Women's Peacepower Foundation ~ About

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Our Herstory

Women's Peacepower Foundation, Inc. was founded in 1998 as a vehicle to help in the tireless effort to bring peace to our homes, our schools, our streets and to our world.

Peacepower makes awards to grassroots projects that are working to impact issues of violence against women and their children.

WHERE THERE IS PEACE, THERE IS TREMENDOUS POWER!

Our Mission

The Women's Peacepower Foundation, Inc. gives Women of Peace Awards to women and girls involved in grassroots projects who are working to bring peace to the everyday lives of women and their families. The majority of our awards are for activities that fall into two broad categories: violence against women and waging peace.

The Women of Peace Awards have been given to scores of ordinary/extraordinary women around the world who work without funding or recognition for the universal goal of peace, fairness and true justice within the lives of women and their families.

Violence Against Women

Whether it comes in broad strokes - the rapes and beatings of thousands under the cover of war - or in staccato punches - a spouse or daughter subjected to the torture of a loved one - women and violence are two words which appear too often together across the ages and across cultures.

Peacepower funds projects that seek to reverse the forces that entrap women and their families into the spiral of pain and fear. We support programs that provide opportunities to speak out against the violence or create new solutions in helping those struggling with this shameful reality.

Teaching Peace

What should be as natural as breathing, unfortunately must be taught. Women and their children must have the opportunity to live in a violence-free world, with enough food to eat, and adequate shelter. Women deserve meaningful work that pays a living wage.

Peacepower awards activists in the US and other countries that:

demonstrate how violence against women and children is at the root of other forms of violence that tear at the fabric of the world
hold officials, institutions and governments accountable for their brutality against women and children
teach future generations the power of non-violence

Application Procedures and Qualifications

Women Of Peace Award (formerly known as Amigas Award)

Send a completed nomination form to the foundation telling us why you think the person is a candidate for an award. Include information and a photo demonstrating the types of activities the person has been involved in either through work, or as a volunteer. Talk about how you think your Woman of Peace nominee has taken action in an area of violence against women or children. Don't forget to include a contact name, address, and phone number for yourself and your nominee so that we can gather further information.

Women of Peace Award recipients may also be eligible to receive technical assistance in fundraising and long range planning. Our goal is to help small projects gain stability. Award nominations must be received before May 31st. Awards are announced the last quarter of the year.

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Women's Peacepower Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 1618, Zephyrhills, FL 33539
Email: peace@womenspeacepower.org.
Website: www.womenspeacepower.org

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WPPF Board of Directors

Diane McCabe Vaughan, President
Heather Rutledge
Roberta McIntosh
Lisa Esposito
Victoria Baltic
Betty Lou Haber
Sharon Smith

     Women's Peacepower Foundation, Inc.
    P.O. Box 1618, Zephyrhills, FL 33539
    e-mail: peace@womenspeacepower.org