Join your fellow girlfriends on May 26, 5-6:30 pm for an evening of learning with Stephanie Montgomery, J.D., our Racial Equity and Inclusion Consultant. Register here to attend the Deconstructing Racism event.
For those who wish to serve as facilitators of small group follow-up discussions, Stephanie will offer a training session on May 22, 2-4 pm. Register here for the Facilitating with an Equity Lens training.
Community Energy Project, one of our 2020 Grantee Partners, was just announced as an inaugural grantee of the Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF). The grant will allow them to perform energy retrofits and repairs for 20 low-income Black homeowners, including installing rooftop solar panels on 5 of the homes. These energy-efficiency upgrades will deliver a 55% average energy use reduction and 38% average utility bill savings. What a great impact!
Read Exploring Trust Based Philanthropy article, shared by our Grant Review Team leaders Tammy Wilhoite and Holly Cook.
Our grantee partner Bienestar is seeking people to volunteer for one hour per weekday to help with English-language skills for their staff members.
Do you pride yourself on strong organizational skills? Have a penchant for naming conventions? Love Google Drive and Dropbox? We are seeking someone who loves organizing files and folders to help us stay on top of our 5+ years of ninety-nine girlfriends materials, templates, documents and photos. Contact Deborah Edward if you’re interested.
Each year ninety-nine girlfriends hosts interactive education programs about a learning question. This year our question is “How Do We Embed Racial Equity in All That We Do?
Check out the speaker line-up for our Discovery Forum event on June 10, featuring other philanthropic organizations sharing the lessons they’ve learned in their own efforts to adapt and adopt ways of working to fulfill their racial equity goals.
Check out White Women As Gatekeepers from the Ethical Rainmaker podcast. Perfect length for a walk or a coffee in a sunny spot. Suggested by Holly Cook.
Join us in congratulating grantee partner Black United Fund of Oregon CEO Dr. LM Alaiyo Foster, who was recently named as a Women of Influence by the Portland Business Journal!
What if you could help bring in smart, skilled, and engaging young women to diversify our collective membership? That opportunity exists through our Fellows program. Can you help us reach our funding goal for 2021?
The We Give Summit 2021 is a virtual month-long event in May to celebrate everyday givers with virtual presentations, interactive sessions and online networking! Speakers share info, experiences and inspiration about many aspects of the collective giving movement. Each week has a different theme: Be Together, Learn Together, Grow Together, Dream Together. This international celebration of collective giving circles continues through May 27. A full access pass costs $50 after the first week – Register and jump in!
This Summit was organized by the new PhilanthropyTogether network of giving circles (which we’re a part of). Read about their first year here.
Senior Advocates for Generational Equity (SAGE) is recruiting for Legacy Fellows, who will spend nine months designing projects that make a lasting impact for K-12 students in Oregon or nationwide. The 2021 Program begins in May.
Shared by Deborah Edwards and Michelle Hynes.
We have three openings for Liaisons with Adelante Mujeres and Black United Fund. Be part of a two-person team that communicates regularly between the grantee partner and ninety-nine girlfriends. Fill out this form to express interest in this opportunity to get closer to our Grantee Partners.
The Membership Committee is looking for women to join the connector team. Connectors will have a small list of newer members (girlfriends who joined in 2020 or 2021) to periodically reach out to so they feel engaged and included. This is a great opportunity if you don’t have a lot of extra time. Email Kaye or Anne if you would like to join this engaging team.
Hey girlfriends! Join our campaign to help encourage members to join by sharing what attracted you to ninety-nine girlfriends and why you have stayed. Email your response to the prompt and a photo of yourself to Tammy Wilhoite and we will post it on social media.
In 2020 ninety-nine girlfriends and other collective giving circles participated in a program to explore how our organizations can embed racial equity in our activities, as an extension of our active commitment to diversity within our network. The program invited us to examine ways that our giving circles shape (1) values and shared beliefs, (2) leadership and governance, (3) internal and external language and visuals, (4) membership, (5) meeting style and structure, and (6) partnership processes with grantees and to make changes to become more inclusive.
2020 was a crazy year, and for all kinds of reasons, most of us are glad it’s in the rearview mirror. Spring is springing, the pace of the vaccine rollout is picking up, and we’re beginning to see glimmers of hope that we’ll be able to see our friends and loved ones—and fellow girlfriends—in person before too much longer.
Raphael House of Portland is seeking wholesale/discount pricing to purchase everyday personal care items for survivors.
Interested in engaging with our grantee partners? The role of our Liaisons is to connect membership with our grantee partners through storytelling and volunteer opportunities, and to provide grantees support as appropriate. If you are interested, please complete this brief form.
The Women are Coming is a 3-minute video by artist Pinar Toprak, recommended by Heidi Yewman to recognize amazing women who are making a difference in the world.