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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.

Link to The Women's Funding Network and The Women's Foundation on CNN!

Earlier today, I wrote about how The Women’s Foundation and The Women’s Funding Network were featured on a story on CNN about how investing

Linda Butler speaks on behalf of The Women's Foundation on CNN!

Today was a bright and early, but exciting, morning for us at The Women’s Foundation! We were up early to see Linda Butler, who

D.C.'s HIV/AIDS report forgets women, but I haven't.

Inspired – and alarmed – by my colleague Lisa Kays’s blog post earlier this week about off-the-charts HIV/AIDS rates in the District of Columbia,

Help decide where we invest $5,000!

It’s that time again–for the Leadership Awards online vote! A committed group of volunteers has selected the 10 outstanding Leadership Awardees for 2009, who

Almost half of Boston teens blame Rihanna, not Chris, for her attack.

As a follow-on to my colleague Gwen’s thoughtful post on the Rihanna domestic violence situation and the way it’s being handled in the media,

What's scarier than the economy? Try latest on D.C.'s HIV/AIDS rates.

Well, so much for a break from the doom and gloom. The latest update on the status of HIV/AIDS in Washington, D.C. is in

Seeing the stimulus package through a gender lens.

Today, the Chicago Foundation for Women released its analysis of how the economic stimulus package will impact women. It’s findings? Some of the big

Grantee Partner's affordable, healthy catering options in demand during recession.

Times are tough for most catering companies these days, but not for one of The Women’s Foundation’s Grantee Partners, Through the Kitchen Door, the

Lightening up: What Avenue Q can teach us about giving in tough times.

Admittedly, these are not the best of times. But that doesn’t mean that we can’t add a bit of levity and see our circumstances

Why women's funds are too (blank) to fail.

Yesterday in Philantopic, Foundation Center President Bradford Smith made the case for which nonprofits are "too big, too important or too (blank) to fail."

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Washington Area Women’s Foundation mobilizes our community to ensure that economically vulnerable women and girls of color in the Washington, D.C. region have the resources they need to thrive. Since 1998, The Women’s Foundation has worked to transform the lives of women and girls in our region and across the world.

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