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From Period Kits to Dispensers: Evolving Menstrual Care in Nevada’s Elementary Schools

From Period Kits to Dispensers: Evolving Menstrual Care in Nevada’s Elementary Schools

by sydney | Sep 29, 2025 | Allied Stories, Schools

By Wendi Schweigart, Project Marilyn founder and Executive Director Project Marilyn, an Allied Member of the Alliance for Period Supplies based in Las Vegas, serves most clients through period kits. These kits contain a variety of period supplies, hopefully enough...
More than 76 Percent of Americans Want Free Period Supplies in Schools

More than 76 Percent of Americans Want Free Period Supplies in Schools

by sydney | Feb 14, 2025 | Period News, Policy, Schools

NEW HAVEN, CONN., OCTOBER 10, 2024 More than three-quarters of Americans believe that period supplies should be available free-of-charge at public schools and public universities. A new poll conducted by YouGov for the Alliance for Period Supplies found that 76.5...
Non-Profit partnership works to solve period poverty locally and nationally

Non-Profit partnership works to solve period poverty locally and nationally

by sydney | Jan 29, 2024 | Period News, Policy, Schools

The Alliance for Period Supplies supports students’ research and news stories. Students are encouraged to dig deeper to become strong advocates for ending period poverty in their community. To interview a staff member about period poverty or have your writing...
The Kwek Society provides supplies and teachings during moon time

The Kwek Society provides supplies and teachings during moon time

by sydney | Nov 21, 2023 | Schools

By Eva Marie Carney, The Kwek Society Realizing the problem and forming the solution In 2017, I read a story about girls on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota missing school because they could not afford period supplies. I thought that this was something that...
Giving the Basics Wichita Ensures Students Have Period Products and Period Health Information

Giving the Basics Wichita Ensures Students Have Period Products and Period Health Information

by sydney | Jul 25, 2023 | Allied Stories, Schools

By Dr. Erin Kalkbrenner, Give the Basics Wichita Giving the Basics Wichita is empowering girls in Wichita, Kansas by distributing free menstrual products in schools – 158 schools and counting. Period products are not covered by government assistance programs and...

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