Every year, the National Association of Commissions for Women (NACW) gathers people from across the country to share best practices, build relationships, and discuss ways to better address gender inequality. In August, we are bringing the NACW to Los Angeles!

In a post #MeToo world, LACSW wants to leverage the powerful rise in civic engagement to achieve systematic change in our communities. Through its 17+ panels and workshops, this conference will provide skills building, innovative ideas, network opportunities, and strategies you need to create that change.

***Now offering a discounted rate of $250 for non-profits in the City of LA.
Student tickets are available for $100.***
Register Here!
Check out this sneak peek of some of our stellar speakers!
  • Councilwoman Nury Martinez, LA City CD 6
  • Katie Bethel, Founder & Executive Director, PL+US
  • Michaela Mendelsohn, Chief Executive of Pollo West Group & Founder of TransCanWorJamie Tarses, Executive Producer, ABC
  • Jennifer Ferro, General Manager, KCRW
  • Kay Buck, CEO & Executive Director, CAST
  • Emily Schwartz, Vice President of Organizing, National Builder
  • LaShondra Mercurius, President & Co-founder of JLM Strategic Talent Partners & Co-founder of Career Excellence Academy
  • Oree Freeman, award-winning advocate, trainer and survivor leader in the movement to end human trafficking
  • Jodie Grenier, Executive Director, Foundation for Women Warriors
 

CSW “Look Again” Campaign goes to the
Cannes Lions Festival!

 
 

LACSW’s “Look Again Campaign” was nominated to the ACT Responsible Awards offered each year at the Cannes Lions Festival. ACT Responsible is an international non-profit association with the mission to inspire, promote and federate the actors of the advertising communications industry around social responsibility and sustainable development and to share good practices. The “Look Again Campaign” was featured at the ‘‘Great Ads For Good Causes” Exhibition. #YouCannesBeACTive

 
Building A Gender-Sensitive WorkSource System
 

As part of our efforts to help implement the Mayor’s Executive Directive No. 11 on Gender Equity, LACSW has been working closely with the Workforce Development Board (WBD) and the Economic & Workforce Development Department (EWDD) to ensure that the LA City Workforce Development System (WDS) addresses the unique challenges that women and girls face. As a result of our joint efforts, the EWDD, in their most recent WorkSource System Request for Proposal, included a requirement to ensure that program design help:

  • prevent gender stereotyping;
  • provide women and men with equal job training opportunities;
  • close the gender-based wage gap.

On June 7, 2018, the WDB also adopted LACSW’s comprehensive recommendations on the WDS and incorporated them into the WDB’s Annual Plan for 2018/2019 under the Strategic Goal No. 5 – Ensuring Gender Equality & Gender Equity in the Workforce Development System. LACSW looks forward to supporting the WDB in the implementation of these recommendations and to help build the WDS’s capacity to apply a gender lens to the design, implementation, and evaluation of its services.