Gender and Social Policy
Organizations
and Institutions in the Washington,
DC Area
Compiled by Jennifer Sleboda
This Directory includes a wide range of organizations,
both large and small, including national research and policy institutions,
grassroots activist organizations, local women's shelters, lobbying groups,
and professional associations. Although it is extensive, it is by no means
exhaustive. If you know of an organization that should be included, please
contact our office, and it will be added.
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Office of Bilingual
Education and Minority Languages Affairs
U.S. Department of Education
330 C Street, S.W., Room 5082
Washington, D.C. 20202
202/205-5463
Fax: 202/205-8737
www.ed.gov/offices/OBEMLA
e-mail: obemla@ed.gov
Contact: Delia Pompa,
Director
Description The Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Language
Affairs provides national leadership in promoting equal access to high
quality education for limited-English proficient students.
Office of National AIDS Policy
808
17th Street, N.W., Suite 820
Washington, D.C. 20006
202/632-1090
Fax: 202/632-1096
Contact: Todd Summers, Deputy
Director
Description The Office of National AIDS policy was created
to provide the Federal government with a greater focus on issues related to
the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The Office provides broad direction for Federal AIDS
policy and fosters interdepartmental communication on HIV/AIDS (through the
Interdepartmental Task Force on HIV/AIDS). The head of the office is a member
of the President's Domestic Policy Council and has direct access to the
President and his Cabinet on issues relating to HIV/AIDS. The Office works
closely with the AIDS community in the U.S. and around the world.
Office of Women in Development
USAID/G/WID
Room 3.08-042U, RRB
Washington, D.C. 20523-3801
202/712-4981
Fax: 202/216-3173
www.info.usaid.gov
e-mail: jescalona@usaid.gov
Contact: Julia Escalona
Description WID supports efforts to enhance the economic
status of women throughout the developing world; to expand educational
opportunities for girls; to improve women's legal and property rights and
increase their participation in governance and civil society; and to
integrate gender issues throughout USAID regional and country programs.
Older Women's League
666
11th Street, N.W., Suite 700
Washington, D.C. 20001
202/783-6686
Fax: 202/638-2356
Contact: Lenora Fells, Office Manager
Description OWL is a national grassroots membership
organization addressing the special concerns of mid-life and older women. OWL
works forcefully to provide mutual support for its members, to achieve
economic, political, and social equity for its constituents, and to improve
the image and status of mid-life and older women. OWL bridges the gap between
women's groups and organizations representing the aging to achieve these
goals. OWL accomplishes its goals through an extensive program of research,
education, and advocacy.
Pact--An International
Development Enterprise
1901 Pennsylvania
Ave., N.W., Suite 501
Washington, D.C. 20006
202/466-5666
Fax: 202/466-5669
www.pactworld.org
e-mail: dreilly@pacthq.org
Contact: Dana D. Reilly, Special Assistant to
the President/CEO and Exec. VP
Description PACT assists NGOs in strengthening
organizational capacity, forging coalitions and strategic alliances, building
democracies, and providing grants management expertise for development
initiatives around the world.
Parents, Families and Friends of
Lesbians and Gays
1101
14th Street, N.W., Suite 1030
Washington, D.C. 20005
202/638-4200
Fax: 202/638-0243
www.pflag.org/
e-mail: info@pflag.org
Contact: Gabriela DeAnda,
Operations Manager
Description PFLAG promotes the health and well-being of gay,
lesbian and bisexual persons, and their families and friends through support,
education, and advocacy. PFLAG provides an opportunity for dialogue about
sexual orientation and acts to create a society that is healthy and
respectful of human diversity.
Philippine American Foundation
1211
Connecticut Ave., N.W., Suite 504
Washington, D.C. 20036
202/466-5799
Fax: 202/466-6195
e-mail: pafwash@aol.com
Contact: Jenny Lauth,
Program Coordinator
Description The Philippine American Foundation is a
non-profit organization that supports grassroots development in order to
promote poverty alleviation in the Philippines. It serves to foster
Philippine economic progress, social justice, and democratic government.
