The National Women’s Law Center Action Fund is the advocacy and electoral arm of the National Women’s Law Center that mobilizes voters, lobbies lawmakers, and runs public campaigns to advance gender justice and protect the rights of women and girls across issues such as reproductive freedom, workplace equity, child care, education, and LGBTQ+ protections.
Reproductive rights and abortion access; equal pay and workplace equity (including paid leave and anti-discrimination); child care and family economic security; Title IX and education equity; sexual harassment and violence prevention; voting rights and democratic participation; judicial ethics and court accountability
Primarily funded by individual contributions and small-dollar donors, philanthropic foundation grants, and other non-tax-deductible political/advocacy contributions (gifts to the Action Fund are not tax-deductible)
National Women’s Law Center (parent organization); Fatima Goss Graves (President & CEO of NWLC and President of NWLC Action Fund); frequent coalition partners and allied organizations in the reproductive justice and civil rights space such as the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the National Partnership for Women & Families
Nonprofit, 501(c)(4) social welfare organization (advocacy/electoral arm of the National Women’s Law Center)