Long Island Fund for Women & Girls



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Long Island Fund for Women and Girls

EMPOWERMENT THROUGH PHILANTHROPY
Established 1991

Mission Statement

The Long Island Fund for Women and Girls funds programs that improve the lives of women and girls, highlights and addresses women's issues, and develops women's philanthropy.

Our Vision

We share a common vision with women's funds throughout the country. Our vision is a world of justice and opportunity for women and girls, where we are paid equitably for work, live in homes and communities without fear of violence, have equal voices in the political process and serve as the primary decision makers about issues that affect us.

Save the Date for our 16th Annual Women Achievers Against the Odds Breakfast

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Women on the Job The Women on the Job project has become the cornerstone of the Fund's program with effort focusing on the concept of gender equity, workplace rights awareness, advocacy and leadership being the driving factors that will move women closer to pay equity in the workplace. Women on the Job began as a grassroots organization in 1981 and was founded by Lillian McCormick and Charlotte Shapiro. To attend a Women on the Job taskforce meeting, please contact wojtf1@optonline.net	Please join us at our 16th Annual Women Achievers Against the Odds Fundraising Breakfast! Wednesday, October 20, 2010 Crest Hollow Country Club, Woodbury 7:30am - 8:15am Networking 8:15am - 10:30am Program Tickets: $85 each $90 after October 6th Our 2010 Honorees are: Lillian Dent, Co-Owner Leisa Dent, Chef and Co-Owner LL Dent Restaurant Shelley Wang, President Tai Wang, Vice President WAC Lighting Cynthia Scott, Executive Director Coalition Against Child Abuse & Neglect Sandy Oliva, Executive Director Nassau County Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Our 2010 Charlotte Shapiro/Lillian McCormick Young Leadership Award winners are: Sophia Ioannou, Locust Valley High School Graduate Paige Sferrazza, New Hyde Park High School Senior Help us to celebrate their achievements while supporting a great cause! For Reservations or More Information: info@lifwg.org View the 2009 video from the Breakfast	LIFWG announces 2009-2010 Grants Program! Social change grantmaking is one strategy the Long Island Fund for Women & Girls uses to advance equity and social justice for women and girls. Over the past seventeen years, our Fund has harnessed the collective power of Long Island women to make over $1.4 million in grants to hundreds of non-profits in Nassau and Suffolk counties to transform lives and communities. These individual grants, as a group and over time, have helped create the conditions for long-term social change right here on Long Island. Our 2010-2011 program efforts will continue this tradition and more concretely address how nonprofit programs run for and by women can be the driving force behind greater equity and empowerment at the broader system level while also improving individual lives.