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Events June 12: Intermediate Grant Writing Roundtable and Workshop, Bangor, ME June 12: Symposium on Scaling Social Impact 2012, New York, NY August 2: Intermediate Grant Writing Roundtable and Workshop, Bangor, ME Grants
July 16: The TJX Foundation is offering grants for basic-need services to disadvantaged women, children, and families in company communities. July 20: The United Way of Greater Portland's 2012 Diversity & Inclusion grants will focus on activities designed to help reduce disparities in education and income. July 30: The Plum Creek Foundation supports nonprofits that work to improve the general welfare and quality of life in the communities that Plum Creek serves. August 15: Changemakers and Intel announce international online competition for technology solutions to improve the lives of women. We invite you to also visit the resources section on our website.
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Greetings!,
The more things change, the more they stay the same... This phrase kept popping up in my head during the last week. I couldn't quite put my finger on why, until I saw two seemingly incongruous news articles within a day of each other.
The first was about President Obama's Pay Equity Bill, which subsequently failed to pass in Congress this week. I had just attended a dinner two nights before hosted by the Maine NEW Leadership program of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine, where Lilly Ledbetter spoke about her fight for equal pay against Goodyear. Traditional and non-traditional college women listened to a woman from Alabama talk about her courageous battle against corporate America in a case for equal pay that began almost 10 years ago.
The second was an article about the growing trend of women leading very successful ventures in the tech arena in Silicon Valley. The story explains how women are dispelling the myth that there isn't a "...leading role for them in the male-dominated valley." In an era when there are literally billions to be made, women are making great strides in one arena while simultaneously, most women in the U.S. are earning 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man with identical skills and experience. For women without a high school education, it's 48 cents. So much has changed, yet so much remains the same. I am so inspired - and proud - that the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and the Maine Women's Fund are working to insure that today's college women know what and how to negotiate for themselves and how to use our justice system to obtain what is their right.
Change is afoot at the Maine Women's Fund as well. We will bid a fond farewell later this summer to Kristin Chase Duffy as she moves on to pursue her career. Kristin has ably overseen the Fund's communications and programs and contributed significantly to the branding of the Fund over the past four-and-a-half years, and she has done so with grace and dedication. In September, Sonya Tomlinson will become Grants and Outreach Manager, adding community outreach and external communications to her responsibilities, while continuing to manage the grants process. Please join me in wishing Kristin well and congratulating Sonya. We will be hiring a part-time administrative assistant soon. And we've got a fabulous new office in the Midcoast in Camden - if you're in the area, stop in and say "hi"!
Thank you for reading, and if you have thoughts about topics you'd like to see addressed in our e-news, please send us a note or give us a call.
Thank you for all you do to support the Fund's ability to invest in the power of women and potential of girls in Maine!
Sarah Ruef-Lindquist
CEO
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 Making Change Happen
|  Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence
Part of "Making Change Happen: Women Creating a Better Maine"
MCEDV is offering training to workplaces around the issue of domestic violence. We are shifting traditional thinking about domestic violence as a personal issue, to domestic violence as a workplace issue, which allows employers to place it within the traditional risk management model that addresses other potentially dangerous aspects of a job or working conditions. Domestic violence seen in this light becomes an issue in which employers can make a huge impact, by implementing similar threat assessment and workplace safety planning measures. We consult with workplaces to develop policies that address domestic violence, safety for victims and accountability for abusers. Full Q&A >>>
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The Fund Is Hiring
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The Maine Women's Fund seeks a part-time administrative assistant who will be responsible for day-to-day office management, database oversight, data entry, accounts payable and other internal operations. Applicants may review the job description and email a cover letter, resume and contact information for three professional references to Lauren Dietlin, Chief Operating Officer. Application review will begin on Friday, June 22nd and continue until the position is filled. Please share this opportunity!
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In the News
| Coastal Studies for Girls is accepting applications for Summer 2012, Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 semesters.
The Invisible War, a riveting award-winning documentary about the epidemic of rape in the US military, will open in 5 cities across the country. Women's Funding Network had the honor to screen the film at the 2012 Summit and we encourage you to support its groundbreaking work by attending a screening in New York, Washington DC, Boston, San Francisco or Los Angeles. FMI
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Thank you for reading,
Sarah, Kristin, Lauren and Sonya
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