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April 2009

PISTOL PETE for Equal Pay!

WYOMING WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ENEWS

Mother's Day is May 10th.  This is a wonderful time to honor a woman in your life with a donation to the Wyoming Women's Foundation.  Your dollars will be used to support women in Wyoming reach economic self-sufficiency and help create opportunities for girls.  Read on through our newsletter to see the ways WYWF is working to create positive, empowered women and girls throughout Wyoming.  And you can help!  Honor someone you love with a donation today.  We can't do it with out you!    Thanks for all you do for Wyoming's women and girls, Richelle. Wyoming Women's Foundation Executive Director      Putting Women's Equality in the Equality State Gap?  What gap?  Incase you haven't heard, Wyoming has the largest gender wage gap in the nation.  But in true cowgirl fashion, women across the state are grabbing the reigns and working to even the score.   The Wyoming Women's Foundation is proud to support a number of organizations that are taking creative approaches to close the gender wage gap.    We support a number of projects that focus on educating and promoting the economic self-sufficiency of women across the state.  At the forefront of this effort is the WAGE (Women Are Getting Even) project.  The WAGE project focuses on helping women from all walks of life understand how to benchmark salaries and negotiate a fair salary.  It's easy to promote this project, anyone interested can contact us at info@wywf.org and we can work together to close the gap in our great state.    Don't think you can make a difference?  Think again.  Read about Christy Etheridge and the impact she is making on the gap in Evanston.  Turn your eyes to the UW Outreach School and learn about the Wyoming Women's Foundation/Edelweiss Opportunity Scholarship for single parents.  Celebrate the success and joy of Women Build with Habitat for Humanity.    Its easy to make a difference for the women in Wyoming.  We make it even easier.  By supporting us you are investing in prosperity for the entire state.  Celebrate Equal Pay Day with us and celebrate the women in your life.		In This Issue Equal Pay Day Spotlight on Christy Etheridge Grantee Spotlight: Women Build Program Quick Links WAGE Project Wyoming Women's Foundation Women Build Project We Invite You to... Give the Money to broaden the awareness to fuel the change to impact the future for women and girls in Wyoming   Join our Mailing List!
Equal Pay Day is coming up!  Celebrate the fight to close the wage gap on April 28, 2009   The National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) created Equal Pay Day in 1996 as an effort to raise public awareness about the gender wage gap in the U.S.  According to the NCPE, "The day symbolizes how far into the year a woman must work, on average, to earn as much as a man earned the previous year."  More> Fighting Pay Inequity One Woman at a Time   EVANSTON - One of the Wyoming Women's Foundation's board members, Christy Etheridge, has a unique commitment to pay equity and education about negotiation in the workplace for Wyoming women. More> Grantee Spotlight: Women Build Program Selects a Family   CHEYENNE - In September 2008, over 100 women throughout Cheyenne joined forces to learn more about "Women Build"; a Habitat for Humanity program, partially funded by a grant from the Wyoming Women's Foundation, which challenges women to build a better future for our nation's children and a legacy of volunteerism for their own children. More> Tell Us Your Story   Please let us know how we can make this newsletter better.  If you have stories or suggestions, please send an email to Katie@wycf.org

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