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The Ms. Foundation for Women is a non-profit organization for women in the United States. It is one of the first and largest women's funds in the United States and has always had a deep commitment to diversity. The Ms. Foundation was founded in 1972 by Gloria Steinem, Patricia Carbine, Letty Cottin Pogrebin and Marlo Thomas. The Ms. Foundation was created to deliver funding and other strategic resources to organizations that elevated women's and girl's voices and solutions across race and class in communities nationwide.The Ms. Foundation works to identify and support emerging and established groups poised to act when and where change is needed.〔 Its grants — paired with skills-building, networking and other strategic opportunities — enable organizations to advance women's grassroots solutions across race and class and to build social movements within and across three areas: Economic Justice, Reproductive Justice and Safety. The organization also focuses its lobbying efforts on the state-level around those three areas. == History == The “founding mothers,” Steinem, Carbine, Pogrebin and Thomas, wanted to foster the collective power of women, and they also believed that women who faced discrimination and inequity in their own lives had the wisdom and expertise to advance social change that would benefit everyone. The Ms. Foundation, as an organization, was planned to seed and strengthen women's grassroots organizing around the country and strive to create a vibrant, inclusive feminist movement in which everyone's voice was visible, valued and heard. The Ms. Foundation for Women was created as a separate but related entity to ''Ms.'' magazine. The original intent for the foundation was as a vehicle through which Ms. magazine's profits would be redistributed to the national women's movement. It quickly became apparent, however, that the Ms. Foundation would have to raise funds and provide direction for itself; and that for ''Ms.'' magazine to survive, it would also have to sustain itself. Since 1987 the Ms. Foundation and ''Ms''. Magazine have been separate entities: ''Ms.'' Magazine is published by the Feminist Majority Foundation.〔(Ms. Foundation for Women: Relationship to Ms. Magazine )〕 In 1986, Sara K.Gould joined the Ms. Foundation and created the Collaborative Fund for Women's Economic Development (CFWED). The founding group initially did most of the work for fund-raising for the Ms. Foundation until in 1975, a full-time executive director was hired. Marie Wilson became the Ms. Foundation president in 1984 and under her leadership, the foundation's annual budget increased significantly. In a "controversial" move, in 2000, the Ms. Foundation added men to the board in order to diversify their group and because the foundation sees men as important allies to helping women in their struggles.〔 Those who opposed this decision were afraid that inviting men to be part of the board would indicate that the foundation was less supportive of women.〔 However, those who supported the move pointed out that both men and women must work together to make lasting change.〔 The foundation continued to build on the kind of change enacted with inviting men to the board. By 2007, Ms. Foundation was funding programs that supported women, girls and also coed programs that had "a clear vision for how boys and men as allies with girls and women can work together."〔 Sara K. Gould served as president and CEO of the Ms. Foundation from 2004 to 2010. In 2008, the Ms. Foundation moved its headquarters from Manhattan to Brooklyn due to rising costs for rent in Manhattan. In February 2011, Anika Rahman was inducted as the president and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women. Rahman was noted for helping to update the website for the foundation, giving it a "fresher" look.〔 In spring 2014 the Ms. Foundation announced that Teresa C. Younger would become its new President and CEO in June. Younger has stated that one of her main goals for the future of the foundation is to diversify their philanthropy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ms. Foundation for Women」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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