Rising Tide: Empowering Low-Income Women showcases innovation and women tackling the issue of empowerment and poverty.

Notable time-points:

• Inspiration: Maya Angelou: Showcases the poem "Phenomenal Woman": 8:22 min mark
• “Empowerment:”: Andrea Debiasio describes her journey of getting sober at Edna House to becoming its current executive director: 20:05
• Fatimah Zahra describes her struggles, journey, and accomplishments: 20:05
• Refugee Perspective: Saraswati Gurung of Bhutan shares her personal story: 33:40
• Women and children in poverty: Natalie Leeks-Nelson of Providence House provides compelling information on the subject of women and children in poverty: 39:40
• "Poverty is a state of the pocketbook - Not a state of the mind" 45:22
• Policy: Factors of Women described by Amy Hanauer, Founding Director, Policy Matters Ohio: 53:12
• Foundation Data: Women's Issues: Statistics provided by Zohra Zohri, Vice President, Foundation Center: 1:14:20
• Social Enterprise: A life of social good and action by Lisa Evans: 1:43:20
• Take Aways: 1:49:18

Speakers:

• Teleange' Thomas, Senior Program Officer, Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland 
• Andrea Debiasio, Executive Director, Edna House
• Fatimah Zahra, Seeds of Literacy Program Graduate and College Graduate
• Saraswati Gurung, Refugee Collaborative Of Greater Cleveland 
• Natalie Leeks-Nelson, Executive Director, Providence House 
• Amy Hanauer, Founding Director, Policy Matters Ohio 
• Zohra Zohri, Vice President of Social Sector Outreach, Foundation Center 
• Jill Rizika, Executive Director, Towards Employment 
• Coleen Fisher, Board Treasurer, Northeast Ohio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce 
• Jessica Morrison, Family Programs Manager, Habitat for Humanity
• Lisa Evans, CEO, LNE & Associates, Verge Inc, and Signatures Style Lounge