When we first launched our Pen Pals initiative, the idea was simple: connect caring community members with college students through handwritten notes and emails. We imagined a back-and-forth exchange, a modern twist on the classic pen pal tradition. But as the program

Woman of Wonder recently received an email from the WashBoard.org noting that they had disabled our scholarship, because our scholarship is for women.

The WashBoard.org gave us the option of removing this distinction. We declined.