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Women Creating Change

New York, NY, us • 5 - 9 Employees
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Mission Statement: The Women's City Club of New York, established in 1915, is a nonprofit, non-partisan, multi-issue activist organization dedicated to improving the lives of all New Yorkers. To promote responsive government, the WCC shapes public policy through education, issue analysis, advocacy and civic participation.Since its establishment in 1915, the WCC has remained dedicated to the mission of its early members to improve the lives of New Yorkers by advocating for policies of fairness, equity, and inclusion. Many outstanding women joined the organization. Early members included Eleanor Roosevelt, then first lady of New York State, who was WCC's legislative director, and Frances Perkins, a New York City labor leader and later the first female cabinet member as FDR's Secretary of Labor. WCC's first president was a novelist and screenwriter, Alice Duer Miller. Other WCC activists included Ida Tarbell, legendary muckraking journalist; Virginia Gildersleeve, World War II WAVES commander and dean of Barnard College; Dorothy Schiff, president and publisher of the New York Post; celebrated actress Helen Hayes; and nurse-midwife Ruth Watson Lubic, founder of the National Association of Childbearing Centers and winner of a 1993 MacArthur "genius grant."Citizen participation remains the organization's focus. WCC's highest priority is game-changing advocacy on issues that most impact New Yorkers and their lives.