Hey Girls! The Maine Women's Fund and Bangor Savings Bank Foundation want YOU to help us give away $5,000 in grants to programs designed for girls across Maine. 

If you are a girl in 8th-12th grade interested in helping grow programs that serve girls, we want you to apply to be on the girls' grantmaking team! Click for the application. All girls who are chosen will participate in designing and putting into action a process to grant money to girls' programs.

Join us on April 30 from 1:00 -5:00 p.m. at Gilsland Farm Audubon, 20 Gilsland Farm Road, Falmouth, ME.   

We have a new rock star on our team, really! While we all like to think of ourselves as rock stars here, she is the real deal. Sonya Tomlinson, who performs as hip-hop artist, Sontiago, uses her voice to spread socially conscious, positive messages. "I feel it's my responsibility to bring what I find unacceptable to the table through song," Sonya says.

She is bringing her passion and enthusiasm to the Fund where she will help keep us all on track and help build our state's economic security through her work at the Fund. We couldn't be happier! Please join us in welcoming our latest team member! 

  

External disruptions - technology, public policy and weather - transform how we live, work and play. Leadership can also be disruptive, and when it is, it changes the game, overturns the status quo and ultimately makes a difference in the way stuff gets done. Join us to explore our role as disruptive leaders - when and where it's appropriate, how we change the game and where we find joy and allies in the process. RSVP by clicking on the links below:

 

April 7 at the Bangor Public Library from noon-1:30 p.m.
April 13 at CIEE in Portland from noon-1:30 p.m.
April 15 at the Rockland Public Library from noon-1:30 p.m.

 

Thank you to our Women's Leadership Series sponsors!

Ameriprise Financial     CIEE     Mainebiz     Maine Magazine  

Join us on May 18 from 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. at the Holiday Inn By the Bay as we dig into the hot topic of women's leadership, network and help to build our state's economic security through the work of the Fund!

Women's Creativity: Shaping the Future of Maine will explore women's leadership through the lens of creativity - how Maine's creative leaders are using their voice, vision and resources to effect change. Susan Conley, author, teacher and co-founder of The Telling Room, will moderate a panel conversation on the themes of leadership, philanthropy and women's role in creating economic security. Through a facilitated conversation at each table, all participants will be able to offer their voice and ideas to this important discussion.

 

Panelists and Award Recipients 

• Brenda Garrand, President and Strategic Director of Garrand, a nationally respected and award-winning marketing and communications agency, and the 2011 TWIN Award Recipient
• Ingrid Bengis-Palei, National Book Award nominee, entrepreneur and the world's most famous fishmonger
• Barbara Rankins, founding member of Visible Community and the 2011 Sarah Orne Jewett Award Recipient 
• Alia Abdulahi, Auburn high school student, activist and the 2011 Samantha Smith Award Recipient

The Maine Women's Fund thanks MaineShare for its ongoing support. MaineShare makes it easy to donate to more than 30 statewide organizations working every day to make Maine a better place to live. For more information, please visit the website.