ANNUAL REPORT

70 ANNUAL REPORT 1 Mission

We build women’s collective power in the U.S. to advance equity and justice for all. We achieve our mission by investing in, and strengthening, the capacity of women-led movements to advance meaningful social, cultural and economic change in the lives of women.

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2 ANNUAL REPORT 2018 Annual Report Vision We believe in a just and safe world where power and possibility are not limited by gender, race, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or age. We believe that equity and inclusion are the cornerstones of a true democracy in which the worth and dignity of every person are valued.

Values

Integrity: We believe in holding ourselves responsible and accountable for all that we say in order to build an aligned, principled and powerful movement for gender equity. Trust and Respect: We believe in the truth that comes from those we work with and those most impacted by the issues affecting their communities. We believe in honoring their voices and supporting their leadership. Interconnectedness: We believe that by achieving equity for women of color, we achieve equity for all. Given the complexity of the issues we face, we are committed to addressing all issues holistically across multiple movements and sectors. Social Justice: We believe that structural changes are needed in order to increase opportunities for those who are least well off politically, socially and economically. Contents

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Board Chair Our Voices, Our Time Leadership Donor Profile: Welcome Letter Suzanne Lerner 10 16 18 24

Health and SisterSong Economic Justice Parent Voices Reproductive Justice 26 28 30 33

Top Line Snapshots Amplified Action Safety National Black Women’s Justice Institute 35 38 40 42

Capacity Building Donor-Advised Funds Donor Profile: Our Time Together Susan Wolford and Dee Komar 44 48 50 54

30th Annual Gloria Awards Gloria’s Future Fund Our Supporters Statement of Activities Welcome

In 1978, when the Ms. Foundation At each board meeting, we was just five years old, I was hired staff members would present A Letter from to join its small staff to administer recommendations for grants to our Our Board Chair the “reproductive rights and health” partners in the field. The board grilled program. It was a dream job for us on everything from the racial and someone with strong activist gender composition of the grantee leanings and a lot to learn. board to the community bona fides of its leadership. No grantee was too And what an education I received! new or too small. Our job was to find At that time, the board of directors groups that had the least access to included three “founding mothers” resources and the most vision. We not – Gloria Steinem, Letty Cottin only provided funding but also offered Pogrebin, and Pat Carbine - along any assistance they might need to with a motherlode of brilliant national lead their organizations effectively leaders, including Wilma Mankiller, and to connect to other funders. Chief of the Cherokee Nation; Congresswoman Maxine Waters During those early years, when the from California; and Aileen Clark Ms. Foundation was the only fund Hernandez, a union organizer, exclusively supporting women and co-founder of the National the issues affecting our lives, we gave Women’s Political Caucus and the first grant ever to a domestic civil rights activist. violence program and hotline; created

2 ANNUAL REPORT the first fund supporting women the misogynistic, racist, homophobic, with HIV/AIDS; raised $5 million for anti-progressive agendas that imperil economic justice work through a new women, persons of color, and concept, a Donor Collaborative; and low-income communities. launched Take our Daughters to Work But I am hopeful. I have Day. These are some of the landmark witnessed the Ms. Foundation at events, but there was so much more work. The vision and mission are that was accomplished, including the clear. Our philanthropic advocacy is birth of funds dedicated to women as fresh, innovative, and as daring as across the country. it was in the ‘70s. The Ms. Foundation In 1994, I left my staff position, remains on the leading edge of but almost a quarter of a century philanthropy and social justice work later, I still have a very strong and continues to march toward relationship with the Foundation. lasting progressive change. I’m close to many of those I’d worked I’m so honored to share our 2018 with. I became a donor, and eventually Annual Report, which reflects the joined the Board of Directors. And Ms. Foundation’s investment in your thanks to a transfer of wealth from my future, our future, a future when parents, I was able to set up a Donor every person’s power and possibility Advised Fund at the Foundation, are unlimited. which my daughter and I direct. Today, I feel the same urgency I felt when I first worked with Ms. — an In solidarity, urgency in all that we do to advance the lives of women. Now, as then, we are committed to fight every effort that would reduce a woman’s safety, choice about her own body, Susan Dickler and economic opportunities. For the past two years, I have feared that Board Chair our steady progress toward gender equity is threatened even more by

ANNUAL REPORT 3 Our Voices, Our Time

I often talk about how I stand in the reproductive health, safety, and shade of trees I did not plant, walk economic security for women. A Reflection by Our down paths that I did not pave, and We’re about disrupting and changing President and CEO drink from wells that I did not drill. the systems of oppression that have Those who came before me planted affected our communities. And as a those trees, dug those wells, eased a national organization, our platform pathway for me. Now, it is our voices brings together other women’s that can continue to build on the funding committees. power and possibility enabled by those Our philosophy at Ms. is about trusting who came before us. It is our time, our women and women’s leadership. turn, to water the trees—to create We understand the complexities of opportunities for future generations. the organizations our grantee partners The Ms. Foundation is the first and run and that systemic problems won’t longest-standing national public disappear overnight. We expect change women’s foundation in the country. to take time and are committed for We’ve been listening, collaborating, the long haul. and learning in partnership with Our Voices Our Time is a campaign that our grantee partners and other builds on what we know—the value allies—advancing women’s of the social, political, and economic grassroots solutions to resolve equality of all genders. We’re about extraordinary challenges in

4 ANNUAL REPORT speaking truths that sometimes putting our voice to what safe and make people uncomfortable. just looks like. It means speaking a We see the country as linked and truth—that this structure, this connected, and our national platform country, was not created for women, Our Voices, Our Time is committed to amplifying voices at particularly women of color. the grassroots that are creating the Everything has to be challenged. greatest impact, with the assumption Our unified voices are the key to that often it is the names that we don’t creating the change we want to know that are implementing great see, fueling the hope of what we change in their communities. can accomplish. We’re about lifting up the work and It’s a privilege that I get to do this work vision of our grantee partners—rooted with you, a privilege that I get to sit at in our principle to trust women’s the table and break bread with some leadership in the way they see this of the strongest advocates across the work needs to be done. We support country who are doing inspiring work the policy and advocacy efforts of on a shoestring budget. Some of their our partners, and all the ways in stories are shared in these pages. which policy work happens. As a firm What we’re trying to do is just give supporter of grassroots organizing, them a little more to be able to create we look not only to Washington D.C., this world that we want—a world of but to state and local levels as well. possibility for everybody. And we Our grantee partners are the experts, invite you to join us. engaging across the country, going to We must use our voices. places where conversations may or This is our time. may not be happening. And we at the Ms. Foundation are learning about what’s going on, sharing our strategies and philosophy. Our vision is to create a safe and just Teresa C. Younger world where power and possibility President and CEO, are not limited. It means defining and Ms. Foundation for Women

ANNUAL REPORT 5 Leadership

OFFICERS BOARD DIRECTORS FOUNDING MOTHERS

Susan Dickler Heather Arnet Patricia Carbine Chair Eve E. Ellis Letty Cottin Pogrebin Jocelyn Frye Lauren Embrey Gloria Steinem Vice Chair Cathie Hartnett Marlo Thomas Jenna Bussman-Wise Alicia Lara Marie C. Wilson Treasurer Honorary Founder and Suzanne Lerner President Emerita Lynn Malerba Yin Ling Leung Secretary Simone McGurl Seth Rosen Jenna Scanlan Rinku Sen Gail Wasserman Tom Watson Catherine Yelverton

6 ANNUAL REPORT STAFF

Teresa C. Younger Stephanie K. Blackwood Roselande Louis President and CEO Director, Major Gifts Program Associate, Women’s Economic Justice Rosina Barba Andréa Bradford Vice President, Finance and Administration Director, Human Resources Marlene Martinez Finance Manager Roz Lee Allison Buddenhagen Vice President, Strategy and Programs Development and Special Aleyamma Mathew Projects Assistant Director, Women’s Economic Justice Josh Pushkin Vice President, Development Abigail Chalmers Jadyn Petterson-Rae Development Research Consultant Communications Coordinator A. Angelique Roche Vice President, External Affairs Zabrina Collazo Arelis Perallon Program Associate, Women’s Health Finance Associate

Ejim Dike Elisabeth Platt Safety Consultant Manager, Donor Data and Stewardship

Alaya Gaddy Maya Radiconcini Office Manager Executive Coordinator and Board Liaison

Paulette Hodge Tamara Vasan Director, Direct Marketing Director, Institutional Partnerships

Ellen Liu Director, Women’s Health ANNUAL REPORT 7 How does the Ms. Foundation fit into your personal philanthropic Donor Profile mission/vision? As an entrepreneur, I am drawn to grassroots organizations led by innovators intent on having a real impact both locally and on a broader Suzanne scale. Typically, these organizations don’t have access to big, traditional NGO funding. The Ms. Foundation Lerner addresses this need, plus it has an added advantage: a national footprint. There isn’t another organization that SUZANNE LERNER is an activist entrepreneur supports grassroots organizations with a primary focus on gender and racial that provide opportunity for women of equality, and the economic empowerment color, along with a national platform of women and girls. In 1986, she co-founded that is focused on changing the clothing company Michael Stars of which she Nepal, South Africa and Liberia, I’ve constructs of power to enable gender now serves as President. Her second career is discovered that wherever there are equality. That combination creates philanthropy and giving back to communities, social ills, wherever people aren’t able near-term impact and longer-term, both domestically and internationally, through to thrive – women are leading the drive sustainable change. personal grants, impact investments, as well to solve these problems. I found this What are the challenges of being as the Michael Stars Foundation. to be true here in the U.S. as well. The a woman leader and what can foundation has understood this and How did you come to know women do to develop their own has been supporting women for more and support the Ms. Foundation leadership capacity, as well as than 40 years. That’s impressive in for Women? that of other women? and of itself. What finally hooked me In 2011, I traveled to Haiti to witness was hearing Gloria and others speak Women in business, and women in the devastation and massive recovery at an event in Los Angeles. I was general, have to fight stereotypical work resulting from the earthquake inspired and knew immediately that assumptions about what they can there. Here, and through my travels to I had found an organization and or cannot achieve. Because we are other developing countries like India, community that shared my values. women, we are often not given the

8 ANNUAL REPORT encouragement, or the benefit of the have the resources to do that. to a board. However, as I started doubt that men receive, especially The first thing I tell them is that sitting on boards, I realized that when it comes to leading a company. philanthropy is not just about giving my real-life experiences running a I started my own business after money. Don’t get me wrong, writing a growing business were incredibly realizing that I wasn’t being taken check, whatever the amount, is useful to non-profit startups. important. But, giving of yourself seriously by the various companies The Michael Stars Foundation, matters as much as giving money. I was working for. I was passed over which is funded by your fashion I have supported organizations in for promotions and relegated to roles business, is the vehicle through many different ways by serving on such as “showroom girl.” And, when which you make your philanthropic boards, making my network available, it was time for me to take the helm of contributions. What kind of building partnerships with my the company that I co-founded and organizations and initiatives does company, and simply showing up and built with my husband Michael, I had the foundation support and of helping. When I went to Haiti in 2011 to overcome the skeptics who said I which are you most proud? to learn more about recovery efforts didn’t have the “experience” to lead. after the earthquake, I quickly got Our foundation is the embodiment of One of the most rewarding things involved in the relief effort. There was the values of the Michael Stars brand. about building a successful company an amazing confluence of healthcare Our company is 80% women. Even our is that I have the capacity to support providers, artists, actors, business last fashion shoot was 80% women, other women on their leadership people, and many others, working including those in front of and journeys, both within my organization together to rebuild communities. Not behind the camera. Women’s voices are represented at all levels of the and outside of it. It’s important to all of them had the financial resources company and I work with my teams to support each other, learn from each to offer, but they gave so selflessly foster their own voices and leadership. other, and create the social capital of their time and their expertise. It that enables other women to grow, was exhausting, but invigorating and We see our foundation as a catalyst transformative for me to see the many succeed, and pave the way for to help our customers learn more different ways one can truly give back. future generations. and take action on important issues The other important thing is that your such as the passing of the Equal What is your perspective on how own real-world experience is extremely women can become philanthropists? Rights Amendment, preventing valuable to non-profit organizations. gender-based violence, and enabling Many women perceive that I wish I had known that earlier. I always women’s economic empowerment. philanthropy is about giving away a thought you had to have non-profit or lot of money and often don’t feel they corporate experience to be of value

ANNUAL REPORT 9 Health and Equity in Access: Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice Initiative Reproductive The goal of the Women’s Health/Reproductive Justice program focus area is to ensure that women have the ability and resources to make the health decisions that are best for themselves, their families and their future, with a specific emphasis Justice on organizations working from a reproductive justice framework. Current funding priorities include supporting local, state, and national efforts to advance equity in abortion access, contraception, and the full range of reproductive health services for all women and families. With a focus on women of color, low income women, youth, and immigrant communities, this docket supports a majority of women of color-led reproductive justice organizations. It centers the leadership and sustainability of these organizations, and their culture shift and organizing work, against some of the most restrictive, stigmatizing, and unjust reproductive health policies across the country. A full 30% of all abortion restrictions have been enacted just in the last 6 years alone, since Roe v Wade in 1973. 27 states are now hostile to abortion access while 58% of women live in a state considered hostile to abortion rights. We see the legacy of patriarchy, racial bias, and discrimination reflected in hateful and increasingly innovative policies that prevent women— and, disproportionately, women of color—from accessing much needed reproductive health services. At the same time, women of color have been the vanguard and creators of the reproductive justice movement, building and leading a vibrant, intersectional resistance that confronts and challenges white supremacy, patriarchy, and classism. Women of color and indigenous women are leading organizations that advocate and organize for victories at the local, state, and national levels, beating back the onslaught of restrictive and oppressive bills and policies, all the while forging the infrastructure and networks necessary to achieve policy wins and shift culture.

10 ANNUAL REPORT The following grantees have California Latinas for Colorado Organization been funded for their work toward Reproductive Justice $50,000 for Latina Opportunity securing reproductive justice, Executive Director, Laura Jimenez, and Reproductive Rights $50,000 equity and freedom for historically Los Angeles, CA Executive Director, and systemically oppressed women California Latinas for Reproductive Justice Cristina Aguilar, Denver, CO and their communities, and for (CLRJ) is a statewide policy and advocacy Colorado Organization for Latina all Americans. organization working to advance the Opportunity and Reproductive Rights reproductive health and rights of California (COLOR) is a statewide organization ACT for Women and Girls $45,000 Latinas, their families and communities. dedicated to promoting and protecting Co-Director, Erin Garner Ford, Visalia, CA In the state with the largest number of reproductive health for Latinas and their families through leadership development, ACT for Women and Girls (ACT) works at Latinos, CLRJ draws on this significant organizing, and policy advocacy. COLOR the local level in Tulare County, California. opportunity to reach and influence actively leads and collaborates with It engages young women in rural and Latinas by using a reproductive justice social justice coalitions, community immigrant communities in leadership and framework that reflects the needs and partners, and local and state legislators advocacy to promote reproductive justice priorities of Latinas and their communities, to build a stronger reproductive justice activism and social change, improve the ensures active Latina engagement in voice in Colorado. With this grant, COLOR reproductive justice policy climate, and the policy process, and promotes launched its first-ever Spanish-language increase access to contraception and movement-building through organizing, radio program, Mujeres de COLOR; helped abortion care through youth leadership leadership development, civic engagement, pass HB 17-1186, which requires private development programs, voter registration policy and advocacy. This grant supports health plans to allow women to pick up a and engagement campaigns, grassroots CLRJ for work such as its advocacy 12-month supply of their contraception, organizing, and Pharmacy Access campaign, California Latinas Presente, and instituted its Resiliency and campaign. This grant supports ACT’s a weeklong series of trainings and Rejuvenation model for all staff. increasing legislative advocacy, leading on legislative visits in four regions across the bills such as SB 320, to provide abortion state; its Speaking Stories culture shift access; AB 2289, family and sick leave initiative, and its efforts on bills such as for young parents to achieve academic SB 1190-Sterilization Compensation Bill. success; and AB 2601, quality sexual health education for charter school students; efforts to protect undocumented folks by uplifting local pro-immigrant policies and resolutions within school districts and cities, and internal organizational growth and development. ANNUAL REPORT 11 El Pueblo $50,000 color and the LGBTQ community. KHJN National Latina Institute works at the grassroots in partnership Executive Director, Angeline Echeverria, for Reproductive Health* $40,000 Raleigh, NC with organizations on education, training, Executive Director, El Pueblo is a statewide advocacy outreach, and organizing. With this Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, New York, NY and public policy immigration rights grant, KHJN will continue its grassroots The National Latina Institute for organization dedicated to strengthening organizing and education, Trans Health Reproductive Health (NLIRH) works to the Latinx community in North Carolina Advocacy program, and Support Fund. ensure Latinas’ rights to reproductive through leadership development, proactive National Asian Pacific health and justice through public and direct advocacy, education, and American Women’s Forum* $40,000 education, community mobilization, promotion of cross-cultural understanding. and policy advocacy. This grant will This grant supports El Pueblo’s program Executive Director, help NLIRH accomplish its mission in Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Chicago, IL Derechos Sin Fronteras, an intensive three critical areas: increasing access to National Asian Pacific American reproductive health and justice training abortion, eliminating reproductive health Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) is a national with Latinx youth leaders to build disparities, and advancing the rights policy and advocacy organization working knowledge and skills related to sexual and of immigrant women in NY, FL, TX and VA. to expand access to reproductive reproductive health, leadership, advocacy NLIRH will advance reproductive equity health for Asian American and Pacific skills, and peer education; El Pueblo Rises!, through its leadership program, Latina Islander women and girls, with a focus a weekend-long leadership program for Advocacy Network (LAN), grassroots on increasing access to reproductive El Pueblo staff, board, Youth Council, and policy advocacy against TRAP laws, health services among AAPI immigrant Community Leadership Council, and new anti-abortion bills, and anti-immigrant communities, and blocking Prenatal program participants, as well as increased policies. This grant also supports Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA) GOTV efforts. NLIRH in strengthening internal abortion restrictions framed as race organizational infrastructure. Kentucky Health and sex-based selection measures. Justice Network $20,000 Their strategies include leadership development of AAPI communities Board Chair, Caitlin Willenbrink, Louisville, KY HEALTH AND through their Reproductive Justice Kentucky Health Justice Leadership Institute (RJLI), research Network (KHJN) works to create and analysis issues affecting broad-base, inclusive participation in a AAPI communities, grassroots reproductive justice movement to increase organizing, strategic communication, the access, quality, and scope of culturally coalition/chapter building, and relevant and accurate health information legislative advocacy. and services for low-income women of REPRODUCTIVE 12 ANNUAL REPORT JUSTICE Native American Planned Parenthood Power U Center Community Board* $30,000 Southeast $20,000 for Social Change** $30,000 Executive Director, Charon Asetoyer, Executive Director, Staci Fox, Atlanta, GA Executive Director, James Lopez, Miami, FL Lake Andes, SD Planned Parenthood Southeast (PPSE) Power U Center for Social Change The Native American Community Board works to address health disparities uses an intersectional lens to address (NACB) addresses issues of concern to in the South and ensure quality issues of birth justice, abortion access, Native American people regarding health, reproductive health for women, men, criminalization of Black and Latinx girls education, land and water rights, and and families by providing comprehensive, and youth in the school-to-prison economic development issues. NACB medically-accurate sex education pipeline, and school pushout in works with policymakers and communities and services, and by advocating for Miami-Dade County schools through to ensure that standardized sexual reproductive health in Alabama, Georgia, grassroots organizing; training and assault policies and protocols for Indian and Mississippi. This grant will assist education of youth and parents; civic Health Services (IHS) are implemented as PPSE to build constituency power by engagement, and community leadership directed by the Tribal Law and Order Act. growing a stronger base and strategy, development. This grant supports the As part of a public education campaign, and to continue its campaigns and implementation of Power U’s reproductive NACB engages with Native women to advocacy efforts, while simultaneously justice framework; collaboration with develop leadership skills and with federal looking for innovative ways to serve its coalitions such as the Black Girls Matter agencies to build and support Native constituency. PPSE will continue to work Coalition; school budgeting workshops activists who work in the reproductive toward systemic change in policy around with youth; advocacy for comprehensive justice field. This grant will support the reproductive health care access, growing sex education, and the continued training and organizing of emerging Native public support that would increase access development of their programming at women activists in civic engagement to care, and working with policy makers COPE, a school for pregnant youth and and reproductive justice issues in SD, and the public to defeat measures that young parents. OK, and NM. The grant will also support restrict access. NACB to advocate for IHS to implement HEALTHstandardized sexual assault policies and AND protocols affecting women survivors of sexual assault.

