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The Nevada Women's Lobby is a statewide non-partisan coalition
of organizations, women and men presenting a strong voice on
issues affecting women and families.
The Nevada Women's Lobby was founded
in 1988 to improve the status
of women and families by lobbying public officials and law makers. We hire a
lobbyist to coordinate legislative action. We
track legislation and we alert our members
when action is needed from them. We lobby cooperatively with other
organizations for maximum effect. We are proud of NWL's
legislative accomplishments at the Nevada Legislature 1989 to 2007, and lists of the
bills tracked by NWL in 2005 is
available. We educate and assist NWL
members to participate in the legislative process with a bi-annual newsletter
and group events.
The Nevada Women's Lobby encourages participation in
the legislative process by hosting Grassroots Lobby
Days at the Nevada
Legislature in Carson City every other year during legislative
sessions.
Our Principles of Unity [below] are our guiding
principles. For every decision, action, or issue that the Nevada Women's
Lobby undertakes, we consult our Principles of Unity to determine
it's relevancy to our organization and our level of support or opposition.
How the Lobby Operates
The Nevada Women's Lobby is a 501 (c) 4 nonprofit organization
and derives its income from memberships,
donations, events
and grants. This pays for our lobbyist, newsletters, telephone, postage, web hosting, events, clerical costs, and
incidental expenses.
The Lobby's Steering Committee
is composed of volunteers who, along with our lobbyist, do most of the
work required to keep the Lobby running.
Our
Principles of Unity
Nevada
Women's Lobby is a voice for women and children. We are dedicated to
equity, non-violence and reproductive choice.
The lives of all people are inherently valuable and
worthy of respect and dignity; therefore, we actively work to remove
barriers of race, class, age, gender, religion, physical ability and
sexual orientation.
Beginning with our own actions and language, we promote
non-violence in all aspects of personal, economic and organizational
relationships.
We support every woman's right to reproductive choice
and self-determination.
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Membership
is open to all who share these principles.
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