Whereas Ms. Foundation for Women was founded in 1973 by Gloria Steinem, Patricia Cabrine, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, and Marlo Thomas, becoming the first national public foundation to focus on elevating issues that impact women and girls as well as the national model for sustainable, trust-based philanthropic support of women-led movements; Whereas the mission is to build women’s collective power to realize a Nation of equality and justice for all, and the Ms. Foundation works to bring attention to the real challenges facing women and nonbinary people of color; Whereas Ms. Foundation values integrity, trust and respect, interconnectedness, and social justice; believes power and possibility are not limited by gender, race, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or age; and maintains that freedom and equality are the cornerstones of a true democracy; Whereas by centering the voices and experiences of women and girls of color and working to dismantle structural barriers to equal opportunity based on race and gender, Ms. Foundation ensures collective power and access to achieve gender and racial equality for all; Whereas Ms. Foundation achieves its mission by investing in and strengthening the capacity of women of color-led movements to advance meaningful social, cultural, and economic change and advocating for national and statewide policy changes; Whereas, since 1973, the Ms. Foundation has invested over $90,000,000 in more than 1,600 organizations fighting for gender and racial justice nationwide; Whereas the Ms. South strategy has moved over $1,000,000 to 13 States in the southern United States; Whereas Ms. Foundation received the Presidential Award for Excellence in 1999 to recognize the success of the Collaborative Fund for Women and Economic Development, which leveraged over $12,000,000 in support of grassroots women’s organizations to promote women’s economic security