REPRODUCTIVE* Asterisks denote funding through the Groundswell Catalyst Fund ** Asterisks denote 2-year grant JUSTICEANNUAL REPORT 13 Sister Reach* $30,000 SisterSong* $30,000 CEO, Cherisse Scott, Memphis, TN Executive Director, Monica Simpson, Atlanta, GA SisterReach is dedicated to the We are in a moment reproductive autonomy of women and SisterSong is a national, Southern-based when our voices are girls of color, poor women, rural women, organization uniting women of color and their families in the state of Tennessee. and indigenous women to dismantle being more amplified MFW supports SisterReach’s institutional reproductive and racial oppression. growth, fiscal health and sustainability, SisterSong conducts RJ trainings to than they have been and cultivation of leadership among influence and expand the RJ movement, staff.SisterReach works on the following convenes RJ leaders, and engages in in the past. RJ issues: comprehensive sexual health culture change work. Through the grant, education; abortion and contraception SisterSong will convene RJ leaders to The world has access; criminalization of women through create a Reproductive Justice agenda; fetal homicide laws; ACA; provider of continue its culture change work through finally found a cultural competency to women of color; education and programs such as Artists frequency at which domestic violence, and HIV/AIDS. for RJ; continue its collaborative work with This grant supports SisterReach’s coalitions such as the Black Mamas Matter they can hear us. faith-based and grassroots organizing, Alliance and Trust Black Women, and BOITalk circle, research, and community deepen its work in North Carolina. education and outreach. SPARK Reproductive TARANA BURKE Justice NOW** $80,000 Executive Director, Founder of Me Too Movement; In 2018 Dr. Krystal Redman, Atlanta, GA Senior Director of Girls SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW for Gender Equity. (SPARK) is a statewide, community-based 27 States reproductive justice organization working Gloria Awards, 2018 to build and sustain a powerful were hostile to reproductive justice movement in abortion access Georgia by organizing and building leadership capacity of African-Americans, Millennials, LGBTQ youth, and young families of color communities. MFW supports SPARK’s leadership development

14 ANNUAL REPORT programs Speak Justice Take Action works for women and families to improve reproductive health access, and create (SJTA) and Fierce Youth Reclaiming & education on reproductive options campaigns that dismantle myths about Empowerment (FYRE); monthly “Kick-it” and rights. WV FREE works to defend young parenthood and LGBTQ youth. program; monthly “SparkOFF!” podcast reproductive decisions, increase access to YWU’s work addresses a range of issues centering LGBTQQ young POC and Black affordable birth control, protect personal that include “Ban the Box” legislation, women, and legislative advocacy for bills decision-making and educate the public, expanding access to contraception such as HB454 (PrEP/PEP). policymakers, and health providers on the through pharmacist prescription authority; links between supportive reproductive long-acting reversible contraceptives URGE (United for justice policies and decreased poverty (LARCs) in the context of provider cultural Reproductive and levels and rates of unintended pregnancies. competency and opposing coercive Gender Equity) $40,000 WV FREE works in alliances with homeless policies and practices; pregnancy-care and Interim Director, Susannah Baruch, shelters, labor groups, health reform licensed midwifery, and education justice Washington, DC advocates, maternal health programs, and for young families. This grant has also URGE (United for Reproductive and Gender LGBT organizations. This grant supports supported YWU in opening a new office Equity) is a national organization that work such as the #HealthNotPolitics in Las Cruces, NM and strengthening its trains emerging young leaders on college campaign, Integrated Voter Engagement internal infrastructure. campuses and provides tools to organize, Work, and critical organizing around network, and exchange ideas focused on a proposed changes to West Virginia’s state youth-centered, pro-choice reproductive constitution that would prevent abortion justice agenda. Through this grant, access for women throughout the state. URGE is building a strong base of young reproductive justice advocates through Young Women United $50,000 state chapters in strategic locations (AL, Executive Director, Tannia Esparza, GA, KS, OH, and TX); training young leaders Albuquerque, NM in the field to run reproductive justice Young Women United (YWU) works with campaigns at the local, state and national and for young women of color and their levels, and continuing its Integrated Voter allies to improve young people’s access Engagement work in TX, AL and GA. to comprehensive sexuality education, information, and services in Albuquerque, West Virginia FREE $50,000 NM. MFW supports YWU’s innovative Executive Director, Margaret Chapman and dynamic strategies to engage and Pomponio, Charleston WV increase a grassroots voter base in rural West Virginia FREE (WV FREE) is a communities; strengthen partnerships; reproductive justice organization that organize to eliminate barriers to

ANNUAL REPORT 15 The Reproductive Justice (RJ) movement, stationed at the intersection of several social justice movements, joins people across identities and issues to investigate the power systems that prevent access to the resources and rights inherent in living a self-determined life absent of fear, discrimination, and retaliation. SisterSong—the largest multi-ethnic Reproductive Justice collective and a national convener—is dedicated to growing and supporting the RJ movement to win access to abortion and all other reproductive rights. It is committed to centering the voices, needs, and leadership of the most marginalized. “We’re a national organization but we’re intentionally and strategically placed in the South,” says Monica Simpson, Executive Director of SisterSong. “We’re really rooting ourselves in the definition that RJ is about centering the most marginalized. If you think about where our people are and where oppression has a deep historical context, it’s in the South. We want to build Southern synergy and make reproductive justice an active part of Southern movement building.” SisterSong hosts a popular national convening, the Let’s Talk about Sex Conference, which celebrates the voices of indigenous women, and women of color, and brings together new and experienced RJ activists. The conference spotlights the connection between sex, sexuality, and the reproductive health and rights of families and communities. It serves as a portal, connecting participants to the work and building a political home for newcomers. The last conference themed Resist. Reclaim. Redefine. (We must resist the systems of oppressions that plague our daily lives, reclaim our human right to bodily autonomy and redefine our futures), celebrating SisterSong’s twentieth anniversary, drew over 1100 participants. The next conference is intentionally taking place in Georgia— as the South struggles with a barrage of abortion restrictions and policies curtailing a Culture Change woman’s right to direct her own reproductive life. SisterSong is conscientious about intersectionality. The current political climate has shown activists that they must unite to fight the well-funded opposition intent on dismantling reproductive rights. Cross-movement building is integral to SisterSong’s role in the national RJ landscape. They offer RJ training to groups SisterSong focused on issues as diverse as faith, abortion rights, criminal justice, Black Lives 16 ANNUAL REPORT Matter, violence against women, and health—infusing a nuanced understanding of sexual oppression and freedom into their work. In September, together with cross-movement allies, SisterSong led the March for It’s becoming more evident Black Women in Washington D.C., convening 5000 people and joining another to the world that the voices 15,000 in the March for Racial Justice. Executive Director Monica Simpson, an and expertise of women activist, singer and spoken word artist, delivered inspiring speeches before both gatherings. of color, of people of color, and trans folk—all those A firm believer in art as “the greatest culture change tool of all” and artists as “architects and experts” of culture shift strategies, Simpson is enthusiastic who’ve been placed in the about SisterSong’s Artists United for Reproductive Justice program whose margins—are actually interactive theatrical productions at historically black college colleges and the voices that have the universities promises to seed RJ leadership pipelines. solutions, that have the SisterSong mobilizes a vast base of supporters in rapid response organizing to stories, that have what attract attention to critical issues of abortion, contraception access, and the is really needed to do criminalization of women for miscarriage, abortion, or protecting their families. When SisterSong recently opened its first office in North Carolina—the only RJ the work in this time. group in the state—it moved quickly and aggressively into a campaign to end People are waking up. the shackling of incarcerated pregnant women who are in labor. The campaign If we want to be in the was successful—prison officials agreed to update the state policy—and a sound testament to the impact of grassroots organizing. business of doing liberation work, we have to listen. Together with national I’m glad that the folks at SisterSong led collaborations—Trust Black Women, the Southern RJ Cohort, Black Mamas the Ms. Foundation are Matter, and RJ Leadership pushing that to the max. 5,000 Summit—SisterSong is altering the RJ landscape with increasing momentum. in the March for Black Women Monica Simpson Executive Director, SisterSong

ANNUAL REPORT 17 Economic Advancing Universal Access and Opportunities in Childcare Justice Centering Women’s Economic, Social and Political Power in the South The goal of the Economic Justice program focus area is to ensure that women have a dignified, productive, and economically viable life. Current funding priorities include increasing access to childcare, raising the quality of jobs for childcare workers, and building local and statewide infrastructure to increase the collective economic and political power of women of color in the U.S. South. Women comprise 60% of the low-wage job sectors and are disproportionately affected by the wage gap, occupational segregation, lack of paid sick and family leave policies which have an impact on the type and quality of childcare they can access. Toward that end, the Ms. Foundation has been supporting efforts in the field through our “Universalizing Child Care Access for All” portfolio by supporting child care advocacy and workers’ rights organizations that are building innovative campaigns to increase public investment in childcare and raising the quality of jobs in the child-care workforce. The U.S. South is an important region in our historical, economic, and political landscape. It has been the site of both regressive policies as well as a hotbed of power building and organizing. Women of color in the U.S. South, specifically black and rural women, have a critical role to play in ensuring equity and justice across the nation. They have created deep connections that enable organizing to happen through formal and informal networks at the local and state levels. The Ms. Foundation is supporting efforts to make visible and strengthen the infrastructure of women of color in the South by supporting statewide organizing and policy campaigns explicitly using a race and gender approach that centers women of color.

18 ANNUAL REPORT The following grantees have been members working as childcare providers, childcare providers have the opportunity funded for their work advancing and is currently developing a bilingual to inform and shape them; 3) Engaging economic justice for women. curriculum for nanny training. Finally, local communities to ensure that they are Adhikaar is also involved in advocacy and implementing policies that support family Adhikaar for Human policy efforts, joining ongoing campaigns childcare programs, increase access to Rights and Social Justice $50,000 to increase government investment in quality childcare that meets the needs Executive Director, Pabitra Benjamin, childcare, while advocating for more of today’s working families, and improve Woodside, NY linguistically and culturally appropriate job quality and earnings for providers, Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social outreach and services to increase access and create opportunities for providers to Justice is a women-led member to existing resources to its members and help craft and provide input into these organization working to promote the larger immigrant community. policies; and 4) Enhancing family childcare human rights and social justice through providers’ professional status, earnings and organizing, community education, All Our Kin $20,000 recognition by building their capacity as grassroots advocacy, and leadership Executive Director, Jessica Sager, business owners. development for Nepali-speaking women New Haven, CT and South Asian immigrants working in All Our Kin (AOK) trains and supports Atlanta Jobs the informal sector as childcare providers, child care providers at every stage of with Justice** $85,000 domestic workers, and as nail salons their development to help achieve their Executive Director, Shannan Reaze, technicians. With this grant, Adhikaar goal of building quality, sustainable Atlanta, GA seeks to continue its work under its Quality childcare businesses. Through its Atlanta Jobs with Justice is a coalition Childcare for Economic Security project, programs, childcare professionals succeed of labor, faith, community, student which aims to create a new paradigm in the as business owners, working parents organizations and workers organizing childcare system that supports low-income find stable, high-quality care for their to win economic justice in our workplaces working parents and childcare providers. children, and children gain an educational and communities. As a coalition of labor, To accomplish this, Adhikaar is continuing foundation that lays the groundwork for faith, community, and student groups to build on its efforts from previous years achievement in school and beyond. This organizing for economic justice, we are by documenting its members’ stories, year’s grant will support AOK’s efforts excited to launch a two-prong strategy developing its members’ leadership in 1) Preserving dollars for Care 4 Kids, engaging women in public housing and capacity through trainings, organizing, and the state childcare subsidy program for at the statewide level to increase the leadership development activities, and low-income families, in Connecticut’s base of women who are informed about advocating for both social and structural state budget for the 2018/2019 fiscal economic justice policies. Funding changes. Adhikaar is also working to year budgets; 2) Ensuring that family support from the Ms. Foundation will improve the quality of childcare jobs by childcare is fully included in new state help in developing leadership training, providing skill-building training to its childcare developments and that family including learning about and executing

