Background

Formed in 1993, as a 501-(c)-4 non-profit organization.

Originated in response to an organizational roundtable sponsored by the Colorado Women's Agenda, which identified the need to have a professional lobbyist at the state capitol on behalf of women.

Achievements

Primary sponsor of Colorado Earned Income Tax Credit bill

Assisted low-income seniors to keep homes through property tax-rebate legislation

Helped shape Colorado's current welfare policy

Supported Domestic Violence bill of 1999 and lobbied amendment to allow funds for civil legal services for battered women

Supportive role in passing the Wage Non-Discrimination Act through the Senate

Lobbied for Breast and Cervical Act of 2001

Who is the Women's Lobby?

Over 200 individuals and these organizations:

AFL-CIO

Abigail Adams NOW

Alliance of Professional Women

Arapahoe/Denver NOW

Boulder NOW

Brownstein, Hyatt, and Farber

Central Denver NOW

Colorado Federation of Business & Professional Women

Colorado NOW

Colorado Nurses Association

Colorado Women's Agenda

Colorado Women's Bar Association

Colorado Women's Chamber of Commerce

Democratic Women's Club of El Paso County

Denver Department of Human Services

Denver Women's Commission

Federally Employed Women

Girls Count

Helping Hearts and Hands

Lamar Business and Professional Women

LARASA

League of Women Voters of Colorado

9 to 5 National Association of Working Women

Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains

Project Self-Sufficiency of Loveland

Seniors, Inc.

Warren Village

White House Project

Women's Foundation of Colorado

XPOS Seniors

YWCA of Boulder



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