IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1184 
Recognizing the 50th anniversary of the Ms. Foundation for Women. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 30, 2024 
Mr. GOLDMAN of New York (for himself, Ms. BROWN, Mr. CA´RDENAS, Mrs. 
CHERFILUS-MCCORMICK, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mr. COHEN, Mr. 
DOGGETT, Mr. GRIJALVA, Ms. KELLY of Illinois, Ms. MENG, Ms. NOR-
TON, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Mr. VEASEY, Ms. 
VELA´ZQUEZ, Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE, and Ms. MCCLELLAN) submitted the 
following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judici-
ary 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing the 50th anniversary of the Ms. Foundation 
for Women. 
Whereas Ms. Foundation for Women was founded in 1973 by 
Gloria Steinem, Patricia Cabrine, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, 
and Marlo Thomas, becoming the first national public 
foundation to focus on elevating issues that impact 
women and girls as well as the national model for sus-
tainable, trust-based philanthropic support of women-led 
movements; 
Whereas the mission is to build women’s collective power to 
realize a Nation of equality and justice for all, and the 
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•HRES 1184 IH 
Ms. Foundation works to bring attention to the real chal-
lenges facing women and nonbinary people of color; 
Whereas Ms. Foundation values integrity, trust and respect, 
interconnectedness, and social justice; believes power and 
possibility are not limited by gender, race, class, sexual 
orientation, gender identity, disability, or age; and main-
tains that freedom and equality are the cornerstones of 
a true democracy; 
Whereas by centering the voices and experiences of women 
and girls of color and working to dismantle structural 
barriers to equal opportunity based on race and gender, 
Ms. Foundation ensures collective power and access to 
achieve gender and racial equality for all; 
Whereas Ms. Foundation achieves its mission by investing in 
and strengthening the capacity of women of color-led 
movements to advance meaningful social, cultural, and 
economic change and advocating for national and state-
wide policy changes; 
Whereas, since 1973, the Ms. Foundation has invested over 
$90,000,000 in more than 1,600 organizations fighting 
for gender and racial justice nationwide; 
Whereas the Ms. South strategy has moved over $1,000,000 
to 13 States in the southern United States; 
Whereas Ms. Foundation received the Presidential Award for 
Excellence in 1999 to recognize the success of the Col-
laborative Fund for Women and Economic Development, 
which leveraged over $12,000,000 in support of grass-
roots women’s organizations to promote women’s eco-
nomic security; 
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•HRES 1184 IH 
Whereas the Girls of Color Initiative has provided more than 
$1,000,000 to 70 grantee partners centering cisgender, 
transgender, and queer girls of color nationwide; 
Whereas through its capacity-building work, Ms. Foundation 
has invested more than $1,400,000 to provide over 300 
engagements in leadership training, coaching, and finan-
cial management; 
Whereas because empowerment of young girls is core to its 
vision, Ms. Foundation created Take Our Daughters to 
Work Day, now more widely known as Take Your Child 
To Work Day, which has become one of the most suc-
cessful 
national 
public 
education 
campaigns 
ever 
launched and now has 35,000,000 participants each year; 
Whereas Ms. Foundation has expanded its commitment to 
achieving true reproductive justice through its invest-
ments in organizations working at the local, State, and 
national levels to ensure all people have access to the full 
range of reproductive health care and the freedom to 
choose if and when to parent; and 
Whereas, on May 16, 2023, Ms. Foundation celebrated its 
50th anniversary at its annual Women of Vision Awards 
in New York City, New York: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) recognizes the 50th anniversary of the Ms. 
Foundation for Women; 
(2) commends Teresa Younger, the President 
and CEO of the Ms. Foundation, for her leadership 
and the continued growth and success of the Ms. 
Foundation for Women; and 
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•HRES 1184 IH 
(3) acknowledges the Ms. Foundation for 
Women as a national leader in the fight for equality 
and justice for all. 
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