Tiffany Mualem once again aptly read more

“Stories of Courage,” the dramatic reading profiling the lives of Sparks alumni, took center stage at TWI’s Northern California fundraiser in January. At several points read more

This year marks the 10th anniversary of TWI. It was in 2008 that Sema Basol took the first steps in achieving her dream of making read more