Women Learning to earn, and woman starting over
She already has the will. We build the way.
Women building their own income — in business, in work, and
in starting over.
Running since 2024
She Earns: The Woman's Income Project
Free business and job training built for a phone, a weak signal, and twenty spare minutes.
In development
Steady Ground
For women rebuilding after abuse peer support, practical help, and a route to their own money.
Launching 2027
Nobody Told Me
Conversations with women who left, started over, and built something of their own.
Opening 2027
The Briggs Fund
Grants to shelters and organizations already doing this work where we cannot reach.
Affiliated venture
Tuesdays
Where graduates get hired directly by entrepreneurs in Canada and
the US.
Our Mission
To put earned income and real choices in a woman's own
hands.
Why this structure
One foundation, separate pieces of work
Training a woman in Lagos is not the same job as sitting with a survivor in Ontario, and neither is the same as funding somebody else's shelter. Different partners, different risks, different ways of knowing whether it worked.
So each program runs on its own terms with its own name. The foundation holds the registration, the money, and the accountability — and can take on new work with a board decision rather than a new organization.
How we're governed
Start a business
Six modules, a mentor, and $50–250 to begin
Grow the business I have
Pricing, customers, and keeping records
Money basics
Saving, lending circles, separating business from home
Selling online
WhatsApp, Facebook, and getting paid
Health and wellness
Run by our ambassador network
Steady Ground
Leaving is rarely the hard part. Staying gone is.
Most women who go back, go back because there was no money on the other side of the door. Rent, childcare, a phone bill. The decision looks like a choice and isn't one.
Steady Ground works on that gap. Peer support with women who have been through it, practical resources for the first year, and a direct route into She Earns training so income is not a separate problem for later.
What we offerPeer circles
Small groups led by women who have been through it, online and in person
The first year
Practical guides on housing, money, documents, and custody
A way to earn
Priority placement into She Earns training and into Tuesday
Referrals
Connections to counselling, legal help, and local services
For families
How to help someone you love without pushing her away
For employers
Hiring and supporting women who are rebuilding
If you are in immediate danger
Contact your local emergency number first. Steady Ground is not a crisis service and cannot respond to emergencies. Our referrals page lists crisis lines and shelters by region. This site keeps no record of what you read, and the quick exit button above will take you away from this page.
Nobody Told Me
The things women find out
afterwards
Not survival stories told for an audience. Practical, specific
conversations about money, custody, shame, first jobs, and what
actually helped — with the women who lived them and the people who
work alongside them.
Episode 1
What leaving actually costs
What it costs to leave, in real numbers, and
where that money comes from
Episode 2
Working while you are still afraid
Three women on taking their first paid work in
the middle of everything else.
Episode 3
What helpers get wrong
A shelter director on the advice that pushes
women back.
I kept meeting women who did everything right and still had nowhere to take it. The gap was never ability. It was access, and usually it was money.
Emma Briggs, founder
From the field
Stories and guides
5 min read
What $25 a month actually changes
School fees, a phone plan, and a seat at the table when money is discussed at home.
7 min read
Financial abuse is the part nobody names
Controlled accounts, ruined credit, and debt taken out in her name.
6 min read
Building a course for a phone with no data
What we learned designing lessons for the conditions women are actually in.
Tuesday: Your Week, Handled
Named for the day you get your week back
Entrepreneurs hire our graduates directly for inbox, calendar, data, and social media work. Every assistant has finished the training and been vetted, and she keeps the large majority of what she earns.
Tuesday charges a commission, which makes it a business rather than a charity. It sits alongside the foundation rather than inside it.
Hire an assistantOpening 2027
The Briggs Fund
Grants to shelters, survivor organizations, and local groups doing this work where we cannot.
In exploration
Ambassador network
Community health and wellness education delivered by women in their own languages.
In exploration
Mentor corps
Women in business giving six sessions each to someone starting out.
Open
Propose something
The structure is built to add programs. If you are doing work that belongs here, tell us.
Where we actually are
A new foundation, an older program
Foundation incorporated
September 2026
She Earns running since
November 2024
Charitable status
Application in progress
Board
Being recruited
The Emma Briggs Foundation is a federal not-for-profit corporation under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act. It is not yet a registered charity and cannot issue tax receipts. We will update this line the day that changes.
