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The Women’s Equality Center is a center-left healthcare advocacy organization. The Center is a project of the New Venture Fund, a 501(c)(3) funding and fiscal sponsorship organization managed by the Washington, D.C.-based consultancy Arabella Advisors. The Center also maintains Keep Birth Control Copay Free, a healthcare campaign.
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The Women’s Equity Center and Action Network (WE CAN) is a left-leaning feminist organization which seeks to help minority women and girls increase their personal and cultural influence. 1 It
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The Women’s Foundation of California is a left-of-center, feminist-aligned foundation based in California. It has received financial support from various private grantmaking foundations including Bank of America, Akonadi Foundation, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Microsoft, New Venture Fund, California Endowment, Blue Shield of California Foundation,
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Women’s Funding Network (WFN) is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that supports local and regional advocacy groups and public policy programs. The organization focuses on left-of-center gender issues such as abortion and coordinates lobbying and advocacy efforts among local women’s foundations. WFN receives funding from many large national left-of-center funders such
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Women’s Health Action and Mobilization (WHAM!) was a pro-abortion activist group founded in 1989 and based in New York City. WHAM! often partnered with the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in high-visibility demonstrations and civil disobedience to support sexual libertinism, including protests at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and
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Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice is an international human rights organization that advocates for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute those who perpetrate sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against women and to assist survivors by advocating in favor of “gender justice.”
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The Women’s Law Project (WLP) is a left-of-center organization that uses litigation to challenge laws that regulate and limit abortions. 1 The WLP has represented children under the age of 18 who seek to obtain an
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Women’s Link Worldwide (WLW) is a left-of-center organization that advocates on women’s issues, including access to abortion, prevention of harm to migrant women, opposition to sex trafficking, and immigration. The organization operates internationally, with offices in Colombia, Spain, and the United States.
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Women’s March Action (WMA) is a lobbying and advocacy group for left-of-center political and cultural movements. It is largely concerned with national issues and policies related to feminism and engages in education and engagement to bring more attention to these issues.
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Women’s March Alliance is left-of-center organization that advocates for feminist issues and organizes New York activists for the wider Women’s March movement. 1 In 2019, there was conflict between the New York-based Alliance and the national
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Women’s March Network is a feminist activist group that purports to represent the global “women’s march” movement. 1 It was a project of NEO Philanthropy before becoming a standalone organization.
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Women’s Prison Association (WPA) is the oldest and first organization in the United States dedicated to working with women involved in the criminal justice system and their families. It operates mostly in and around New York City. In 2019, WPA was among a group of organizations that advocated for a
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WomenStrong International is a 501(c)(3) global consortium of non-profits that provides international relief by specifically working with women and girls to end extreme poverty. WomenStrong International finances and develops programs that supports women in areas of health, safety, shelter, education, economic empowerment, and urban environment.
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The Woodhull Freedom Foundation is a left-of-center advocacy group with a primary focus on promoting permissive socially liberal stances related to sex. In addition, the group advocated for left-of-center stances on other issues related to the economy and race.
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (known as the Wilson Center), located in Washington, D.C., is a United States Presidential Memorial that was established as part of the Smithsonian Institution by an act of Congress in 1968. The Wilson Center says it wants to maintain a forum for informed dialogue,
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Woods Charitable Foundation is a 501(c)(3) that provides funds to organizations that are attempting to integrate refugees and immigrants into their work forces. The foundation gives special interest to programs that expand English language education for new Americans, develop acceptance and appreciation for refugees, and foster planning concerning refugees and
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The Woods Fund of Chicago is a private independent foundation in Chicago, whose goal is to increase opportunities for less-advantaged people and communities in the Chicago metropolitan area, including the opportunity to shape decisions affecting them.
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Funded by a variety of private foundations, the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) has positioned itself as a key source of scientific research and policy proposals regarding climate change, directed to government decision-makers around the world. WHRC has further extended its influence beyond governments to include civil society, by working
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Woodside on the Move Inc., founded in 1976, is a left-of-center New York City-based tenant advocacy group notable for supporting rent control. It began narrowly-focused to develop programs to improve housing and commerce for the Woodside neighborhood in New York.
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Woodstock Farm Sanctuary is a farm animal rights and protection organization, founded in 2004. It provides information related to the production and consumption of animal products through rescue, education, and advocacy.
