Women's Funds Featured in New York Times Magazine
The Power of the Purse
(click link for article)
The Women's Crusade
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Knowledge is Power.
Do you want to keep current with the news but don't have time to read dozens of newspapers each day?
If so, email us at
jamie@womensfundms.org and ask to be placed on our email list. Every Thursday, we send out a short email with summaries of news events related to women and girls in MS and around the world.
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Did You Know?!
Become a member of the Fund for only $8.33 a month ($100 a year)!
We pool your resources with other like-minded women and men. Your $8.33 quickly becomes $200,000 (the amount of grants awarded by the Fund in 2008).
Need to join or renew your membership? Email or call us!
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Save the Date for the 2010 Downtown Tour and Luncheon
March 2: Preview Party in King Edward Grand Ballroom
March 3: Luncheon in Convention Complex
Speaker: Helen LaKelly Hunt
March 4: Downtown Tour and street party on Farish Street
About Helen LaKelly Hunt: Helen is a daughter of legendary Texas oil man H.L. Hunt. She has been active in the women's funding movement for over 20 years. With her sister, Ambassador Swanee Hunt, she has given over $10 million dollars to the Women Moving Millions Campaign.
About the Women Moving Millions Campaign: Over a three-year period, 100 women and men in the United States and
around the world have each committed $1 million or more to one or more
of the 145 members of the Women's Funding Network, bringing the total
raised to $176 million dollars.
YouTube Video About Campaign (click)
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| Contact Information: Women's Fund of Mississippi
Carol Penick
Executive Director
carol@womensfundms.org
601-326-0700
Jamie Holcomb
Director of Programs
jamie@womensfundms.org
601-326-0701
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Women's Fund of Mississippi
Newsletter
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October 2009
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Dear Women's Fund Friend,
Welcome to our new electronic newsletter! To save money and paper, we are now sending you periodic electronic newsletters. We will also mail printed newsletters to your home with end-of-year donor information and annual reporting but expect more electronic communication from us in the future. Please let us know if you do not want to receive electronic communications from us.
Carol and Jamie
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A new "look" for the Women's Fund!
Since becoming our own nonprofit in April, separate from the Community Foundation of Greater Jackson, we've been working hard to create a new logo, website, and overall "look" for the Women's Fund of Mississippi. This has been an exciting time and we can't wait to unveil our new look in the next few months! Stay tuned.
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 Statewide Planning
The Women's Fund is on the road! We are working with Dr. Bettye Ward Fletcher and her team at Professional Associates to conduct statewide "listening tours" with community leaders, nonprofits, and elected officials. Professional Associates is also helping us develop a logic model, a theory of change, and measurable outcomes for an impact and process evaluation.
Do you want to join us on one or more of our listening tours? The meetings are usually at lunch and do not require any overnight accomodations. If you would like to attend one or more of these meetings, we would love to have you. Just email us!
Listening Tour Dates
- Thursday, October 1: Gulfport
- Thursday, October 15: Natchez
- Saturday, October 31: Tupelo
- Saturday, November 7: Meridian
- Thursday, November 12: Delta (exact place TBD)
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Grantee Spotlight: Women in Construction
The Women's Fund of Mississippi granted $66,000 over two years (2007 and 2008) to the Women in Construction (WinC) program at Moore Community House in Biloxi. WinC
is an innovative program that trains women in the
construction trade so that they can attain self-sufficiency.
Since its inception in 2007, WinC has graduated
45 women, with job placement rates over 60%.
An entry level carpenter/general laborer makes about $10 an hour,
several dollars above minimum wage. The Women's Fund grant supported quality child care and transportation, two must-haves for working women. The
WF is proud to support effective, innovative programs like WinC. Want more information? Click here for their website. Click here for a recent MPB story on WinC.
Did you know? We moved our grant cycle to the fall. Our independent panel is currently meeting to select grantees. Be on the lookout for a December email announcing these grant awards!
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Women's Fund In the News
"Childhood Services an Investment in Jobs"
(Clarion Ledger, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009)
Women's Fund co-sponsors the Self Sufficiency Standard for Mississippi with the Mississippi Economic Policy Center
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Calendar of Events
Save the Date: Membership Appreciation Party
Thursday, October 15, 5:30pm
Underground 119
Underground 119 and the Women's Fund will provide complimentary drinks and appetizers to Women's Fund guests. Even if you're not a member, this is great time to learn more about our work and meet current members. This is our way of saying thank you for supporting us during an exciting transition year. Barry Leach and the BLTrio will provide live jazz from 9-12pm for the night owls in attendance.
Lunch and Learns 2009-2010
All
Lunch and Learns are held at the Eudora Welty Library's Community Room.
The meeting is free but lunch is $10 (or bring your own). To reserve a
lunch, call 601-326-0701.
All Lunch and Learns: 11:45am--1pm
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Lunch and Learn: Prevention of Violence against Women
Speaker: Kira Johnson, Southern Institute for Mental Health, Jackson State University
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Early Child Care and Education
Speakers:
Carol Burnett, Mississippi Low-Income Child Care Initiative
Rhea Bishop, Mississippi Education Innovation Center
September Lunch and Learn
Topic: Teen Health
Pictured (from left) are WF
Director Carol Penick; WF Lunch & Learn chair Irene Jones; panelists Jarvis
Dortch of the Miss. Health Advocacy Program, Dr. Jasmine Chapman, CEO of
Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center, Dr. Edith Smith Rayford, ob gyn with
Central Mississippi Healthcare Center, Robert Pugh, executive director of
the Mississippi Primary Healthcare Association ; WF Lunch & Learn
co-chair April Reeves; and WF director of programs Jamie Holcomb.
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About Us
The Women's Fund of Mississippi is dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls in Mississippi. We achieve this by focusing on grantmaking, fundraising, and advocacy in three interest areas: teen health, early childhood education/care, and prevention of violence against women.
Our Guiding Principle: When a woman has economic
security, her family has economic security. If her family has economic
security, then her community has economic security. If her community has
economic security, the state has economic security.
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