Human Security

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.

Read the full story here (offsite link)

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.

Equality Now

Equality Now works to end violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world through the mobilization of public pressure.

Issues of concern to Equality Now include:

  • Rape
  • Domestic Violence
  • Reproductive Rights
  • Trafficking
  • Female Genital Mutilation
  • Political Participation
  • Gender Discrimination

NBC's Philandering Philanthropist: Where Is the Rest of the Story?

08/05/2009

Huffington Post Commentary: I've been watching NBC's "The Philanthropist" and wonder if the show will turn a corner anytime soon and start following more closely the philanthropy of the man who inspired the show - instead of mixing "MacGyver" and "The Amazing Race."

Read the Full Commentary Here (offsite link).

Women's Groups Split By Afghanistan Policy

07/31/2009

The Feminist Majority Foundation and the Afghan Women's Mission are locked in a bitter controversy over what's best for the women of Afghanistan.

Read the Full Article Here (offsite link).

Women's Work: A New Blueprint for Economic Recovery

Wednesday, July 29, from 10:30 am - 12 noon PST - conference call and webinar with some of the country’s leading experts on the economy, hosted by the Women's Foundation of California and the Global Fund for Women.

Women and girls make up the majority of the world's poor and are being disproportionately impacted by the current economic crisis. You will hear analysis and debate about how to inform policymaking to create lasting social change for women and girls, and be provided with a big-picture overview of the global economy and its impact on women from our panel of experts:

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: July 9, 2009

Wal-Mart and green jobs for women | Will abortion sink U.S. health care reform? | Boycott Berlusconi! | Women in the News Roundup: July 9, 2009

Interesting views all around today on philanthropy, the economy, health and single motherhood. Happy reading!

Health:

A TIME Magazine article looks at whether abortion coverage could sink a health care reform plan:
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1909178,00.html

Amnesty International released a report yesterday calling Peru’s maternal morbidity rate ‘scandalous’ (CNN):
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/09/peru.pregnant.mortality/

News Round Up: July 7, 2009

Truth Commission: Bar Johnson-Sirleaf From Office | Campaign Tells G8 to Make Mom Proud | America's Uphill Budget Battle | Women and the News Roundup: July 7, 2009

A very light day today for women in the news (at least in terms of what is being reported). Happy reading!

Top News:

Uighur women are mounting protests of their own over the disappearance of men during mounting violence in western China (Belfast Telegraph):
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/world/asia/uighur-women-...

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