Pride Month and the Beauty of Our Shared Humanity
Pride month started by commemorating the riots of June 1969 and has become a celebration and an act of solidarity between members and non-members of the LGBTQ community. The uprising...
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The Mary’s Pence Community Welcomes You
Founded on the core values of dignity, justice, and solidarity, we seek to be a space of belonging and purpose where community comes together to work for social justice. The...
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Donating to Mary’s Pence: A Daughter Honoring Her Dad
Along with her most recent donation to Mary's Pence, Nancy Johnson noted that she was motivated to give because of her personal belief in helping women...and to honor her dad....
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Volunteers and Donors Invest in the Lives of Women
Greetings! My name is Carol Fendt, and I am starting my 5th year as a Board Member for Mary’s Pence. Prior to serving as a member of the board, I...
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Celebrating Gilda Larios’ Two Decades of Commitment to Justice & Solidarity
For 20 years, Gilda Larios has made significant contributions to the work of Mary’s Pence –– first as a Mary’s Pence grantee in Mexico, then as a Mary’s Pence board...
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Meet Laura: St Joseph Worker at Mary’s Pence
This fall I joined Mary’s Pence as a volunteer with the St Joseph Worker (SJW) Program, a service year for women created by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet...
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Intern Kiyomi Kishaba shares her “verse”
One glance at her room decor of “the future is female” and “empowered women empower women” posters and any common passerby would know Kiyomi Kishaba is a feminist. Take a...
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Reflections on the MPP and Injustice at the Border
Image: Volunteers bringing supplies over the border to asylum-seekers. Yesterday, March 11th 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld Trump's policy of forcing asylum-seekers to remain on the...
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Love Your Neighbor: A Common Theme in Major Religions
The United States is a religious country. With a population of 330 million people, 185.54 million identify as religious. The major religions practiced in the US are: • Christianity –...
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The Death of the Forest is the End of Our Lives
Sr. Dorothy Stang, SND Advocate for Brazil’s Indigenous Poor and the Amazonian Rainforest An Inspiring Woman Featured in the Mary Pence Women’s Calendar Sr. Dorothy Stang, SND lived and died...
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