ANNUAL REPORT 19 campaign development, as well as reproductive justice and is co-convened organizing for collective bargaining rights by Blueprint NC and Spirithouse. in key industries including food service, With the support of the Ms. Foundation, I stand on the retail, domestic and home care, and the BPNC will grow and strengthen the public sector. The campaign will focus on Roundtable in 2018 by extending their shoulders of black developing the leadership of constituents, City Delegates program and engaging 18-40 years old, who identify as African in broader community outreach. In women who’ve led American, women, immigrant, LGBTI, and collaboration with NC Black Women’s this movement formerly incarcerated workers. Roundtable, they will expand their communications training and create forever but never Blueprint NC $50,000 a survey that will gather data on their Executive Director, Erin Dale Byrd, economic experiences that will inform a shared this stage. Raleigh, North Carolina narrative, a policy agenda, and campaign Blueprint NC (BPNC) is a partnership of development. NC Blueprint also organized state-level public policy, advocacy, and a Legislative Day in June 2018 where grassroots organizing groups dedicated members received training in connecting SHANNAN REAZE to achieving a better, fairer, healthier economic justice issues impacting their Executive Director, North Carolina through the development lives to policies. Atlanta Jobs with Justice of an integrated communications, civic engagement and policy strategy. BPNC California Child Care provides opportunities for training, Resource and Referral resource sharing, and convening for Network, Parent Voices $50,000 partner organizations that use civic Statewide Organizer, Mary Ignatius, engagement and education to advocate San Francisco, CA for a healthy democracy that works Parent Voices (PV) is a parent-led, to remove barriers and to provide the parent-run grassroots advocacy project resources communities need to achieve fighting to make quality childcare opportunity, security, and well-being. BPNC accessible and affordable for all families. works in direct partnership with the North Utilizing innovative community organizing, Carolina Black Women’s Roundtable, a advocacy, and leadership development network and safe space for black women strategies, PV offers low-income mothers to convene, identify, and address the an effective forum in which to develop unique barriers black women face in their own ideas and solutions to the regards to economic security, health and challenges they face in accessing quality, ** Asterisks denote 2-year grant

20 ANNUAL REPORT affordable childcare. This grant will and expand labor protections for migrant the state and city offices to address the continue to support the implementation childcare workers, particularly those implementation challenges that centers of PV’s campaign to increase access to working under J-1 visas. CDM’s efforts are facing. To this end, Childspace will affordable childcare by acquiring new to prevent the abuse and exploitation of develop a snapshot of where Pennsylvania funding for families that are on waiting migrant childcare workers will encompass stands in relation to the important goals lists, updating income eligibility guidelines, two primary strategies: 1) Conducting of encouraging and supporting quality and increasing the wages paid to childcare worker-driven policy advocacy in childcare, providing universal access to providers. This will also include budget coalition with allied organizations, and this care, addressing the links between and legislative advocacy activities such as 2) Documenting the grave abuses too quality care and higher quality jobs for organizing public actions, and positioning often encountered by childcare workers childcare workers and workers in other parent members to provide testimonies at and other migrant women working in the low-wage industries. budget hearings, and organizing another United States. Garment Worker Center** $85,000 “Stand for Children Day” rally at the CA State Capitol. Parent Voices will also Childspace Day Director, Marissa Nuncio, Los Angeles, CA continue to train low-income women to Care Centers, Inc. $40,000 The Garment Worker Center (GWC) is a engage decision makers by developing Chief Operating Officer, worker rights organization whose mission their role as leaders and organizers in Susan A. Kavchok, Philadelphia, PA is to organize low-wage garment workers campaigns and policy building. Childspace Day Care Center’s mission is to in Los Angeles in the fight for social improve the quality of jobs for traditionally and economic justice. GWC addresses Centro de los Derechos low-paid childcare workers, increase the systemic problems of wage theft, del Migrante, Inc. $45,000 resources, and improve the quality of unhealthy and unsafe working conditions, Executive Director, Rachel Micah-Jones, care. This grant will support Childspace and the abusive and inhumane treatment Baltimore, MD/Mexico City, Mexico to further develop their worker-owned faced by workers on the job. With this Centro de los Derechos del Migrante childcare cooperative. Childspace will also grant, the Garment Worker Center will (Center for Migrant Rights) is the first continue to train childcare providers to further their work in the child care sector transnational workers’ rights law center advocate for policies that support by 1) Partnering with Para Los Niño’s, a based in Mexico that focuses on U.S. high-quality childcare programs through child care center, in increasing access for workplace rights. Operating on the ground, their Provider Committee comprised garment worker children in downtown LA CDM is an innovative U.S. non-profit of women of color childcare providers 2) Continuing to access member needs organization dedicated to improving throughout Philadelphia. The grant will with respect to informal care; 3) Hosting a working conditions of internationally also support the launch of a new advocacy resource fair to assist with subsidized care, recruited childcare workers and migrant campaign that will work on two afterschool programs, and informal care workers in the United States. With this fronts—supporting the expansion of providers; 4) Engaging in local advocacy, year’s grant, CDM seeks to strengthen childcare access while working with including as a member of the Los Angeles

ANNUAL REPORT 21 Coalition Against Wage Theft, for paid sick Mississippi Low Income Mississippi Women’s leave at the city level, and 5) Exploring Child Care Initiative $45,000 Economic Security innovative models for corporate support Executive Director, Carol Burnett, Biloxi, MS Initiative $40,000 for employees’ childcare needs. Mississippi Low Income Child Care Executive Director, Cassandra Welchin, Biloxi, MS Miami Workers Center $50,000 Initiative (MLICCI) is a statewide, grassroots organization of childcare MS Women’s Economic Security Initiative Executive Director, Marcia Olivo, Miami, FL providers, parents, and community leaders. prioritizes economic security with an Miami Workers Center (MWC) is MLICCI’s mission is to enhance the quality explicit racial and gender platform, Miami’s leading social change nonprofit of care for all low-income children in engaging women, particularly women of organization that fights for social, racial, Mississippi and advocate for improved color, with deep connections to grassroots economic and gender justice in Miami, childcare policies and greater public organizing in urban and rural MS to create Florida. MWC works to unite and grow investment in childcare subsidies for a leadership infrastructure. MWESI’s the power of low-income Latinos and low-income families. This grant will primary goals include: building power African-Americans from some of the most continue to support MLICCI’s mission to and achieving progress toward an vulnerable neighborhoods of Miami. MWC promote universal access to childcare ambitious policy agenda on women’s advocates for good paying jobs, affordable in Mississippi by 1) Campaigning for economic security in a hostile political housing, immigrant rights, the protection new CCDF policies that prevent further environment; strengthening, expanding, of domestic workers, and victims of shrinkage of subsidies for childcare and engaging MWESI’s statewide network domestic violence and sexual abuse. services for eligible children; 2) Reforming and leadership team, and deepening civic engagement of women of color across With this grant, MWC will further their childcare subsidy policy to improve Mississippi. MWESI builds cross-sector work with the Femme Agenda including parental access and retention by alliances with MS women and women’s community mobilization, rapid response opposing, among other items, the child organizations to promote policies that support, and policy strategies to address support requirement for single parents; reduce gender inequities and support the needs of immigrant women including 3) Strengthening the financial viability of economic security for low-income securing temporary housing spaces childcare providers participating in the women of color and their families. for women and children; addressing childcare subsidy program by launching a trafficking, and supporting victims of labor small pilot program of the Child Care and trafficking and other workplace abuses, Adult Food MLICCI sponsorship program, and strengthening support for domestic titled Healthy Center Healthy Kids, and 4) violence survivors, including advocating for Promoting racial equity in the childcare expanded local certification of U visas and subsidy program by leveraging and other immigration protections. advocating for policy recommendations in the US Commission of Civil Rights report.

22 ANNUAL REPORT Mujeres Unidas y Southern Rural Black The Olé Education Fund $25,000 Activas $50,000 Women’s Initiative $35,000 Executive Director, Matthew Henderson, Executive Director, Juana Flores, Director, Oleta Fitzgerald, Jackson, MS Albuquerque, NM San Francisco, CA The Southern Rural Black Women’s The OLÉ Education Fund (OLÉ) is a Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) is Initiative for Economic and Social Justice grassroots community organization a grassroots organization of Latina (SRBWI) works across the Black Belt in comprised of working families in New immigrant women with a double mission Alabama, Georgia and the Mississippi Mexico. Through issue-based campaigns of promoting personal transformation Delta to look at the quality of life and and electoral engagement, OLÉ works to and building community power for human rights of rural black women. ensure that working families are playing social and economic justice. In 2013, after Over the past 15 years, SRBWI has a critical role in shaping policies and New a seven-year statewide campaign, MUA’s organized over 2,500 women and young Mexico’s future through advocacy and domestic worker leaders won the historic women across the three states to economic reform. In the coming year, California Domestic Workers Bill of Rights engage members in their core program OLÉ will engage childcare providers in which grants basic labor protections to areas which include: Human Capacity more direct action to embolden them domestic workers and provides better Building, Advocacy and Public Policy to confront policymakers about their opportunities to economic security. Assets Development and Young Women’s decisions to underfund providers by This year’s grant will support 1) expanding Leadership Development. With this using direct action that earns a higher our targets beyond labor protections to grant, the SRBWI will build out their media profile, develops more powerful include other concerns for immigrant infrastructure and engage communities leaders, and creates collective pressure women workers, including access to by hosting trainings to teach new skills among policymakers to commit new health care and 2) preparing childcare in community-based advocacy and resources to early education. workers to lead enforcement, base movement building across four Alabama building, and policy campaigns by Black Belt counties through town hall deepening political analysis, improving meetings and forums to build a cohesive member skillsECONOMIC and amplifying messaging. agenda on women’s economic security. JUSTICEANNUAL REPORT 23 There is an extraordinary crisis afflicting the United States—a lack of affordable childcare. Equally urgent is the need to increase the wages of caregivers and early educators whom families depend on to responsibly care for children while they go to work. Parent Voices, a California-based nonprofit organization with fifteen chapters across the state, is addressing these crises with bold, innovative strategies. A parent-led, parent-run grassroots organization, with a membership of predominantly low-income mothers, Parent Voices is fighting to make quality childcare accessible and affordable for all families. Ever since it’s founding in 1996, the nonprofit has engaged thousands of parents in advocacy aimed at the local, state, and federal levels. Their determined efforts have led to significant wins, saving millions of dollars of childcare subsidies from budgetary cuts, and expanding access to childcare vouchers, preschool slots, and reimbursement rates for childcare providers. “We are centering the lived experiences of predominantly single mothers from immigrant communities and communities of color. They are the experts and they are driving the solutions. When our members identify solutions to the challenges they face, they find the freedom and liberation to pursue their dreams for themselves and their children,” says Mary Ignatious, Statewide Organizer. Advocacy and A significant achievement for Parent Voices has been ‘defrosting’ the state median Legislative Wins income (SMI) guidelines for childcare eligibility that were frozen for ten years. After California incrementally raised its minimum wage, thousands became ineligible for the affordable childcare that they depend upon to go to work. One mother had to turn down a $.50 raise as it would render her ineligible for childcare benefits. Parent Voices led a budget and legislative campaign with a diverse coalition to win $25 million in the budget to update the outdated childcare eligibility guidelines (SMI) and allow families to stay on the program until they reach eight-five percent Parent of the SMI. Families can now keep their subsidies for a minimum of twelve months, an extension of time that also allows children to benefit from the Voices continuity of care.

