Photo by Donna Rogers
The Women's Fund of Winston-Salem awarded five organizations grants for 2015. The representatives accepting the awards are (L-R) Erika Stewart and Rosa
Miranda of El Buen Pastor Latino Community Services; Rusty Hall and Linda Winikoff of Old Town Elementary School; Joanne Davidson and Sylvia Oberle of
Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County; and Trina Stephens of Imprints Cares. Elizabeth Freeze of Planned Parenthood South Atlantic is absent from the photo.
Women's Fund ready for next phase
Luncheon helps
celebrate its 10th
year anniversary
BY DONNA ROGERS
THE CHRONICLE
The Women's Fund of
Winston-Salem has been
around since 2005 and isn't
going anywhere except up,
according to the outlook
presented at its annual
luncheon on Tuesday,
Nov. 17, at the Benton
Convention Center.
The main purpose of
the Women's Fund of
Winston-Salem luncheon
was to announce the organ
izations that were awarded
grants for 2015.
But officials
with the Fund
also spoke about
some of the find
ings of the
Fund's recent
report titled, "A
Second Look
Through a
Gender Lens:
The Ecomonic
Security of
Women and Girls
in Forsyth County." It is an
update of the Fund's 2010
report on the status of
women and girls in the
county.
The October 2015
report shows that while
high school graduations
are up and teen pregnan
cies are down, poverty is
up in the county. The study
found 21.7 percent of
women in Forsyth County
living in poverty. It found
34.2 percent of black
women, 50.6 percent of
Hispanic women and 16
percent of Caucasian
women are living ih pover
ty
"Having 50 percent of
any group of women in our
community in poverty is
unacceptable, and collec
tively we must work
together to improve the
lives of all women and
girls," said Tory Gillett,
vice chairwoman of the
Fund.
As the Fund has grown
in membership, endow
ment and grantmaking
capacity, "We need to con
tinue to grow our impact,"
she said.
"We are a group that is
taking action," Gillett said.
The Women's Fund
gave a glimpse into one of
the agencies it supports to
show its impact on battling
poverty among women and
girls.
Representatives from
the Circles Program spoke
about how the program is
helping to pull them from
poverty through leadership
training, community sup
port and community trans
formation, which leads to
working on problems such
as expunging criminal
records.
Denise Terry credited
her networking with allies
in the program as the
aspect that has helped her
the most. She said she was
sinking into depression at
one time.
'Talking with my allies
helped me overcome this
feeling," she said.
For 2015, the Fund
awarded over $107,000 in
grants to five local non
profit organizations to
address the economic secu
rity of women and girls in
Forsyth County.
This year, The
Women's Fund asked
organizations to propose
programs that were respon
sive to the issues and rec
ommendations outlined in
its 2010 report, titled
"Through a Gender Lens:
The Economic Security of
Women and Girls in
Forsyth County."
In the last nine years,
The Women's Fund of
Winston-Salem awarded
grants totaling over $1.2
million to local organiza
tions working to improve
the lives of
women and girls
in Forsyth
County.
The Women's
Fund also
reached its $1
million endow
ment goal this
year. The Fund's
over 800 mem
bers include
female corporate
ana nonproiit leaaers, edu
cators, community leaders,
volunteers, entrepreneurs,
and students.
The following organi
zations were awarded
grants:
?El Buen Pastor Latino
Community Services was
awarded $24,500 for eco
nomic empowerment of
women in the Latino com
munity. The Economic
Empowerment Program
will offer help to an initial
cohort of 10 women seek
ing to start their own busi
nesses.
?Habitat for Humanity
of Forsyth County was
awarded $15,664 for a
home maintenance work
shop pilot program for
women. This program will
provide hands-on mainte
nance experience to 60
women in Forsyth County.
? ?Imprints Cares was
awarded $29,997 for pro
grams to prevent teenage
pregnancy and to support
teenage mothers. Imprints
Cares at Downtown Health
Plaza will offer parenting
services to low-income,
unwed teen girls, young
mothers and expectant
young mothers who
receive services at the
Downtown Health Plaza
and are referred by medical
providers.
?Old Town Elementary
School was awarded
$7,550 for "Full STEM
Ahead," an after-school
STEM club for girls who
attend Old Town
Elementary.
?Planned Parenthood
South Atlantic, which is
based in Raleigh but has a
Winston-Salem office, was
awarded $30,000 to imple
ment the Contraceptive
Choice project to educate
low-income teenagers
about contraceptive meth
ods and empower them to
choose the method that
works for their needs.
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