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ADVOCACY

At this pivotal moment, the need to safeguard gender equity is more urgent than ever before. Addressing the resource deficits faced by organizations dedicated to women and girls demands a unified, strategic effort —one that brings together funders, nonprofits, and policymakers. In response, Amplify Her® Foundation is expanding our reach, enhancing our advocacy efforts, and forging powerful partnerships with stakeholders across New York City to drive change and create lasting support for women and girls.


Amplify Her® Foundation is:

  • Launching a Unified Policy Platform, to reflect our mission, core values, and changemaking model

  • Hosting an Advocacy Day in March 2025 to provide unique training and connection opportunities for our grantee partners and broader network

  • Elevating engagement with current and new partners working on advocacy issues that are linked to the Unified Policy Platform

Unified Policy Platform

To ensure Amplify Her® Foundation’s advocacy efforts reflect the perspectives of our stakeholders, our twenty inaugural grantee partners participated in focus groups and a comprehensive survey in spring 2024, sharing their community knowledge to identify the most significant barriers for women and girls on their leadership journeys. This research was conducted by Outlier Strategies, a consultancy firm founded and led by two women who served in the New York State Senate and New York State Assembly.

The findings were used to shape Amplify Her® Foundation’s Unified Policy Platform, which guides our community-driven advocacy strategy. The goal of the platform is to provide an actionable roadmap for how public policy can unlock leadership potential for women and girls from underserved communities. The complete platform, to be released in 2025, will serve as an accessible tool to inform and expand grantee partners’ advocacy efforts.

In alignment with the platform’s goal to galvanize systemic change for women and girls’ leadership, the areas of the platform include: education and career readiness, economic mobility, workplace equality and support for working caregivers. Each of these areas includes specific policy actions for that purpose:

EDUCATION AND CAREER READINESS

  • Improve access to and retention in early STEM education and after-school programs designed for girls.

  • Collaborate with the public sector to develop, fund, and improve girl-centered supportive programs.

  • Advocate for financial literacy and gender equity curricula in NYC public schools.

  • Expand mentorship programs for girls.

  • Support comprehensive career development and workforce readiness pathways for girls.

ECONOMIC MOBILITY

  • Increase access to capital for women-owned businesses.

  • Develop tax credits and government funding for public-private partnerships offering internships and educational resources.

  • Implement pay transparency and equity legislation.

WORKPLACE EQUALITY

  • Strengthen local government enforcement of gender-based workplace discrimination laws.

  • Expand access to legal support for gender discrimination victims.

  • Review and revise non-disclosure agreement laws in sexual harassment cases.

  • Establish pathways for women to receive specialized career development training and advance into organizational leadership roles.

SUPPORT FOR WORKING CAREGIVERS

  • Advocate for universal childcare.

  • Partner with government agencies to develop government-sponsored, women-centered reentry/returnship programs for job training, career counseling, and job placement services.

Advocacy Day 

In honor of Women’s History Month, Amplify Her® Foundation will hold an Advocacy Day on March 14th, 2025 at Civic Hall. This event will support the capacity-building of our grantee partners by providing them with the necessary tools and resources to participate in gender equity advocacy at hyperlocal levels. 

Programming will feature skill-building and networking components, coupling a formal training led by the Advocacy Institute, with expert dialogues and engagement with the larger NYC advocacy community. During the training, grantee partners will learn how to advance their work at the city and state government levels, and deepen their knowledge on how to leverage public sector policies and programs for social impact. Following the training, grantee partners will have the opportunity to connect with local elected officials who have demonstrated a commitment to gender equity.

Partnerships

Amplify Her® Foundation is proud to support organizations whose work, expertise and engagement deeply inform gender equity policy in New York City.


If you are interested in collaborating with Amplify Her® Foundation on gender equity advocacy, please reach out to Community & Strategy Manager, Nicole Jakabcsin at nicole@amplifyherfoundation.org.