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The Arc Foundation

The Arc Foundation is a grant-making organization advancing women’s leadership in public office to further environmental, developmental, and humanitarian goals, enriching the lives of communities and ecosystems around the world.

OUR WORK

Women changing a changing world.

Overview statement: We know that when women are included in public office, countries experience higher standards of living with positive developments in health, education, infrastructure, and the environment. Strong evidence also shows that women have a greater propensity to develop, pass, implement, and uphold laws to further specific development, environmental, and humanitarian outcomes, and that they are central to securing and maintaining peace, and strengthening democracy.

Facing Challenges North and South

Overview statement: We know that when women are included in public office, countries experience higher standards of living with positive developments in health, education, infrastructure, and the environment.

To further those goals, we sponsor work in the following areas:

  • Micro-courses on policy, technology, climate change, and global health. 
  • Guidance in navigating national security and international forums 
  • Field operations training—how to choose and field a team, understanding  demographics for outreach
  • Value based communications
  • EQ Leadership management  
  • Mindfulness and meditation

The Covid-19 Pandemic has provided a real-time opportunity to understand the critical importance and consequences of good leadership decisions in a high-stakes situation. From New Zealand to Iceland, to Germany and Finland, the female leaders of these countries have implemented clear, thorough, and well-executed shutdowns and social distance plans, flattened the curve, controlled and prevented new cases. 

The Best Leadership In Today's Crisis


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“We know that when women are included in public office, countries have higher standards of living with positive impact in health, education, infrastructure, and the environment.”

OUR APPROACH

 

Overview statement: We know that when women are included in public office, countries have higher standards of living with positive developments in health, education, infrastructure, and the environment.


Communities First


Overview statement: We know that when women are included in public office, countries have  higher standards of living with positive developments in health, education, infrastructure, and the environment.

Build Leadership

 

Overview statement: We know that when women are included in public office, countries higher standards of living with positive developments in health, education, infrastructure, and the environment.

First Line, Front Line

WHO WE ARE

"Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul," Coretta Scott King wrote. Where isn't that true now?

Thea Garland
Founder

 

Obama Ipsum: But for all those who scratched and clawed their way to get a piece of the American Dream, there were many who didn’t make it – those who were ultimately defeated, in one way or another, by discrimination. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal, and we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words – within our borders, and around the world. Denying that fact is baseless, ignorant, and hateful. I know there is debate about this issue. Meanwhile, the struggle for women’s equality continues in many aspects of American life, and in countries around the world. 

 

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

— DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

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