Housing

Programs Help Women Keep Homes

01/15/2010

10 TV News: Women's Fund of Central Ohio is funding a much-needed program that helps women to keep their homes amid growing rates of foreclosure.

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Mixed-Income Developments Replacing Housing Projects, Gaining Nods From Feds

08/03/2009

Memphis Commercial Appeal: Officials in Washington have taken a hard look at the Memphis model for housing and have nothing but kind words and nods of approval.

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News Round Up: July 13, 2009

Fixing the economy: It's women's work | Obama names Alabama woman for surgeon general post | Single-dose Plan B OK'd | Women in the News Roundup: July 13, 2009

Today’s roundup has a mix of older news and a healthy dose of features and commentary on the economy. Sports fans: LPGA updates at the bottom. Happy reading!

The Economy:

BBC’s Katty Kay and ABC’s Claire Shipman say women hold the keys to worldwide economic recovery (Washington Post Opinion):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/10/AR200907...

The Annie E. Casey Foundation (Associate Member)

Since 1948, the Annie E. Casey Foundation has worked to build better futures for disadvantaged children and their families in the United States. The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families.

Fund for Global Human Rights, Women's Rights Fund

The Women's Rights Fund enables the Fund for Global Human Rights to highlight the work of more than eighty women’s rights grantees; underscore the connection between legal, economic and social discrimination against women throughout the world; and attract new financial resources to the Fund—enabling us to expand our grant-making on the range of critical human rights issues affecting women’s everyday lives.

Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres | Central American Women's Fund

Our vision is a Central America in which young women are guaranteed
their right to physical and emotional integrity, to economic justice
and to participate as leaders in making decisions that will affect
their lives and their communities.

By bringing groups of young women from diverse communities and
cultures throughout Central America together, the Fund contributes to
the construction of a regional movement that seeks new and creative
solutions to problems young women face in their communities.

Women's Fund of Miami-Dade County

The Women's Fund of Miami-Dade has awarded over $2 million to more than 225 projects serving thousands of women and girls and has played an important role in encouraging the development of more programs designed with the need of women and girls in mind and strengthening existing gender-specific programs.

Central American Women's Fund

Our vision is a Central America in which young women are guaranteed their right to physical and emotional integrity, to economic justice and to participate as leaders in making decisions that will affect their lives and their communities.

By bringing groups of young women from diverse communities and cultures throughout Central America together, the Fund contributes to the construction of a regional movement that seeks new and creative solutions to problems young women face in their communities.

Ms. Foundation for Women

The Ms. Foundation actively works to bring race, class, age and sexuality to the center of feminist organizing (a concept we call social justice feminism) and to bring a gender lens to the center of broader progressive organizing (a concept we call feminist social justice).

Bucks County Women's Fund

The Bucks County Women’s Fund is a nonprofit public foundation, managed by women, and dedicated to raising money to fund and support programs and policies that impact, empower and improve the lives of women and girls. The Fund also educates the community about the needs of women and girls and is part of a global network of women's funds with this common mission.

We invest in women's lives and girls' futures with the goal of achieving a society that values, respects and supports all women.

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