Giving Compass' Take:

· Erica Sanchez and Sushmita Ro report that Melinda Gates has launched a new content-sharing platform called Evoke with intentions to empower women through the sharing of powerful and inspirational stories.

· How is this website helping to empower women everywhere? How is Evoke raising awareness around the increasing gender gap?

· Here's more on gender equality and why advancing our world begins with empowering women. 

Melinda Gates can boast a long list of accomplishments — and now she's adding one more.

Ranked sixth in Forbes’ recent “World’s Most Powerful Women list” and credited as the “most powerful woman in philanthropy," Gates has launched her newest endeavor on March 5: a platform called Evoke that will highlight inspirational stories advocating for equality and change.

“The fact that we’re launching in March — Women’s History Month — is no coincidence,” her note on Evoke's website read.

Each month, Evoke will publish uplifting stories focused on a specific theme. For March, the theme is “forward.”

The site's first essays include “The fight to end period poverty,” in which a student activist discusses her #FreePeriods campaign, and “Girls Garage,” the story of how an all-women design and building program came to exist.

The website is a content-sharing platform designed to bring forth motivational stories of people from around the world working to end poverty and advance equality. The site's stories — categorized as “Fresh Takes,” “Deep Dives,” and “Big Ideas" — are meant to prompt conversations. The platform itself is intended to foster a "community of optimists."

Gates, who created the website with the help of her independent executive office Pivotal Ventures, has repeatedly spoken about the importance of women's empowerment. Launched in 2015, Pivotal Ventures is Gates’ independent endeavor.

Read the full article about Melinda Gates' new website to inspire women by Erica Sanchez and Sushmita Ro at Global Citizen.