Frequently Asked Questions
The Meraki Dignity Project is a nonprofit organization building a trusted space with resources, and community to help women navigate major life moments with clarity, confidence, and dignity. We focus on how women make decisions at the intersection of health, money, work, caregiving, and identity, especially when those decisions show up all at once.
At its core, Meraki is a technology platform designed around the realities of women’s lives. Think of it as a whole-health hub that supports women as they navigate important transitions and life pivots.
A secure, AI-enabled platform, Meraki offers trusted, evidence-informed resources and community that are curated and personalized. In a world where transitions are happening more often and more quickly, Meraki helps provide clarity so that women have confidence to make intentional choices for the future they desire.
Meraki is built for women navigating moments of transition or recalibration, often in midlife and beyond, who are carrying real responsibility and want support that reflects the full complexity of their lives. Many women come to Meraki feeling capable but stretched, unsure where to turn, and tired of one-size-fits-all solutions.
Meraki supports women through moments such as:
These moments rarely arrive neatly. Meraki is built for how they intersect.
Meraki [meh-rah-key] is a Greek word that means immersing yourself fully in an act, with creativity, soul, and love. In our work, meraki describes what becomes possible when women are seen, valued, and supported as whole individuals. The outcome is the ability to engage fully in life and make intentional choices about the future you want. Meraki is what dignity feels like.
Meraki does not tell women what to do. We do not diagnose, prescribe, or direct. Instead, we help women see their whole context clearly so they can decide for themselves. As many women tell us, “I don’t need another answer. I need help thinking.” Meraki is designed for that moment.
No. Meraki does not provide medical, financial, or legal advice. We curate credible, evidence-informed resources and help women orient themselves before decisions are made. The goal is clarity and coherence, not instructions.
Meraki uses AI to support an n of 1 view, helping women see how health, money, work, caregiving, time, and energy interact in their own lives. Most tools are built around averages. Meraki is built around context.
Yes. Privacy and trust are foundational to Meraki. The platform is designed as a safe and secure space where women can reflect honestly without worrying that their information will be shared, sold, or traced back to them. Personal responses are never used for advertising.
It’s reasonable to be thoughtful about that. Meraki uses AI in a very specific way: to help create clarity, not to collect, sell, or exploit personal information.
AI supports orientation by helping surface patterns, connections, and relevance based on what you choose to share. It does not replace human judgment, and it does not make decisions for you. Your information is not used for advertising, sold to third parties, or shared outside the platform.
Privacy, trust, and dignity are foundational to Meraki. The technology is there to serve you, quietly and responsibly, so you can think more clearly and choose with intention.
Meraki is currently offered through research pilots, beta access, and partner supported programs. As the platform evolves, there will be a mix of free and supported access. As a nonprofit, our goal is simple. Trusted support should not be reserved only for those who can afford it.
Dignity is inherent. It is what makes us human. It can be violated and it can be honored, but it can never be taken away. Dignity is not a zero sum game. When we honor one another’s dignity, everyone benefits. In practice, dignity gives us agency, the ability to make intentional choices about our own lives.
Meraki is currently recruiting participants for its beta and pilot phases, with broader availability planned for 2026. You can sign up on our website to stay informed or take part.
For much of my career, I learned how to adapt inside systems that were not designed with women’s lives in mind. Like many women, I kept moving, even when it meant postponing my own needs.
In midlife, I made one of the most difficult decisions I had ever imagined making. I let go of a role that no longer gave me joy. When I did, I realized I suddenly had both hands free. That moment made visible how little space there had been for intention, and how much of my life had been lived in reaction.
When I later listened to hundreds of women, I realized this was not just my experience. It was a pattern. Meraki was created to give women the space, structure, and community to move from constant adaptation to intentional choice.
I grew up watching dignity practiced quietly. My mother was a Greek immigrant who arrived in the U.S. at fourteen, worked her way through college, became a scientist, and painted for the love of it. She lived meraki, immersing herself fully in what she cared about, with creativity and intention.
She now lives with Alzheimer’s. She no longer paints and rarely speaks, but her dignity remains, in her presence, her smile, the way she meets my eyes. She taught me that dignity is not about productivity or performance. It is about being fully human. Meraki is my way of honoring that lesson and creating space for it in women’s lives.