Implements programs through cooperation and partnership among existing
Philippine, American, and international voluntary development agencies,
associates of voluntary agencies, and support institutions. Current women's
projects include: Women's Workplace Issues and Centennial Salute to Filipino
Women.
Planned Parenthood Federation of
America, Inc.
1120
Connecticut Ave., N.W., Suite 461
Washington, D.C. 20036
202/785-3351
Fax: 202/293-4349
www.plannedparenthood.org
Contact: Joyce Simko
Description Planned Parenthood is the nation's oldest and
largest provider of reproductive health services and advocacy. PPFA's volunteers and staff members across the U.S. provide
medical, educational, and counseling services to meet family planning needs.
They also serve as advocates for reproductive freedom for all women.
Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan
Washington
1108
16th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
202/347-8500
Fax: 202/783-1007
www.plannedparenthood.org
Contact: Dawn Kirstaetter,
Director of Community Relations
Description PPMW exists to support and to protect the right
and responsibility of every individual to make informed reproductive choices.
PPMW provides medical care, counseling, training of community professionals,
and provision of direct education to high risk groups, and it influences
public opinion and public policy, including the policies and practices of
both governmental and private institutions.
Public Leadership Education
Network
1001 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Suite 900
Washington, D.C. 20036
202/872-1585
Fax: 202/872-0141
e-mail: plen@plen.org
www.PLEN.org
Contact: Sharon Doran, Executive Director
Description PLEN is a national consortium of women's
colleges working together to prepare women for public leadership. PLEN is
committed to preparing women leaders as elected and appointed officials at
all levels. In Washington,
PLEN offers seminars, conferences, and internships on the public policy
process to women students from across the U.S. PLEN colleges offer courses on
leadership and sponsor women's leadership institutes that serve women in
their region.
Religious Coalition for
Reproductive Choice
1025
Vermont Ave., N.W., Suite 1130
Washington, D.C. 20005
202/628-7700
Fax: 202/628-7716
www.rcrc.org
e-mail: info@rcrc.org
Description RCRC's primary goal is
educating the public that abortion can be a moral, ethical, and religiously responsible
decision. RCRC is comprised of national mainline Christian, Jewish, and other
religious organizations, and it works to educate and mobilize the religious
community to create a public opinion climate that is conducive to pro-choice
policymaking and that affirms abortion as a moral decision. It also works to
ensure that every woman is free to make decisions about when to have children
according to her own conscience and religious beliefs, without government
interference.
Republicans for Choice
2760
Eisenhower Ave., Suite 260
Alexandria, VA 22314-4553
703/960-9882
Fax: 703/960-9885
www.republicansforchoice.com
e-mail: GOP4Choice@aol.com
Contact: Nancy Early, Program Coordinator
Description The three main goals of Republicans for Choice
is to rebuild the pro-choice movement in the Republican Party, to fight at
the Party's National Convention to remove the anti-choice plank, and to
continue to raise money to support and elect more pro-choice Republican
candidates at the state and federal levels.
Running
Start
5014 Glenbrook Road, NW
Washington, DC 20016
202.421.4102
www.runningstartonline.org
email: info@runningstartonline.org
Description: Running Start is a nonprofit organization
dedicated to inspiring young women and girls to run for political office. Our
goal is to increase the number of women in the United States who serve in
elected office by planting the seed early that women are needed in politics.
Our training programs emphasize that political leadership is an attainable
and exciting goal for young women to pursue. Running Start focuses on three core
methods to increase women's political participation and numbers in elective
office: Research, Education, and Outreach. We hold an exciting, free
monthly lunch series, open to all interested in gaining invaluable insight
into the dynamics of running for office from a women's perspective, entitled
Pathway to Politics. Please see our website for upcoming events and
news!
