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WIF Board Slate Announced for 2019 - 2020
By Deborah Majewski, Nominating Committee Chair
The 2018-2019 Nominating Committee is excited to nominate a group of talented, capable, and passionate women to serve on the Board of Directors and in other leadership roles next year. The 2018-2019 Board of Directors has approved the Nominating Committee's recommendations and will ask the membership to vote at the Annual Meeting in May.
Read more about our 2019-2020 Board here. We are delighted to confirm Lisa Miller as our 2019-2020 Board Chair and to nominate Ellen Rankin as our Incoming Board Chair. We also are pleased to nominate Mattye Silverman to continue to serve as Chair of our Board of Advisors.
Changes to the 2019-2020 Board of Directors structure include:
* Moving Member Education out from under the Membership Committee to create a standalone committee and a direct board seat given education is key component of our mission.
* Moving the Audit Committee under the Finance Committee. Going forward the oversight of Audit will be performed by the Finance Committee and conflicts of interest for the Board of Directors and review of governance policies will be the accountability of the Governance Committee (previously the Nominating Committee).
Please click here to see the full list of the women who have been nominated. In addition to the Board slate, you will see nominations for Board of Advisors members, Incoming Committee Chairs, and next year's Governance Committee.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at majewskideborah@gmail.com.
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Communities in Schools
by Meg Seitz
For CIS-Charlotte President and CEO, Molly Shaw, that shift is one not just of rhetoric, but of posture - a shift of how the entire community talks about and seeks solutions for our children. And it is a shift that Women's Impact Fund (WIF) has been courageously supporting since 2016.
The purpose of the 2016 Women's Impact Fund grant was to help underwrite Programming Leadership for Immigrant Youth (Newcomer) Services and ELL program to support newly arriving immigrant students in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS). The grant helped to provide full-time CIS staff to assess the needs of students living in very challenging and unfamiliar circumstances and guide them toward fulfilling their potential- academically, physically, socially and emotionally.
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Sonja Nichols: An Authentic Voice for Career Empowerment and the Heart of Community in Charlotte
by Meg Seitz
Sonja Nichols is a character. She enters the room with light and energy; she fills the room with an authenticity and candor that's both empowering and uplifting.
For Nichols, President and CEO of Nicholant Enterprises, her involvement in the Women's Impact Fund (WIF) was one of her earliest introductions to the city of Charlotte that allowed her to bring her unique experience and energy to the table.
"I really feel like the Women's Impact Fund allowed me to be my authentic self more than every other organization," she said in an interview recently. Read more here...
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Mission Moment: Supportive Housing Communities
Thirty two
families were served by SHC and 107 family members. One hundred percent of the families were assessed and re-assessed to determine what services the families needed including mental, medical, substance abuse and educational services.
In addition, SHC developed an individual plan for 100% of the families that monitored their progress toward their goals and also monitored their mental health.
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Member News
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Women's Impact Fund member Octavia Sewell has been named the
2018 Woman of the Year.
The honor, awarded March 20th by the Charlotte Women of the Year organization, was given for Octavia's exceptional community service and exemplary leadership in addressing issues of access, inclusion, equity and trust in the Charlotte/Mecklenburg area.
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In March, Ralphine Caldwell, a Women's Impact Fund member, started as executive director of a new Charlotte office of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, or LISC. She will lead private-sector efforts to spur development of affordable housing in the city.
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Bank of America and Women's Impact Fund member Dianne Bailey was recently promoted to lead the Bank's national Philanthropic Solutions consulting team for institutional, private and family office.
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Women's Impact Fund member Alane Paraison and her husband will be on a new Reality show called Married Life. The program documents the daily lives of couples whose marriages have been anything by ordinary. Alane's episode on Married Life airs in May on the Oprah network.
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Make your gift to the Annual Fund today!
Donors who give $500 or more by May 2, 2019
will be invited to an appreciation luncheon.
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Annual Meeting, Monday, May 13, 2019
Celebrate our collective efforts, find out our 2019 WIF Grantees and vote for our 2019-2020 leadership team.
Meeting held from 5:30pm - 7:30pm at UNC Charlotte Center City, 320 East 9th Street, Charlotte, NC
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Beyond the Dollars: Women as Philanthropic Influencers
Date: April 25, 2019
Time: 8:30am - 10:00am
Hosted By: Foundations For The Carolinas
Join Women's Impact Fund and Foundation For The Carolinas for an interactive discussion as we share experiences and learn from fellow female philanthropists about the unique ways women can leverage the sum of all their philanthropic resources, beyond just the financial, to make a meaningful impact in our community. Sign up here.
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Thank you to our Community Sponsors!
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The mission of Women's Impact Fund is to strengthen communities by maximizing women's leadership in philanthropy through collective giving, education and engagement.
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