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About Us
Our Mission
The mission of the Greater Kansas City Women's Political Caucus is to recruit, train and
elect individuals who support public policies that advance equal rights and opportunities
for women, and to promote participation by women in the political process.
What We Do:
Our Structure:
GKC/WPC consists of three separate organizations:
The mission of the Greater Kansas City Women's Political Caucus is to recruit, train and
elect individuals who support public policies that advance equal rights and opportunities
for women, and to promote participation by women in the political process.
What We Do:
- Get women elected and appointed to public office.
- Screen, endorse and provide financial support to state and local candidates.
- Train potential candidates and campaign volunteers.
- Recruit volunteers to go door-to-door, do mailings, phoning for individual
candidates. - Hold educational forums on WPC legislative issues.
- Provide educational programs on getting involved in the political process.
- Lobby cooperatively with other organizations in Jefferson City and Topeka.
Our Structure:
GKC/WPC consists of three separate organizations:
- Greater Kansas City Women's Political Caucus (C-4) is the membership
organization. Dues are not tax-deductible and include State & National Caucus
dues. Click here to join - GKC/WPC PAC is the political action committee that makes direct and indirect
campaign contributions to individual candidates. Donations are not tax-deductible.
Click here to read more: - GKC/WPC Endowment and Education Fund (EEF) (C-3). Donations to the
Endowment are tax-deductible.
| GKC/WPC, founded in 1972, is the only women-run political organization in Greater Kansas City and is currently the second largest Caucus chapter in the country. The organization is affiliated with the National Women's Political Caucus in Washington, D.C. and is a descendent of groups who worked to gain women the right to vote. |
| A tribute to caucus founder, Doris Quinn by Rosemary Smithson It is with much sadness that I write this tribute to a long-time friend and activist, Doris Quinn, who died on May 22, 2003, at the age of 79. Doris was a nationally known leader in the second wave of the women's movement. As an industrial editor she was a member of Women In Communications and attended the group's national convention in 1971. At the meeting she was inspired by a speech given by Congresswoman Martha Griffiths who announced that a National Women's Political Caucus was being formed in Washington. Doris came back home and with her buddy Norma Storms, and convened the first Missouri state caucus meeting in February 1972. Shortly after, she launched the GKC Caucus at a meeting at UMKC and served as its first president. Doris herself ran for political office and in 1974 joined the three "D's" (Doris Quinn, Della Hadley and Dottie Doll) and took Jefferson City by storm.Doris instilled the Caucus with the spirit of women helping women. It was her heart cause and she was the soul of the organization. Doris personally helped hundreds of women reach their goals. It is clear that one of the reasons the GKC Caucus is alive and well 31 years later is that its founder was a woman of incredible integrity and unique people skills. Beneath that halo of white curls and behind those innocent brown eyes was the spirit of a first-class troublemaker. Doris and I always joked that we should turn our passing into a fund raising opportunity. So her friends, Carol Bates and Biddy Hurlbut have done just that. They have started a Doris Quinn Tribute Fund for the WPC Endowment. Please pledge in Doris' honor and help keep her passion for women's political equality well-funded! |
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