24 ANNUAL REPORT This change to the nation’s largest childcare subsidy system renders it more family friendly and reduces the criminalization of low-income mothers of color We’re called Parent Voices who were forced to re-apply for services every four months. Childcare services are now stabilized for vulnerable communities, including migrant and seasonal because that’s the core of workers, immigrants, and families who are incapacitated. Most significantly, who we are. Our work is the changes end the unjust practice of low-income parents turning down about fundamentally raises, promotions, and more hours so as not to lose crucial access to affordable childcare. recognizing the expertise of those directly impacted To address the continuing two-fold crisis of mothers not being able to afford childcare, along with the need to increase the current poverty-level wages of by our under-funded early educators who are also women of color, Parent Voices has been advocating child-care safety-net for a dedicated funding source. Incorporating an electoral organizing strategy at system. It’s their voices, the local level has helped them to win important childcare changes. In 2018, the their solutions, that we nonprofit led two local ballot initiatives towards the goal of investments in the early childcare system. should actually be listening to if we want The San Francisco measure—Proposition C, or the Universal Childcare for All Act— earned the simple majority needed to pass. It is the first initiative in the long-term systems change nation that has a progressive tax on millionaire commercial property landlords, and if we want outcomes and raises over $100 million to provide free and low-cost childcare to 5000 low that will actually benefit and middle-income families and increases the wages of the workforce. children and families. Parent Voices weaves voices locally and statewide to change the narrative Parents Voices on childcare and to advance a quality has preserved childcare system that is equitable, Mary Ignatious affordable, and accessible for families Statewide Organizer, and early educators. Through the general Parent Voices operating support of the Ms. Foundation, $1 Billion+ Parent Voices has the flexibility and in childcare funds for capacity to focus on the issues pertinent to its community as it continues to push low-income families forward progressive social change. ANNUAL REPORT 25 $145K Top Line Towards Capacity Building Grants Snapshots $120K Towards the Donor-Advised Oma Fund

Our philosophy at the Ms. Foundation is about trusting women’s leadership. $89K We support the areas of women’s Towards the Asian Women Giving Circle safety, health and economic justice, understanding that all these areas are connected. We center gender, race, and equity in our work. As a philanthropy, we give general operating Program Services Funding support to our partners—allowing them to determine whether those dollars should go toward a project, a salary, or Public toward turning on the lights. We don’t Education 4% fund for one or two years—our grantees Grants + Capacity 79% are in relationship with us for five to 17% Building Advocacy seven years, sometimes even longer. + Policy Change takes time. We are committed for the long term.

26 ANNUAL REPORT Total $655K Program Direct Funding Grants to 2018 the Field $4,586,341 $4,787,006

Ms. Foundation’s Funding increased 2018 Program Towards Reproductive 2017 by nearly $200K Funding at a glance. Rights, Health + Justice from 2017.

$320K $670K I feel proud and confident that under Teresa’s leadership we will steer a path that will honor our legacy while remaining relevant in the future.

GAIL WASSERMAN Towards Safety, Through a Towards Economic, Social + Board Member Black, Queer, Feminist Lens Political Power in the South

ANNUAL REPORT 27 Amplified President’s Gloria Steinem Fund Discretionary Fund The Gloria Steinem Fund is a designated fund that disburses Action Grants in this docket are grants based on recommendations made at the discretion of the made by Gloria Steinem. Ms. Foundation President. Family Connections $5,000 Feminist.com $7,500 Executive Director, Kim Cross, Nyack, NY Executive Director, Marianne Schnall, Woodstock, NY To support families living in Rockland County who are separated due to To help support grassroots incarceration. communications and the movement towards partnership with Feminist Majority Feminist.com Foundation $30,000 National Women’s Executive Director, Katherine Spillar, Studies Association $5,000 Beverly Hills, CA To support the Global Reporting in Executive Director, Dr. Allison Kimmich, Baltimore, MD Ms. Magazine, which aims to inspire and empower feminists to take action To provide activist travel support to achieve equality and global justice. to the conference “40 YEARS AFTER COMBAHEE.”

Third Wave Fund $10,000 Executive Director, Rye Young, Brooklyn, NY To support their executive transition process.

28 ANNUAL REPORT We as a country actually need to come to terms with toxic masculinity, patriarchy, with having a true conversation around power. This is about positional power, this is about poor treatment, this is about those who are complacent and support this poor behavior… This is about the heart and soul of America.

Teresa C. Younger

President and CEO, Ms. Foundation for Women, Speaking on #MeToo and Breaking the Silence on MSNBC

ANNUAL REPORT 29 Redefining Safety through a Black, Queer, Feminist Lens

Safety The goal of the Safety program focus area is to safeguard and promote the well-being of women and girls. Our current program initiative focuses on supporting black women-led-and-centered groups to dismantle systems that negatively impact women and girls. Priority issues addressed by this cohort include criminalization, sexual assault and violence, and state-sanctioned violence impacting the lives of black women and girls. The organizations that comprise the Safety cohort have a track record of connecting these issues–criminalization, sexual assault and violence, and state-sanctioned violence—to larger movements for justice. The Ms. Foundation for Women strategically partners with groups that have a race and gender justice analysis that is grounded in the lived experience of Black women and girls. These groups also have a nuanced understanding of how Black women and girls need to be supported to live their most healthy and safe lives. The cohort has been at the forefront of a broader community of movement leaders that draw on a holistic and integrated approach to dismantle systems that harm cis- and trans- black women and girls, as well as gender non-conforming persons, and to build their power to make meaningful choices about their own bodies and lives. The Ms. Foundation for Women is proud to be one of the first foundations to support a cohort of black women led-and-centered organizations working to safeguard the well-being and human rights of black women and girls. We provide general operating funds, capacity building, and other supports to strengthen these organizations to, in turn, build power in their communities and sustain and grow a vibrant, broad-based movement.

30 ANNUAL REPORT The following grantees have been years of significant disinvestment in Black opportunities for Black Girls to become funded for their work advancing communities, grassroots organizations, leaders for justice and thrive while women’s safety. and leadership by all sectors of American reducing the conditions leading Black Girls society, BYP100 has been able to sustain to being harmed, arrested, confined and Black Women’s Blueprint $45,000 its work mainly from volunteer power, jailed. Their programs include a weekend Executive Director, Farah Tanis, Brooklyn, NY determination and commitment. BYP 100 program grounded in self-care and is dedicated to ending the criminalization youth-centered practice; a five-phase Black Women’s Blueprint (BWB) is a of Black youth, dismantling the prison leadership development program for Black civil and human rights organization industrial complex, and expanding and Girls ages 10 – 21 years old, and a cultural committed to amplifying the voices of securing LGBT and women’s rights. exchange and global learning program. women, girls, and gender-fluid people BYP 100 aims to achieve these goals of African descent in all their diversity. through building a collective focused on Girls for Gender Equity $35,000 Their mission is to secure social, political, transformative leadership development, Executive Director, Joanne N. Smith, and economic equality and to demand a direct action, organizing, advocacy, Brooklyn, NY culture where women of African descent education, and healing justice using a Girls for Gender Equity (GGE) is a leading are fully empowered and where disparities Black queer feminist lens. intergenerational grassroots advocacy predicated on gender, race, sexual and service delivery organization working orientation, gender identity, incarceration Every Black Girl** $70,000 to center the voices and experiences of status, and other disparities are erased. Executive Director, Vivian Anderson, young women of color within the racial BWB is the primary organization in the Columbia, SC and gender justice movement of the country working to document, expose, and EveryBlackGirl’s mission and vision is 21st Century. GGE works to combat the address sexual violence as a human rights to create a world where every black girl widespread gender-based violence and atrocity against women and girls of African can thrive. The organization was birthed criminalization against people of color descent, including through grassroots out of the #EveryBlackGirl campaign in by uplifting their civil and human rights. activism, direct service healing practice, response to the Columbia, South Carolina, GGE’s programs supports transformational and participatory action research. Spring Valley High School assault on a movement building with cis, trans, and BYP 100 Education Fund $35,000 Black student who was slammed out of her gender nonconforming young people desk and thrown across a classroom by a of color by working to develop their Co-Directors, Janae Bonsu and D’atra Jackson, Chicago, IL School Resource Officer.EveryBlackGirl ’s often-untapped leadership and advocacy early focus was on getting all charges potential. Through education, organizing, BYP100 is an activist member-based against the students who were victimized and physical fitness,GGE encourages organization of Black youth 18 to 35 year dropped, and ending the criminalization communities to remove barriers and olds, dedicated to creating justice and of Black women, girls, and their families. create opportunities for girls and women freedom for all Black people. Despite Their focus has since expanded to create to live self-determined lives. GGE’s work

