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This resolution honors Texas Women's Foundation on International Women's Day, recognizing the organization's significant contributions to women's empowerment and community development since its founding in 1985. The resolution highlights the foundation's extensive work, including investing $85 million in research, advocacy, grantmaking, and leadership development, and impacting over 90,000 women, girls, and families statewide through various initiatives like the Young Women's Initiative and Women's Leadership Institute. It emphasizes the organization's biannual research on economic challenges facing Texas women, which helps inform corporate leaders, policymakers, and lawmakers about critical issues affecting the 14.7 million women and girls in Texas. The Texas House of Representatives formally acknowledges the foundation's four-decade-long efforts to empower women, extends best wishes to its affiliates, and resolves to prepare an official copy of the resolution as an expression of high regard, symbolically celebrating the organization's achievements on International Women's Day.

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