US States

Women, Start Your Campaigns

01/28/2010

The Boston Globe, Opinion: Amb. Swanee Hunt, president of Hunt Alternatives Fund, says a critical mass of women in politics is necessary in the U.S., despite a few recent high-profile national and state-level losses.

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Gail Collins Explores Women's Rapid Revolution

10/28/2009

The Dallas Morning News: American women have indeed entered a new world in the last 50 years – so different that it's difficult to fathom the old one.

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Health Care Plan Must Address New Issues Affecting Women

10/26/2009

Dallas Morning News Opinion: New research compiled by the Dallas Women's Foundation shows, our region's women are among those most acutely affected by a lack of health insurance coverage.

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Funders Concerned About AIDS

Today we face the greatest global economic crisis in 80 years and AIDS continues to devastate disadvantaged communities on every continent. Join the first annual gathering of Funders Concerned About AiDS and meet face-to-face with funders from across the country. Talk about the latest issues in AIDS philanthropy. Explore ways we can work together!

Register today at www.fcaaids.org 

Philanthropic Giving by and for Women on the Rise, Study Finds

"Women are a rising force in philanthropy," said Christine Grumm, president and CEO of the Women's Funding Network. "This report demonstrates the power women-led solutions have in creating sustainable change in communities."

New York, NY and San Francisco — June 23, 2009. Foundation giving specifically targeted to benefit women and girls has surpassed the rate of overall foundation giving in recent years, and women's funds are a rapidly growing and influential force within philanthropy, according to a new report jointly released today by The Foundation Center and the Women's Funding Network.

Embargo: 
June 23, 2009 - 4:pm

Development Assistant - Institute for Women’s Policy Research

The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) seeks a creative and resourceful professional to provide crucial support to the development department.

Responsibilities will include:

  • Developing proposals and drafting grant reports, facilitating correspondence with funders, and researching potential funders.
  • Assisting with coordination of the direct mail program, tracking donations and preparing gift acknowledgements, maintaining donor information in a database, and assisting with composition of regular communications to membership.
  • Tracking and recording press coverage and maintaining press contacts.
  • Assisting with administrative tasks as needed.
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Conference 2009 Plenary 1

Re-Imagining Women's Funds' Leadership for a New Era

Sports: Not Just A Man's World

04/03/2009

National Public Radio Report: In a final installment of the series Tell Me More About Women's History, Marj Snyder, of the Womens Sports Foundation, tells the story of women and athletics.

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Turning Pain to Power Tour

Turning Pain to Power Tour - with Eve Ensler and Dr. Denis Mukwege

V-Day, the global movement to end violence against women and girls, has announced a five-city North American speaking tour featuring Dr. Denis Mukwege, winner of the 2008 UN Human Rights Prize and Founder of the ground breaking PANZI Hospital in Bukavu in conversation with V-Day Founder Eve Ensler.

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