Sexual Minority Youth
Assistance League
410
7th Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20003-2707
202/546-5940
Fax: 202/544-1306
e-mail: smyal@aol.com
Contact: Alicia M. Schmidt, Office and
Operations Manager
Description SMYAL's mission is to
support and enhance the self-esteem of sexual minority youth (lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender) and to increase public awareness and understanding of their
issues, which include homelessness, harassment and violence in school,
suicide, HIV/AIDS, alcoholism and drug abuse, and violence at home. SMYAL is
a community-based organization providing direct services to youth, training
and education to youth service providers, and important information relating
to sexuality and gender identity issues to the community at large.
Sisterhood Is Global Institute
4343
Montgomery Ave., Suite 201
Bethesda, MD 20814
301/657-4355
Fax: 301/657-4381
www.sigi.org
e-mail: sigi@igc.apc.org
Contact: Rakhee Goyal, Prgram Associate
Description The Sisterhood Is Global Institute (SIGI) is an
international, non-profit organization established to improve women's rights
on the local, national, regional, and global levels. SIGI's
main goals are to inform the public about human rights abuses committed
against women; inform women of the basic rights guaranteed to them in
international human rights conventions and further empower them to achieve
the rights they consider significant; to facilitate participation of women
from the Global South in international debates on women's human rights; and
to encourage women from all races, cultures, religions, classes, ages, sexual
orientations, and abilities to work together to define and achieve common
goals.
The Society for International
Development
1875
Connecticut Ave., N.W., Suite 720
Washington, D.C. 20009-5728
202/884-8590
Fax: 202/884-8499
e-mail: sid@aed.org
Contact: Andrew Karas,
Executive Director
Description SID is a global forum of individuals and
institutions concerned with sustainable economic, social, and political
development. SID is devoted to promoting dialogue and cooperation on global
development issues; to increasing skills, knowledge, and understanding among
development practitioners; and to serving as a network for individuals and
organizations working in various sectors of international development.
Society for Women's Health
Research
1828
L Street, N.W., Suite 625
Washington, D.C. 20036
202/223-8224
Fax: 202/833-3472
www.womens-health.org
e-mail: information@womens-health.org
Contact: Lynne Beauregard, Program Director
Description Society for Women's Health Research is a
national, non-profit organization committed to improving the health of women
through research. The Society brings attention to the problem of the
exclusion of women from clinical research trials and focuses on the need for
greater funding for research on and prevention of diseases and conditions
prevalent among, and unique to, women.
Tahirih Justice
Center
P.O.
Box 7638
Falls Church, VA 22040
e-mail: meghna@tahirih.org
Contact: Katy L. Parsi,
Executive Director
Description Tahirih Justice Center is a non-profit organization serving women
facing international human rights abuses. The Center's primary goal is to
provide these women with free legal representation as they file political
asylum or immigration claims with the U.S. government.
The Union
Institute
Office for Social
Responsibility/Center for Women
1710 Rhode Island Ave., N.W., Suite 1100
Washington, D.C. 20036
202/496-1630
Fax: 202/496-1635
www.tui.edu/
e-mail: jgrant@tui.edu
Contact: Ms. Jaime Grant, Director
Description The Union
Institute Center
for Women is the only university-based women's center devoted primarily to
coalition work between scholars and activists. The Institute takes on
projects created, defined, and realized collaboratively with the women whose
lives are directly affected by those projects. Coalitions include: The Women
and Organizing Documentation Project, DCGirls
Coalition, The Lesbian Health Initiative, The Kitchen Table: Women of Color
Press Transition Coalition, and Making the Connections Intercultural Network.
Their affiliates program helps feminist scholars conduct original research
and develop action projects.
UNITE--Union
of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees
888
16th Street, N.W., Suite 303
Washington, D.C. 20006
202/347-7417
Fax: 202/347-0708
www.uniteunion.org
Contact: Ann Hoffman, Legislative Director
Description UNITE was created as the result of the 1995 merger
between The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union and The
International Ladies Garment Workers Union. UNITE's
Washington
office is the corporate research, policy, and action arm of the union and
focuses on advancing worker interests in the corporate world. UNITE
represents approximately 350,000 workers in the United
States, Canada,
and Puerto Rico in the clothing, textile,
shoe, and related light industries and is a leader in organizing new workers
into the labor movement. A large percentage of union members are
African-American, Latino, and Asian-American women.
