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Women’s Foundation of Alabama Board Names 20-Year Corporate Veteran Kimberly L. Jackson as President and CEO

Advocacy | Apr 2025

Alabama Legislature Clears Paid Leave for Teachers and State Employees

Advocacy | Feb 2025

Women’s Foundation of Alabama Pushes Forward on its Economic Plan for Women and Families

Get to Know Elizabeth Cole Goodrich – The 2025 Board Chair of Women’s Foundation of Alabama

Philanthropy | Nov 2024

Good Jobs Birmingham Healthcare Recruitment campaign underway

Women’s Foundation of Alabama President and CEO Melanie R. Bridgeforth to Step Down in 2025

Grants | Jun 2024

To help the economy, an Alabama county is betting on home-based child care

Philanthropy | Jun 2024

Women’s Foundation of Alabama leader helping to shape the new face of philanthropy

Advocacy | May 2024

Ivey signs child care tax credit bill: What it means for Alabama’s working families

Advocacy | May 2024

Lawmakers approve workforce tax credits

Advocacy | May 2024

Working families set to benefit from Alabama childcare tax credit after approval from lawmakers

Advocacy | May 2024

Historic Alabama Child Care Tax Credit Bill Clears Final Legislative Hurdle

Advocacy | May 2024

Alabama child care dilemma means lost work, bankruptcy: ‘Just trying to survive’

Advocacy | Apr 2024

Alabama leaders say tax credits could help shortage of affordable child care

Advocacy | Apr 2024

Alabama House committee passes child care tax credit bill

Philanthropy | Apr 2024

Childcare training program underway in Tuscaloosa

Advocacy | Apr 2024

Committee debates workforce tax credit bills

Advocacy | Apr 2024

Melanie Bridgeforth: The urgent case for child care

Advocacy | Mar 2024

Lawmakers propose bills offering childcare tax credits for businesses, parents

Advocacy | Mar 2024

Op-ed: Affordable childcare keeps us ‘working for Alabama’

Advocacy | Mar 2024

State Sen. Gudger: Child care is the industry that keeps Alabama working – it’s time to invest in it

Grants | Feb 2024

Women’s Foundation of Alabama awards $1.2 million in grants in 2023

Advocacy | Feb 2024

Women’s Foundation of Alabama holds Capitol Heels Advocacy Day

Grants | Feb 2024

Women’s Foundation of Alabama awards $1.2 million to accelerate economic opportunities

Research | Feb 2024

Women’s Foundation of Alabama shares how lack of accessible childcare impacts state’s workforce

Research | Jan 2024

Alabama, national leaders strategize childcare access at annual Women’s Foundation research event

Research | Jan 2024

Women’s Foundation event to focus on child care as ‘essential resource’ for workers

Events | Jan 2024

Chamber CEO, Ainsworth to address child care at foundation event

Research | Jan 2024

The Business Case for Child Care

Women’s Foundation launches ambitious Watershed Campaign

Philanthropy | Dec 2023

Calhoun, Wallace community colleges offer programs for females only

Philanthropy | Nov 2023

Shelton State highlighting women getting Commerical Driver’s License, Similar Certifications

Philanthropy | Aug 2023

Women’s Foundation of Alabama Announces Statewide Grant Cycle to Accelerate Economic Opportunity for Women

Women’s Foundation of Alabama Announces New Headquarters, Culminating Two-Year Anniversary of Statewide Expansion

Events | Apr 2023

Women’s History Month 2023

Research | Feb 2023

Report Released to State Legislature to Address Alabama’s Gender Workforce & Wage Gap

Sustaining Our Future: WFA Appoints New Chief Operating Officer

Women’s Foundation of Alabama Launches into 2023 with Diversified, Statewide Board of Directors

365 Days of Expansion: 2022 In Review

Alabama Civic Leader Honored for Lifelong Committment to Gender Equity

Our Mandate is Clear

State’s Leading Voice on Women’s Economic Issues Sounds Alarm for State and Local Leaders with Release of Economic Impact Study

Advocacy | Feb 2022

Women’s Foundation Releases 2022 Agenda for Women

Advocacy | Jul 2021

Congrats! Inaugural class of Fellows graduates from Women’s Policy Institute

Women are our own saviors. And we always have been.