Business

Women's Business Ownership
-assistance with women's entrepreneurial issues
www.sba.gov
202-205-6673

Department of Labor Women's Bureau
-women's legal rights in the workplace
www.dol.gov./dol/wb
1-800-827-5335

Department of Labor Women's Bureau, general office
-concerning economic and international issues
www.dol.gov/dol/wb/
202-219-6611

U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Women's Business Ownership
-specifically created to help women entrepreneurs
www.sba.gov
202-205-6673

U.S. Small Business Administration
-on managing and financing a woman-owned small business
www.sba.gov
1-800-8-ASK-SBA

Department of Transportation Short-Term Lending Program
-application for a short-term loan, particularly women in small businesses
www.dot.gov
1-800-532-1169

Working Women Count! A Report to the Nation,
Government Printing Office,
Publication #029-002-0082
-call for a copy of the survey results
www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/
202-512-1800

Discrimination and Violence

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
-to report sexual discrimination or harassment
www.eeoc.gov
1-800-669-4000

Office of Federal Contract Compliance
- to report sexual discrimination in any company which contracts with the federal government
www.dol.gov/dol/esa
202-693-0101

Department of Health and Human Services, National Child Care Information Center
-concerning child care and other work and family issues
www.nccic.org
1-800-616-2242

Violence Against Women Office in the Justice Department
-for information concerning domestic violence
www.usdoj.gov/vawo
202-616-8894

Education

Federal Student Aid Information Center
-information and applications for student loans
www.fafsa.ed.gov
1-800-433-3243
1-800-4-FED-AID

National School-to-Work Program, Learning and Information Center
-about implementing a School-to-Work program in your area; helping students make the connection between schoolwork and career
www.ftw.ed.gov
1-800-251-7236

Corporation for National Service, AmeriCorps Program
-about AmeriCorps, a program which loans money to students in return for community service
www.nationalservice.org
www.americorps.org
202-606-5000

Department of Education, Office for Safe and Drug-Free Schools
-regarding federal programs addressing violence and drugs in public schools
www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/SDFS
202-260-3954
1-800-624-0100

Department of Education, Information Resource Center
-referral to any Department of Education program, including Goals 2000: Educate America
www.ed.gov
1-800-USA-LEARN

Department of Bilingual Education and Minority Language Affairs
-about bilingual education programs
www.ed.gov/offices/OBEMLA

Department of Health and Human Services, Head Start
-about Head Start, a pre-school program for low income children.
www.hhs.gov

Department of Education, Women's Educational Equity Act Program
-funding for agencies and organizations which implement programs to promote educational equality for women and girls
www.ed.gov

Department of Justice, Educational Opportunity Section
-federal statutes concerning discrimination in schools
www.usdoj.gov/crt/overview.html
202-514-4092

Health

National Domestic Violence Hotline
-domestic violence, emergency shelters, legal advocacy, assistance programs, social services, and batterers' programs
www.ndvh.org
1-800-799-SAFE

Public Health Services, Office on Women's Health
-coordinates and provides general information on resources, services, and education on women's health programs in the federal government
www.4woman.gov
202-690-7650

Public Health Services, Office of Population Affairs
-oversees federally funded family planning clinics
www.hhs.gov/progorg/opa/opa.htm
301-594-4000

Office of Research on Women's Health, National Institutes of Health
-about Women's health research at the National Institutes of Health
301-402-1770

Office of Women's Health, Food and Drug Administration
-Food and Drug Administration policies and regulations concerning women's inclusion in clinical drug trials and research
www.fda.gov/womens/
301-827-0350
888-INFO-FDA

Eldercare Locator, Department of Health and Human Services Administration on Aging
-for assistance for elder persons and caregivers
www.aoa.dhhs.gov
1-800-677-1116

National Clearinghouse on Alcohol and Drug Information, Department of Health and Human Services, Center on Substance Abuse Prevention
www.health.org
1-800-994-9662

National Institute of Mental Health Depression
www.nimh.nih.gov
1-800-421-4211

Women's Health Initiative, National Institutes of Health
-largest study on preventing heart, lung and bone disease in older women
www.nih.gov
1-800-994-9662

Cancer Information Service, National Cancer Institute
-about cancer and for referral to an Food and Drug Administration-approved mammography center in your area
www.nci.nih.gov
1-800-4-CANCER

AIDS Clearinghouse, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
-about AIDS and referral to research and medical services
www.edcnpin.org
1-800-458-5231

Children and Youth

Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, Family and Medical Leave Team
-to find out your rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act
1-800-959-FMLA

Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Child Care Bureau
-for referrals to local, federally funded child care centers, and information about national child care policies
www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/fysb
202-442-5999

Corporation for National Service, Learn and Serve America
-grants to community and school-based programs
www.nationalservice.org
202-606-5000

Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
-for biomedical information on children's disorders and health, research reproductive health, and preventative medicine
www.calib.com/nccanch
703-385-7565

Department of State, Office of Children's Issues
-about international child adoption
www.state.gov
202-647-2688

Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Child Support Enforcement
-on child support enforcement
www.acf.dhhs.gov

Department of State, The President's Interagency Council on Women
-coordinates follow-up of the UN Women's Conference
www.secretary.state.gov/www/picw/
202-647-6227

NGO Contacts

University of Missouri at Kansas City, Kansas City, Missour
E-mail: Carol Tally Davis at davisc@umkc.edu
Website: www.umkc.edu/starr/symposium.html

Region III of the U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau, Wilmington, Delaware
E-mail: Kathleen Meyer at kathleenmeyer@msn.com

New Hampshire House of Representatives, Manchester, New Hampshire
E-mail: Honorable Jackie K. Weatherspoon at spritofbeijing@netscape.net

The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas
E-mail: Rita Mae Kelly at rmkelly@utdallas.edu
Website: Third UN Conference on Women 1999 (www.utdallas.edu/dept/socsci/UN_planmtg.htm)

Women’s Bureau, Chicago, Illinois
E-mail: Nancy Chen at chen-nancy@dol.gov

Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts
E-mail: Judy Hickey at judyhickey@aol.com
Website: www.simmons.edu/resources/silc/women2000/

Stone Soup and the University of Washington Human Services Coalition, Seattle, Washington
E-mail: Karen Furia at furia-karen@dol.gov
Website: www.nwstonesoup.org/beijing/index.htm

Global Partnerships for Humanity, Denver, Colorado
E-mail: Karen Beeks at wkbeeks@compuserve.com
Website: www.coaauw.org/women2000/

Women's Intercultural Network, San Francisco, California
E-mail: Marilyn Fowler at win@win-cawa.org
Website: www.win-cawa.org/cawa/

North Carolina Council for Women, Charlotte, North Carolina
E-mail: June Kimmel at jmkimmel@ix.netcom.com

Department of Labor Women's Bureau, Atlanta, Georgia
E-mail: Dorris Muscadin at muscadin-dorris@dol.gov
Website: www.dol.gov/dol/wb/public/info_about_wb/iscene.htm

Louisiana Department of Justice, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
E-mail: R. Gayle Harell Jackson at Jacksong@ag.state.la.us

Women's Leadership Institute, Mills College, Oakland, California
E-mail: Edna Mitchell at edna@mills.edu
Website: www.mills.edu/WLI/wli.home.html