https://www.lincolnwomen.org/home daily 1.0 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61bb993051511e54ca169a89/a006213a-35b0-4c38-8810-9005b096ad70/Becca+Brune+and+Aczia+Fleming+%283%29.jpg Home - Education Advocacy Outreach OUR MISSION: The Women's Foundation of Lincoln & Lancaster County is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that provides resources for education, advocacy, and outreach that promotes equality and social justice for women, femmes, and non-binary people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61bb993051511e54ca169a89/b5062d60-fa61-4b3b-95b0-74af1e29b95f/BrittanyatLatinoFestival.jpeg Home Making sure women, femmes, and non-binary people in our community are heard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61bb993051511e54ca169a89/0adcfa67-1793-4a00-ba84-ed6fdd00cdeb/WH.png Home - Women’s Health: January 2025 Women’s Reproductive Health https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61bb993051511e54ca169a89/51f28f67-fb06-4db8-a297-97938314cf07/omt%21+divine+resale Home - If you or others would like to be added, please email lincolnwomen@gmail.com or via “Contact Us” above! Supporting Women-Owned Businesses in Lincoln & Lancaster Co. https://www.lincolnwomen.org/outreach daily 0.75 2022-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61bb993051511e54ca169a89/edc442ad-d61e-4b95-98bb-817505944a61/Kristen+at+March+latest.jpg Outreach - Women’s Voices Survey Spanning a year and a half, women in the Lincoln and Lancaster County were asked to answer questions that provided demographic information as well as the challenges and needs that women and their families are experiencing in our community. Over a thousand women participated in the survey with the results helping to guide future programming and inform local agencies supported by the Foundation. Women’s Voices Survey Executive Summary, 2018 Below are past Women’s Voices and annual reports produced by the Women’s Commission: Women’s Voices Project, 2012 Women’s Voices Annual Report, 2010-2011 Annual Report, 2009-2010 “A Place at the Table” Annual Report, 2003-2004 Women’s Voices: Finding Solutions Special Report, 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61bb993051511e54ca169a89/1b4d97a7-26a3-4719-bc93-9a921ae6d782/Sarah+April+22.jpeg Outreach - Early Childhood Literacy Project The Women’s Foundation has started a literacy project with the Community Action Partnership’s new Head Start location. Once a month, the members of the Women’s Commission read to the children in the preschool and then the Women’s Foundation donates a copy of the book to each child. The Foundation joins the efforts of Prosper Lincoln’s Early Childhood Development Initiative supporting children learning to read. Our hope is the Foundation’s literacy project will encourage young children and their families to read and enjoy books. Women’s Health: Read Aloud Lincoln (2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61bb993051511e54ca169a89/1647619341609-2X9ME4ZDVTKRWCTECJUY/unsplash-image-0218pyFjv3U.jpg Outreach - Legislative Advocacy The Women's Foundation sends letters of support or opposition to NE State Senators on bills that are being considered in the legislature. Our interest centers on legislation that would have effects on the health, education, employment and well-being of women, femmes and non-binary people. Some of the bills we supported during the 2021-2022 session: LB 929 - Extend postpartum benefits from 60 days to one year for those receiving services // LB 1028 - Enforcement of minimum wage for tipped-wage earners // LB 1267 - Allocation of ARPA funds for the Commissions on Indian Affairs, Latino Americans, African Americans and the Commissions for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Blind and Vision Impaired // LB 1129 - Free contraceptives Bills we opposed during the 2021-2022 session:: LB 1077 - Limiting subjects taught in schools related to race and sexual identity // LB 781, 933, 1086 - Limiting women's ability to control own reproductive health // LB 843, 858, 785 - Limiting voting and election procedures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61bb993051511e54ca169a89/cc911149-54c7-41e6-b59b-c556179d9f58/Juneteenth+2.jpg Outreach - Community Engagement Members of the Women’s Foundation connect and support the Lincoln and Lancaster County community by participating in events put on by local organizations. Participation in community events provides the Foundation an opportunity to share our mission, provide information and connect with the women, femmes, and non-binary people we work to support. https://www.lincolnwomen.org/contact-us daily 0.75 2022-03-18 https://www.lincolnwomen.org/history daily 0.75 2022-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61bb993051511e54ca169a89/b3dd951d-bd74-4e5f-a622-ec31f79a743c/Women%27s+March+1980+Virginia+and+all.jpeg History For over 40 years, Women’s Commissions have served women in Lincoln and Lancaster County. Following the creation of the first Commission on the Status of Women by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 and as part of the national movement to create agencies dealing with civil and human rights, Lincoln’s first women’s commission was created in 1976 under the guidance of Helen Boosalis, Lincoln’s first female Mayor, and former City Council member Jan Gauger, a member of the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners. An interlocal agreement was approved by the Lincoln City Council and the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners, which created the Commission on the Status of Women. This Commission served as an advisory body to the Mayor of Lincoln, the Lincoln City Council and the County Board on social, economic and legal barriers affecting women and their families and recommended ways to alleviate those barriers. A second agreement was entered into in 1996 creating the Lincoln-Lancaster Women’s Commission. Its purpose was to continue those goals and move them forward. In 2007, this interlocal agreement was suspended. Mayor Chris Beutler immediately created another advisory called the Mayor’s Commission on Women by Executive Order. This Commission has served as an advisory to the Mayor and City, surveying women in the community to learn of their issues and challenges and designing programs of education, outreach and advocacy to meet the identified needs. https://www.lincolnwomen.org/purpose daily 0.75 2022-03-17 https://www.lincolnwomen.org/miles-to-go daily 0.75 2022-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61bb993051511e54ca169a89/cbbd4720-4090-4382-a97c-24ac93b474f1/MilesToGo_Postcard.jpeg Miles to Go - The Foundation’s goal for Miles to Go: Women Activists Reflect on the Road Traveled is to preserve the voices of women who fought for significant gains to showcase activism: our purposes are to educate young people about local history that has a direct bearing on the rights they currently enjoy and to inspire them to continue fighting against injustice. This hour-long documentary, which can be viewed below, is comprised of interviews, archival materials, and other narration or historical information. It premiered on September 30, 2014 at the Ross Film Theatre in Lincoln, NE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618497259178-6XJGK9GR6YAVBQL5L519/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg Miles to Go https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Miles to Go https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694644871-IC85FNH781UNZSZEGHDR/Aro+Ha_0428.jpg Miles to Go