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Conference News

The Foundation will announce the recipients of the 2010 Education Awards and Development Grants at the 40th Annual FAWCO Conference in Boston. $65,000 is available in 2010 through these two Foundation programs. Will you or a member of your club be the recipient of an Award? Will your club’s charitable project benefit from a Development Grant? Guidelines and application and nomination forms are now available.

What’s Black and White and Red all Over? You, at the “Extra, Extra Extravaganza," The 2010 Foundation Night at the FAWCO Conference in Boston. Capture your inner Lois Lane or Brenda Starr as you investigate the possibility of reporting on the biggest fundraiser in the history of the Foundation! Will the item you donate to the Silent Auction be the headline of the night? Proceeds from the evening will fund The Foundation and its programs – For more information please read our At the Conference Page! Stay tuned to The Foundation’s website for “more News Alerts” on our big event.

Target Program

The FAWCO Target Program is a focused strategy of education and project fundraising that will help to highlight an issue and look for ways to solve the problem and in doing so assist in attaining the UN Millennium Goals. The Target will bring a critical global issue to the attention of FAWCO Clubs, their members and to the world. For more information, log in to the FAWCO website.

Girls Leadership Workshop

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -Eleanor Roosevelt

Beginning February 1st, The FAWCO Foundation will add The Eleanor Roosevelt Girls Leadership Workshop (ERGLW) to its donation forms. This will allow members and clubs who want to support this program to make a donation through The Foundation. At the end of the year all of the designated donations will be totaled and sent to the program. The goal of the ERGLW is to educate, empower, and activate adolescent girls to become the next generation of social justice leaders. Four girls from FAWCO families have recently participated in these workshops.

The program reaches girls during a critical period in their development when many young women may become distracted and sometimes derailed by societal pressures, rigid gender-role expectations, and plummeting self-esteem. As a counterbalance to these challenges, GLW builds on the legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt by promoting human rights, gender and racial equality, and the responsibilities of citizenship.

If you wish to know about the program: The Eleanor Roosevelt Center
To make a donation to this program, please click to go to our donations page: How Can I Donate?

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About Us

The FAWCO Foundation is the philanthropic arm of FAWCO, a network of independent American and international volunteer organizations representing private-sector American citizens overseas. FAWCO consists of over 75 clubs throughout the world.

The Foundation’s sole purpose is to aid charitable, educational and scientific programs that are the passion of FAWCO and its member clubs. We are a US non-profit corporation, registered in the State of Missouri as a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization.

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Why I Donate to The Foundation

I believe in The Foundation and its far-reaching multiplier effect. It presents a vast and invaluable worldwide source of women eager to continue their education for the greater good. Education is the key with which to unlock closed doors and dispel misconceptions. At the same time, the recipients of funding are satisfying a personal need and goal of following their heart. My latest donation has reached women in Columbia and Lebanon, something difficult to achieve without tapping into The Foundation connection. Thanks to The Foundation everyone is a winner!

~ Shirley Kearney, AWC Basel

Shirley is a strong and committed believer in the need for on-going education. She realized early on that The Foundation could help her by reaching out to FAWCO members who needed funds in order to resume their education.

Her financial support took off in 1987 with a donation to the scholarship fund through sales of the first edition of the publication Basel: A Cultural Experience. Donations through further sales continued until 1999. In 2005 a second edition carried forth her commitment to Basel and The Foundation. The honorarium from the publisher was transferred directly to The Foundation. An early conviction that ongoing formal education - and that one person can make a difference was firmly established.

Her 30-year love affair with The Foundation is strong. As a former board member and a one-time member of the scholarship selection committee, she was deeply moved after reading the applications. Could there be so many enthusiastic and worthy members in search of further education? Education is the way. The FAWCO Foundation offers an international resource for aiding and helping us to reach this end.

