Ms. Foundation For Women Records 1973-2008

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Ms. Foundation For Women Records 1973-2008

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Feminist advocacy organization. Records pertain to all aspects of the Foundation's work since its inception and include records of the Board, correspondence, emails, minutes, agendas, reports, grant applications and proposals, programs, brochures, pamphlets, publications, membership and publicity materials, photographs, posters, audiovisuals, and memorabilia. Much of the collection consists of files documenting the Foundations' projects such as Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day; Free To Be...You and Me; Collaborative Fund for Women's Economic Development; Reproductive Rights Coalition and Organizing Fund; Women and AIDS Fund; and the Gloria Awards: A National Salute to Women of Vision. [NOTE: The contents list for this collection is not online. Contact the Sophia SmithCollection if you would like one sent to you.]

185 Boxes; (222.75 linear ft.)

eng,

Sophia Smith Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6323130

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Carbine, Pat

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Gould, Sara K.

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Thomas, Marlo

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Free To Be...You and Me

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Collaborative Fund for Women's Economic Development (U.S.)

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Take Our Daughters to Work Day (24 Apr.)

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Steinem, Gloria, 1934-

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Gloria Steinem, late 1960's Gloria Steinem was born on March 25, 1934 in Toledo, Ohio to Leo Steinem and Ruth Nuneviller Steinem, the second of their two children (Suzanne Steinem was born in 1925). She grew up in Toledo and Clark Lake, Michigan, where the family ran a summer resort. Leo and Ruth divorced in 1945, and, with Suzanne away at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Gloria assumed responsibility for the care of her mother, who was incre...

Wilson, Marie (Marie C.)

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Ms. Foundation for Women (U. S.)

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The Ms. Foundation for Women (MFW) was founded by Patricia T. Carbine, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Gloria Steinem, and Marlo Thomas to redistribute profits from Ms. Magazine to the grassroots women's movement. In 1974, the Ms. Foundation establishes its first grant-making program with the proceeds from Free to Be…You and Me, a multimedia project created by Marlo Thomas, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, and others, and in 1976 the organization became the first to support efforts to combat domestic ...