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Girl Scouts, Moms Learn Merits of Thrift in Financial Workshop

02/27/2010

The Kansas City Star: Nearly 150 girls and mothers attended “Making Cent$ in the City,” a one-day financial education workshop put on by the Women’s Foundation of Greater Kansas City and the Girl Scouts of Northeast Kansas and Northwest Missouri.

Read the full story here (offsite link)

The Women's Foundation of California www.womensfoundca.org

The Women’s Foundation of California is the only statewide public foundation that invests in women and girls throughout California who are working to create a more just and equitable society. Since 1979, we have invested in the most promising women leaders in the state who are strengthening grassroots organizations, advocating for policy change and building movements. We have awarded more than $24 million in grants to more than 1200 community-based organizations in every region of our diverse state.

Securing Access to Education

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

Three Guineas Fund

The Three Guineas Fund, founded in 1994, promotes social equity by expanding access to economic opportunity for women and girls.

Jewish Women’s Foundation of the Greater Palm Beaches

The Jewish Women’s Foundation of the Greater Palm Beaches (JWF) is dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls through social change grant-making. Our grants are strategically invested in activities that are designed to challenge and overcome the social, economic, political and legal inequities faced by Jewish women and girls around the world.

New York Women's Foundation

The New York Women’s Foundation (NYWF) was established in 1987 as a public philanthropy to be a voice for women and a force for change. We are a cross-cultural alliance of women helping low-income women and girls in the five boroughs to achieve sustained economic security through expanded opportunities. We work together to transform the conditions of poverty and to create an equal and just future for low-income women and girls.

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 Women's Fund of Southern Alabama

The Women's Fund is a donor-advised fund under the supervision of The Community Foundation of South Alabama. We are guided by the principle that, in coming together and pooling our resources, women can help one another. Towards that end, The Women's Fund seeks to encourage women to assume greater roles as philanthropists while providing a vehicle for their giving, a vehicle through which they can control and direct their donations to have a positive impact on the lives of women and girls.

Governed and Managed by Women

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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