ANNUAL REPORT 31 serves as a national model for engaging Trans Sistas of one of the longest serving groups working young women in policy and advocacy Color Project** $60,000 with women and girls on criminalization. work in meaningful ways. Executive Director, Lilianna Angel Reyes, It uses relentless advocacy, health Detroit, MI education, supportive services, and National Black Women’s community-based participatory research in Justice Institute $30,000 Trans Sistas of Color Project (TSOCP) uplifts, impacts, and influences the lives order to improve the lives of marginalized Co-Founder/President & CEO, Monique W. and welfare of transgender women of women, their families and communities Morris, ED.D. Berkeley, CA color in Detroit. Through trans-centric by addressing the social conditions that The National Black Women’s Justice programming, projects, services, hinder their health and well-being. WWAV Institute (NBWJI) is an organization partnerships, and events, TSOCP is New Orleans’ premier women’s health focused on the reduction of racial and works to remove the systemic barriers and wellness policy organization working gender disparities in the justice systems that prevent transwomen of color from with marginalized women throughout affecting cisgender and transgender living full lives. TSOCP operates as a rapid Louisiana and the Southern U.S. region to Black women, girls, and their families. response organization responding to create an environment in which there is NBWJI conducts research, provides the immediate needs of transwomen no war against women’s bodies, in which technical assistance, engages in public of color and working to promote their women have spaces to come together and education, promotes civic engagement, safety and security. TSOCP is intentional share their stories, in which women are and advocates for informed and effective in its representation and uplifting of empowered to make decisions concerning policies. NBWJI works independently the culture, legacy, spirit, and energy of their own bodies and lives, and in which and in collaboration with a number of transwomen of color and in its celebration women have the necessary support domestic universities, organizations, of black Trans joy. TSOCP’s programs are to realize their hopes, dreams, and full and consultants to conduct its work on available, open, accessible and inclusive potential. With the support of the behalf of Black women and girls in the of all transwomen of color, and are Ms. Foundation for Women, WWAV U.S. who are impacted by criminalization designed to lead to the well-being and launched and supports its Young Women and the criminal justice system, directly socio-economic, educational, and with a Vision afterschool program to and indirectly, because of their race and employment advancement of promote leadership development and gender. NBWJI also works in collaboration transwomen of color. sisterhood among teenage Black girls with organizations that elevate equity through workshops, mentorship, peer discourses among all women and girls. Women With A Vision $45,000 education, arts advocacy, and a unique Executive Director, Deon Haywood, curriculum integrating a human rights, New Orleans, LA Black feminist, Reproductive Justice, WOMEN’SWomen With A Vision (WWAV) is a and social justice praxis. community-based grassroots organization created by and for women of color, and is ** Asterisks denote 2-year grant SAFETY32 ANNUAL REPORT Black girls are fighting to be included in the landscape of promise that safe learning spaces provide. Alarming data from the U.S. Department of Education shows that Black girls are overrepresented along the discipline continuum in public schools. The National Black Women’s Justice Institute (NBWJI) is committed to countering the criminalization of Black girls in schools and to facilitating their learning, healing and development. A California-based nonprofit organization focused on reducing racial and gender disparities affecting cisgender and transgender Black women, girls, and their families across the justice continuum, NBWJI understands that education is a critical protective factor against contact with the criminal legal system. With President and Co-Founder Monique W. Morris at the helm, NBWJI is a lead partner for EMERGE (Educating, Mentoring, Empowering, and Reaffirming our girls for excellence) in the San Francisco Bay Area. The program provides educational services for girls who have been unsuccessful in Shifting the traditional or alternative learning environments and who have been entangled Narrative with the juvenile court and legal systems. “Really, it’s about understanding how schools can be responsive to trauma and engage in a gender-responsive way that is also culturally responsive. So that we’re no longer looking at schools for punishment but how they National can be locations for healing, particularly for girls of color,” says Morris. Toward this end, the NBWJI conducts training and technical assistance with school districts and stakeholders along the juvenile legal continuum Black to interrupt the school to confinement pathway for girls across the country. NBWJI is shifting the narrative about Black girls who are routinely perceived Women’s to be “too loud, too aggressive, too angry” so that people not only understand what’s happening to Black girls but also learn how to respond. During the course of their research for a forthcoming report, Expanding Our Justice Frame: Deepening Our Demands for Safety and Healing for Black Survivors of Sexual Violence, NBWJI uncovered statistics on the pervasiveness of trauma Institute experienced by Black girls, women and transgender people of color. ANNUAL REPORT 33 NBWJI discovered, too, a resistance in mainstream culture to acknowledge that sexual violence is systematically perpetrated by the people and institutions that are supposed to be sources of safety and The movement to uplift the solutions to violence. voices of those who’ve been In 2017, in partnership with the Ms. Foundation for Women, NBWJI published impacted has long been a a policy brief, Centering Black Women, Girls, Gender Nonconforming People and Fem(me)s in Campaigns for Expanded Sanctuary and Freedom Cities. theme in my life and in my When anti-immigrant rhetoric and federal enforcement of mass deportations body of work. I like to think and incarceration ripped through the nation, resistance movements of the various ways in which blossomed in response, calling for the creation of sanctuary cities, spaces we can come together and institutions offering protection to immigrants. They demanded an ended to practices of surveillance, punishment, and exclusion that target Black and and not participate in Brown communities, both immigrant and US born. the structures, forces Invisible in conversations about profiling, criminalization, and incarceration and narratives that strive are Black women, girls and transgender people who face both state and to pit us against each intra-community violence. In this policy brief, NBWJI expands the call to say other, but really think Black women, girls and gender nonconforming people need sanctuary too, highlighting the urgent need to center them in vision, advocacy and organizing about centering the most in the dream for Expanded Sanctuary and Freedom Cities. The report outlines affected populations at a series of concrete steps that policymakers, institutions, and communities the intersection of their can take to protect Black women, girls, and gender nonconforming people. identities in the creation Founded in 2014, NBWJI has multi-year projects underway that address of solutions. the diverse forms and impacts of state and interpersonal violence and criminalization on Black women, femmes, and girls. It is focused on creating pathways to safety outside the criminal legal system which is punitive and biased. The NBWJI—also working to improve employment outcomes for Monique W. Morris formerly incarcerated women and reduce gender based violence in African President + Co-Founder, American communities—actively conducts research, engages in public National Black Women’s education, promotes civic engagement and advocates for informed and Justice Institute effective policies across the United States.

34 ANNUAL REPORT Colorado Organization deportation on AAPI women and families for Latina Opportunity who often get lost in the broader immigrant and Reproductive Rights $10,000 justice conversation. Capacity Executive Director, Dusti Gurule, Denver, CO Power U Center Colorado Organization for Latina for Social Change $10,000 Building Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR) is a statewide organization Executive Director, James Lopez, Miami, FL dedicated to promoting and protecting Power U Center for Social Change reproductive health for Latinas and their uses an intersectional and reproductive families through leadership development, lens to address issues of birth justice, organizing, and policy advocacy. COLOR abortion access, criminalization of actively leads and partners with social Black and Latinx girls and youth in the justice coalitions, community partners, school-to-prison pipeline, and school and local and state legislators to build pushout in Miami-Dade schools. a stronger reproductive justice voice in This grant provides leadership transition Colorado. This grant provides leadership and development support. transition support. Raising Women’s Voices $30,000 National Asian Pacific Executive Director, Lois Uttley, New York, NY American Women’s Forum $10,000 Raising Women’s Voices is making Executive Director, Sung Yeon Choimorrow, sure women’s voices and concerns are Chicago, IL addressed as part of the ACA’s policies. National Asian Pacific American Women’s This grant supports their work to ensure Forum (NAPAWF) is a national policy and that their core constituencies of diverse advocacy organization working to expand women, both nationally and in New York, access to reproductive health for Asian are kept informed about proposals for American and Pacific Islander women and ACA repeal, Medicaid cuts, abortion girls. It focuses on increasing access to coverage restrictions, and other regressive reproductive health services among AAPI federal health policy proposals, as well immigrant communities and blocking as ensure that NY women are able to abortion restrictions framed as race and enroll in coverage and use it to get the sex-based selection measures. This grant reproductive health care they need supports the launch of NAPAWF’s report without unexpected costs. on the impact of family separation and

ANNUAL REPORT 35 Reproaction $20,000 campuses and provides tools to organize, network, and exchange ideas focused on a Co-Founders and Co-Directors, Pamela Merrit and Erin Matson, St. Louis, MO youth-centered, pro-choice reproductive justice agenda. This grant supports this Reproaction strives to increase access to organization’s leadership transition and abortion and advance reproductive justice executive search. at the national and state levels (Missouri and Virginia) using rapid response Parsons The New School communication and online mobilization, for Design*** $30,000 activist education and training, and PETLab Associate Professors and Project opposition research. This grant supports Leads, Colleen Macklin and John Sharp the growth of the organization’s core The Design for Advocacy Fellowship with infrastructure, particularly in the areas Parsons is a program that pairs Parsons of development, communications and School of Design graduate students with administrative support. grantee partners to work together on a SisterReach $5,000 specific communications and advocacy project. The goal of the initiative is to CEO, Cherisse Scott Memphis, TN bring innovative solutions to the women’s SisterReach is dedicated to the movement and to build organizations’ reproductive autonomy of women and capacity and skills for more creative and girls of color, poor women, rural women, powerful advocacy and communications. and their families in the state of Tennessee. SisterSong worked with a Parson’s fellow This grant supports executive coaching to tell the story of the creation and launch and leadership development for CEO of the TrustBlackWomen coalition and Cherisse Scott. campaign, as well as redesign its website, URGE: United logo and branding. National Asian Pacific for Reproductive American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) and Gender Equity $10,000 worked with a Parson’s fellow to design a report that uplifts the stories of women Interim Director, Susannah Baruch, and families affected by immigration Washington, DC policy, in partnership with Southeast Asian URGE (United for Reproductive and Gender Resource Action Center (SEARAC). Equity) is a national organizationCAPACITY that *** Asterisks denote partial funding through trains emerging young leaders on college Ms. Foundation’s Strategic Communications Capacity Building budget 36 ANNUAL REPORT BUILDING Mujeres Unidas y Activas $20,000 with organizational values and needs. The grant will also cover investment in Executive Director, Juana Flores, San Francisco, CA staff and Board development to bring We believe that Mujeres Unidas y Activas is a 27+ year old MUA’s program vision to its full potential organization with a strong membership by ensuring that existing and new leaders centering women of over 500 immigrant women in the Bay have the support and training they need Area, serving over 2000 clients per year to take on new work and roles. Finally, the of color is the most via our transformative social services, grant will strengthen MUA’s infrastructure strategic investment with significant policy and organizing and leadership to ensure long-term accomplishments. Over the past decade, success as it moves into its third decade in in the equitable MUA focused on raising the visibility building the power of women of color and and demanding the rights and dignity of low-income women in the care sector. future we are domestic workers on the state, national, and international levels. Their membership working to create outreach has grown geographically and for all genders, all their staffing has increased. In 2018, long time co-director Andrea Lee announced races, all people. that she would be transitioning out of her role and that Juana Flores would take on the position full-time. The Special Opportunity Grant supported Executive RUTH ANN HARNISCH Transition planning for MUA, including re-thinking the organization’s leadership Major donor, funder of projects structures with a focus on designing and supporting girls of color implementing a structure that is aligned

ANNUAL REPORT 37 Donor-Advised Funds

Asian Women Giving Circle The Asian Women Giving Circle is a donor advised fund of the Ms. Foundation that pools resources from Asian American women and other supporters toward Asian women-led social change projects. The current focus is Arts & Activism.

Adhikaar for Human Alison Roh Park $15,000 Nina Sharma $3,000 Rights and Social Justice $15,000 Artist, Alison Roh Park, New York, NY Writer, Nina Sharma, New York, NY Executive Director, Pabitra Benjamin, To support “AsIAm APIA Graffiti To support the workshop “No-Name Woodside, NY and Street Art Project.” Mind: Stories of Mental Health from To support the project Asian America.” More Than A Manicure. Cecilia Mejia $10,350 Ruby Veridiano $13,500 Alina Shen $5,900 Artist, Cecilia Mejia, Brooklyn, NY To support “Yellow Rose Behind Writer, Ruby Veridiano, Gonesse, France Artist, Alina Shen, New York, NY the Scenes Project.” To support the workshop To support the project “Wear Your Values.” Chinatown: Our Narrative Tours. Jennifer Cho Suhr $15,000 Artist, Jennifer Cho Suhr, Brooklyn, NY Sahra Nguyen $11,250 To support the short film Artist, Sahra Nguyen, Brooklyn, NY What Is Your Purpose? To support the project The Bronx Refuge.

38 ANNUAL REPORT Oma Fund Ibis Reproductive Health $10,000 Nursing Students President, Kelly Blanchard, Cambridge, MA for Choice $20,000 The Oma Fund is a donor-advised To support the Later Abortion Network Executive Director, Dr. Cindy Myers, St. Paul, MN fund of the Ms. Foundation for Women. (LAN), which aims to bring together Established in 2010 as a descendant organizations and individuals committed To provide general operating support that of the Dickler Family Foundation, to increasing access to high-quality later helps provide nursing students and alumni Oma means “grandmother,” honoring abortion care in the U.S. with sexual and reproductive healthcare the source of the funds and reflecting training and education opportunities. the intergenerational spirit that University of Oklahoma Center for Social Justice $10,000 Provide, Inc. $25,000 inspires our grantmaking. The Oma Fund supports organizations working Director, Women’s & Gender Studies, Executive Director, Melanie Zurek, Dr. Lupe Davidson, Norman, OK Cambridge, MA to tackle the most challenging issues To provide general operating support to in reproductive health through the To support Take Root: Empowering Red build a health and social infrastructure leadership of younger generations State Perspectives on Reproductive Justice Conference. that supports, enhances, and sustains of activists. A small subset of equitable access to safe abortion for discretionary grants that fall outside National Network women in the South and Midwest. the area of reproductive health are of Abortion Funds $30,000 Trustees of also included as part of this donor Executive Director, Yamani Hernandez, advised fund. Boston, MA Hampshire College $10,000 To provide general operating support President, Jonathan Lash, Amherst, MA that helps build power with members to To provide support for the project, remove financial and logistical barriers Justice Rising: Supporting New Leadership to abortion access by centering people for the Reproductive Health, Rights and who have abortions and organizing at Justice Movements. the intersection of racial, economic, and reproductive justice. ReproAction $15,000 President, Erin Matson, Arlington, VA To provide support for a new direct action group with a mission to increase access to abortion and advance reproductive justice.

