 In 1990, NBWHP opened a public policy-based office in Washington, D.C. to more actively promote public policies to improve black women's health, such as advising President Clinton's pro-choice administration's health policies and regulation.By then, the NBWHP had moved from being a grassroots organization to advertising black women's health through public policy on a national stage.African American Women Evolving (AAWE) started as a project within the Chicago Abortion Fund, a predominantly white pro-choice organization, in Chicago in 1996.