Resources and Links

The Community Fund for Women & Girls celebrates our partnerships with organizations we've helped fund.  Below is a a partial list of grant recipients that have made us aware of the following needs to provide programs and services for women and girls in the Greater New Haven area. We hope this list will inspire your support.

  Wish List By Categories (Bus Tokens, Clothing, Home Supplies, Electronics, Gift Cards, Miscellaneous, Office Supplies). This is a printable PDF that contains details and nonprofit contact information.

Wish List By Organization Name (below). Nonprofits with the  symbol have profiles on giveGreater.org, a local online resource for donors to find, learn about and give to local nonprofits.

All Our Kin	New Haven Home Recovery
Boys and Girls Club of New Haven	Planned Parenthood
Christian Community Action	'r kids Family Center
Columbus House Sojourners Place	Rape Crisis Center of Milford
CT Agricultural Experiment Station Research Foundation	Schooner
Connecticut Women's Education & Legal Fund	Solar Youth
The Diaper Bank	Soroptimist International of Greater New Haven
Girl Scouts of CT	Soul-O-Ettes Drill Team
Higher Heights Youth Empowerment Programs	St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Your Place Youth Center
Hospital of St. Raphael HOPE	Student Parenting & Family Services
Literacy Volunteers of Greater New Haven	Vista Vocational and Life Skills Center
LNV Parent Child Resource Center	West Haven Child Development Center
Mary Wade Home	West Haven Community House
Neighborhood Music School	Women and Family Life Center
	Young Parent Program of Milford

The Power of the Purse:  How Women are Changing Philanthropy (Sondra Shaw-Hardy):
http://www.thepowerofthepurse.blogspot.com/

Women's Philanthropy Institute Blog:
http://womenleadingthroughphilanthropy.blogspot.com/

Rosetta Thurman
http://www.rosettathurman.com/

TPI:  Deep Social Impact
http://blog.tpi.org/ 

Guidestar:  Bob Ottenhoff
http://ceo.guidestar.org/

Tactical Philanthropy Advisors:  Sean Stannard-Stockton http://www.tacticalphilanthropy.com/blog

SheSpotter:  Lisa Witter/Lisa Chen
http://www.shespotter.com/

Foundation Center-Philanthropy News Digest- Philantopic  http://pndblog.typepad.com/pndblog/

Chronicle of Philanthropy
http://philanthropy.com/blogs/social-philanthropy/ 

Marketing:  Seth Godin
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/

Leadership:  Michael Hyatt
http://michaelhyatt.com/

New York Times:
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/  

Learning to Give:  Learning to Give is the world's leading developer of lessons and resources that teach giving and volunteerism, civic engagement, and character through service learning.

The New York Times Knowledge Network course:  This is a self-paced course with about 4 hours of video that touches on the history of women’s philanthropy in America, research on gender and philanthropy; perspectives on giving locally and giving globally; and concluding with steps to create a personal giving plan.

Women's Donor Education Programs advance women’s philanthropy initiatives in nonprofits around the country. Even if institutions do not have formal initiatives, they can sponsor donor education programs individually, or join with others in the community to sponsor regional or city-wide educational opportunities.

Authors Sondra Shaw-Hardy, Martha A. Taylor, and Buffy Beaudoin-Schwartz provide valuable insight into the world of Women's philanthropy in their book: Women and Philanthropy: Boldly Shaping a Better World (Sept. 2010).

Women Give 2010 released a report, Causes Women Support, which examines the differences between men and women's giving by charitable area.

  A Sense of Place

  What's Next for Philanthropy - Executive Summary

  Women's Funds - Foundation Center Report

  Women Give 2010 Report

  Selected Bibliography on Women's Philanthropy

  Giving USA Annual Report on American Philanthropy

I'm A Philanthropist:
How Women Are Changing America's Charitable Landscape.

This full-length documentary was created by The Community Fund for Women & Girls in 2010 to be used by individuals, associations, organizations and others to encourage women to think about and act on their philanthropy, individually and collectively.  The documentary, in its entirety, is available in dvd format upon request or viewable online via the links below.


Trailer (above)

History	What is Women's Philanthropy?
The Individual	The Next Generation
What's Next?

Sample Discussion Questions:

• Where and from whom did you learn about giving and philanthropy?
• What are your earliest recollections of volunteering?
• What role does philanthropy have in our society?
• Who is your philanthropic role model and why?
• What gift have you made that you are most proud of and why?
• What causes are you most passionate about?
• What are the best ways to teach children about giving?
• If money was no object, what would you do with it to make the world a better place?
• What changes do you believe would make our society better for women and girls?
• What do you want your legacy to be? Or how to want to be remembered?

The Girl Effect.

A solution to poverty. If we do our part, 600 million girls in the developing world will do the rest.

  

Websites:

Women and Philanthropy (Sondra Shaw-Hardy)

Facebook:

Women and Philanthropy:  Boldly Shaping a Better Future (Sondra Shaw-Hardy)