Where Women Run for Office

WomensRadio Editor in Chief, Pat Lynch, hosts Ilana Goldman, President of the Women's Campaign Forum, on “Speak Up!”

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Name of Organization: Women’s Campaign Forum

Website: http://wcfonline.org

Field/Industry: Non-profit

Date Founded: Unknown

Founder: Unknown

Location & Level: National

Contact Person: Lissy Moskowitz, Director, Communications: lissy@wcfonline.org; (202) 393-8164

Executive Director: Ilana Goldman, President

Message from the Executive Director

“Today care giving is much more than a personal family issue. It is the issue of our age because it will sooner or later affect every family in America, and we are not prepared either as individuals or as a society to deal with it.”

How many Members? Unknown

The Mission

The WCF Difference:
 
• WCF is nonpartisan
• WCF serves a broad audience of voters, activists, policy makers, donors and candidates
• WCF engineers new, cutting-edge, Web-based programs to tackle age-old challenges facing women candidates
• WCF offers venture support to women in the earliest days of their political campaigns and careers

While women have made significant strides in all walks of public life, they remain dramatically under-represented. Women constitute only 16 percent of the U.S. Congress and 25 percent of elected policy-makers nationwide.

This state of the union results in policies that lack women's unique voice and decisions that restrict our fundamental reproductive freedoms. WCF's unique, cutting-edge programs are designed to advance the political participation and leadership of pro-choice women of all parties by providing the necessary encouragement, education and resources.

Why was your organization launched?

To ensure that pro-choice women are empowered...and in power.

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