Formation | 1972 |
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Founder | Gloria Steinem, Patricia Carbine, Letty Cottin Pogrebin and Marlo Thomas |
Type | Non-profit organization |
Headquarters | Brooklyn, New York |
Website | http://forwomen.org/ |
The Ms. Foundation for Women is a non-profit organization for women in the United States, which had a deep commitment to diversity[1] and was founded in 1972 by Gloria Steinem, Patricia Carbine, Letty Cottin Pogrebin and Marlo Thomas. The organization was created to deliver strategic resources to groups which elevated women's and girls' voices and solutions across race and class in communities nationwide, working to identify and support emerging and established groups poised to act when and where change is needed.[1] Its grants — paired with skills-building, networking and other strategic opportunities — enable organizations to advance women's grassroots solutions across race and class and to build social movements within and across three areas: Economic Justice, Reproductive Justice and Safety.[2][3] The organization also focuses its lobbying efforts on the state-level around those three areas.[4]