U.S. Department of Labor
Women's Bureau
200
Constitution Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20210
202/693-6753
Fax: 202/693-6746
http://www.dol.gov/wb/
e-mail: furia.karen@dol.gov
Contact: Karen Furia, National Office Coordinator
Description The U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau is
the only federal agency with a mandate to represent the needs of wage-earning
women in the public policy process. The Women's Bureau alerts women about
their rights in the workplace, proposes policies and legislation that benefit
working women, researches and analyzes information about women and work, and
reports its findings to the President, Congress, and the public.
Whitman-Walker
Clinic
1407 S Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20009
202/797-3500
www.wwc.org
e-mail: wwcinfo@wwc.org
Description Whitman-Walker Clinic is a non-profit,
volunteer-based, lesbian and gay community health organization serving the Washington, D.C.
metropolitan area. WWC provides or facilitates the delivery of high quality,
comprehensive, integrated, and accessible health care services. WWC has also
contributed substantially to the fight against AIDS.
Wider Opportunities for Women
1001
Connecticut Avenue, NW #930
Washington, D.C. 20036
202/464-1596
Fax: 202/464-1660
www.w-o-w.org
Contact: Lina Frescas Dobbs, Executive Director
Description Wider Opportunities for Women is a national
non-profit organization that is devoted to improving economic and educational
opportunities for low-income women and girls in the District of Columbia and nationally. It
specializes in preparing women for high-skill, high-wage job opportunities;
assisting low-income women in gaining literacy skills for employment; and
building leadership of grassroots women and service providers in the policy
process. WOW also advocates for welfare reform, job training, vocational
education, and non-traditional employment policy.
Winrock International
NIS-US Women's Consortium
1611 N. Kent Street, Suite 600
Arlington, VA 22209
703/525-9430
Fax: 703/525-1744
www.winrock.org
e-mail: sscott@winrock.org
Contact: Sheila Scott
Description The NIS-US Women's Consortium is a network of
women's NGOs in Russia, Ukraine, Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia,
Uzbekistan, and the United States that operates out of offices in Washington, Kyiv, and Moscow. Consortium activities are
administrated by Winrock International, a private,
non-profit organization working with people to build a better world by
increasing agricultural productivity and rural employment while protecting
the environment. Winrock operates a Global Women's
Leadership Program, as well as programs in agriculture, forestry, rural
employment, and renewable energy.
WISH List: Women in the Senate and
House
3205 N Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20007
202/342-9111
Fax: 202/342-9190
e-mail: ThWISHList@aol.com
Contact: Karen H. Raye,
Executive Director
Description The WISH List is a political donor network
dedicated to electing Republican pro-choice women. It supports candidates in
strategic races at the federal, state, and local levels.
The Woman Activist Fund, Inc.
2310
Barbour Road
Falls Church, VA 22043
Phone/Fax: 703/573-8716
e-mail: wmactivist@aol.com
Contact: Flora Crater, President
Description The WAF is a non-profit, public policy research
organization which develops resources and policy to further the progress of
women in government and political life. The Woman Activist, Inc., its sister
organization, publishes The Woman Activist, a national action bulletin
focusing on women's rights.
Women Executives in State
Government
1225
New York Ave., N.W., Suite 350
Washington, D.C. 20005-6156
202/628-9374
Fax: 202/628-9744
www.WESG.org
e-mail: WESGJen@aol.com
Contact: Jennifer Phillips, Office
Administrator
Description WESG is a national, non-partisan membership
organization of women officials serving in cabinet-level elected and
appointed positions in the executive branch of state governments. WESG
provides professional and personal support and development for women leaders
through management training, issue education, public leadership skill
development, peer-to-peer sharing and partnerships with public and private
sector leaders.
