National Women's History Project
| Founded | 1985 |
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| Founder | Molly Murphy MacGregor Mary Ruthsdotter Maria Cuevas Paula Hammett Bette Morgan |
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United States |
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$165,005 (2012) |
| Expenses | $66,027 (2012) |
| Mission | To recognize, honor, and celebrate the diverse and historic accomplishments of American women by providing information and materials. |
| Website | www |
The National Women's History Project is an American non-profit organization dedicated to honoring and preserving women's history. Based out of Santa Rosa, California since 1980, it was started by women's history activists Molly Murphy MacGregor, Mary Ruthsdotter, Maria Cuevas, Paula Hammett and Bette Morgan.
The NWHP started by leading a coalition that successfully lobbied Congress to designate March as Women's History Month, now celebrated across the country. Today, the NWHP is known nationally as the only clearinghouse providing information and training in multicultural women’s history for educators, community organizations, and parents-for anyone wanting to expand their understanding of women contributions to U. S. history.
From a Grassroots Organization into a National Institution
• In 1980, the NWHP was a group of women who noticed that women were absent from textbooks. No more than 3% of the content was devoted to women.
• Girls had few role models. Girls and boys and many adults assumed women did nothing important. The founders thought this perception needed to be addressed.
• The NWHP convinced Congress and the White House of the need for our nation to celebrate and recognize women’s role in history on an annual basis. As a result of their efforts, the week of March 8 (International Women’s Day) was officially designated as Women’s History Week. In 1987, the NWHP led the successful campaign to have the entire month of March declared Women's History Month.
• The NWHP mobilizes the national celebrations of Women's History Month in March each year by choosing an annual theme.
• They promote a multicultural women’s history perspective by honoring women of diverse cultural, ethnic, occupational, racial, class, and regional backgrounds.
• Every year the NWHP sends out 100,000 catalogs and distribute tens of thousands of women's history posters, celebratory materials, books, videos, and curriculum resources.
• The NWHP website has over 1,000,000 visitors a year. Additionally, the staff answers over 2,500 e-mails and letters each year from students, teachers, reporters, and other interested individuals requesting information.
• The staff has conducted women's history training sessions and women's historic site tours in 42 states, and has trained over 30,000 teachers and federal program managers and has delivered over 2,500 speeches.
• The NWHP created a national clearinghouse to provide multicultural women's history information, materials, referrals, and strategies. This service also provides easy access to women's history performers, organizations, museums, and historic sites.
• They have designed, developed, and produced more than 200 multicultural women’s history resource materials, such as videos, speeches, posters, celebratory items, guides, program kits, and curriculum units.
• In 1995 and 1998, the NWHP led national campaigns to celebrate and recognize the work of women in expanding and enriching democracy. In 1995, they celebrated the 75th anniversary of women in the United States winning the right to vote and in 1998 the 150th anniversary of the Women's Rights Movement. In 2005, they celebrated the 85th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment and the 25th anniversary of the women's history movement. In 2010 they marked the 90th anniversary of U.S. women gaining the right to vote.
• In 1997 the NWHP launched a website to serve as the digital clearinghouse for multicultural women's history information. Today, this award-winning website is the first women's history choice on all website search engines.
• The NWHP has worked with the President’s Commission on the Celebration of Women in American History. Executive director Molly Murphy MacGregor was appointed by the White House to serve on the Congressional Commission on Women's Historic Landmarks.
• The NWHP believes that "'Our History Is Our Strength"'
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