Feeling Social?
Our In-Home Socials Season kicks off next week with the WIF " Welcome Home Celebration" at C3Lab next Tuesday, November 15. Please join us! The celebration will be a relaxed and easy way to meet other WIF members. So, what are In-Home Socials? They are events, typically organized in local Charlotte neighborhoods, to provide an informal opportunity for smaller groups of members to get to know each other better.
The Member Engagement Committee is gearing up for our 2017 In-Home Social Season! We are looking for members to volunteer to host an In-Home Social one weekday evening during the weeks of January 9 and January 16, 2017. We have identified the following areas where we hope to hold events:
Lake Norman, Uptown, Plaza Midwood/Elizabeth, University Area, South End, SouthPark/Cotswold, and Ballantyne.
If you enjoy easy entertaining (we'll do all of the work!) and would be willing to host an In-Home Social in your home, we would love to hear from you! Please contact Sarah Paris at sarahrparis@yahoo.com by November 30.
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Getting to Know Sandra Conway
by Suzan Becker
History lesson time! Who in the world came up with the Women's Impact Fund mission statement, our guiding principles and our grants process? Sandra Conway and Judy Allison led that prestigious team back in the days of our founding board.
Conway and Dianne Bailey were the first Chairs of the Education Grants Committee. Conway also served as Grants Chair, a member of the Nominating Committee and chaired the study group that led us to become an independent 501(c)3.  "Now," she says, "I'm a check writer and I love writing my check! I love the flexibility of that." Sandra Conway is a "big thinker" and loves startups. Professionally she is now working on another startup. Thanks to the Wells Fargo Foundation, she was hired as a consultant to develop the strategy to re-launch the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Foundation. She now serves as Board Chair of the CMS Foundation, helping Executive Director Sonja Gantt bring the strategy into reality... READ MORE
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WIF Social Media - Like, Follow, Share & Tag Us!
by Melissa Hovey
Have you looked at the WIF Facebook page or Twitter feed lately? If not, you are missing out on some great posts!You can stay informed and help us get the word out about WIF via social media through these few simple steps:
1) "Like" our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/womensimpactfund/ 2) "Follow" us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/WomensImpactFnd3) "Like" and most importantly "Share" (on Facebook) or "Re-Tweet" (on Twitter) our posts. When you share a post with your network it reaches your friend network, and our posts will come up more frequently in your newsfeed.
4) Share and tag pictures and posts on Facebook (@womensimpactfund) and Twitter (@womensimpactfnd) from social events with WIF members and tag with #TogetherWeDo and #WIFCLT2016
A big thank you to all who are already taking these steps. The reach of our posts has doubled in the last few months!
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WIF Member News
Congratulations: Cynthia Sims has joined The Dilworth Center as Director of Development. Welcome!: Caroline Grier Kraich and her husband, Nick, welcomed their first child, Audrey Charlotte Kraich, to the world on Monday, November 7. Everyone is healthy and doing well. In the News: Kathie Collins, co-founder of Charlotte Lit (the Charlotte Center for Literary Arts) was featured in a recent issue of Charlotte Viewpoint. WIF members, we want to hear from you! WIF Member News depends totally on you! Please send us news of a new job, new volunteer leadership role, a new addition to your family, a big move or anything else you'd like to share with your family of WIF friends. Email: communications@womensimpactfund.org
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WIF's WELCOME HOME CELEBRATIONTuesday, November 15, 2016 5:00-8:00pm
Drop in & check out our new office space at C3 Lab, one of Charlotte's growing co-working spaces, located in bustling SouthEnd.
Several exciting activities are planned throughout the evening...
2525 Distribution Street
Charlotte, NC 28203
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NEW MEMBER MONDAYMonday, December 5, 2016
5:30-7:30pm
Corkbuzz
4905 Ashley Park Lane
Suite J
Charlotte, NC 28210
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For more information on all upcoming WIF events, click HERE
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