WOMEN'S WAY is the nation’s oldest and largest women’s funding federation. It was formed in 1977 by seven Philadelphia agencies serving the needs of women and their families. WOMEN'S WAY provides unrestricted, general operating funds to a network of organizations that improve and enhance the lives of women and girls throughout Southeastern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey. WOMEN'S WAY also effectively advocates for and creates public awareness around the kind of larger, systemic changes that will continue to advance women’s progress. WOMEN'S WAY combines annual allocations to its six member agencies with an open grant-making process for non-member agencies through WOMEN'S WAY’s newly established Community Women’s Fund. WOMEN'S WAY supporters include more than 450 business and institutional supporters, 6,700 individual donors and nearly 300 volunteers. Your contribution to WOMEN'S WAY touches the lives of over 200,000 women and girls in our community each year. WOMEN'S WAY members and grantees provide vital services for women and families. Each year, WOMEN'S WAY allocates critical operating funds to member agencies addressing a broad continuum of issues that impact women of all ages, races and socioeconomic backgrounds, with a particular focus on organizations providing services to low-income women and their families. Member agencies provide services and advocate around issues that include adult basic education, tenant and consumer rights, rape crisis intervention, domestic abuse counseling, healthcare options and aging supports. Current education and advocacy initiatives include the production of our signature research report, A Change of Pace: Accelerating Women’s Progress. The report provides a sobering regional view of the cumulative effects of poverty wages, scarce affordable housing, childcare and healthcare, threats of violence and insufficient social supports on women struggling to attain economic self-sufficiency and security for themselves and their families. Monthly electronic Impact Initiatives challenge WOMEN'S WAY’s constituents to take action on such issues. WOMEN'S WAY’s annual fall conference focuses on developing women’s leadership to impact policy and decision-making around issues of importance to women and to those who care about them. A gift to WOMEN'S WAY supports a comprehensive and diverse range of services. Your contribution to WOMEN'S WAY touches the lives of over 260,000 women and girls in our community each year. For more information click here http://www.womensway.org/get-involved-donate.asp WOMEN'S WAY is a nonpartisan organization that neither supports nor opposes particular political parties or candidates.