Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) is a 44 year-old women’s employment organization that works nationally and in its home community of Washington, D.C. to achieve economic independence and equality of opportunity for women and girls. Expanding its intergenerational agenda, WOW has recently launched the national Elder Economic Security Initiative, a conceptual framework that includes concrete tools to shape public policies and programs to promote the economic well-being of older adults, whether they have the capacity to be fully self-reliant or are in need of certain public supports to age in place with dignity. The Elder Economic Security Initiative (EESI) combines coalition building, research, education, and advocacy at the community, state and national level. WOW will partner with 20 states over the next four years to implement the project on the national, state and local level.
Periodically, Make Waves offers paid internships to students who are enrolled at an accredited university.
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We have never reviewed a work of fiction on this site before, but The Last of Her Kind carries a message that deeply resonates with us, one that illustrates what it means to “make waves.” Perhaps a better way to put it is to say that making waves often incurs penalties. Conventional folk can become really annoyed with those who don’t know, or don’t accept, their place in life. The results can range from merely acrimonious to horrifying.
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