by Micah Richardson | Jun 30, 2025 | Advocacy Blog, Advocacy Blog
June 30, 2025 After launching its Childcare Provider Grants in January, the Wyoming Interagency Working Group on Childcare has exhausted all available funds in just two rounds of grantmaking. In total, 25 in-home and center-based providers across the state received...
by Micah Richardson | Jun 6, 2025 | Advocacy Blog
There’s something really cool happening in Wyoming right now – and it’s not about bills or legislators this time. It’s about tackling childcare – and it’s legit, folks! The Wyoming Women’s Foundation has been working with a group called the Interagency Working...
by Micah Richardson | May 12, 2025 | Advocacy Blog
Thanks to everyone who signed on to our letter to the editor regarding Medicaid Expansion! Your action and support makes a difference. As we celebrate Mother’s Day, let’s take a moment to recognize the need to take care of our moms beyond a greeting card and...
by Micah Richardson | Mar 28, 2024 | Advocacy Blog, Advocacy Blog
The 2024 Wyoming Legislative Budget Session has come to a close! WYWF followed the action and is glad to be able to provide a recap. But before I jump in, let’s take just a second to look at a few differences between a budget and general session: Now that...
by Micah Richardson | Nov 27, 2023 | Advocacy Blog, Advocacy Blog
Over the last year the Wyoming Women’s Foundation has traveled the state to listen and learn from people like you to better understand what issues are impacting your community. Time and again we heard that unreliable, unaffordable, or inaccessible childcare is a real...
by Micah Richardson | Oct 3, 2023 | Advocacy Blog, Advocacy Blog
When does a conversation about external cost adjustment (who even knows what that is?) get exciting? When it impacts our teachers and kids! Let’s dive in to learn a bit more about the Joint Education Committee’s recent meeting in which external cost adjustments (ECA)...