Happy #InternationalWomensDay! For generations, women and gender-expansive folks have driven social, cultural, and economic change to create a more equitable future for all. We're celebrating strong women that, like Audre Lorde, fight for the power and safety of all women.
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Happy #TShirtThursday to all who celebrate! Show your Ms. Foundation pride and celebrate with us — shop our merch collection to help build collective power: forwomen-org-shop.myshopify.com/
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These grantee partners are driving change to advance equity and justice for all. We hope you'll join us in celebrating them on Tuesday, April 28 at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in NYC! Get your tickets now: forwomen.org/gala
Introducing our 2026 Women of Vision Awards honorees! @fatimagossgraves.bsky.social of @nwlc.org, Pua Case of Mauna Kea Education and Awareness, and Tarana Burke of @metoomvmt.bsky.social will receive Women of Vision Awards. @blairimani.bsky.social will receive the Marie C. Wilson Award.
Happy #WomensHistoryMonth! Throughout history, women, and women of color in particular, have faced threats to their bodily autonomy, self-detemination, justice, and other human rights. In the face of these threats, we continue to fight so the next generation has MORE rights, not fewer, than we do.
🗣 Featuring our own Teresa C. Younger, Jenice Fountain of @yellowfund.bsky.social, Jeannette Pai-Espinosa of @justiceandjoy.bsky.social, and Holli Holliday of @winwithblkwomen.bsky.social 💞
Wrapping up #BlackHistoryMonth & looking ahead to #WomenHistoryMonth with a 2025 Women of Vision Awards lookback.
The 2026 Women of Vision Awards are on April 28! Join us as we honor trailblazing grantee partners and inspiring feminist leaders. Get your ticket: forwomen.org/gala.
Investing in Black-led movements is core to our work—we trust those closest to the issues to know the solutions for their communities.
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Featuring grantee partners African American Roundtable, A Family Affair Living Our Best Life, Trans Women of Color Healing Project
After 13 years of leadership, this event will also mark Teresa C. Younger’s last as president and CEO. This year’s theme, “Celebrating Community: Go. Be. Do.” is a powerful parting call to action, an invitation to move with purpose, and to be encouraged and strengthened by community.
We’re thrilled to invite you to the 2026 Women of Vision Awards! Join us on April 28 for an unforgettable evening where we’ll honor trailblazing grantee partners and inspiring feminist leaders who are driving change to advance equity and justice for all.
We're excited to welcome Tessanella DeFrisco to Ms. Foundation as office manager! Read about her feminist inspo, what gets her out of bed every morning, and more on the blog: https://forwomen.org/blog/ms-welcomes-tessanella-defrisco/
During #BlackHistoryMonth, we're centering reproductive justice. Healthcare, like abortion, & gender-affirming care, still aren't federally protected. Black women face more barriers to care than white counterparts. Reproductive justice won't be a reality for all until it's a reality for Black women.
To mark Audre Lorde's birthday, check out the latest Ms. Foundation-approved read by @alexispauline.bsky.social. If you've read it, let us know your thoughts in the replies!
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Seven-time Grammy winner SZA said it best: when community comes together, change is possible! Collective action ➡️ collective power 🤝
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Happy birthday, Rosa Parks! Her courageous activism helped propel the civil rights movement and advance equity for all.
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#ICYMI: @chronphilanthropy.bsky.social profiled President & CEO Teresa C. Younger on her upcoming leadership transition, and what's next for her and the Foundation. Read it here: www.philanthropy.com/news/tips-fo...
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth! 2026 marks 100 years of the federal recognition of Black History Month. All February long, we'll spotlight Black leaders and activists to recognize their crucial contributions to our history and culture.
Climate Critical's Tamara Toles O’Laughlin knows practitioners, organizers, and activists will make climate survival possible. Climate Critical is creating solutions to care for the community stewarding this collective work.
Read more: forwomen.org/blog/grantee-partner-spotlight-climate-critical/
In Illinois, Black women are 3x more likely to die from pregnancy-related conditions than white women. @blackmidwifery.bsky.social is reducing this disparity with their new Midwife degree program: audacy.com/wbbm780/news/local/chicago-midwife-fights-racial-disparities-in-maternal-health
Marking #MLKDay with guiding words from Martin Luther King Jr.'s youngest daughter, Bernice King.
Wednesday reminders from @collagesfortheculture ✨👏
We're incredibly proud to fund grantee partners like The Brave House, who fight for migrant justice by supporting young immigrant and refugee women and gender-expansive youth.
At our 2024 Women of Vision Awards, @replsimon.bsky.social said, "No one is coming to save us, but us." Our community has always supported and protected one another—that's why we trust those closes to the issues to know the solutions for their communities.
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Happy Birthday to musician and activist Joan Baez!
We know a better world is possible with collective action.
Happy #NewYear! We're back to work, building women's collective power by following leaders, listening to those closest to the issues, and advancing feminism in philanthropy. ❤️
All donations matched until MIDNIGHT! Help us build collective power across the U.S.—act fast and double your impact: forwomen.org/legacy
Wishing you a joyful holiday season and a happy new year! ❤️ ✨
We're excited to welcome Jazmin Segura to Ms. Foundation as the Senior Director of Grantmaking & Capacity Building! Jazmin has nearly 20 years of experience in immigrant rights and social justice activism. Read about her feminist inspo and more: https://forwomen.org/blog/ms-welcomes-jazmin-segura/
In a recent op-ed for @candiddotorg.bsky.social, President & CEO Teresa C. Younger reflected on what leadership means in feminist philanthropy after 12 years at the helm of Ms. Foundation and how she creates space for what’s possible.
Read the full op-ed here: candid.org/blogs/leader...
A couple things are on our wishlist this year... what's on yours?