Women for Meaningful Summits
624 9th Street, N.W., 3rd
Floor
Washington, D.C. 20001
202/393-1009
Contact: Sarah Harder, President
Description WFMS is a network of women's organizations and
individuals committed to reversing the arms race on earth and in space and to
creating a more just and peaceful world.
Women for Women International
733
15th Street, NW, #340
Washington, D.C. 20005
202/737-7705
Fax: 202/737-7709
www.womenforwomen.org
e-mail: general@womenforwomen.org or awarren@womenforwomen.org
Contact: Dawn Moncrief,
Office Administrator & Volunteer Coordinator
Description WfWI provides
educational, financial, and interpersonal support to women worldwide who are
survivors of systemic poverty and violence. The Sponsorship Program
links women in Bangladesh,
Bosnia, Kosovo,
Nigeria, and Rwanda with
sponsors in America
and Canada.
Sponsors provide monthly monetary assistance and exchange letters with their
sponsored "sisters." The Renewing Life Skills Program (ReneWLS) provides women with traditional and
nontraditional technical skills to increase their employability. The Microcredit Program provides
women with small, collateral-free loans to
start income-generating projects. Gender is at the core of WfWI's definition of justice; therefore, all programs are
geared to raise awareness about women's social, economic, and political
rights.
Women's Learning Partnership (WLP)
4343
Montgomery Avenue, Suite 201
Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
Tel: (1) 301-654-2774
Fax: (1) 301-654-2775
email: wlp@learningpartnership.org
www.learningpartnership.org
Description: Women's Learning Partnership for Rights,
Development, and Peace (WLP) is an international, non-governmental
organization (NGO) that empowers women and girls in the Global South to
re-imagine and re-structure their roles in their families, communities, and
societies. WLP achieves this goal through providing leadership training,
supporting capacity building, and helping women generate and receive
information and knowledge. WLP conducts all of its work in collaboration with
partner organizations
<http://learningpartnership.org/projects/partnerships.phtml>
located in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East,
and with members of an international network of experts
<http://learningpartnership.org/about/advisorycouncil.phtml>.
Women Strike for Peace
110 Maryland
Ave., N.E., Suite 102
Washington, D.C. 20002
202/543-2660
Fax: 202/544-9613
Contact: Edith Villastrigo,
Legislative Director
Description WSP is a non-profit advocacy organization with
three primary objectives: to encourage U.S. citizens to learn about and to
work for general and complete disarmament while promoting diplomatic methods;
to examine U.S. role in regional conflicts around the globe, and to work to
ensure that our government officials use diplomacy to promote peace and
stability; and to promote the philosophy that real security lies in diverting
the excess of our military budget to programs that improve life for all
Americans.
Women Work!
The National Network for Women's
Employment
1625 K Street, N.W., Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20006
202/467-6346
Fax: 202/467-5366
www.womenwork.org
e-mail: womenwork@womenwork.org
Contact: Rubie G.
Coles, Co-Executive Director
Description Women Work! is a
national membership organization dedicated to empowering women from diverse
backgrounds and assisting them to achieve economic self-sufficiency through
job readiness, education, training, and employment. In addition to
individuals throughout the country, Network members include more than 1300
education, training, and employment programs.
Women's Action for New Directions/
Women Legislator's Lobby (WiLL)
110 Maryland
Ave., N.E., Suite 205
Washington, D.C. 20002
202/543-8505
Fax: 202/675-6469
www.wand.org
e-mail: wandwill@wand.org
Contact: Cynthia Hannegan
Campbell, Director
Description WAND works to empower women to act politically
to reduce violence and militarism and redirect military savings toward human
and environmental needs. It works closely with grassroots members, produces and
develops informational materials, and operates a Washington office staffed by two women
lobbyists. Women Legislator's Lobby, a project of WAND, is a national
organization of women elected officials who lobby Congress to redirect
federal budget priorities.
