Forms (documents)

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The Abortion and Birth Control Committee was a pre-Roe v. Wade committee associated with Valley Women's Center in Western Massachusetts that attempted to connect people with reproductive health services when such services were difficult to obtain. The collection contains the newsletters, newspaper clippings, notes, forms, and correspondence of the Committee.

Abstract Aileen C. Hernandez (1926-2017) was a Black feminist known for her roles as an original Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and as the second president of the National Organization for Women (NOW). She was an active member of more than 100 activist and community-based organizations concerned with racial justice, women’s equality, economic equity, fair housing, education, and other social issues. The Aileen C. Hernandez papers document decades of activism by a...

Abstract Grassroots advocacy, low-income rights and social justice organization based in Springfield, Mass. The Records provide a detailed record of the activities, decision-making processes, and political foundation of the organization and its work in coalition with regional, state, national, and international groups. Major topics found in the records include criminal justice, economic justice, HIV/AIDS prevention, homelessness, housing, poverty, social justice, and welfare rights. In addition there...

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Catholics for Choice (CFC) is an organization which seeks "to serve as a voice for Catholics who believe that the Catholic tradition supports a woman's moral and legal right to follow her conscience in matters of sexuality and reproductive health". The Catholics for Choice records are comprised of organizational records, including correspondence, reports, audiovisual materials, and articles that document the organization's mission and activities.

Abstract Reproductive rights advocacy group. Records contain correspondence, publications, publicity materials, press releases and clippings, photographs, website images, reports, polls, financial information, and Board of Directors minutes, and other materials. They document the organization's history and work for the preservation of a woman's right to choose by way of media campaigns, voter registration initiatives, educational outreach to young adults, and endorsing pro- choice candidates for...

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The collection contains the business records of the Committee on Women, Population,& the Environment (CWPE), a multi-racial alliance that works on the local, regional, national, and international levels to oppose population control policies that blame overpopulation for poverty, hunger, environmental degradation and political volatility.

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DES Action USA is a national consumer advocacy group, whose mission is to educate and raise awareness about diethylstilbestrol (DES), an oral synthetic estrogen drug; and support and advocate for the DES-exposed population. The DES Action USA records are primarily comprised of materials documenting the activities, programs, and projects of the organization.

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The Family Diversity Projects records date from 1993 to 2010 and document the organization's work in designing exhibits and authoring books that portray gay and lesbian families, multiracial families, families suffering from mental illnesses, people with disabilities, and transgender people.

Abstract Founded in 1976, the International Women's Writing Guild is a network for the personal and professional empowerment of women through writing. The IWWG sponsors workshops, writing conferences, manuscript exchanges, and contacts to other authors and agents. The records include correspondence, conference material, newsletters, programs, flyers, brochures, pamphlets, documents pertaining to the work of IWWG members a directory of playwrights, a volume documenting the life of Banjo Clarke, and...

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Jane Whitbread was an editor and writer. The collection consists solely of material related to the research and writing of her book, After Super Mom: Working Mothers Talk About Their World. It contains questionnaires, responses and analyses of responses, correspondence, taped interviews, transcripts of interviews, and notes Whitbread kept in three travel notebooks.

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The collection has personal and professional papers of Lauren Taylor. The papers include the 1979 founding of My Sister's Place and the organizing of the city's first Take Back the Night march. The material also reflects the rise of the feminist self-defense movement, including Taylor's self-defense organization, Defend Yourself.

Abstract The Margaret Sanger Papers Project (MSPP) is a historical editing project sponsored by the Division of Libraries at New York University. The Project was formed by Dr. Esther Katz in 1985 to locate, arrange, edit, research, and publish the papers of the noted birth control pioneer. The collection contains biographical files, subject files, chronology and newspaper clippings, correspondence, a few primary sources (pamphlets, brochures, and publications), computer files, and an FBI file on...

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Administrative records of an intercollegiate athletic association to promote competitions among female athletes in Massachusetts colleges. Included are membership directories, reports, and records of competitions, tournaments and championships.

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Founded in 1991 by the National Coalition of Midwifery Educators, the Midwifery Education Accreditation Council (MEAC) serves as a non-profit and nationally recognized accrediting agency, making midwifery more accepted as it becomes more professionalized. The collection contains accreditation documentation, reports, minutes, agendas, and correspondence.

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Musicians; Women's music organization. Includes materials for the first 30 years for women's music organization from Cincinnati, Ohio. Grant applications, organizational periodicals, and administrative papers. Also included are DVDs and audio CDs of performances as well as CDs with photographs of MUSE members.

