Women's Foundation Updates
Actor and Advocate Geena Davis Joins the Women’s Foundation of California to Honor Great Leaders
The Women’s Foundation celebrates 30 years and raises money to fund programs in the Bay Area October 23, 2009 – […]
Disposable Income: How gender and sexuality don’t add up to equal pay
John Caldon as seen in the San Francisco Chronicle and the Huffington Post June 28, 2009 – June marks Pride […]
Schwarzenegger’s Proposed Cuts Hurt Elderly, Hungry, Disabled
Judy Patrick as seen in the Sacramento Bee and the Huffington Post June 14, 2009 – At noon on Sunday […]
New Hope for Women and Girls from Washington DC
Judy Patrick as seen on Huffington Post March 13, 2009 – On Wednesday, President Obama signed an executive order creating […]
Women can lead the way to recovery
Chris Grumm, Judy Patrick, Kavita Ramdas from the San Francisco Chronicle March 9, 2009 – This year, National Women’s History […]
Women can lead the way to recovery
Chris Grumm, Judy Patrick, Kavita Ramdas from the San Francisco Chronicle March 9, 2009 – This year, National Women’s History […]
Economic Recovery: Fairness for low-income families
By Judy Patrick and Surina Khan As seen on the Huffington Post, December 3, 2008 Blanca cleans houses. She has […]
Change Begins At Home
By Victoria Chan I’ve always wanted to travel the world. When I was a child, my mom would read me […]
Pulling Families Back from the Edge
When will we realize that supporting women’s ability to work and excel is a key factor in lifting our state’s […]
Take Action with MissRepresentation.org
The first event of the Amazing Women, Inspiring Stories speaking series left many people in the audience asking, “What’s next?” At […]
Jennifer Siebel Newsom and Dr. Kathy Maglioto Featured in New Speaking Series
By Emma Mayerson, Development Assistant “I decided to be an actress and moved to Hollywood. When I got there, an […]
Amazing Women, Inspiring Stories
By Emma Mayerson, Development Assistant In high school I traveled to Guatemala with Where There Be Dragons, a study abroad program . For […]
It’s Time to Raise the Cost of Human Trafficking
By Daphne Phung, Executive Director & Founder of California Against Slavery This June, I went on a police undercover sting that […]
California Not Ready to Relocate Inmates from State Prisons to Counties
By Emma Mayerson, Development Assistant Kim Carter, Founder and Executive Director of our grant partner the Time for Change Foundation, is passionate […]
WPI Fellows Strive to End Shackling of Pregnant Women
By Emma Mayerson, Development Assistant Tamaya Garcia has been fighting for Assembly Bill 568 for two years with our grant […]
Aging Justice Team Scores Victory for Elders
By Emma Mayerson, Development Assistant We are thrilled that Governor Brown just signed SB 897 into law. The Women’s Policy […]
Despite Setbacks, the Passion for Policy Burns Bright
As the 2011/12 Women’s Policy Institute (WPI) class teams wrapped up their policy projects we had a reminder that the […]
Women Need More Than the Vote
By Judy Patrick, CEO & President, Women’s Foundation of California A couple weeks ago, I celebrated the 91st anniversary of US […]
It’s Time to Redefine Generosity
by Michelle Dench, guest blogger I’ve just returned from a retreat focused on Generosity. The theme of the retreat was […]
Join Warren Buffett’s Call to Stop Fueling the Wealth Gap
by Judy Patrick, CEO & President, Women’s Foundation of California I recently wrote a piece for the Huffington Post in […]