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 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 …
Women’s Impact Fund had an outstanding, in-person Social Hour for Social Issues event at Charlotte’s Innovation Barn on Monday, October 17. It was interesting, inspiring, and a lot of fun. The Innovation Barn is ground zero for Circular Charlotte, a joint project between the City and Envision Charlotte to transition Charlotte to a circular economy. …
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The Community Impact Committee initiated our Anniversary Connections with past grantees in 2021-2022. We recently visited Matthews Free Medical Clinic. Amy Carr, the executive director, was enthusiastic about the changes since the 2017 Women’s Impact Fund grant which provided for a nurse practitioner position. She credits the WIF grant for all the amazing things taking place over …
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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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A key goal of collective giving is to amplify impact. It starts by pooling resources and giving in targeted ways. Many women’s collective giving circles, like Women’s Impact Fund (WIF), started their journey with project-based grants in topical funding areas — arts & culture, health, environment, education, and human services. More recently, trends in philanthropy …
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We kicked off this year’s Women LEAD series with an inspiring and thought-provoking session with Rosie Molinary. In this session, we explored intentional decision-making in our professional and personal lives. Rosie led attendees through an exercise to start out the session. She challenged us to look at the most important parts of our lives (Social, …
Black women, regardless of health, education, or income, are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than their white counterparts, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and not enough Black women are working as childbirth professionals. The Johnson C. Smith University Birthing Professionals Program (BPP) seeks to improve maternal and …
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