This year’s annual meeting took place on May 8, 2023, and the energy throughout the evening was palpable with almost 200 women gathered to celebrate and reflect. After a fun networking event in the lobby of the Knight Theater at the Levine Center for the Arts, with plenty of food, conversation, and picture taking, members …
The Member Education Lunch & Learn committee hosted its final event – The Power of Storytelling. The event came about after the committee discussed how great it would be to hear stories of impact from organizations that have benefited from WIF support. Hannah Hasan, a local artist, and poet opened the event by sharing a …
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On March 27, Women’s Impact Fund members and their guests were treated to an inspiring and captivating evening at the ballet. The Women and Wisdom event, “Reach behind the Curtain: A Tour with Charlotte Ballet” was held at the Patricia McBride and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux Center for Dance in uptown Charlotte, home of Charlotte Ballet. After …
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The Community Impact Committee spent the fall connecting in person with our Nonprofit Partners, formerly known as Grantees. Our committee was interested to learn how the Women’s Impact Fund’s unrestricted grant had affected the goals and outcomes of the organizations. We also started the discussion of how WIF can sit beside instead of across the …
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Women’s Impact Fund’s grants committee kicked off the grants season with a webinar for potential grantees last month. In WIF’s second annual webinar grants leadership walked attendees through a wide range of topics including an intro to WIF, changes to the process over the last few years, eligibility requirements, information about our grants committee, and …
The Community Impact Committee met with Jim Dukes, the executive director of the 2022 WIF grantee Charlotte Art League in their new space at the Trailhead Art Building at 4237 Raleigh Street. They are very excited to be able to offer more accessible studio, gallery, and event space to the creatives in Charlotte. There is a new coworking …
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The Community Impact Committee checked in with Goodyear Arts Co-Director/Co-Founder, Amy Herman. Amy shared the creative ways they worked through 2020 and COVID, and what they are looking forward to in the coming year. When COVID put an end to the art residencies and the fundraising gala in 2020, twenty six artists created a safe …
More than 150 members, guests, and grantees gathered at The Terrace at Cedar Hill for the first in-person Women’s Impact Fund (WIF) Annual Meeting since 2019 — the first for our Executive Director, Patricia Massey Hoke! The Annual Meeting is a combination of social event, business meeting, and celebration. This year was no different. As …
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The Arts Empowerment Project (TAEP), a 2021 WIF grant recipient, works to break the cycles of violence and trauma through arts opportunities that ignite change in vulnerable youth. TAEP provides high-quality arts programming, enrichment experiences, and social-emotional development for children in need of access to light, hope, equity, and opportunity, which together offer paths to …
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