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Why we’re launching the Women 2024 Action Fund this Giving Tuesday

| Nov 28, 2023

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We’re launching our new Women 2024 Action Fund this Giving Tuesday because women cannot continue bearing the brunt of Congress’ dysfunction and inaction.


Here we are, approaching the end of 2023, and women are still without abortion rights nationwide, working parents are still struggling to make ends meet without access to paid leave and fair pay, and the maternal health crisis is actually deepening.

You and I both know that women do not experience these challenges equally. Women of color, and in particular Black, Indigenous, and Latina women are disproportionately bearing the brunt of Congress’s infighting, dysfunction and inaction, and are often not present at the decision-making table.

The National Partnership is determined to cut through the chaos on Capitol Hill and help ensure 2024 is focused on advancing women’s rights.

That’s why we’re launching our new Women 2024 Action Fund this Giving Tuesday.

And in recognition of Native American Heritage Month, the National Partnership will evenly split each and every gift we receive for the rest of the November with the Return to the Heart Foundation, an inspiring Indigenous women-led organization that we are honored to partner with on economic justice issues affecting Indigenous women – including pay equity, anti-discrimination and caregiving support.

Your generous gift will support TWO organizations and will help build a better America that truly values ALL women’s lives and uplifts our contributions to our society and economy.

Together, we will fight to guarantee the right to abortion, secure paid family and medical leave, improve maternal health outcomes, increase workplace equity, and forge the kind of future we all deserve.


To learn more about Return to the Heart Foundation, read their guest post: Inequality Didn’t Just Happen… It Was By Design. It’s Time to Return to Our Values and Return to the Heart.

About the Author

Sharita Gruberg

Sharita Gruberg

Sharita Gruberg is Vice President for Economic Justice at the National Partnership for Women & Families where she will lead the economic justice team in providing expertise and thought leadership in research, advocacy and policy work around many of the issue areas the organization has led on in its 50-year history.

Sharita most recently conducted successful advocacy campaigns, engaged with diverse stakeholders and led policy change at the Center for American Progress. There, she served as vice president for the think tank’s LGBTQI+ Research and Communications Project where she worked to expand legal and lived equality for LGBTQI+ people, particularly those living at the intersection of multiple identities.

Throughout her career, Sharita has made it clear that the best way to advance economic justice policies that benefit women and families is to develop them through a lens of racial justice and with an awareness of the history that systemically has left out underrepresented communities.

Sharita earned her J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, and her B.A. in Women's Studies and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.