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- Advocates for women, children, and families with increasing frequency and impact from city councils to state legislatures to Capitol Hill.
- Joins National Day of the Working Parent rallies to spotlight unmet needs of working families.
- Participates in National Speak Out for Children Advocacy Day in Washington, DC.
- Commemorates its 100th Anniversary with centennial festivities in the US and Israel.
- Celebrates founder Hannah G. Solomon's induction into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
- Participates in White House conferences on race relations, hate crimes, child care, and early childhood development.
- Launches NCJW's action alert network, to broadcast breaking news and legislative information on vital initiatives via email, enabling instant action across the country.
- Issues two key studies, Parents as School Partners and Listening to Families, on the impact of changes in welfare policy.
- Launches StoP: NCJW's Strategies to Prevent Domestic Violence grassroots network to facilitate education and outreach to the Jewish community and the general public, as well as advocacy and community action.
- Gathers the signatures of over 700 rabbis and cantors in support of a presidential veto of anti-choice legislation.
- Launches NCJW's Yad B'Yad grant program -- NCJW's Initiative to Nurture Knowledge -- to support grassroots organizations serving at-risk children and their families in Israel.
- Updates its childcare findings in a new study: Opening a New Window on Child Care. This review of the childcare crisis is featured on NBC-TV Nightly News, and in television, radio and print nationwide.
- Focuses the need for national attention to the child care crisis by gathering hundreds of signatures on NCJW's Child Care Statement of Principles.
- Registers, educates, and mobilizes thousands of voters nationwide with Promote the Vote 2000! Campaign.
- Rallies and urges support against gun violence in state and national Million Mom Marches.
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