What's New
- NEW REPORT: The Elder Economic Security Standard Index for New Mexico
- PRESS RELEASE: New Mexico Elders Living on the Edge: New Report Shows Basic Needs Exceed Income
- PRESS RELEASE: WOW Calls on Congress to Keep Social Security's Promise (August 13, 2010)
- House Appropriations Provides $5 million in FY11 Budget for DC's Core Victim Services
- PRESS RELEASE: WOW Recognizes Medicare's Strides and Struggles (July 30, 2010)
- WOW Cited in Center for American Progress Report
- Check out WOW's NEW "Green Space" Newsletter!
- WOW's Testimony before the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (June 30, 2010)
- FACT SHEET: Local Jobs Act Supports Jobs Needed by Women and Families
- Wider Opportunities for Women Wins Top Recognition in DC and Across the Country!
Great Nonprofits 2010 Women’s Empowerment Campaign rated WOW among the 2010 Top-Rated Women’s Empowerment Nonprofits in the US – a list generated on the basis of user reviews submitted during a national campaign in May.
In our home community, WOW is a featured organization in the 2010-11 Catalogue for Philanthropy: Greater Washington – a showcase for “the finest community-based nonprofits that Greater Washington has to offer.”
- Urgent Action Needed on UI, COBRA, TANF Emergency Fund and FMAP – WOW letter to Congress
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Our Programs
- Family Economic Security
- Elder Economic Security Initiative
- Women and Work
- Building Bridges to Economic Security Campaign
- Promising Practices in Workforce Development
- DC Metro Area Programs
- DC Metro Area Self-Sufficiency Calculator (DCMASSC)
- DC Women's Agenda
- DC Jobs Council
- DC Area Construction Training for Women
Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW)
WOW works nationally to build pathways to economic security for America's women and their families. For more than 40 years, WOW has helped women learn to earn, with programs emphasizing literacy, technical and nontraditional skills, welfare-to-work transition, career development and retirement security. Today, WOW is recognized nationally for its skills training models, technical assistance and advocacy for women workers.