Women's Alliance
for Peace and Human Rights in Afghanistan
(WAPHA)
P.O.
Box 77057
Washington, D.C. 20013-7057
202/882-1432
Fax: 202/882-8125
e-mail: zieba@aol.com
Contact: Zieba Shorish-Shamley, Director
Description WAPHA is a non-partisan, non-profit, and
independent organization whose main goal is to promote awareness of the
tragic human rights situation in war-torn Afghanistan and to advocate for
the social, political, economic, and civil rights of Afghan women and girls.
WAPHA is greatly concerned about the fate and well-being of Afghan women in
areas under Taliban control. WAPHA works to bring world attention to the
plight of the Afghan people, specifically women and children; to promote
peace process activities both outside and inside Afghanistan; and to advocate for
human rights on behalf of the Afghan people, with an emphasis on women's and
children's rights.
The Women's Bar Association of the
District of Columbia
815 15th Street, N.W., Suite 815
Washington, D.C. 20005
202/639-8880
Fax: 202/639-8889
www.wbadc.org
e-mail: info@wbadc.org
Contact: Lora Pollari-Welbes,
Exec. Director
Description The Women's Bar Association of D.C. is a member
association which provides professional and personal development programs and
advocates for women in the profession. The WBA works to advance and protect
the interests of women lawyers in the District
of Columbia.
Women's Campaign Fund
734
15th Street, NW Suite 500
Washington, DC 20005
202/393-8164
Fax: 202/393-0649
www.wcfonline.org
e-mail: moca@wcfonline.org
Contact: Monica Cash, Office Manager
Description
The Women's Campaign Fund is the nation's oldest and
largest nonpartisan political committee dedicated to electing pro-choice
women to public office. WCF has assisted more than 2000 candidates-at
all levels of government-sustaining them throughout their political careers.
From Mayor to Senator, County
Commissioner to State
Representative, WCF provides critical financial and technical assistance when
candidates need it most.
The Women's Center
133
Park Street, N.E.
Vienna, VA 22180
703/281-2657
Fax: 703/242-1454
www.thewomenscenter.org
e-mail: WomensCntr@aol.com
Description The Women's Center is a private, non-profit
organization which provides immediate and affordable psychotherapy,
educational programs, and information and referrals to women and families in
need, regardless of their ability to pay. The Center's comprehensive services
address clients' combined personal, legal, financial, and professional development
concerns.
Women's College Coalition
125
Michigan Avenue, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20017
202/234-0443
Fax: 202/234-0445
www.academic.org
e-mail: msm@trinitydc.edu
Contact: Marci Meadows, Director of
Programs
Description The WCC exists to focus combined institutional
strengths on common objectives. It works to document and to publicize the
continuing value of women's colleges and to ensure that the vitality is publically understood and broadly disseminated. It works
to foster a natural climate of increasing support for women's colleges
through cooperative initiatives that embrace research, data sharing,
programmatic and curricular projects. WCC seeks partnerships with others that
seek to improve the status of, and opportunities
for, girls and women. It strives to serve as a voice for progress on issues
that affect America's
future, where the contribution of women's colleges and their graduates can be
significant.
Women's EDGE
(The Coalition for Women's Economic
Development and Global Equality)
1825 Connecticut
Street, N.W., Suite 800
Washington, D.C. 20009
202/884-8396
Fax: 202/884-8366
e-mail: edge@womensedge.org
Contact: Ritu R.
Sharma, Executive Director
Description Women's EDGE promotes a values-based economic
agenda and believes that economic globalization and development can lead to
women's empowerment, but only if women are involved in guiding the process.
Women's EDGE educates the U.S.
public, the Congress, and the Administration about women's economic and
development issues. It also seeks to build a larger and more diverse group of
citizen advocates across the U.S.
to support international women's programs and change international economic
structures to benefit women. Women's EDGE collects cutting-edge research on
global economics and women and translates it into usable information for
policymakers and the public and uses the information for advocacy.
