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Leadership and Civic Engagement
by Sarah Nichols on Sep 20, 2018
As many of you know, WREN has been streaming Facebook Live content every Friday since the start of July. We use these #FacebookLiveFridays (and sometimes additional days, too) to highlight the great work our partners are doing and discuss relevant issues facing the women and girls of South Carolina. Doing our Facebook live videos has… Read more
Leadership and Civic Engagement
by Ashley Lidow on Sep 4, 2018
Deadline to apply is September 21st, 2018. The Women’s Rights and Empowerment Network (WREN) is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization whose mission is to build a movement to advance the health, economic well-being, and rights of South Carolina’s women, girls and their families. The Policy Assistant is a member of the Policy and Government Relations (PGR)… Read more
Leadership and Civic Engagement
by Sarah Nichols on Aug 21, 2018
For one of our #FacebookLiveFridays this month, we were lucky to have Zakiya Esper of Sowing Seeds into the Midlands join us. Zakiya is a former SC juvenile probation officer (and one of the newly-named members of the Obama Foundation’s Community Leadership Corps!) who saw the need for resources for at-risk youth. But she didn’t… Read more
Leadership and Civic Engagement, Special Events
by Lara Winburn on Aug 4, 2018
Job Description Overview of Position The Development Associate is an exciting new position with the Women’s Rights and Empowerment Network (WREN), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that is building a movement to advance the health, economic well-being, and rights of women, girls, and their families in South Carolina. WREN’s Development Associate will be responsible for supporting… Read more
Leadership and Civic Engagement
by Sarah Nichols on Jul 27, 2018
Last week, as a part of our #FacebookLiveFridays series, we sat down with Mahkia Greene to discuss organizing in the queer south. You might recognize Mahkia from our Seen and Heard project: she was the talented filmmaker who created the Seen and Heard documentary for us. She is also an educator at Indie Grits Labs,… Read more
Advocate Stories, Leadership and Civic Engagement
by Jennifer H. Gunter, PhD on Jul 16, 2018
In February of this year I became the Director of The South Carolina Collaborative on Race and Reconciliation (SCCRR), which is starting its third year on the University of South Carolina campus. Begun in the wake of the horrific tragedy at Mother Emanuel in Charleston, the Collaborative launched The Welcome Table SC. This initiative, based… Read more
Advocate Stories, Economic Opportunity, Health and Education, Leadership and Civic Engagement
by Sarah Nichols on Jun 26, 2018
We’ve done it before, and we’re doing it again. You may have caught some of our Facebook live videos in preview of the 2018 WREN Summit. Because we had such a great time discussing important community issues with our partners and you, our members, we’re bringing them back! We will kick off #NationalSavingsMonth on July… Read more
Freedom from Violence, Leadership and Civic Engagement
by Ann Warner on Jun 20, 2018
Recently it was revealed that Rep. Jerry Govan (D-Orangeburg) was quietly cleared of a harassment allegation after a staffer complained of unwanted physical contact. Govan was one of three state House members accused of sexual misconduct in the past five years. In the midst of the #MeToo movement, new data from Stop Street Harassment shows… Read more
Economic Opportunity, Leadership and Civic Engagement
by Sarah Nichols on Jun 15, 2018
One easy way to help women prosper in South Carolina is by supporting female-owned local businesses. The recent State of Women-Owned Businesses report ranked South Carolina fourth in the nation for women-owned businesses, and found that the number of businesses owned by women in the state has nearly doubled in the past 20 years. In… Read more
Advocate Stories, Leadership and Civic Engagement
by Ashley Lidow on Jun 15, 2018
Recently a local politician was doing an interview about South Carolina candidates and made the comment that a man was “abandoning” his newborn son by running for Congress. Cue the: SAY WHAT?! Many folks were dismayed by the allegation and some even went so far to say that this was a “new low” of an… Read more
Now is the time to invest in South Carolina’s women, girls, and families. We need people like you joining the movement, speaking out, and leading the way toward positive change.