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Women's Leadership Summit 2009

Women's summit gives access to opportunities

By MELANIE PLENDA Correspondent, Nashua Telegraph

Published: Sunday, June 7, 2009

MANCHESTER – Who better to celebrate and advise working women then the grand dame of can-do girl power herself: Gloria Steinem?

She, along with more than 60 other notables, will be on hand to advise and network with career women for the second annual Women's Leadership Summit on Friday on the campus Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester.

Click HERE to read the full article featuring Women's Fund executive director Marianne Jones.

 

 Our thanks to Citizens Bank Foundation, the 2009 underwriter of our 10th anniversary year.

 

Women Building Community Luncheon 2008

The Women Building Community Luncheon was held on November 21, 2008, at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester, NH. Over 300 women and men joined the Women's Fund of NH, The United Ways of NH and the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation to enjoy a delicious lunch, and welcome keynote speaker Linda Wertheimer, Senior National Correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR) News. Ms. Wertheimer regaled us with her stories from years of political reporting. Attendees particularly reported enjoying the networking opportunities and the humor and unique insights of Ms. Wertheimer's presentation.

 

Recipe For Change 2008 Live Silent Auction

Our Recipe for Change Live Silent Auction was held on November 18, 2008 at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, NH. It was a wonderful evening featuring great food, drinks, friends working for a great cause, and a fabulous silent as well as live auction. Our marvelous auctioneer, Kathy Kingston inspired us all, and the proceeds went directly to benefiting the women and girls of New Hampshire!

Turn the Key. Be Idle Free

September 16, 2008: A group of Seacoast area moms, all members of the Seacoast Women’s Giving Circle, a local philanthropic volunteer organization, are launching “Turn the Key. Be Idle Free,” a campaign to end unnecessary vehicle idling at Seacoast area schools. “When we learned that vehicle idling at our local schools was a health hazard for our children and a contributor to air pollution, we had to act,” said Elisa Bolton and Christina Breen, leaders of the group’s No Idling team. “Most people don’t know that it is better to turn off your car and re-start it if your wait will be longer than 10 seconds.” The campaign encourages all seacoast drivers to be ‘idle free,” but focuses on area schools since parents regularly idle their cars when waiting to drop off or pick up their children. Unnecessary idling is a leading source of toxic air pollution in New Hampshire and a contributor to increased health risk, according to the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services. One vehicle dropping off and picking up a child at school puts about three pounds of pollution into the air per month. Since New Hampshire has among the highest asthma rates in the country, air pollution from idling deserves even more urgent attention. Experts explain that air pollution can exacerbate asthma symptoms, already the most common chronic illness in children and the cause of most school absences.With today’s high fuel prices, we all have an incentive to turn off our cars. Idling consumes from ½ gallon to one gallon of fuel per hour, and uses more fuel than turning your engine on and off.“An idling vehicle gets 0 miles to the gallon,” added Bolton “so you can save money at the pumpjust by turning off your car instead of idling.” According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, approximately 15 states and dozens of local counties have laws that restrict the amount of time that a vehicle can idle its main engineand some, including Massachusetts, fine vehicle owners up to $100 for excessive idling.

To Learn More

The Seacoast Women’s Giving Circle (www.seacoastwomengive.org) was founded in April 2006 by a group of local women eager to use their skills and resources to address critical issues facing the Seacoast community. Members contribute annually to a pooled fund and participate in volunteer service projects in the community. Over the course of the year, members educate themselves about community issues, identify a specific social cause on which to focus, and select one non-profit organization to receive the Giving Circle’s annual gift.