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The Ms. Foundation for Women, a social justice foundation, delivers strategic grants, capacity building and leadership development to over 150 grassroots and national advocacy organizations throughout the U.S. Ms. Foundation support enables groups to create connections across issues, constituencies and policymaking levels to strengthen social movements and ignite change on behalf of women, families and communities. Since 1973, the Foundation has granted more than $50 million to organizations in rural and urban areas nationwide.
Accomplishments:
- Launching Take Our Daughters To Work® Day, one of the country’s most successful public education campaigns, and evolving the program to Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work® Day to bring the voices of girls and boys into conversations about creating a future where they can participate fully in family, work, and community;
- Receiving a Presidential Award for Excellence in Microenterprise Development for our longstanding commitment to improve economic prospects for low-income women;
- Distributing millions of dollars in grants each year to local, state, and national organizations to seed and sustain innovative programs for women and girls;
- Creating a national movement of activists and organizations dedicated to girls and women’s issues through our training, networking, and mentoring activities;
- Changing the face of philanthropy by creating new collaborative grantmaking models, now replicated nationwide.
