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Washington Area Women’s Foundation Research

In 2010, The Women’s Foundation published 2010 Portrait of Women & Girls in the Washington Metropolitan Area (Portrait Project 2010), a comprehensive look at the status of women and girls in the region. Portrait Project 2010 is a follow-up to the 2003 report A Portrait of Women & Girls in the Washington Metropolitan Area.

These groundbreaking studies’ principal conclusion was that low-income, women-headed families – single mothers and their children – are, by far, the most economically vulnerable population in our region.

Emblematic of our collaborative and inclusive approach, The Portrait Project is the result of a two-year process during which The Women’s Foundation collaborated with a wide cross-section of community-based organizations, foundations, research institutions and individuals. An accurate “portrait” of women and girls in the region, The Portrait Project has been a proven community asset for nonprofits, policymakers and philanthropists to better inform their programming and grantmaking.

Resources related to The Portrait Project:

Portrait Project 2010
2009 Poverty Fact Sheet on Women & Girls
Executive Summary 2003
Portrait Project 2003

The findings that emerged from The Portrait Project became the foundation for The Women’s Foundation’s most ambitious initiative to date, Stepping Stones.