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Do Women Need a Sex Pill?
by Sande Smith, Director of Communications, Women’s Foundation of California Yesterday, Jennifer Terry published an op-ed in CNN called Do Women Need a Sex Pill? that pops a perennial question. . ....
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Training the Next Generation of Women Advocates
Each year, 15 young women graduate from the Female Leadership Academy (FLA) program of ACT for Women and Girls in Visalia, which started in 2003 during a Women’s Foundation of California event. The...
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From Idea to Influencer: the story of ACT for Women and Girls
By Ruwani Ekanayake, Research Intern, Women’s Foundation of California Like a lot of bright ideas, ACT for Women and Girls (ACT) began with a group of women sitting around a living room debating and...
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Beauty Tips from the Non Profit World
By Sarah Miller, Intern, Women’s Foundation of California You might think that we Ivory soap lovers here at the Women’s Foundation of California don’t spend much time thinking about beauty products....
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Taking Down Billboards, Building Up Trust
By Karla Rodriguez, Program Officer, Women’s Foundation of California Every time I hold my baby girl in my arms, now six months old, I am overwhelmed with emotions as a new mother. I am amazed at my...
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Grant Partner Victory
Congratulations to Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice and our grant partners whose savvy coalition-building led to the removal of 60 anti-choice billboards targeting African American and Latina...
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This is My Capitol
Program Associate Alba Mercado has spent the last year organizing Women’s Policy Institute (WPI)* retreats and working closely with 35 women leaders who were part of the 2011-2012 WPI class. In the...
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Expanding Our Choices
In 2011, anti-choice organizations launched a series of billboard campaigns targeting Latino and African American communities in Los Angeles. Imagine a billboard of a beautiful Black baby boy framed by...
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Taking on Goliath
Many of us have been to Kettleman City at one point or another. Located halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco on Interstate 5, this tiny town of 1,500 people is a pit stop on our way North or...
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El Pueblo Fights Back Against Toxic Waste
Kettleman City is in the news again. But it’s not good news. This community of 1,500 Latino families is once again asked to take one for the team. They’re asked to continue accepting treated human...
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Learn about AB 271: Repealing the Maximum Family Grant
California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) is a vital welfare-to-work program created to help children and families lift themselves out of poverty. One of the ways the program is...
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Call Senator de Leon in Support of AB 271
Call-in number: 916-651-4022 Over the last four weeks, 1,412 people from all over California signed our card in support of the Assembly Bill 271 and its fearless author, Holly Mitchell. What an...
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Learn about SB 899: Repealing the Maximum Family Grant Rule
(left to right) Mari Lopez, Visión y Compromiso; Sierra Harris, ACCESS Women’s Health Justice; Suely Ngouy (last year’s fellow with the Reproductive Justice team); Natantara Mehta, Alliance for...
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CA Legislative Women’s Caucus Sees Us!
by Mary Ignatius, Parent Voices Parent Voices, along with other child care advocates, is inspired by the bold and fearless $625 million budget ask to reinvest in child care, which was put forth by the...
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Marriage is no safe haven from abuse
By Maria Taher, Women’s Policy Institute Fellow I work at W.O.M.A.N. Inc., an anti-domestic violence agency in San Francisco. The other week, a woman in an abusive marriage emailed me for help, the...
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