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Haiti Emergency Relief

Dear Friends,

Haiti pic As you know, a major earthquake has struck Haiti’s capital city Port-au-Prince. It is a catastrophe of major proportions in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Multiple buildings have collapsed including Parliament, hospitals, and many more, with estimates of the dead and missing rising every day. The FAWCO Board has activated the Emergency Relief Fund for the victims in Haiti and will send all donations to Oxfam America, a highly recognized charity based in Boston. They are already on the ground and have the logistics put in place to put our funds to work immediately. Oxfam America has a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator.

The ERF offers our members and clubs the opportunity to make an emergency donation alongside other FAWCO members joining forces in a FAWCO-wide humanitarian effort. For contributions by credit card please go to our How Can I Donate page. On the right side of the page, click on the Donate button for the General Fund. This will take you to the Pay Pal page. Once you have completed that transaction, the next page gives you a box for “special notes.” Please type in “ERF” here. This is very important in expediting your donation to the Emergency Relief Fund. For non-credit card donations in U.S. dollars check payable to FAWCO, mailed to ”FAWCO Treasurer, 61 Rue d’Emster L-6977 Oberanven, Luxembourg". For non-credit card donations in Euros or other currency by bank transfer, please contact the FAWCO treasurer: treasurer@fawco.org

For information on the results of the China ERF, please click here: China Earthquake Emergency Relief Fund.

2009 DG Funds and Awards at Work!

The FAWCO Foundation announced the recipients of the 2009 Development Grants Fund and Awards at their conference in March. We wanted to let you know that we have begun to disperse the money and it is already working to improve the lives of others.

See the 2009 DG Recipients and the 2009 Awards Recipients.

Our Work: A Snapshot

The FAWCO Foundation supports FAWCO and its network of over 75 member clubs by focusing their passion and commitment to aiding global concerns through philanthropic service. The Foundation’s two largest programs are The FAWCO Foundation Development Grants program which focuses on worldwide community service projects and The Education Awards program which supports the belief that education (both traditional and non-traditional) is the cornerstone of empowerment.

The FAWCO Foundation is committed to FAWCO’s support of the United Nations Millennium Goals and has assisted FAWCO in supporting their programs in aid of these goals. In March 2009 at the FAWCO Conference, FAWCO and The FAWCO Foundation will announce The FAWCO Target Program, a focused strategy of education and project fundraising that will help to highlight an issue and look for ways to solve the problem and in doing so assist in attaining the UN Millennium Goals.

The FAWCO Foundation receives its funding through donations and fundraising. Member clubs' donations may make them eligible to sponsor an Award or Development Grant. The Foundation also holds fundraising events to support all of it philanthropic projects. In addition, The Foundation encourages and accepts donations from corporations and organizations.

Announcing New 2010 Education Award and Development Grants Sponsors

The FAWCO Foundation is pleased to announce that recent donations have been designated for sponsorship to the following Education Awards and Development Grants (DGs):

The Foundation is extremely excited that FAUSA has made history by making a donation to the Development Grants Fund. In keeping with their commitment to education they join AWC of Zurich to underwrite the
FAUSA Hope Through Education co-sponsored by AWC Zurich.

A generous donation has been designated to name AWA Vienna and one of FAWCO’s newest Member Clubs, AWA Dubai, as co-sponsors of the Around the Corner, A World Away co-sponsored AWA Vienna and AWA Dubai.

To show their support for projects that provide aid to victims of violence, abuse or sexual exploitation, AWC Hamburg joins AWC The Hague as the a co-sponsor for the Effects of Violence and Human Trafficking, co-sponsored by AWC of The Hague and AWC of Hamburg.

In recognition of one of FAWCO’s most influential presidents, AAWE Paris has made a donation on behalf of Gertrude de Gallaix: The 2010 Humanities Award in memory of Gertrude de Gallaix sponsored in part by AAWE.

For more information about the 2010 Development Grants, click here: Development Grants Page

For more information about the 2010 Education Awards, click here: Education Awards Page

The 2010 Awards and DGs will be announced at the FAWCO Conference in March. If your club might be interested in sponsoring an Education Award of Development Grant for 2011, please contact The Foundation President.

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