MomsRising

In addition to the work in government policy, MomsRising campaigns against businesses, charging that they discriminate against women and mothers, and that their products are sometimes unsafe.¹

Initiatives

In early 2017, MomsRising urged its members to take action on several left-wing priorities, including opposing President Donald Trump’s cabinet appointments, pressing Congress to adopt national paid family and medical leave legislation, defending Obamacare, and pushing Nickelodeon to stop accepting advertising for junk food.²

The group helps lead progressive protests. The group helped organize the “Women’s March” in Washington following President Trump’s inauguration. A few dozen women and children wore capes featuring MomRising’s logo inside the Maryland State Senate building on February 2, 2017, in support of the Maryland Healthy Working Families Act, a bill to allow employees to earn paid “sick and safe leave.”³ PBS reported the group was “hoping to harness the energy of the anti-Trump movement” following the 2016 election, and trying to create multiple ways for its members, who lead busy lives, to get involved.⁴

Criticism of First Trump Administration

MomsRising signed a letter condemning the immigration policy of the Trump Administration and urging American CEOs not to employ anyone involved with the policy. It accused these officials of being directly guilty for physical abuse, sexual assault, and even the death of illegal immigrant children. The letter was titled “An Open Letter to America’s CEOs” and was dated April 6, 2019. ⁵

Second Trump Administration

As of March 2025, MomsRising was listed as one of the partner organizations for Families Over Billionaires, an activist group formed in January 2025 following the reelection of President Donald Trump that opposes what it claims are “tax breaks for the rich” under the Second Trump Administration. ⁶ Other listed partners include Americans for Tax Fairness, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Caring Across Generations, Economic Security Project Action, Fair Share America, Indivisible, the National Education Association (NEA), the National Women’s Law Center, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and Unrig Our Economy. ⁷

In June 2025, MomsRising participated in organizing or supporting protests branded under the “#NoKings” banner, a national day of demonstrations positioned as a defense of democratic norms against President Donald Trump. These events were part of a larger mobilization involving over 70 Democratic Party affiliates and allied organizations across at least 19 U.S. states and multiple international locations, according to publicly available event listings on Mobilize.us, a Democratic Party-aligned organizing platform. ^{8 9}

People

Also see MomsRising Education Fund (nonprofit)

The members of the Board of Directors of the MomsRising Education Fund, the fundraising arm of the organization, include National Domestic Workers Alliance executive director Al-jen Poo, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law president and executive director Barbara Arnwine, and Hispanics in Philanthropy vice president Julene Perez-Gonzalez. MomsRising co-founders Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner and Joan Blades also serve on that board.¹⁰

Rowe-Finkbeiner also serves as executive director and has been a political activist for two decades. In addition to her work with MomsRising, she wrote the books The F-Word: Feminism in Jeopardy and The Motherhood Manifesto. She also has hosted radio shows and been a frequent public speaker on issues pertaining to women.¹¹ She received total compensation of $141,400 in 2014, according to the organization’s IRS 990 form.¹²

Funding

MomsRising reported total revenue of $3,578,663 and expenses of $3,379,362 in 2014. The top expense in the program service accomplishments category on the group’s 2014 IRS 990 form is listed simply as “Early Learning,” with $270,927 in expenditures. MomsRising put an additional $230,064 toward its program Raising All Voices according to that document.¹² The program works to increase civic engagement of all cultures to advocate for a family-friendly America.¹³

The MomsRising Education Fund reported giving MomsRising $1,810,809 in grants for its programs in 2014.¹⁴