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In the Washington metropolitan region, nearly half a million women and girls are living in or near poverty. We all have a stake in building the economic security of our region’s women and girls. The Women’s Foundation works to mobilize our community and provide solutions to eliminate the persistent barriers that disproportionately hinder women and girls from achieving economic security.

A holistic approach to wage-gap warfare (or, at least, heated discussion).

My, oh my, the blogosphere is all a-sizzle with talk of the wage gap.  Not over whether there is one (there’s progress for you), but

The dollars and sense of financial literacy…

In honor of Financial Literacy Month around the nation and here in our fair region, today’s blog is brought to you by the symbol

Federally funded fatherhood…fair?

A few weeks ago, in response to my post inspired by Oxygen’s new series, Who cares about girls?," one of our readers left a

Women in nonprofits…paying too high a price?

Today, I was most fascinated to come across a blog post at The Chronicle of Philanthropy titled, "Why Women are Held Back in the Nonprofit

Tough choices with Prof. Siobhan at Philanthropy 101

As a self-professed excellent student (I had my first Franklin Planner at 17 and used to like nothing better than getting a new Trapper Keeper ready

Piola restaurant scores "sweet" victory for The Women's Foundation!

When Jihane Achi from Piola restaurant in Arlington got in touch with us about hosting an International Women’s Day fundraiser on our behalf, explaining that

Who cares about girls?

While catching up on a little television this week, I saw some promos for a new documentary series about to start airing on the

International Women's Day: Where's the parade?

I haven’t always been a fan of International Women’s Day. Largely because I haven’t always known it existed.  Here in the U.S., it seems

Deamonte's story is hardly an isolated case…

I hate going to the dentist as much as the next girl, but I have to tell you, these days, I’m feeling pretty grateful

Info and impact: the inextricable link.

As I put together this month’s e-newsletter, I couldn’t help but notice that engaged philanthropy seemed to be the theme that carried the day