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With gifts from five dollars to $1 million, the Fund is pleased to announce that it surpassed its $3-million goal and raised $3.5 million to support women and girls’ causes throughout Chester County. Funds raised will be evenly distributed to the Fund’s three endowments for grants, operations and girls’ programs. The Fund reached an historic milestone this year with the campaign, becoming the first women’s fund in the country with an endowment specifically for girls programs.
The “Campaign for Change” is unique and inclusive - the Fund reached out to all of its constituencies to stand up for change in the county. Hundreds of donors supported these efforts - teenaged girls from Fund programs and their parents; community members; current and former board members; as well as volunteers and staff members. The Fund’s dedicated Campaign volunteers hosted several events all over the county, reaching out to local professionals, community activists and interested Chester County citizens to spread the Fund’s mission of improving the lives of women and girls. Many who attended these events were surprised by the Fund’s Blueprint Report findings. The Blueprint Report is the first comprehensive needs assessment of women and girls in the county, and focuses on women and girls’ growing needs. It motivated many to give and to become involved as volunteers so they too could be a part of the wave of change.
"We are pleased and excited about the huge response from the community to our "Campaign for Change,” said Barbara M. Jordan, honorary board chair and chair of the campaign. “This campaign will help to ensure financial stability for the Fund's programs and initiatives with the growth of the three endowments. Equally important was our ability to increase awareness of the issues in Chester County and to share this message with people who were previously unfamiliar with the Fund’s work.”
The campaign was highly successful in other ways as well. Seventy-five percent of the gifts were less than $5,000 and 65% of the gifts were unrestricted, enabling the Fund to direct the funds among the three endowed funds.
The Fund celebrated the successful close of its “Campaign for Change” on June 19th at the home of Beverly Hattersley in Berwyn. For more information on the “Campaign for Change” and on women and girls’ issues, visit our website at www.ccwomenandgirls.org.
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