{"id":12,"date":"2009-09-08T15:06:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T19:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/shaw\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2026-01-23T10:47:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:47:44","slug":"advocacy-and-support","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/shaw\/home\/advocacy-and-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocacy and Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Anna Howard Shaw Award<\/h4>\n<p>This award recognizes women &#8220;who embody those values expressed in the life of Anna Howard Shaw: courage born of Christian faith, dedication to increased opportunities for women, devotion to social justice, persistence in difficult circumstances, service for the common good, and a vision of a better world.&#8221; This award is given biennially. Previous recipients have included C. Faith Richardson, Bishop Susan Murch Morrison, The Reverend Jeanne Audrey Powers, Margaret Suber Wiborg, and Yolanda Pupo-Ortiz.<\/p>\n<h4>Resource Center<\/h4>\n<p>The Shaw Center\u2019s library devoted to women\u2019s issues includes a wide selection of books, articles, and audiotapes that are available to interested persons. The Shaw library books are included in the Boston University Libraries database in order to make the library more accessible for users.<\/p>\n<h4>Student Activities<\/h4>\n<p>Under student leadership, the Shaw Center supports women\u2019s discussion groups, fall and spring retreats, workshops, presentation\/movie series, and worship services. The Center also provides a comfortable and practical gathering place for students with coffee, tea, a microwave oven, couches, and lively conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Howard Shaw Award This award recognizes women &#8220;who embody those values expressed in the life of Anna Howard Shaw: courage born of Christian faith, dedication to increased opportunities for women, devotion to social justice, persistence in difficult circumstances, service for the common good, and a vision of a better world.&#8221; This award is given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2071,"featured_media":0,"parent":3,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/shaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/shaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/shaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/shaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/shaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/shaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5090,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/shaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/5090"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/shaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/shaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}