Cultivating Women Leaders

DemocraShe

• Fall 2024
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•   1st Grant

Los Angeles

DemocraShe empowers historically underserved, female-identifying high school students with the leadership and resilience skills necessary to thrive as leaders, voters, civically engaged citizens, and future elected officials. Every public policy skill to help women step successfully into civic leadership is matched with an evidence-based social work practice – at the critical developmental stage of high […]

Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual

• Fall 2023
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•   1st Grant

Maryland

The Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (WATER) is a non-profit center for feminist work in religion, led by women and driven by social justice. They’ve established a global network of activists, scholars, ministers, and grassroots supporters. Through WATER internships, they nurture the future generation of feminist social activists, theologians, and ministers. WATER is […]

Anole Sisters

• Spring 2023
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•   1st Grant

Minnesota

Anole Sisters works with women in the Oromo diaspora to acknowledge past trauma, embrace healing, and build connections to create change within their community. Anole Sisters prevents social isolation by creating support groups, encouraging communication, and providing training and one-on-one support. The organization seeks social change by connecting Oromo families with community resources.  The project […]

Ready to Launch

• Spring 2023
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• Spring 2024
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•   2nd Grant

California

Ready to Launch equips women from historically marginalized communities with the opportunities and support to learn, grow, and launch careers in government and political spheres. Ready to Launch’s work seeks to counterbalance the impacts of generational wealth and expand access to many who have been previously locked out of these spaces. The fellowship program and […]

Creating Freedom Movements

• Spring 2022
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•   1st Grant

California

Creating Freedom Movements (CFM) cultivates holistic, healing-centered, visionary leaders as they collaboratively incubate social justice projects that nurture cross-issue solidarity to push our changing world in a liberatory direction. With their 1st Mary’s Pence grant CFM will support their 10-month cohort program and social justice project incubator that is designed for emerging and established grassroots […]

Fuerzas Unidas

• Spring 2022
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•   1st Grant

CA

Working throughout San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties in California, Fuerzas Unidas organizes some of the most vulnerable populations throughout the state to influence decision-makers and create long-term anti-racist institutional changes. Composed of members representing groups such as farmworkers, service workers, and monolingual Spanish-speaking immigrants, Fuerzas Unidas strives to develop the leadership of Latinx leaders to […]

Ready to Launch

• Spring 2022
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•   1st Grant

California

Ready to Launch equips women from historically marginalized communities with the opportunities and support to learn, grow, and launch careers in government and political spheres. Their fellowship program helps women aspiring to work in fields of public service to find and secure internships. Through these experiences women gain hands-on experience and provide more diverse representation […]

The League of Women Voters Minneapolis

• Spring 2022
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•   2nd Grant

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The League of Women Voters (LWV) Minneapolis is a 101-year-old nonprofit originally founded to ensure the passage of  the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and to advocate for issues affecting women’s lives. LWV Minneapolis is a women-run, non-partisan organization that encourages informed and active participation in all levels of government. It works to increase […]

Ayada Leads

• Fall 2021
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•   3rd Grant

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Ayada Leads empowers all women, specifically first and second-generation East African immigrants, to become engaged citizens and community leaders, regardless of political affiliation. With the goal of preparing women with the skills to exercise the power of their voice and ensure that they are prepared for a complex and connected world, Ayada Leads developed a […]

Dare to Run

• Fall 2021
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•   1st Grant

New York

New York. 

Dare to Run is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate and empower women with the skills necessary to run for public office at the local, state, and national level of government. Dare to Run coaches women to use their voices to affect public policy change and champion issues of importance to their communities. […]