FRIENDS OF THE ALEXANDRIA COMMISSION FOR WOMEN
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Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day - April 25th
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Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day is our annual event where we expose students to careers and opportunities while they shadow an adult at their job.
Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 8:00am at T.C. Williams High School
Exposing girls and boys to what a parent or mentor in their lives does during the work day is important, but showing them the value of their education and helping them discover the power and possibilities associated with a balanced work and family life is critical to their success later on.
We have 100 students signed up for the event and we need more volunteers.
For information on volunteering or hosting a group of students, please contact Jacinta
Greene at greenejacinta@gmail.com.
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Thank You to Our Sponsors!
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Panel moderator Michelle Millben along with panelists VA Delegate Charniele Herring, Eleanor Smeal, Stephanie Landrum, and Eleanor LeCain discuss their civic activism.
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Thank you
to the sponsors of our women’s history month event, “Civic Activism: Women Leading the Way,” held on March 25, 2019. The evening highlighted a key section of the Status of Women report which focused on women and leadership in Alexandria.
Our Gold Sponsor:
Our Silver Sponsors:
- Allison Cryor DiNardo
- Laurie MacNamara
Our Bronze Sponsors:
- Holly Beville
- Julie Harbour
- Marjorie and Allen Lomax
- Blanche D. Maness
- Kendra Martello
- Pat Miller
- The Honorable Amy Jackson
- Dorothea Peters
- The Honorable Justin Wilson
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Spring2Action is April 10 -- Help Us by Donating to the Vola Lawson Fund
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The Vola Lawson Breast Cancer Memorial Fund is dedicated to ensuring low-income women have access to mammograms. The Fund is partnered with Neighborhood Health, the Association of Alexandria Radiologists and other local groups to underwrite life-saving screenings for those who are uninsured or have healthcare does not cover them.
Donate
to the Fund for Spring2Action and help eliminate the cost barrier to essential health services.
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April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month
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The City’s Sexual Assault Center (SAC) is sponsoring displays, exhibits, workshops and events around the community to raise awareness of sexual assault and support survivors. Highlights include:
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- A display of jeans decorated by survivors and supporters on exhibit at various locations throughout Alexandria, from April 1-26
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- Annual Poetry Share on Tuesday, April 16, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at Metro Stage (1201 N. Royal St.)
- “Yet I Stand,” a play presented in partnership with Friends of Guest House, the City of Alexandria Domestic Violence Program, and SAC, on Friday, April 26, 7 p.m., at the Lee Center Kauffman Auditorium (1108 Jefferson St.)
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The SAC also invites the community to show their support for survivors of sexual assault by wearing teal on the Sexual Assault Awareness Month Day of Action on Tuesday, April 2, and by wearing jeans on Denim Day, Wednesday, April 24. For more information and a full list of events and activities, visit
alexandriava.gov/SexualViolence
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Donate to Our Shower for the Domestic Violence Shelter
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The Alexandria Domestic Violence Safe House helps over 50 women each year. They provide a gift basket of items when women leave the Safe House and start their new life. The Shower for the Shelter will help them "restock their shelves" of items needed for the Safe House and for the gift baskets.
Please click
here
and purchase what is needed. Items will be shipped to us. Your help is greatly appreciated for this extremely worthy cause
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Debbie Evans C.A. (Credentialed Advocate)
Division Chief, Sexual Assault Center and Domestic Violence Program
City of Alexandria
703.746.4911 (DV Hotline)
703.683.7273 (SAC Hotline)
703-746.3122 (Direct Line)
703.746.3280 (Fax Machine)
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Thank you,
Kendra Martello, Chair, Alexandria Commission for Women
Pat Miller, Chair, Friends of the Commission for Women
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About the Friends of the Alexandria Commission for Women
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The Friends of the Alexandria Commission for Women was established in 2000 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
The purpose of the Friends is to raise and distribute funds, for the benefit and support of the Commission's educational, social, and cultural programs.
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