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Photograph of a woman in a yellow shirt that says Contact Center Organizing for justice.

Mary’s Pence Grant at Work in Cincinnati

“We got involved with this kinship care issue,” says lead organizer Lynn Williams, “because many of our members are taking care of relatives’ children or are seeking to take care of children due to a crisis in their family.”

Photograph of a woman standing at the front of a classroom teaching.

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Breaking the Cycle of Recidivism Through Advocacy—MAYA Organization

Ward established the organization shortly after adopting her daughter, realizing that her daughter’s birth mother was not receiving any postpartum and post-adoption support. Ward became the birth mother’s only support system; she contacted social workers and an attorney to help during this sensitive time.

Photograph of three women in an office with a Workers Rights Center flag in the background.

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Grantee Spotlight: Women Workers United

“In Wisconsin right now, with the government we have constantly attacking workers’ rights…it’s really tough dealing with that.” The WRC also battles issues such as paid family leave, child care, delayed worker promotions, and wage theft.

Youth Rise Presents: "My Life Without You" Youth Impacted by Incarceration & Deportation at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center on August 15, 2015

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Youth Voices: Creating a Space for Altruism – Youth Rise Texas

To select the stories to be highlighted, they participate in a “dot democracy,” where they display their drawings around the room and then go around placing sticker dots on the drawings they find most interesting.

Photograph of a group of women holding a quilt with many different squares.

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She Who Walks With the Lions – Genesis, Oakland, CA

Octavia Moore, a Genesis youth intern from Oakland’s First Congregational Church, told her story of the challenges and costs of relying on the public bus to go to school and back home to a local environmental group.

Photograph of a woman at a sewing machine.

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Stories of Success – Asylee Women Enterprise

When she arrived with that family she realized that they had taken her in to be the “third wife” to the husband. The other two wives had six children between them. T. was not allowed leave the home at all. She was locked inside all day with the children.

Photograph of a woman holding a shawl around her shoulders.

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Humanizing Mothers & Daughters of Incarceration

We challenge stereotypes about who goes to prison and why. Conspire performer Marianna Marchesini is a single mother of two sons. She says, “Like most of us who have found ourselves in jail or prison, I’ve lost a great deal of self-confidence.”

Photograph of four young women participants of Women NC in front fo the capitol holding signs that say womenNC and Stop the War on Women.

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Women’s Rights are Human Rights: Fighting for Equality through Advocacy and Education

WomenNC empowers a new generation of intelligent, educated leaders fighting for women’s rights, and thus, human rights. They provide the resources, guidance, and platform for these students to develop skills in research, policy, and public speaking.

Photograph of a woman standing behind a table selling bags that she has hand-sewn herself.

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Confronting Conflict with Community

“These women are so community minded,” Stock says. “Everything they do, they are a community of women; they’re a group.”

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