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This August we are celebrating National Breastfeeding Month recognizing the strength of families, the power of community, and the policies that make breastfeeding possible. This year’s National Breastfeeding Month theme, RISE: Resilience, Interdependence, Self-Determination, and Empowerment, reminds us that no family should have to navigate their feeding journey alone. Breastfeeding doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Families’ ability to meet their breastfeeding goals is shaped by the support they...
As students head back to school across the country, we should all care about what they are learning. Everyone agrees that school lessons should be accurate. They should be helpful for a student’s health and growth.That is why the return of abstinence-only programs is so concerning. More than ten years ago, I worked in teen pregnancy prevention. We knew that abstinence-only programs did more than just give wrong information. We knew they were actually harming young people. Yet these programs...
MomsRising
Education Fund
August 18, 2026
Proposed federal rollbacks threaten to eliminate core standards for Head Start, worsening the national child care crisis for millions of working families. Moms are calling on Congress to step in, defend quality early learning standards, and preserve critical support services for young children.
Key Takeaways: MomsRising member Kat De La Cruz shares why her advocacy work with MomsRising has empowered her to share her story and fight for families. Kat learned through her advocacy with MomsRising that every person has a story to share that sharing it can result in real change. While statistics may inform policy, it’s stories that change hearts. And changed hearts changes policies. Kat shares her truth involving the loss of her babies. recovering from a C-section and returning to work too...
MomsRising
Education Fund
August 13, 2026
The Big Picture Mombassador Nathalie shares how MomsRising empowers moms to embrace all that encompasses motherhood and to find strength in transforming their experiences into powerful tools for advocacy before our elected leaders. Nathalie discusses the ways that moms can be predictably challenged or facilitated when facing public life, and how small gestures can make all the difference in creating an inclusive and empowering environment for young families Moms and kids are a massive share of...
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Education Fund
August 13, 2026
Welcome to the August Dispatch! Thank you for being a part of our growing, powerful Moms Next Door program! What’s the Moms Next Door Dispatch? Each month, you’ll receive the Moms Next Door Dispatch—a monthly toolkit that will arrive in your inbox to provide you and your community with ideas on how to self-organize and take action, how to process and make sense of all that’s going on, AND how to remain calm, find joy in community, and recharge as we build a brighter future! Want to receive...
At a Glance Mombassador and RISER Jean Nguyen reflects on the impact of increased presence of immigration enforcement, family detention centers, and ICE has had on disrupting the safety and livelihood of families, and what she is doing to take action in protecting and sharing stories from our immigrant communities. Over 65,000 people presently in ICE detention and 460,000 have been held in detention since the beginning of Trump’s presidential term , with more than 6,300 children, toddlers, and...
Families are feeling the economic squeeze, and Congress should be focused on lowering costs — not making it harder for eligible Americans to vote. Instead, some lawmakers are once again pushing the anti-voter SAVE America Act.
On Moms’ Equal Pay Day, mothers in the United States still earn just 64 cents for every dollar paid to fathers. Comprehensive paid family and medical leave is a proven, high-impact policy solution to close the wage gap and support working families across the nation.
