Archive for the ‘Women’s Leadership’ Category
Girls' Day Video
25 Mar 2010Hear what the 100 girls that participated in Girls’ day this year had to say!
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- Tags: Augusta, Girls' Day, Maine State House
Ever had a day where you had so much going on you weren’t sure how you would ever get it all done in the limited hours of day light? Well, let’s just say that tomorrow is one of those days for our team over here at the Maine Women’s Lobby and Policy Center. Oh, but what [...]
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Tomorrow is our 14th annual Girls Day at the State House. 100 girls from across the state come to learn about Maine’s legislature in action and develop the leadership skills and experience to be Maine’s next generation of leaders! With the halls of the State House full of 100 girls the day certainty stands as [...]
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Pop Quiz! Know your women leaders!
16 Mar 2010In light of our 14th annual Girls Day at the State House this Thursday, March 18. Let us take a moment and consider the need for girl’s leadership on the State and National level. With 100 girls filling the halls of the State House, learning to lobby and debate like grown-up elected officials, why don’t [...]
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Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine Lobby Day!
In: Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine|BPA|Women's Leadership
18 Feb 2010This Tuesday- February 23, 2010 from 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM Help the Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine protect children, workers, and neighbors from toxic chemicals. Get the toxic Deca flame retardant out of plastic shipping pallets to keep it out of our food supply. Keep toxic products out of landfills and incinerators. [...]
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Are you familiar with the Coalition for Maine Women? The Coalition for Maine Women (formerly the Women’s Leadership Action Coalition) is working together to enact policies that benefit Maine women and girls. The Coalition is comprised of more than 30 groups that serve more than 40,000 women and girls! The group exists to ensure the [...]
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Coalition for Maine Women Day at the State House
11 Feb 2010Today dozens of women showed up at the State House for the Coalition for Maine Women Day. The morning began with networking, speeches and workshops and ended with our citizen lobbyists taking their new skills to the floor and lobbying their Senators and Representatives on: The budget, paid sick days, and Deca. “ ‘An Act [...]
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Maine Women's Lobby Co-hosts Roundtable Discussion with Secretary Sebelius
In: Congresswoman Pingree|Heath Care Reform|Maine Women's Lobby|Press Link|Sarah Standiford|Secretary Sebelius|Women's Leadership
3 Sep 2009MAINE WOMEN TO SECRETARY SEBELIUS: HEALTH SYSTEM IS FAILING US Congresswoman Pingree hears health care stories; says current system unacceptable No one knows better about how the health care system is failing than the women-young and old-who met with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius today in South Portland. The Maine Women’s Lobby [...]
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- Tags: New York Times, Portland Press Herald, Sun Journal, WCSH, WGME, WMTW
girls rock…
21 Jun 2009I mean, these girls REALLY rock. Today, I spent my afternoon at the offices of Hardy Girls Healthy Women in Waterville. We were invited to share the nuts and bolts of creating change. (and when I say nuts and bolts, I really do mean problem, solution, message, and target). These girls are the experts! The [...]
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- Tags: Leadership, Maine Women's Lobby
Maine Groups Cheer Sotomayor Nomination
In: Civil Rights|Discrimination|Equal Pay|Maine Women's Lobby|Olympia Snowe|Supreme Court|Susan Collins|Women's Leadership
27 May 2009Maine Fair and Independent Federal Courts Coalition Lauds Historic Nomination (Augusta) Today in a news release, organizations representing Maine people celebrated the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. “In selecting Judge Sotomayor to be his nominee to the highest court, President Obama has chosen someone who is superbly qualified and has [...]
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- Tags: Discrimination, Equal Justice, Fair Federal Courts, Maine Women's Lobby, SCOTUS, Sotomayor, Supreme Court
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- Lynne: Thank you for a terrific, inspiring event that showed us once again that one strong woman can make a [...]
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