Change, Clearinghouse for Community Based Free Standing Educational Institutions, National Association of Community Cooperatives, National Congress of Neighborhood Women, National Council of Negro Women, National Hispanic Housing Coalition, Rural American Women, and the Southeast Women's Employment Coalition. Attendees left the event with a vision for a new educational organization led by women, for women, which would be a "free space for self-actualization of the students and the faculty," and not "one more place for the same old stuff." The Women's School of Planning and Architecture (WSPA) Founded in 1974, the Women's School of Planning and Architecture (WSPA) was established as a private, non-profit corporation, to provide an alternative, active learning experiences for women in the environmental and design fields, including architecture, planning, urban design, housing, neighborhood development, and construction, and co-founders Katrin Adam, Noel Phyllis Birkby, Ellen Perry Berkeley, Bobbie Sue Hood, Marie Kennedy, Joan Forrester Sprague, and Leslie Kanes Weisman endeavored to organize women to focus on "shared common goals and interest not being met within the existing professional contexts." A decade ahead of the country's Active learning initiatives, WSPA was established as a nontraditional, non-hierarchical, participatory, experiential education program, in which participants were "equally responsible and equally capable of making a contribution." WSPA was open to any woman interested in the built environment, regardless of academic background or training. Ms. Birkby described WSPA in the essay entitled "Herspace," (1981) published in "Making Room: Women and Architecture." The title of Ms. Birkby's essay expands upon the term "Herstory" used during the 1970s women's movement to emphasize the need to reclaim and document women's place in "His-story" - the documentation of the past by men about the accomplishments of men. WSPA encouraged personal, professional, and social growth and change. Two-week summer sessions took place at Saint Joseph's College, Biddeford, Maine (1975); Stevenson College, Santa Cruz, California (1976); Roger Williams College, Bristol, Rhode Island (1978), Work Places and Dwellings: Implications for Women; and Regis College, Denver, Colorado (1979). The 1980 program at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland was cancelled due to low enrollment. WSPA hosted a national women's symposium "Community-Based Alternatives and Women in the Eighties," on May 17–20, 1981, at American University, Washington, DC. The event focused on women in the areas of housing, employment, economic development, education and cooperative development. Despite ongoing efforts, WSPA's final project was a 1983-1984 Design Arts Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts