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In the Washington, D.C. region, nearly half a million women and girls are living in or near poverty. We all have a stake in building the economic security of our region’s women and girls. The Women’s Foundation works to mobilize our community and provide solutions to eliminate the persistent barriers that disproportionately hinder women and girls from achieving economic security.

Food (but not junk food) for thought on Oprah's new school…

If you own cable television or listen to the radio, surely you’ve heard all the hoopla over Oprah’s new girls’ school. I think her

The dollars and sense of financial literacy…

In honor of Financial Literacy Month around the nation and here in our fair region, today’s blog is brought to you by the symbol

Federally funded fatherhood…fair?

A few weeks ago, in response to my post inspired by Oxygen’s new series, Who cares about girls?," one of our readers left a

Women in nonprofits…paying too high a price?

Today, I was most fascinated to come across a blog post at The Chronicle of Philanthropy titled, "Why Women are Held Back in the Nonprofit

Carole Johnson on her new role, Washington, D.C., and saying anything!

What does a person that generally has an opinion about something say when she has the opportunity to say anything? This is my first

Evaluation: Beyond accountability to change.

While the nonprofit and funding communities have intensely discussed reporting on inputs and outputs for years, the evaluation community has been squabbling over outcomes,

Claudia Thorne on what giving has to do with me.

Yesterday, I attended a most inspiring workshop, Philanthropy 101, conducted by Siobhán O’Riordan, Director of Communications and Philanthropic Programs, at The Women’s Foundation.  Siobhan

Tough choices with Prof. Siobhan at Philanthropy 101

As a self-professed excellent student (I had my first Franklin Planner at 17 and used to like nothing better than getting a new Trapper Keeper ready

Beyond talk towards advocacy and leadership.

Well, last week I raged, somewhat, about the lack of educational awareness among public schools on women’s history during National Women’s History Month.  So,