Abstract The National Congress of Neighborhood Women (NCNW) is a feminist grassroots network. The primary goal of this organization was to empower poor and working-class women to become community leaders. The collection offers valuable source material for the study of working-class feminist organizing; urban studies; and women in community development. Also documented are the inner workings of grassroots organizing, with all of the personal and political dynamics that come with incorporating a...

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The collection primarily contains the research materials for the sixteen editions of "World Military and Social Expenditures," including newspaper clippings, reports, journal articles, and some correspondence.

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Social Worker. Papers consist primarily of material related to a survey conducted by Ruth Mellor in 1929 for the Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene to assess social welfare services in the state of Connecticut. Also included is personal correspondence with close friend and Smith College classmate, Mildred Scott Olmsted and numerous love letters to Mellor from both a woman and man.

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SisterLove is the first women's HIV/AIDS organization in the southeastern United States. The SisterLove records include administrative and program files from the founding of SisterLove to the early 2000s. Particularly well documented are SisterLove's grant applications, their residential program for HIV positive women called "Love House," the Healthy Love Parties, the Women's HIV/AIDS Resources Project (WHARP), their programs in South Africa, and their outreach efforts.

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Completed monthly reporting forms from regional secretaries in the Geneva (Midwest) region of the National Student YWCA. Monthly report forms include sections for reporting local visits, services provided to student associations, meetings and conferences attended, and a narrative summary of regional developments. In addition, the reports summarize travel, collaborative work with other organizations and hours worked. 

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Completed monthly report forms from regional secretaries in the Middle Atlantic region of the National Student YWCA. Monthly report forms include sections for reporting visits and services to local student associations, meetings and conferences attended and include a narrative summary of regional developments and travel. Also included are notes concerning cooperation with other organizations and hours worked. 

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Completed monthly report forms from regional secretaries in the New England region of the National Student YWCA. Monthly report forms include sections for reporting visits and services to local student associations, meetings and conferences attended and include a narrative summary of regional developments and travel. Also included are notes concerning cooperation with other organizations and hours worked. 

Scope and Contents Annual reports, monthly reports and staff work plans for National Student YWCA staff in New York State and documents concerning the Student Christian Movement in New York. The Student Christian Movement in New York is a unifying organization for all campus student Christian groups. The student YWCA in New York is part of that group for some regional governance while remaining a part of the National Student YWCA. Regional staff report to the National Student YWCA. Annual and monthly reports...

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Completed monthly report forms from regional secretaries in the Pacific Northwest region of the National Student YWCA. Monthly report forms include sections for reporting visits and services to local student associations, meetings and conferences attended and include a narrative summary of regional developments and travel. Also included are notes concerning cooperation with other organizations and hours worked. 

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Completed monthly report forms from regional secretaries in the Pacific Southwest region of the National Student YWCA. Monthly report forms include sections for reporting visits and services to local student associations, meetings and conferences attended and include a narrative summary of regional developments and travel. Also included are notes concerning cooperation with other organizations and hours worked. 

Scope and Contents Documents concerning the work of the National Student YWCA in the Pacific Southwest. Monthly report forms include sections for reporting visits to local associations, services provided and meetings and conferences attended. Also included is a narrative summary of regional developments, travel and cooperation with other organizations. Additional documents include program recommendations to local associations, a proposed plan of organization, regional newsletters and documents concerning the...

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Completed monthly report forms from regional secretaries in the Rocky Mountain region of the National Student YWCA. Monthly report forms include sections for reporting visits and services to local student associations, meetings and conferences attended and include a narrative summary of regional developments and travel. Also included are notes concerning cooperation with other organizations and hours worked. 

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Completed monthly report forms from regional secretaries in the southern region of the National Student YWCA. Monthly report forms include sections for reporting visits and services to local student associations, meetings and conferences attended and include a narrative summary of regional developments and travel. Also included are notes concerning cooperation with other organizations and hours worked. 

Scope and Contents Completed monthly reporting forms from regional secretaries in the Southwest region of the National Student YWCA and memorandums concerning all National Student YWCA regions. Monthly report forms include sections for reporting visits and services to student associations, meetings and conferences attended in addition to a narrative summary of regional developments, travel, cooperation with other organizations and hours worked. Memorandums concern the function of regional advisory committees...

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Susan Ribner was most noted as a practitioner, teacher, and champion of women's participation in martial arts. Ribner's papers document the feminist martial arts, self-defense and anti-violence movements of the 1970s and 80s in New York City.