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Washington Area Women's Foundation is a nonprofit organization located in Washington, DC, that brings together women who act as donors and activists, led by President and CEO, Tamara Wilds [1]. This network of women invests in the lives of low-income women – and single moms in particular – so they, in turn, can enrich the lives of their ...
The Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia (WBA or Association) is a voluntary bar association in metropolitan Washington, D.C. The WBA has more than 800 members and was founded in 1917.
Other area women's clubs prior to 1919 had strict qualifications for membership, but the Women's City Club of Washington, D.C. stated that it strove to be more inclusive. O'Toole, the founding president, said that the group hoped to attract not only women in the academic and professional sphere, but housewives as well. [1]
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The area had been heavily damaged by the 1968 Riots with many H Street shops being burned to the ground. However, it was the construction of the concrete overpass over the Union Station rail tracks connecting H Street NW to H Street NE known as Hopscotch Bridge which was the reason for the move. Rats were coming from the construction site into ...
The U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce was founded in 2001 to increase economic growth opportunities for women. As the only national organization of its kind, the U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce works in concert with its over 500,000 members, national and local association partners, and key influencers to open doors for women business owners and career professionals.
DC Web Women began in 1999 as a chapter of Webgrrls. [3] The group was started in a coffee shop by Debbie Weil and Catherine Buzzel. [2] This initial meeting between the two women led to a second meeting in a women owned internet café in the Washington DC area with three additional like-minded women: Cathy Ganssle, Shellie Holubek, and Miriam Jaffe.