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Women Mayors Leadership Alliance

The Women Mayors Leadership Alliance (former Women Mayors’ Caucus) was convened in 1983 by Senator Dianne Feinstein, former Mayor of San Francisco. The purpose of the Alliance is both to encourage and develop involvement and leadership potential for women mayors within the Conference of Mayors. 

National Foundation for Women Legislators (NFWL)

NFWL is an organization for elected women on city, county and state levels. Its mission is to provide strategic resources to elected women for leadership development, exchange of diverse legislative ideas, and effective governance through conferences, state outreach, educational materials, professional and personal relationships, and networking.

Women in Government

Women In Government Foundation, Inc., headquartered in Washington, D.C., is a national non-profit, non-partisan organization of women state legislators that provides leadership opportunities, expert forums, and educational resources to address and resolve complex public policy issues to all women state legislators.

Women's Legislative Network

The Women's Legislative Network of the National Conference of State Legislatures is the professional development organization that includes every female state legislator in the 50 states, United States territories, and the District of Columbia. The mission of the Women's Legislative Network is to promote the participation, empowerment, and leadership of women legislators.

Shirley Chisholm’s Birthday Gift: Support Black Women Candidates

Fifty years to the day that Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress, five new Black women won seats in the U.S. House. In January, they will join 17 other incumbent Black women representatives, two Black women delegates, and one Black woman senator to represent the largest cohort of Black congresswomen to ever serve in...

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