USA Today: The Women's Sports Foundation, a pre-eminent voice for women's sports since the dawn of the Title IX age, has cut more than half of its staff in a time of dwindling revenue.
For 35 years, the Women's Sports Foundation has helped advance the lives of girls and women through sport and physcial activity. On Tuesday, October 12, 2010 the Foundation will again celebrate one of the largest nights in Women's Sports and commemorate its 31st year in thanking those athletes who've opened doors for girls following in their footsteps.
New York Times: Flag football, long relegated to family picnics and gym class, has quietly become one of the fastest-growing varsity sports for high school girls in Florida.
The Women’s Sports Foundation—the leading authority on the participation of women and girls in sports—advocates for equality, educates the public, conducts research and offers grants to promote sports and physical activity for girls and women.
Founded by Billie Jean King in 1974, the Women’s Sports Foundation builds on her legacy as a champion athlete, advocate of social justice and agent of change. We strive for gender equity and fight discrimination in sports.
USA Today: In a massive sporting event in which U.S. women often are the biggest stars, at a time when women in this country run companies and run for office as never before, the top executive in each of America's winter Olympic sports remains a man.
The Women’s Sports Foundation is a national charitable educational organization dedicated to advancing the lives of girls and women through physical activity. It is the only national organization promoting all sports and physical activities for women of all ages and skill levels and is acknowledged as the expert resource on all women’s sports issues.
The Chief Development Officer is responsible for increasing the Foundation’s revenue by developing and executing ongoing, multi-year fundraising strategies and growing a base of donors that include, but are not limited to major donors, planned giving, private and corporate foundations, and the general public. Most immediately, focus will be placed on increasing giving from major donors, institutions, family and private foundations and other institutional donors.
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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!
National Public Radio Report: In a final installment of the series Tell Me MoreAbout Women's History, Marj Snyder, of the Womens Sports Foundation, tells the story of women and athletics.
