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Women's Foundation of Oklahoma Meets
the Challenge
In 2008, the Women's Foundation of Oklahoma joined the Wyoming Women's
Foundation and the Women's
Foundation of Montana in reaching a significant milestone. In less than five years, the Women's Foundation of Oklahoma raised $500,000 that was matched by Chambers Family Fund, creating the first $1 million permanent endowment fund to benefit women and girls in Oklahoma. The women's funds in Wyoming and Montana reached the $1 million milestone in 2005. Chambers Family Fund launched its Women's Funds Initiative, creating new women's funds in partnership with statewide community foundations, to increase support for organizations serving women and girls and to encourage women's philanthropy in Montana, Oklahoma and Wyoming.
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Chambers Family Fund Wins Award for Outstanding Communications
Chambers Family Fund was named a Bronze Award winner for excellence
in communications by the 2005 Wilmer Shields Rich Awards Program.
Sponsored by the Council on Foundations, the awards program recognizes
effective communications efforts to increase public awareness of
foundations and corporate giving programs. Chambers Family Fund
received the award for its website. The award was presented at the
56th Annual Conference of the Council on Foundations.
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Colorado
Children's Campaign Names Merle Chambers a "Champion for Kids"
In 2005, the Colorado
Children's Campaign celebrated its 20th Anniversary of serving
as the voice for Colorado's more than one million children. As part
of its celebration, the Campaign named 20 Coloradans who have made
a significant impact on the lives of Colorado's children. Merle
Chambers was selected one of the 20 "Champions for Kids."
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Research
Leads to Inclusiveness Conference
Chambers Family Fund supported The Denver Foundation's
Expanding Nonprofit Inclusiveness Initiative in 2003. The Initiative
was created to research best practices and to develop tools to help
nonprofit organizations become more inclusive of people of color.
The Initiative's research led The Denver Foundation and the Community
Resource Center to co-host the Diversity and Beyond Conference held
in 2005 in Denver. Chambers Family Fund sponsored this
conference designed to encourage Colorado's nonprofits to embrace
the concept of inclusiveness and to provide an opportunity for organizations
to explore issues of inclusiveness as they relate to organizational
effectiveness and healthier communities.
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Colorado
Children’s Campaign
This state-wide organization works to mobilize individuals and organizations
to think and act on behalf of children, with particular attention
to the health, education and safety of children most at risk.
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Qualistar
Early Learning
Qualistar Early Learning is dedicated to improving child development
and age-appropriate learning experiences for all children by collaboratively
creating a state-wide system that promotes high-quality child-centered
care, supports and empowers parents as teachers and decision makers,
supports and empowers child care providers and is adequately funded
and permanently sustainable.
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Annie
E. Casey Foundation
AECF works to build better futures for disadvantaged children and
their families in the U.S. and foster public policies, human service
reforms and community supports that more effectively meet the needs
of today's vulnerable children and families.
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Kids
Count
Kids Count is a national and state-by-state project of the Annie
E. Casey Foundation to track the status of children in the United
States. The annual KIDS COUNT Data Book uses the best available
data to measure the educational, social, economic and physical well-being
of children state by state.
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Gender
Matters: Funding Effective Programs for Women and Girls
(*PDF) is a June 2001 research report
by Molly Mead, EdD, of Tufts University, available for download.
*PDFs require the Acrobat
Reader.
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Ms.
Foundation
As the country’s first national, multi-issue women’s
fund, the Ms. Foundation directs resources of all kinds to cutting-edge
projects that nurture girls’ leadership skills, protect the
health and safety of women and provide low-income women with the
tools to lift themselves and their families out of poverty.
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NARAL
Pro-Choice America
NARAL Pro-Choice America protects and preserves the right to choose
while promoting policies and programs that improve women's health
and make abortion less necessary. NARAL Pro-Choice America works
to educate Americans and officeholders about reproductive rights
and health issues and elect pro-choice candidates at all levels
of government.
For information about
NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado
please visit their website.
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Planned
Parenthood Federation of America
Planned Parenthood provides comprehensive reproductive and complementary
health care services, advocates for public policies which guarantee
the privacy and rights of each individual, provides educational
programs and promotes research and the advancement of technology
in reproductive health care.
For information about
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains
please visit their website.
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The Bell
Policy Center
The Bell is a nonpartisan think tank committed to making Colorado
a state of opportunity for all, regardless of race or economic background.
The Bell seeks to reinvigorate the debate on issues affecting the
well-being of Coloradans and to promote policies that open gateways
to opportunity.
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Colorado
Center on Law & Policy
CCLP is a non-profit, nonpartisan organization that advocates on
behalf of the poor, working poor and other vulnerable populations.
CCLP promotes justice and economic security for lower income Coloradans
through legislative, administrative and legal advocacy.
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The
Institute for Women’s Policy Research
IWPR is a public policy research organization dedicated to informing
and stimulating the debate on issues of critical importance to women
and their families. IWPR focuses on poverty and welfare,
employment and earnings, work and family issues, health and safety
and women's civic and political participation.
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Political
Research Associates
PRA is an independent, nonprofit research center that studies antidemocratic,
authoritarian and other oppressive movements, institutions and trends.
PRA is based on progressive values, and is committed to advancing
an open, democratic and pluralistic society.
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Global
Fund for Women
The Global Fund for Women is a grantmaking foundation supporting
women's human rights organizations around the world working to address
critical issues such as gaining economic independence, increasing
girls' access to education and stopping violence against women.
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Women’s
Foundation of Colorado
The Women’s Foundation of Colorado promotes the full participation
of women and girls in society through direct grants and technical
support to organizations working to improve the lives of Colorado's
women and girls.
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Women’s
Funding Network
WFN is an international association of public and private women's
foundations, federations, funds in community foundations, individual
donors and supporting institutions committed to changing society
by improving the status of women and girls.
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