October 2013 Working Group Updates
Release Date:
10/23/2013
Read the latest updates on these Issue-Based Working Groups: Community Food Funders, the Education Working Group, Funders of Women and Girls and the Health Policy Working Group.
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Recent News
Komen Cancels 2014 Fundraising Events in Seven Cities
Release Date:
06/07/2013
Susan G. Komen for the Cure has cancelled the Race for the Cure events due to economic uncertainty and competition from other nonprofits.
Thousands participate in Susan G. Komen Global Race for the Cure
Release Date:
05/11/2013
Attendance at the charity’s signature fundraising event did decline for the second consecutive year.
Ms. Foundation for Women Receives Bequest
Release Date:
04/16/2013
The nearly $2 million bequest from the estate of Margaret "Meg" Jacobs is the largest bequest in the organization's forty-year history.
Lorelei Williams Joins The Sister Fund as Interim Executive Director
Release Date:
08/22/2013
Lorelei Williams has been named the Interim Executive Director of The Sister Fund. Williams has over fifteen years of experience in the non-profit and philanthropic sectors of the United States, South Africa and Brazil.
Dorothy Q. Thomas Named Interim CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women
Release Date:
08/22/2013
The Ms. Foundation for Women has announced that Dorothy Q. Thomas will assume the role of Interim President and CEO, effective September 3, 2013, while a search for the Foundation’s permanent President and CEO is under way. Thomas will succeed Anika...
Advancing Women in Science: A Groundbreaking Model
Release Date:
08/27/2012
How can we address the professional gender gap in the sciences? Nessa Rapoport and Emily Milder of the Charles H. Revson Foundation discuss a Revson-supported initiative at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science designed to help women scientists on...
Reshaping the Business of Social Change
Release Date:
06/20/2013
We’re pleased to have Monique Villa, CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, discuss her organization’s unique approach to giving, the principles of shared value and the Foundation's many initiatives geared towards supporting women’s rights and...
Gender and Transformative Giving
Release Date:
05/23/2013
At a PNY program on health care reform's impact on women and families (co-sponsored by our Funders of Women and Girls network an
Ms. Foundation for Women Selects Deborah Jacobs as Vice President, Advocacy and Policy
Release Date:
06/04/2012
The Ms. Foundation for Women is pleased to announce the launch of their first Advocacy and Policy department and, after a lengthy search, have selected renowned civil rights advocate and champion Deborah Jacobs to lead the new department as the Vice...
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