The Feminist Majority Foundation and Ms Magazine are pleased to launch the 2009 Summer Leadership Colloquium. The five-week colloquium will offer participants a variety of opportunities for professional growth and networking with peers and professionals from throughout the Washington, DC area feminist community.
Tuesdays, June 16 – July 21 • 6:30 to 7:30pm • FMF National Headquarters
June 16 Campus and Community Organizing June 23 Feminist Job Searching June 30 Interviewing and Salary Negotiation July 14 Media Outreach and Public Speaking July 21 Strategizing Your Congressional Visits
In Dr. Tiller's memory, we are determined to honor his life and work by fighting to keep clinics safe and open, and to speak the truth about abortion-it saves women's lives
Without clinics there is no choice - we need your help to keep clinics open, accessible, and safe!
Watch Dr. Tiller speak at the Feminist Majority Foundation's 2008 National Young Women's Leadership Conference
It’s time to demand better U.S. policies and
increased funding for reproductive health here and around the world. Sign the petition.
They advertise as so-called “Crisis Pregnancy Centers” or “Pregnancy Resource Centers” on your campus or in your community. They pose as legitimate health centers and offer “free” pregnancy tests. In reality, most crisis pregnancy centers (CPC's) are not medical facilities at all.
Learn more about these fake clinics and how you can bring the Feminist Majority Foundation's Campaign to Expose Fake Clinics to your campus. Stop the deception!
Sign our online petition now to demand an end to false and deceptive advertising practices and federal funding for fake clinics.
One in six Afghan women will die from pregnancy or childbirth-related complications. Only $3,000 is necessary to train a midwife and save women’s lives. Bring the Afghan Women's Health Campaign to your campus today!
Learn more about the Feminist Majority Foundation's campaign to aid and empower women and girls in Afghanistan.
Watch FMF President Ellie Smeal and Dr. Sima Samar discuss the daily realities of Afghan women.
Did you know that the largest generation of young people in human history is about to come of age? Nearly half the world's population is under the age of twenty five. The decisions they make about family planning will make a huge impact on how many of billions of us there are on this planet, and what resources we have to go around. Experts determine that the first natural resource to be affected by climate change will be water.
National Young Women's Leadership Conference: From Campus to Congress a Resounding Success!
The Feminist Majority Foundation's National Young Women's Leadership Conference was a resounding success! Over 500 attendees came from across the country to discuss some of today's most pressing issues, including reproductive rights, crisis pregnancy centers, the environment, LGBTQ rights, violence against women, communities of color, the Convention to Eliminate all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the situation of Afghan women and girls, the economy, and more.
The two-day conference was filled with some of today's leading feminist voices, including Hilda Solis, Tina Tchen, Lilly Ledbetter, Dolores Huerta, Eleanor Smeal, Dr. Sima Samar, and Shelby Knox. Many attendees also presented throughout the course of the conference.
Watch highlights from the conference on UStream and check out our Feminist Campus Blog to see how the conference went and keep checking for further updates.
Participants who took pictures or vidoes during the conference can send copies to campusteam@feminist.org - We would love to see them!
Join our campaign to connect the need to build a national constituency to increase international family planning and other human rights issues by educating your campus on the economic links between current U.S. international family planning policies and sweatshops, poverty, and violence against women globally.
Learn about Hot Button topics and the way they spin politics in our country in our new 5 part video series.
The videos include an introduction to the hot button issues facing our country with a look at abortion (part 1), affirmative action (part 2), economy (part 3), immigration (part 4), and marriage equality (part 5).
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The Feminist Majority Foundation's National Young Women's Leadership Conference was a resounding success! Over 500 attendees came from across the country to discuss some of today's most pressing issues, including reproductive rights, crisis pregnancy centers, the environment, LGBTQ rights, violence against women, communities of color, the Convention to Eliminate all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the situation of Afghan women and girls, the economy, and more.
