About CWP

Center Women Present is a queer women’s initiative started at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center serving all self-identified women, including lesbians, queer, bisexual, and transgender community members.  The program intends to address women’s community issues through volunteer-led projects and is shaped primarily by input of community members, with assistance of The Center’s staff.

CWP is comprised of volunteers working together to create a rich array of activities. The deeply committed all-volunteer Steering Committee works with Center staff and input from program participants to envision, create and implement social and cultural activities that meet the community’s needs.

Our model is based on a grassroots approach to program planning and implementation and is guided by principles of community organizing. The Center believes that this approach fosters sustainable programs that are highly relevant to our community. The Center supports CWP volunteers by providing staff time, space to conduct meetings and events, institutional backing and the opportunity to be an active decision maker in how funds are raised and used for their organizing efforts.