Women's Information Network
1800
R Street, N.W., Suite C-4
Washington, D.C. 20009
202/347-2827
Fax: 202/347-1418
www.winonline.org/
e-mail: win@eats.com
Contact: Alyssa Farber, Chair
Description WIN is a national, non-profit organization based
in Washington
that services 1,500 Democratic, pro-choice members. WIN helps women embark on
their careers and continue professional growth by sponsoring a job bank,
fostering networking among women at different career stages, and offering
opportunities for leadership.
Women's International Public Health
Network
7100
Oak Forest Lane
Bethesda, MD 20817
301/469-9210
Fax: 301/469-8423
Contact: Dr. Naomi Baumslag,
President
Description WIPHN is a non-profit organization for women in
public health and related areas to improve women's health, nutrition, and
status worldwide. WIPHN provides panels, lectures, supports a Save-A-Mom
Campaign, and produces a newsletter to exchange information, publicize
resources, and network.
Women's Policy Inc.
409
12th Street, S.W., Suite 705
Washington, D.C. 20024
202/554-2323
Fax: 202/554-2346
e-mail: webmaster@womenspolicy.org
Contact: Mary Anne Leary, Executive
Director
www.womenspolicy.org
Description WPI is a non-profit organization providing non-partisan
research and information on congressional actions affecting women. WPI
publishes a comprehensive weekly newsletter for congressional staff, policy
advocates, reporters, and other interested individuals who want to stay
current on legislative actions affecting women and families. WPI covers
policy issues affecting women such as: women's health research; reproductive
health, family planning, and choice; violence against women; economic equity
for women and workplace fairness issues; women's entrepreneurship; family
friendly work policies; and child care and strengthening of child support
enforcement laws.
Women's Research and Education
Institute
1750
New York Ave., N.W., Suite 350
Washington, D.C. 20006
202/628-0444
Fax: 202/628-0458
www.wrei.org
e-mail: wrei@wrei.org
Contact: Executive Director
Description WREI is an independent, national public policy
research and education center whose mission is to inform and help shape the
public policy debate on issues affecting women and their roles in the family,
workplace, and public arena. WREI seeks to facilitate and strengthen links
between researchers and policymakers concerned with issues of particular
importance to women.
World Federalist Association
418
7th Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20003
202/546-3950
Fax: 202/546-3749
www.wfa.org
wfa@wfa.org
Contact: Mary Catherine Holden
Description World Federalist Association is the U.S. branch
of an international movement seeking the creation of an effective democratic
system of limited global governance through an empowered and restructured
United Nations. It sees global problems such as environmental degradation,
human rights violations, militarism, drug trafficking, terrorism, violence
against women, and economic injustice as desperately needing global
structures of peace and justice. WFA works on these issues at the
policy-making and grassroots levels.
YWCA/USA
624
9th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001
202/628-3636
Fax: 202/783-7123
Contact: Beverly W. Stripling, Director of
Public Policy
Description The YWCA is a women's membership movement of
over 400 associations in 4,000 locations in all 50 states, serving over 2
million girls, women, and their families. The YWCA mission is to empower
girls and women through the elimination of racism and sexism. YWCA serves as
a resource on a variety of issues, including health, education, civil rights,
employment, poverty, housing, reproductive rights, and women in politics.
Young Women's Project
923
F Street, N.W., 3rd Floor
Washington, D.C. 20004
202/393-0461
Fax: 202/393-0065
e-mail: ywp@tidalwave.net
Contact: Nadia Moritz, Executive Director
Description The YWP is a national, multicultural
organization that develops and supports young women leaders and organizations
through leadership training, technical assistance, and community-based
action. Its goal is to increase the quality of life, opportunities, and
leadership capacity of young women and girls. Most of YWP's
work takes place locally in Washington,
D.C., but the work is shared
nationally through materials and trainings with community-based groups
seeking new approaches to investing in girls and young women.
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