The Ms. Foundation for Women’s Pocket Change: How Women and Girls of Color Do More with Less report revealed a dearth of philanthropic dollars for Indigenous women and girls. Less than 3% of the more than $350 million in foundation …
Women and girls of color are pivotal frontline leaders and organizers in the powerful social change movements that pave the way for a more equitable and just democracy. Our report, Pocket Change: How Women and Girls of Color Do More …
Our founders created the Ms. Foundation for Women in the 1970s in response to forces of oppression at a pivotal time in U.S. history for women and people of color.
Now, we are living in unprecedented times. The United States …
As the Trump Administration plans immigration raids and continues attacks on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) youth, immigrants, and multiple vulnerable populations, the Ms. Foundation for Women is calling for the expansion of sanctuary policies at the local level …
In the fall of 2016, Aleyamma Mathew, Director of the Women’s Economic Justice Program, in close collaboration with Naveen Khan, Program Associate at the Ms. Foundation for Women, commissioned Nicole Robinson of NNR Evaluation, Planning & Research LLC to conduct …
Among all social groups in the United States, women of color experience some of the starkest disparities, inequities, and injustices across nearly every social and economic indicator. Compared with white women, women of color have higher levels of unemployment and …
Raising Our Nation: Forging a More Robust and Equitable Childcare System in America provides a comprehensive look at our country’s childcare landscape, including its underlying gender- and-race-based inequities.
This new report includes:
Dismantling Teen Pregnancy Prevention is a new report created by reproductive justice organization Young Women United (YWU) that discredits the myths perpetuated by teen pregnancy prevention models. By dispelling four common myths that fuel prevention campaigns, YWU implores us to …
Created by The Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center (NAWHERC) and designed by Lucy Bonner, “What To Do When You’re Raped” is an illustrated guide created to answer the questions women face following a sexual assault, from thinking through …
Hanging by a Thread! is a report from Ms. Foundation for Women grantee partner Garment Workers’ Center on the issues garment workers face when seeking quality childcare.…