Our Focus Areas

Women Helping Children, Youth & Families

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Women who care about children, youth and families are the heart and soul of The Women’s Initiative. Across our region, women like you are making positive changes for a brighter future. Through your generous support we have:

  • Invested $14 million since 1996 to fund girls' programming.

  • Brought more than 1,300 women to our annual Women’s Leadership Breakfasts, raising more than $1 million.
  • Engaged more than 150 women on various subcommittees.

Join us and lending your vision, expertise and leadership to:

  • Foster the healthy development of children and youth.

  • Create economic opportunity through sustainable employment.
  • Ensure families have access to affordable housing.

When you LIVE UNITED as part of The Women’s Initiative, you get as much as you give because every issue is a women's issue


Women's Initiative Co-Chairs

Jan Cooper

Kristina Davis

Carla Marcinowski

Pamela Paton