IWPR Upgrades and Expands Its Space

During the months of December and January, IWPR undertook the monumental task of packing up more than 20 years of research, documents, and miscellaneous materials to relocate to a new office space a few blocks away at 1200 18^th St NW in Washington, DC.  Adding to a full workload of producing impactful research on how public policies affect women, IWPR’s staff vigorously combed through boxes, filing cabinets, and old desk drawers to purge volumes of unnecessary materials the Institute had accumulated over the 23 years it has been in existence.  The Institute also began a project with Harvard University’s Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute to archive all of the important source documents that describe IWPR’s origins and accomplishments.

To celebrate this new era for the Institute, IWPR held an office warming open house on May 20, 2010.  With fresh paint, new furniture, and an enhanced computer network and telephone system, IWPR began 2010 with an upgraded and expanded capacity to work on behalf of women and their families.

(from left) Mary Haney, independent consultant; Dr. Heidi Hartmann, IWPR President, Dr. Lenora Cole, IWPR Board Chair and former director of the US Department of Labor's Women's Bureau; and Bonnie Grabenhofer, NOW Executive Vice President

(from left) IWPR Development Director Ryan Koch and IWPR Board Member Emily van Agtmael attend IWPR’s office
warming open house on May 20.

IWPR cleaned out ten years of accumulated materials at the old office.

Open house guests from the Center for Law and Social Policy, IWPR’s newest neighbors. (From left) Alexander Twyman, Angela Parker, Michelle Vinson, Zaana Hall, Josh Bone, and Emily Stivers.