by Rena Greifinger

It’s time to give girls the power to design and determine the futures that they dream of, to fund with more flexibility and a learning mindset, and to invest in raising a generation of feminist boys that lift up girls—and one another—everywhere.

New York City in the second half of September is now a two-week festival attracting all those who deal with global challenges.

Often it’s about seeing and being seen.

Rena Greifinger takes a different view.

We are so excited to introduce this year’s Maverick Collective Summer Reading List. Since 2020, we have compiled this list to serve as another way to keep our community energized and connected, to provoke our thinking, and to introduce new voices that help shape our work and our perceptions of the world around us.

Maverick Collective Member Jess Jacobs; PSI Board Member, Dr. Michele Bratcher Goodwin; PSI’s Senior Clinical Advisor for Africa, Dr. Milly Kaggwa; and Anushay Hossain talk about the impact of U.S. foreign policy on women’s reproductive health and rights around the world, and much more.

PSI’s experiential philanthropy program, Maverick Collective, has shown the catalytic impact on women and girls when donors choose to go beyond philanthropy-as-usual.

The first installment in the series is on “Envisioning Equality,” asks a diverse and esteemed set of global activists, visionaries, politicians, academics and other thought leaders across sectors and industries -- including Rena Greifinger -- to share their visions of what a gender equal and just world would look like, what gives them hope and inspiration, and what the world would be like once we’ve achieved it.

Melinda French Gates (Maverick Collective Co-Founder), MacKenzie Scott, Priscilla Chan. They’ve always been big givers, but for a long time men got most of the credit. Now they are changing the game.

Learn how Maverick Collective Co-Founder Melinda French Gates’s Pivotal Ventures uses a feminist approach to invests in funds that prioritize companies led by women and people of color.

Maverick Collective's Managing Director Rena Greifinger joins Stef Ziev to talk about what it means to choose to give boldly.