ANNUAL REPORT 39 The following Q&A with Susan spotlights Susan and Dee’s passion Planned Giving Profile for the Ms. Foundation. What attracted you and Dee to the Ms. Foundation? Tell me about what was going on in your life, in the culture Susan generally, and what you wanted the world to be like. from California State University Los My history with the Ms. Foundation Angeles with a business degree in goes back to the Seventies. It was a Wolford accounting. Throughout her career, time of foment, to be sure. We were she worked with a variety of LA-based involved in the women’s movement, businesses, including Bestronics, an anti-war movement, gay rights and Dee electronics firm, where she served as CFO, and two law firms, Parker, Milliken movement and others. We both and Fulwider Patton. Susan, a Senior started as feminists. It’s who we are, Vice President at Morgan Stanley, and my relationship with the Ms. Komar Foundation actually started with a founded and directs the Wolford Group, a wealth management and advisory subscription to Ms. Magazine. Susan Wolford and Delores Komar are group at Morgan Stanley. By virtue of For many women, that was the members of Gloria’s Future Fund, the her contributions to her clients, firm, beginning and the best source of Ms. Foundation’s planned giving honor and community, Susan was honored information about feminist issues. group for those who have made gifts to in 2014 by Makers: Women Who Make From reading and talking, we the Foundation through bequests, life America as a trailblazer in the world progressed to activism in all sorts income gifts, insurance policies, and of business and finance. of movements. other estate planning vehicles. Together since 1981 and married since 2008, Susan As much as Susan loves her job, she My support for the Ms. Foundation and Dee met through political activism in and Dee take time for their passion: was triggered by one particular 1978 when they were both advocating for travel to the most interesting and incident. In 1978, there was an effort to LGBTQ rights and campaigning to defeat beautiful places on earth. They also pass an anti-LGBTQ law–Prop 6, which Prop 6, which would have prevented enjoy good times with their large circle of would have made it impossible to be gay and lesbian teachers from working long-time friends, cooking, theater, and LGBT and teach in California. Anita in California. Dee, now retired, graduated Dodger baseball, and their dog, Riley. Bryant and many other homophobic

40 ANNUAL REPORT community. But we always felt like predict their death. For some, there’s conservatives were supporting it. I was the Ms. Foundation was supportive. an emotional barrier to the reality at a fundraiser organized by a group of that we are all going to die. So we lesbians and gay men and in walked When Dee and I committed, even don’t talk about death, but we can Gloria Steinem. I met her, we talked, before same sex marriage became talk about the unexpected things that and she said the Ms. Foundation was legal, we had a very good attorney happen in life. I believe that we should supporting lesbian and gay rights. I who specialized in estate plans. We plan ahead so that those we love are became a supporter then and have had individual trusts. Over time, not further burdened by our failure stayed involved since. we have been able to focus on our to take care of details that can be legacy, specifically around issues that When and why did you and Dee handled in advance. Planning allows we feel are very important. The Ms. include the Ms. Foundation in us to continue showing that we care. Foundation, from our perspective, is your estate plan? Years ago, I had a married couple as an organization that we can count on. clients. He died unexpectedly, and Dee and I got together 38 years ago. It’s has been working for 45 years to she only knew about the money that Over time, our relationship progressed advance gender equity, and since it they invested together. For 50 years, from girlfriends to domestic partners doesn’t look like we’ll achieve that goal without telling her, he had invested in to now being married, which became soon, we want the Ms. Foundation US Treasury bonds and in that account possible in a brief window of time in to have the resources to continue was over $2.5 million. He planned to 2008 before Prop 8 and the popular fighting for equity, because it’s an issue take care of her. And then, as she was a vote that took the right away. I we care about immensely. mention that because we were part feminist, she made the Ms. Foundation As a financial planner and someone of small group that was able to marry one her beneficiaries. My client who has made a planned gift, what before 2016. For many years, we made hoped, as Dee and I also hope, that advice do you have about the individual gifts, but we also supported children will inherit a better society importance of estate planning? the Ms. Foundation because it took where there’s equity for all, especially the lead on issues that affected our Many years ago, I came to the in education and opportunity. We love LGBT community, like the first funding realization that age will not define my the Ms. Foundation’s vision, which is for programs serving women with HIV/ lifespan. I’d like to live a long life but about justice and safety and possibility. AIDS. The Ms. Foundation was always there’s no guarantee, and I want to Those are values that Dee and I supportive, constant, never shying be prepared. That’s what I talk to my absolutely believe in and want away from the tough issues, and clients about. I have some clients who to support. always inclusive. Women’s issues are reluctant to do estate planning got little attention, if any in the gay because they feel like planning will

ANNUAL REPORT 41 Our Time Together

2018 Events

Laughter is the Best We thank our supporters who Resistance: Ms. Foundation joined us for a night of fiercely fun feminism, and we’re extremely Comedy Night at Carolines grateful to Carolines owner and On Wednesday, November 29, 2017 longtime Ms. Foundation supporter more than 250 feminists ready for Caroline Hirsch for her generosity fun joined the Ms. Foundation’s and encouragement! 22nd Comedy Night at Carolines on More at: forwomen.org/comedy Broadway in New York City because they knew that “Laughter is the Best Resistance.” The evening started strong with award-winning writer and producer Judy Gold who set the tone for the night. Each comedian- Ashley Nicole Black, Jena Friedman, Jen Kirkman, Dulcé Sloan and Liza Treyger - keep the crowd laughing with fiercely funny and honestly insightful standup. We are truly grateful that each comedian donated her time and talent to make the night a spectacular success.

42 ANNUAL REPORT A National Presence Hosting Conversations: As a national foundation, the Ms. Foundation has the privilege to being part of conversations, shaping narrative and amplifying voices across the country. Here are just some of the places we were in 2018: Annual Ms. Foundation Men4Ms. on Martha’s Vineyard The movement towards gender On August 15, 2017 the equity will only happen if we are Ms. Foundation hosted its fourth all in it together. The commitment annual Ms. Foundation on Martha’s of the 30 men who came together summer event, bringing together our at the home of Jennifer Gilbert of leadership, staff, and supporters on Save the Date was palpable and the conversation was lively as hosts Martha’s Vineyard in celebration of Thank you so much for including us. the collective power of women. This Jerry Hathaway, James White and It was really a spectacular event and it year’s event was featured Emmy Award Dennis Williams lifted up the efforts was so great to meet so many powerful winning television journalist, Carol to create a safe, just and inclusive women in Boulder. I had a really amazing Jenkins in a dynamic conversation world for all of us. time, and I look forward to seeing you about race, gender and social justice more throughout the year! with our own President and CEO Meredith Maney, CU student Teresa Younger. Co-Chair Conference on World Affairs

ANNUAL REPORT 43 30TH Annual Gloria Awards

A Salute to Women of Vision

More than 450 feminists joined the DuVernay and three leaders from Award-winning comedian Judy Gold Ms. Foundation for our 30th annual grantee-partner organizations joined us, again this year, as the Gloria Awards: A Salute to Women who have impacted the women’s co-host of our fund in need at the of Vision, held on May 1, 2018 at movement in unparalleled ways. awards. For this year’s Gloria Awards Capitale in New York City. Hosted by Monica Simpson of SisterSong, After Party, vocalist and lyricist co-founding mother Gloria Steinem Shannan Reaze of Atlanta Jobs With Rimarkable provided music for an and President and CEO Teresa C. Justice, and Joanne Smith of Girls for evening of dancing, mingling, and Younger, the event celebrated leaders Gender Equity were recognized for celebrating, with Teen Vogue Executive who have made an indelible impact on their work in the fields of reproductive Editor Samhita Mukhopadhyay and the gender justice movement at the justice, economic justice, and women’s Them Executive Editor Meredith local, state, and national level. safety, respectively with Women Talusan hosting the celebration late of Vision Awards. Elaine Welteroth into the evening. Focusing on Our Voices, Our Time received the Marie C. Wilson Award the evening kicked off with the We are grateful to our supporters, honoring feminist leaders who create voices of the Resistance Revival who help us promote grassroots positive change, named after the Chorus. The evening followed with activists through funding, training, former CEO and President of the our recognition of women who have and advocacy. Foundation. The gala also recognized used their voice in this moment, the voices and activism of Marley Diaz including Women of Vision Gloria with the Peggy Charren/Free to Be More at: forwomen.org/gala Award honorees Director Ava You and Me Award.

44 ANNUAL REPORT Now more than ever we must work together to counter the dominant narrative of this country’s oppressive Gloria Awards Honorees Ms. Foundation Staff regime. We need all of us. Remain vigilant, remain resisting the status quo. Keep going towards liberation. There are girls waiting Shannan Reaze Attendees at the Gala for us… keep going. It’s our voices, it’s our time.

JOANNE SMITH Executive Director, Girls for Gender Justice Gloria Awards 2018 Ava DuVernay Marley Dias, Marlo Thomas, and Gloria Steinem ANNUAL REPORT 45 When women of color achieve equity and full participation politically, economically and socially, it stands to reason that the way the world works will be different – and better.

Ruth Ann Harnischa Major donor, funder of projects supporting girls of color

Susan Dickler and Teresa C. Younger

Marie C. Wilson

Teresa C. Younger, Joanne Smith, Monica Simpson, Shannan Reaze

Elaine Welteroth

Resistance Revival Chorus Ava DuVernay and Tarana Burke Ava DuVernay and Shannan Reaze 46 ANNUAL REPORT Miriam Yeung Attendees at the Gala

Teresa C. Younger and Gloria Steinem

Marley Dias Joanne Smith, Tereas Younger, and Gloria Steinem Monica Simpson ANNUAL REPORT 47 Gloria’s Future Fund

Anonymous (2) Jodell S. Gabriel Dorothy E. Lee Sharon Almany Tracy D. Gary Suzanne Lerner Kimberly A. Baer Sheila Gershen Monica Levin Laurie Benenson Debra Green Lucia Woods Lindley Cheryl Bianchi Alice Greenhouse Harriet Lipson Lisabeth G. Boyce Kathryn Gregorio Amy C. Liss Elizabeth Bremner & Karen Crow Susan A. Grode Heidi M. Lloyd Lindsay Bubar Katie Grover & Mike Campbell Lora Lonsberry Helen Bill Casey Leigh Hallingby Eleanor Y. Lord Susan Nora Clark Nancy L. Hamilton Ruthann Lorentzen Michelle M. Clarkin Mary C. Helf Margaret & William Lynch Sheila Collins Karen Hillenburg Schoene Mahmood Bernice Colman Adelade Hixon Patricia Y. Martin Jane S. Comer Sharon E. Howe Michele M. Mattei Regina Cowles Sherry Jubilo Catherine Meek Robbin Crabtree Jena Kanetake-Ingram Irene Mink Jamie L. Denenberg Julie F. Kay Ruthi Muffler Susan Dickler & the Oma Fund Carol F. King Monica L. Nelson Jodie Evans Denise Kleis Vanessa Osman Valerie I. Fennell Marjorie F. Knowles Catherine M. Park Marjorie Fine Ellen L. Konrad Katy Parks Wilson Rebecca Flint Alicia B. Lara Jennifer L. Pate Bridget S. Fonger Ava Lazar Anika Rahman Rhona Frank Diane Lebow Catherine Raphael

48 ANNUAL REPORT The Gloria’s Future Fund at the Ms. Foundation for Women is a committed group of women and men who believe in and support a nation of justice and equality for all. We thank our Gloria’s Future Fund members who through planned giving are investing in and protecting women’s rights today and in the future.

