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Founded in 1973, the Ms. Foundation for Women is the first and leading women’s fund and foundation engaged across the [[Image:Missfoundationforwomen_logo.gif|thumb|right|250px|Ms. Foundation for Women logo]]United States to build women’s collective power to ignite change. The Ms. Foundation delivers strategic grants, capacity building and leadership development to organizations at local, state, Tribal and national levels working for policy change and culture change across the broad areas of women’s health, economic justice, ending violence and building democracy. <br>  
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== Mission and Work<br> ==
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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. <br>
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The Ms. Foundation actively works to bring race, class, age and sexuality to the center of feminist organizing (social justice feminism) and to bring a gender lens to the center of broader progressive organizing (feminist social justice). The foundation fosters alliances among women’s organizations and other social justice groups to strengthen and expand the breadth and power of social justice movements. They build movements through strategic grantmaking and capacity building within and across broad issue areas. <br>
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== History and Key Achievements<br>  ==
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In 1973, the Ms. Foundation for Women was co-founded by Patricia T. Carbine, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, [[Gloria Steinem|Gloria Steinem]], and Marlo Thomas to redistribute profits from Ms. Magazine to the grassroots women’s movement. <br>
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Key Achievements include:<br>
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*In 1976 the Ms. Foundation becomes the first funder to support domestic violence issues. <br>
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*In 1988 the Ms. Foundation started the Institute for Women’s Economic EmPOWERment, the only national training ground for economic development and justice organizers working on women’s issues. <br>
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*The following year, it established the Gloria Awards: A National Salute to Women of Vision to shine the spotlight on exceptional women leaders and raise resources for the Foundation. In the same year, it also established the Reproductive Rights Coalition and Organizing Fund to support organizations working on women’s health issues at the state level. <br>
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*In 1990 the Ms. Foundation initiates the Collaborative Fund for Women’s Economic Development. <br>
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*In 1996, the Ms. Foundation starts the Collaborative Fund for Healthy Girls/Healthy Women to assist community organizations working on cutting-edge programs to support girls’ leadership. <br>
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*In 2005, the foundation introduces its Public Voices, Public Policy initiative that aims to actively support women of color who are leading grassroots organizations and get them involved in public-policy <br>
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<b>Accomplishments:<br></b>
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<li>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;</li>
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<li>Receiving a Presidential Award for Excellence in Microenterprise Development for our longstanding commitment to improve economic prospects for low-income women;</li>
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<li>Distributing millions of dollars in grants each year to local, state, and national organizations to seed and sustain innovative programs for women and girls;</li>
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<li>Creating a national movement of activists and organizations dedicated to girls and women’s issues through our training, networking, and mentoring activities;</li>
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<li>Changing the face of philanthropy by creating new collaborative grantmaking models, now replicated nationwide.</li>
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== Sources<br>  ==
== Sources<br>  ==
*http://www.ms.foundation.org<br>
*http://www.ms.foundation.org<br>
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Latest revision as of 20:46, 12 November 2009

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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.

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