1. Building a collective voice for women in the Bay Area.(2002)

The Bay Area Regional Action Coalition – BARAC- is a collaboration between the California Women’s Agenda (CAWA) and the San Francisco Foundation (SFF) who has supported building the capacity of BARAC since 2002.
Using the Beijing Platform for Action as its framework for the issues, and CAWA as the organizing model, CAWA continues to build the capacity of BARAC – coalitions and alliances in Bay Area Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo – to respond to community needs. CAWA is connecting, not duplicating, existing Bay Area organizations serving women and girls into a powerful grassroots network for social change. CAWA, and it’s offspring BARAC, are networks that are organizing, not organizations that are networking.

2. Santa Clara County in the CAWA (2007) 

One of the proudest achievements of the CSW was the initiation of the Santa Clara County resolution supporting the UN human rights treaty – The Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). A task force was convened to create awareness about CEDAW’s principles though a human rights training model.
The advocacy initiative this year in the jail system earned CSW national recognition and a National Outstanding Achievement Award for helping to steer State legislation to banning the shackling of pregnant inmates during labor. California Assembly woman Sally Lieber championed this legislation as part of her prison reform efforts.