Women's Action for New Directions
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Women's Action for New Directions or WAND is a progressive women's organization that seeks to decrease militarism, work toward the disbandment of weapons of mass destruction stockpiles, to redirect military spending toward social programs, and to increase women's involvement in the political process.
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[edit] Organizational Structure
[edit] STAND
Students Take Action for New Directions was founded by 13 young women at WAND's 1999 biennial WAND/WiLL national conference. It works to encourage young women to become politically active, to vote, to network with other young WAND members and with WiLL members, and to become activists working toward WAND's goals.
[edit] WiLL
Women Legislators'Lobby is a non-partisan network of female state legislatures who are members of WAND. Nan Grogan Orrock is the current president of WiLL. In 2003, WAND founded Trailblazers, a network that seeks to use the contacts and influence of former legislators to continue to influence national priorities and foreign policy issues.
[edit] WAND Education Fund
WAND Education fund is WAND's tax-deductible arm. The Education fund works to achieve the organizations goals through educating the public and opinion leaders about the organizations issues.
[edit] WAND PAC
WAND PAC is a political action committee of WAND members that supports members who are running for the United States Congress. To donate to WAND PAC you must be a member of WAND. In the PAC's early years WAND endorsed and donated to non-members that supported the organizations goals. However, with the increase in members running for office in the 1990's WAND decided to concentrate resources solely on their members running for office.
[edit] Local Chapters
WAND has chapters in all regions of the country.
[edit] Affiliated Organizations
WAND works to build relationships with organizations that share similar goals.
[edit] Goals & Values
[edit] History
WAND was founded in the 1980's.
