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Personal values have long driven individual philanthropy. Donors connect to charities based on shared values or interests. In recent years, financial investors have also sought to better align their monetary…

The National Foundation for Women Legislators, or NFWL, believes that the greatest rising force in US politics today is not a political party, nor is it a lobbying community. It…

As the month of May celebrates Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, many of us wonder when and how the month of May was dedicated, and why more than ever this month is important to celebrate and acknowledge.

There is no direct antecedent to our modern secular celebration of mothers, but it has existed, one way or another, for thousands of years. Here’s a timeline: – Antiquarians and…

The impulse to create a memory and make it tangible is so very human — to hold it, and repeatedly commemorate it is also a very Jewish value … When we participate in remembrance, we help to avoid similar mistakes in the future.

Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter was born in Austria to elegance, affluence, and education, and with her immediate family, was lucky to be among the few and fortunate able to escape Nazi-controlled Austria in the late-1930s. After her family landed in Brooklyn a few years later, she went on to become a brilliant fixture in New York bridal fashion, in particular — a trendsetter who made New York shoppers feel among the lucky and fortunate.

It was the Roaring Twenties. Flappers raised their hemlines and lowered their morals. Prohibition was law since 1917, when the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banned “the manufacture, sale,…

HOUR BY HOUR, DAY BY DAY, the eyes of the free world look to Ukraine as it is besieged by Putin’s Russia: watching, waiting, and praying that somehow, by the grace of God, mankind will avert a third World War. Whether we shall—or not—is yet to be seen. ELYSIAN’s mantra is ”Women Inspiring Women.” Now, more than ever, we are inspired to honor the magnificent women of the Ukraine in this Special Edition Newsletter. Many Ukrainian women have died. Many more will die—but not one will have died in vain. For their relentless courage and abiding love for freedom is a shining beacon that will evermore endure and light the way for all women, everywhere—now, and till the End of Time.

With Ukraine under attack, its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has stepped in to help and protect the country that he knows, loves, and leads.

Gilda Cobb-Hunter left teaching to ensure that jobs in South Carolina would not be threatened as the state rapidly grew at the expense of rural communities.

Eboni Williams is the first African American woman to star on Real Housewives of New York and has also been a lawyer, TV anchor, and host.

Phyllis Newhouse is the first African American woman CEO to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange and win Young Entrepreneur of The Year Award.