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- EIN 52-0962100
- (202) 872-1770
- 1436 Oglethorpe St Nw Washington DC 20011-8119 USA
- www.centerwomenpolicy.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Women, Womens Rights
Mission: The center for women policy studies, inc. Is an independent national multiethnic and multicultural feminist policy research and advocacy institution founded in 1972. The center's work focuses on cutting edge issues that have significant future implications for women. The center seeks to incorporate the perspectives of women, in all their diversity, in the formulation of public policy, thereby ensuring the just and equitable treatment of women in society. The center receives the majority of its support from the federal government and private foundations.
Programs: National resource center on women and aids policy, established in 1987, brings the self-defined needs of women living with hiv into the policy arena through a broad range of education, research, policy analysis, training, organizing, and empowerment activities for women living with hiv/aids, policy makers, and advocates.
reproductive rights and the law program promotes public policy options at the state and federal levels that preserve womens reproductive rights and health, especially low income women and women of color.