Meraki is what dignity feels like in practice. It is the ability to engage fully in your life rather than moving through it on autopilot. It means making intentional choices instead of constantly reacting, and having the steadiness to decide what matters next, for you.
Because this is a moment of real responsibility and influence. Women in midlife are often holding families, finances, and institutions together while navigating personal transitions of their own. Yet many feel overlooked by systems that were never designed with this level of complexity in mind.
Across our 2025 national study and focus groups with more than 1,000 women, we saw a clear pattern. Many women prioritize legacy and contribution alongside health and finances. Most could not name a single organization they rely on during major life transitions and often default to search engines they do not fully trust.
Women were not asking for more advice. They were asking for clarity and coherence.
During our three week alpha, women engaged deeply and voluntarily, spending an average of 20 minutes per session. The strongest unmet needs surfaced around health and finance, not because resources do not exist, but because women struggle to distinguish what is credible and relevant for them.
What mattered most was not content, but the feeling of being seen and understood.A summary of findings is available in our Alpha Fact Sheet.
Trauma is, at its core, disruption. Sometimes it is acute. Often it is quieter, the trauma of being highly functional inside impossible expectations, where career, family, caregiving, and responsibility all arrive at once.
Healing begins with safety– space to feel seen, supported, and connected, before being asked to decide what comes next. Meraki is designed to create that safe space. A place to pause, think clearly, and reconnect with choice while options still exist.
The Meraki Dignity Report is our annual research publication, bringing together insights from national studies, platform learnings, and lived experience. It explores how women navigate dignity, agency, and decision making across health, money, work, and caregiving, and where systems fall short.
Yes. We are actively recruiting women to participate in our beta and upcoming pilots. Participants help shape the platform while gaining early access to a trusted space for reflection, orientation, and connection.
You can participate by:
Meraki is being built with women, not for them.
Success looks like a movement taking shape. More than forty million women 45 and older are making decisions that will guide roughly $38 trillion in intergenerational wealth. Individually, they carry enormous responsibility. Collectively, they carry real power.
For Meraki, success means giving women shared space, shared language, and trusted structure to make intentional choices about the futures they desire. And over time, seeing the systems around us begin to change in ways that truly honor women’s dignity.
Meraki helps women slow down and get oriented before making decisions. We start by helping women see what is actually on their plate, health, money, work, caregiving, time, and energy, all together. From there, Meraki helps clarify how those pieces are interacting so women can decide what to address first.
Because women rarely face one decision at a time. A health choice affects work. Work affects finances. Finances affect caregiving. Meraki reflects how real life works, where choices overlap, collide, and compound.
AI helps surface patterns, connections, and relevance specific to each woman’s life. It supports an n-of-1 view, so guidance is shaped around her context rather than generic recommendations.
Meraki is for women like Maya. She keeps postponing a cardiology appointment, not because she does not care, but because she is unsure what her benefits cover, what it will cost, and whether taking time off will raise questions at work.
At the same time, her retirement account feels frozen, her boss is hinting at a reorganization, her daughter still needs more of her time than she admits, and her parents are aging. None of this is a crisis on its own. Taken together, it is simply her life.
Meraki helps Maya slow down and see how these pressures are connected. She is guided to evidence-informed resources designed for women, carefully curated so what she sees is relevant, credible, and usable, not overwhelming or generic.
That might mean:
What keeps Maya engaged is not just the resources. It is community. She connects with other women navigating similar pivots and has a small, trusted circle to help her think, not tell her what to do, but help her pressure-test decisions.
The difference is not more information. It is coherence, the ability to make choices that feel intentional and truly her own.
Both, but not in the usual way. Content is curated for relevance and credibility. Community offers shared language and perspective, not comparison or advice. Together, they help women think more clearly about what comes next.
Women report greater clarity, steadiness, and confidence in their decision-making. They are better able to see what matters now, identify a first right next step, and move forward without panic or pressure. Through trusted resources and community, women gain agency, the ability to make intentional choices at critical pivot moments.
Meraki may be right for you if:
Meraki may not be right for you if you are looking for quick answers or directives.
