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Wyoming Women's Foundation Outlines Child-Care Problems

03/10/2010

Casper Star-Tribune: A statewide tour of child-care facilities by the Wyoming Women’s Foundation found child care is becoming prohibitively expensive for an increasing amount of parents.

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Securing Access to Education

Educating girls may be among one of the highest-return investments a society can make.

The Global Fund for Children

The Global Fund for Children provides capital to strengthen innovative community-based organizations serving the most vulnerable children and youth. We harness the power of children’s books, films, and photography to promote global understanding.
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The Harold and Kayrita Anderson Family Foundation

Social change cannot happen merely from the top down, and in this way philanthropy and charity is often the difference between a hand out and a hand up. We strategically fund programs that not only serve those stuck in the trenches, but build bridges to bring them to an equal footing. Bridges that allow people to move from vulnerability to self-sufficiency, from research to results and from ideas to accomplishments.

Childhood Services 'Investment' in Jobs

09/13/2009

Clarion Ledger Opinion: Anyone who has ever paid a bill knows the federal poverty measure grossly underestimates what families need to make ends meet.

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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...

News Round Up: June 25, 2009

Study shows women earn less | New York Times on maternal mortality in Africa | More on Violence against women

A light day for news about women and women’s issues as the media turns their eyes to Farrah and MJ. Happy reading!

The Economy:

New York Times Magazine previews a story in this Sunday’s issue, about GM and the fall of Detroit’s African-American middle class:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/magazine/28detroit-t.html

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports on a study showing women working for the city earn less than men:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09176/979878-100.stm

News Round Up: June 24, 2009

NBC's glamorizes philanthropy | Saudi girls get 'permission' to play | Women's long road in Iran

A relatively quiet day in the news with a number of interesting features on sports, philanthropy and Iran. Happy reading!

The Economy and Poverty:

A New York Times article tracks efforts to overcome homelessness in New York City:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/nyregion/24homeless.html?_r=1&ref=nyre...

National Council for Research on Women President Linda Basch calls for more women in finance (Christian Science Monitor):
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0624/p09s02-coop.html

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