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Watch This: TroubleNation Women Organizing for Good

Aug 7, 2025 | Easy A

Last week, we shined a spotlight on nine women throughout American history who have organized in their communities to help others. There are countless examples of women seeing a problem and taking action to fix it, because that’s what we do! And not just in history — many women are doing it in this moment.

Take a minute — forty seconds, actually — to watch this video about a group of women who are organizing in Prince William County, Virginia. They recently collected 2,300 pounds of food and $5,000 to support local food banks in their community!

Jess Schaer knew that some kids have less access to food during the summer when they’re not in school. She wanted to do something to help, and this was the result! By organizing her group, PWC Women that Wine, and asking others to chip in, she is making a difference.

PWC Women that Wine is one of more than 825 Red Wine & Blue TroubleNation groups who are organizing locally like this. That’s more than 106,850 women! In a time where so much is going on in the world and the weight of it all can feel overwhelming, these women have found that they can best tackle the problems they see by going local.

This is something we all can do with whatever amount of free time we have. Even if we all can’t organize our own group and host events like this food drive, we can support local organizing with donations, volunteering whatever time we have to give, or even just by spreading the word about their efforts on social media. We can all be a part of the beautiful history of women organizing for good.

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