Organizations for Women's Political Empowerment

The Women’s Municipal Leadership Program is an opportunity for aspiring women to advance their skills and leadership abilities on the path to becoming strong local government managers.

The Maine Women’s Lobby works to build gender justice in Maine through legislative advocacy and systems change. The MWL does this by providing direct legislative advocacy and policy analysis, and by building and supporting a gender-responsive Legislature.

Sisters Lead Sisters Vote (SLSV) is currently conducting research to document the experience and needs of Black woman candidates and to document the historic leadership of Black women in the political space. Through this research, SLSV will document and share the unique needs of Black women candidates to better equip the organizations, parties and people, who seek to support them. This research will also aid Black women who are considering, planning, or running for office.

The founders of Women’s Democracy Lab are reimagining a democracy where solutions are created, tested, and implemented by the people most directly affected by structural barriers and systems of oppression, including African, Arab, Asian, Black, Indigenous, immigrant and refugee, Latinx, multiracial, Native, Pacific Islander, LGBTQIA and Two Spirit women.

Generation Ratify is the youth-led movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and advance gender equality in the United States of America. Its mission is to build a coalition of young people across the country leading an intersectional feminist revolution that empowers and advocates for the full equality of young women, non-conforming, non-binary, femme, and Queer folx.

The mission of the ODWC is to motivate, educate, empower and energize Democratic women by: recruiting women to run for office, increasing women’s leadership roles within Democratic politics and organizing women to elect Democrats at the local, state and national level.

The National Women's Political Caucus of Virginia recruits, trains and supports pro-choice women candidates for elected and appointed offices at all levels of government.

For over 42 years, the WBWPC has been vital in promoting the inclusion of African Americans; women in particular, in all phases of the political process.  The WBWPC is a five-chapter, multi-partisan, political organization with chapters in Greenburgh-White Plains, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, Greater Peekskill Area and Yonkers.

GALvanize brings women together to learn, share ideas, and support each other to make a real difference in our country and our communities.