Bernardine Rice Melanie S. Tomanov Marion Holmes Diana I. Rigg Julie Tugend Margaret E. Jacobs Ene Riisna Guinevere Turner Dolly L. Maass Trudi S. Riley Susan M. Wolford Victoria J. Mastrobuono Francine V. Rivkin Cora R. Wortman Bambi McDonald Mary Rose Cynthia McLachlan Mary Sue Rose Gloria’s Future Fund: Estates Helen Mintz Lynne Rosenthal, Leo S. Guthman Fund Alice A. Atchison Elli Nilsen Mary Beth Salerno Beverly Balch Allinsmith Leslie Prince Elizabeth M. Schmitt Suzanne Barnett Sylvia Geraldine Radyx Lindsay J. Schutz Alfred J. Berger Ingrid Reti Ellen A. Schwartz Katherine Brownlie Constance M. Rogier Fran L. Seegull Edith Coulter Louise Rosenfield Noun Martine Shahar Shirley Cucchi Marion Sawyer June A. Siebert Christine J. Drennan Jean L. Sherman Claire A. Siesfeld Manfred W.Ehrich Barbara Sherman Jane A. Silverman Dr. Idella M. Evans Jane Sherwin Schwartz Audrey Simmon Elaine Fine Jessie Sinclair Smith Gloria Steinem Elthea A. Gill Freddy Sirott Engelman Lisa E. Stone Carolyn Gunn Strickler Vera Skubic Bonnie Stylides Dorothy Haegele Carolyn Sonfield Tanisha L. Tate Rosetta W. Harris Anne Thaler Kate Tickel Dorothy Jane Heagele Edith VanHorn Nancy L. Toder Linda J. Henry

ANNUAL REPORT 49 OUR SUPPORTERS: THANK YOU $100,000+

Anonymous (1) W. K. Kellogg Foundation The Surdna Foundation, Inc. Ford Foundation NoVo Foundation Lucia Woods Lindley Groundswell Catalyst Fund Starry Night Fund $50,000 - $99,999

Anonymous (3) The Harnisch Foundation Suzanne L. Lerner Dobkin Family Foundation Chandra Jessee, InMaat Foundation

$10,000 - $49,999

Anonymous (4) Comcast Corporation Tina Gandhi, Nature’s Edge Abbot Downing Criterion Institute General Service Foundation Nancy Alexander Theodore Cross Family Katie Grover & Mike Campbell The Isabel Allende Foundation Charitable Foundation Hanky Panky Michele Anthony Susan Dickler & the Oma Fund The Eric T. & Elizabeth C. Jacobsen Elizabeth Bremner & Karen Crow Abigail E. Disney Foundation California Wellness Foundation Phil Donahue & Marlo Thomas Seth A. & Beth S. Klarman Marguerite Casey Foundation Embrey Family Foundation Helen LaKelly Hunt & The Sister Fund

50 ANNUAL REPORT Yin Ling Leung & Shaibal Roy Planned Parenthood Federation of America Patricia J. Simpson Margaret & William Lynch & Action Fund The Estate Of Carolyn Sonfield Michelle Mercer & Bruce Golden Janet Prindle Seidler Foundation Marcy Syms, Sy Syms Foundation Nancy Meyer & Marc Weiss Prospect Hill Foundation Thanksgiving Fund of the American Mohegan Sun Catherine Raphael Endowment Foundation Morgan Stanley Betty Regard Gail Wasserman & Ilene Miklos The Namaste Foundation Seth M. Rosen & Jacob K. Goertz Catherine A. Yelverton & Laura T. Traphagen Sheila Nevins Jenna Skinner Scanlan & Wilson Scanlan The Jacquelyn & Gregory Zehner New York Life Insurance Company Jana Shea and Seaview Productions Foundation Margaret H. Newell Silver Mountain Foundation for the Arts Nancy S. Nordhoff & Lynn Hays

$5,000 - $9,999

Accenture Ann F. Kaplan & Robert A. Fippinger Catherine C. Samuels & Jeremy Henderson Freya & Richard Block Erika Karp, Cornerstone Capital Group Sheri Sandler & Mark Schneider Ashley & Elliot Blanchard Rachel Knight Steele Family Foundation Cordes Foundation Annette Krassner The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation Kelly Curtis Matthew LaFargue Margo & Irwin Winkler Jeannie H. Diefenderfer Stacy London Howard & Randee Fischer Patricia Y. Martin As an American Indian, I have been Vanita W. Gaonkar Jessica Neuwirth inspired by the strong female role models within our tribe who raised their voices Hill-Snowdon Foundation Carol T. Pencke at a critical time to ensure a better future Caroline P. Hirsch Brette Popper & Paul Spraos for next generations. Ms. Foundation for Maria & Greg Jobin-Leeds PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Women does just that. Gloria L. Joseph Elizabeth A. Sackler Lynn Malerba Board alumna; Chief of Mohegan Tribe

ANNUAL REPORT 51 $1000 - $4,999 Anonymous (8) Ingrid S. & Stephen F. Dyott Amy Lai Naomi Aberly, Lebowitz-Aberly Eastern Bank Alicia B. Lara & Anne Owen-Lara Family Foundation David Ehrich Elsa Limbach Naila Al-Thani Eve Ellis & Annette Niemtzow Kelsey Louie Vivian Anderson Antoinette Ercolano Ileana Makri Heather Arnet & David Shumway The Estate of Dr. Idella M. Evans Mivida Market Sonya Auvray The Anchor Point Gift Fund of Bradley A. Margaret M. Mcleod Mary I. Backlund & Virgina Corsi Feld and M. Amy Batchelor Gail Miller David E. Bakhash Barbara & Douglas Fitts Nickerson Catherine Mulligan Rosina Barba Ilene Flannery Wells NBC Universal Nancy Bernstein & Robert Schoen Kristin Frank & Kimberly Towner Barbara M. Nessim Karen Bishop Eleanor Friedman Open Society Foundations Stephanie K. Blackwood Tracy D. Gary Catherine Oppenheimer Julia Blaut & Ned Dewees Amy & Ted Gavin Lida Orzeck Barbara M. Blount Michele Gorcey & Kenneth Biblowitz Susan Penick Kim Bohen & Douglas James The Samuel & Grace Gorlitz Foundation Susan L. Perley Jenna L. & Jayne Bussman-Wise Patrice Green Leanne Pittsford Cabin Fund, Santa Fe Community Pam L. Grissom Letty Cottin Pogrebin & Bert Pogrebin Foundation Kate & Jerry Hathaway Lynn Povich William Caine Susan J. Hessel Stephen Powers Patricia T. Carbine Home Box Office Josh Pushkin Carl A. Carte Betsee Isenberg Laura Register Trio Foundation Carol A. Jenkins Lynda & Stewart Resnick Steven Cho Susan D. & Charles Knight John Riccardi & Jeff Shah Combined Federal Campaign Louis J. Kuriansky Foundation Laura Rose Tiffany Dufu

52 ANNUAL REPORT Cassie Rosenthal Rinku Sen Sandi Turner & Chris Wyrick Erin K. Rossitto & Chad P. Labonte Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. Martha L. Vaughan Nancy & Miles Rubin Janet Singer Patricia A. Vaughan Amy Rugel Diljeet Singh Sonali Virendra Judith A. Ruszkowski & Wanda G. & John L. Sobieski Thomas & Beryl Watson Kenneth C. Regal Kathleen Stephansen & Verna L. Williams & David Singleton Peter Sagerson Andrew D. Racine Marie C. Wilson & Nancy Lee Mary Beth Salerno & Denise Kleis The Estate Of Helen Jean Winkler Carolyn Gunn Strickler Patricia A. Samuel Eric Wittenberg Sara S. Stuart Susan Scarola & Thomas Hudson Helen M. & Oliver Wolcott Charlotte and John Suhler Elizabeth Schraft Susan M. Wolford & Carolyn Schuham Sharon E. Taylor Delores M. Komar Judy F. Zankel

Asian Women Giving Circle $1,000 - $1,999 $10,000 + Meeta Anand Anna & Dean Backer Starry Night Fund Lisa C. Chen $2,000 - $9,999 Angela Cheng Steven & Frazer Goldberg Hyatt Bass & Josh Klausner Julie Y. Kim Shinhee Han Melinda Chu Patricia J. Kozu Hali Lee & Peter Von Ziegesar Jennifer & Anthony Corriggio Young Lee & Erik Wildt Susie Lim & David Natter Aditi Davray Victoria T. Lee Lisa L. Philp Evanstar Films Elizabeth Von Ziegesar-Whip Raquel Sumulong Mertz Gilmore Foundation Joyce Lin-Yueh Yu & Edward Lai Mannar Wong Taryn Higashi

ANNUAL REPORT 53 Statement of Activities: For the years ended June 30, 2018 and June 30, 2017

PUBLIC SUPPORT AND REVENUE 2018 2017 Contributions (Including Grants) $7,352,033 $2,077,331 Special Events (Net Of Expenses) $590,889 $779,859 Net Investment Income $371,147 $334,475 Net Realized Gain On Investment Transactions $2,363,940 $750,037 Other Income $6,423 $28,453 Total Public Support And Revenue $10,684,432 $3,970,155

OPERATING EXPENSES 2018 2017 Program Services Grants and Capacity Building $3,791,431 $3,605,369 Advocacy and Policy $189,953 $281,611 Public Education $805,622 $699,361 Total Program Services $4,787,006 $4,586,341 Supporting Services General and Administration $1,144,903 $1,069,774 Fundraising $1,137,623 $1,127,058 Total Supporting Services $2,282,526 $2,196,832 Total Operating Expences $7,069,532 $6,783,173 Total Change In Net Assets (Including Unrealized Gain On Investments) $3,699,149 $557,012

COMPOSITION OF NET ASSETS 2018 2017 Unrestricted Net Assets $2,333,414 $2,273,984 Temporarily Restricted Net Assets $16,497,067 $12,849,497 Permanently Restricted Net Assets $24,729,295 $24,737,146 Total Net Assets $43,559,776 $39,860,627

54 ANNUAL REPORT Combined Statement of Activities: Fiscal years ending June 30, 2017 and June 30, 2018

Net Realized Gain 22% on Investments

Sources of Net Investment Income 5% /Other Income Revenue 9% Special Events

Public 16% 64% Education Contributions Including Grants Advocacy 5% and Policy Our Program Services

79%

Grants and Capacity Building

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