Events & News

We were honored to host a strategy session at Tides Advocacy's 2025 Beyond Impact conference!

A North Texas nonprofit hosted a heartfelt breakfast honoring local civil rights leaders.

An organization working largely in the South is encouraging Black women in North Carolina to become more civically engaged.

1K Women Strong partnered with local students and community leaders to celebrate Earth Day in Flint

This Earth Day, 1K Women Strong showed up in communities like Flint, Michigan, and others across the South, because we know environmental justice is our fight and our future.

Commissioner Jeffery Haynes coordinated Earth Day in partnership with the Early County Commission, City of Blakely and 1K Women Strong, Inc. to honor local farmers.

A national civic engagement group is sharpening its focus on Alabama as it works to engage Black women voters and tackle key issues in communities across the state.

A civic engagement group focused on Georgia is weighing in on the state of Black women and the path forward as the nation faces major changes.

We marched in community to honor our history and gain strength from one another.

Children marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge along with 1K Women Strong during the Children’s Sojourn/Youth Freedom March on March 7.

The two leaders talk about all that's at stake in 2024, and the crucial work being done on the ground to ensure that every possible voter makes their voices heard at the polls.

To celebrate Opal Lee in Fort Worth was the honor of a lifetime. We stand on her shoulders as we work to unleash the power of Black women across the country.

We rallied in South Carolina with Vice President Kamala Harris and went to service with Minority Leader Jeffries on Martin Luther King Day.

Building the beloved community takes a village, and 1000 Women Strong is immensely proud to count the Barbara Lee Family Foundation as a supporter in this work.

1000 Women Strong had the honor of presenting at the #BeyondImpact23 Conference, hosted by Tides Advocacy!

At this year's Netroots Nation conference, 1000 Women Strong presented a live panel on black rural organizing in front of America's progressive organizers.

Our founder and executive director chatted with Laura Coates ahead of the Supreme Court decision on the Biden-Harris Administration's student debt relief plan.

A star-studded panel joined us to talk about our 2023 issues!

For us, Women's History Month is every month. To that end, we're delighted to share with you the issues we'll be organizing for this coming year: Environmental Justice. Paid Family and Medical Leave. Maternal Health. Food Insecurity.

We stand on the shoulders of so many incredible women in the diaspora who paved the way for us. We will be celebrating their triumphs and journeys throughout the coming month and beyond. (You know us.)

In 2022, we gave reproductive justice support and resources to those who needed it. We got President Biden’s commitment to student loan debt cancellation (and we’re still keeping up the pressure federally.) And we made a huge impact in key states this past midterm cycle, reaching more than 100,000 voters in rural Georgia for the runoff election. Now, we're gearing up for what's next...

We were able to reach more than 100,000 voters in rural Georgia over the past few weeks!

Our founder and executive director, Shakya Cherry-Donaldson, said it best on MSNBC this weekend: "We are reaching voters by every means necessary."

It’s the final push. As 1000 Women Strong continues our voter outreach in key election states leading up to the November 8th midterm elections – and beyond! – we thought we would shine a bright spotlight on some of our amazing in-state organizing fellows.

The federal government has opened up applications for one-time debt relief provided by the U.S. Department of Education (ED) as part of the Biden-Harris Administration student debt relief plan!

Our founder and executive director, Shakya Cherry-Donaldson, shared her thoughts with USA Today on reproductive freedom, reproductive justice and abortion care.

Several advocacy organizations, spearheaded by 1000 Women Strong, a national hub for Black women organizing, have requested a series of meetings with the Biden administration to discuss the disproportionate impact of federal student loan debt on Black women.

In this audio interview of the Being American Podcast, Gov. Patrick sits down with Shakya Cherry-Donaldson, the executive director of 1000 Women Strong, a group that provides resources, recruits, trains, mobilizes, and organizes around issues that impact Black Women and their extended communities.

The announcement made by the US Department of Education on the federal student loan debt moratorium extension was welcome news. However, it is not enough! Before the pandemic, more than 43 million Americans owed nearly $1.7 trillion dollars in student loan debt.

Building on his own experience as a candidate, Patrick says that supporting the grassroots is necessary for sustained engagement beyond election day.