November 19, 2008


Raleigh women promote engagement, giving

Shelly West The Raleigh Women’s Club will host its first-annual ‘Jingle Mingle’ Dec. 7 to raise money for Wake Teen Medical Services, and to raise excitement for its annual fundraiser in April.

Women's Voices

Women’s investments can do ‘double duty’

Through ‘socially responsible investing,’ women’s investments can do double duty: make a difference while making money.

Women Givers

Winston-Salem women target prevention

The Women’s Fund of Winston-Salem awarded grants totaling more than $182,276 to prevent problems affecting women in Forsyth County.


Women's Causes

Women’s center holds divorce workshop

The session in Hickory will provide women with information about the legal aspects of separation and divorce.

Giving Well

Leaders discuss women’s role in giving

Foundation leaders discussed hurdles facing women philanthropists at a breakfast meeting for the Triangle chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.


Women and Giving features news and information about women givers, effective giving, and causes women support.

Women and Giving News: In Brief

  • Women's Only 5k Walk & Run broke fundraising records, raising $74,000 for Mammography Scholarship Fund at The Women's Hospital of Greensboro.
  • Beverly Grant, former director of development, International House, Charlotte, named interim executive director.
  • Carolee Baxter, former production manager, North Carolina Theatre, Raleigh, named associate producer; Emily Bruce, former annual fund manager, named development director.
  • Jeanne Newsom Lawson, 13-year nonprofit veteran, named regional associate for Northern Piedmont Region, N.C. Community Foundation.
  • Janet Freeman, dean emerita of information library services, awarded $1.1M to Meredith College to create special projects endowment fund for college library.
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