Helping Women Achieve

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Today, there are many ways to give back to others.  Some people enjoy focusing their charitable attention on children’s causes and others emphasize issues of poverty; a lesser known resource for charitable energy is to help women to achieve their professional goals and to help them to raise themselves up economically and professionally.

There are quite a few women’s organizations today that do just this.  While offering financial contributions and donations to women in need, they also offer women the tools to create their own financial stability.

The National Association for Women Business Owners, for instance, formed the NAWBO Institute for Entrepreneurial Development in 2003.  Donations offered to the Institute help them to develop programs and initiatives that will propel women entrepreneurs further along towards their success. This non-profit educational foundation, and an arm of the NAWBO, tries to strengthen the wealth creating capacity for women business owners and to help them to further their entrepreneurial goals.

Another organization, W.O.M.E.N. in America, has created a highly-regarded mentoring program to help women who are early in their careers to build leadership skills and to create an invaluable support network for their future achievement.  Their three year mentorship program enables women to learn from the experience of others while reaching for their professional goals. In addition, after women complete the first two years of the three year program, W.O.M.E.N. in America emphasizes the idea of “Pay It Forward.” As W.O.M.E.N. in America explains, during the third year participants will “be invited at the end of the year to present updates on their “Pay It Forward” projects to the Board or at a Quad Cluster meeting.” At the end of their “Pay It Forward” year, mentees are then inducted into the W.O.M.E.N. in America Alumnae Network.

A third organization, Forte Foundation, is a collection of major corporations and top business schools that have come together to help direct talented women to become business leaders. Founded in 2001 to address the results of the landmark research study, “Women and the MGBA: Gateway to Opportunity,” they help women to gain a strong footing in the business world.  They motivate young women to explore business as a career choice, increase women’s access to educational and business opportunities, support women financially in their business education pursuits, and support cutting-edge research on women and business.  Forte Foundation depends on its many sponsors and collaborators which include business schools, corporations and nonprofit organizations to help today’s women to succeed in the business environment.

These three organizations, the NAWBO, W.O.M.E.N. in America and Forte Foundation, are a few examples of the many organizations out there that are helping women to achieve.  As the expression goes, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”  These organizations are, indeed, offering to teach women so that they will be able to feed themselves for a lifetime.

 

Giving Hope to Cancer Patients

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All cancer patients need hope. No matter what their prognosis, feeling some kind of hope is the only way they can carry on.  Thus the City of Hope – nearly 100 years old – is a phenomenal charitable organization that helps these patients live with a little hope.  The organization is recognized around the globe for how compassionate it is toward patient care.  As well City of Hope is a leader in biomedical research and treatment and education institution, engaging in innovative scientific projects, and developing breakthroughs in the world of cancer research that ultimately result in new therapies, which have led to the improvement of the patients’ quality of life and have thus again given more hope to these patients.  Indeed, some of the biggest advances in modern medicine have come from the organization’s physicians and scientists who have “offered insights that have reshaped the world's understanding of diseases.”

The City of Hope is located near LA, California.  Director of the Beckman Research Institute of the organization is Dr. Richard Jove, who is also a professor of Molecular Medicine.  He studied at Columbia University, Rockefeller University and the State University of New York, Buffalo.

Environmental Protection

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The International Rivers Network (more commonly known as International Rivers) was established to help the environment in general, but more specifically the rivers and the neighboring communities.  Set up more than a quarter of a century ago, the charity focuses on how to preserve the rivers in their most natural habitat.  The construction of dams are fought harshly against and International Rivers tries to encourage water saving habits.  As well, the organization seeks ways of preventing tough floods.

International Rivers works with other organizations too, in order to efficiently achieve the best results.  Particularly active are those individuals and communities impacted directly by dam constructions, as well as those wanting to protect the environment while looking out for its future.  As well, there are many experts in the field seeking ways of looking for alternatives to destructive river projects.  The main thrust of the work takes place in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Pedro Clean Up

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Drinking Water Distributed – Free for the Southeast and West

Pedro Zaragoza Vizcarra Foundation, Lucerne Milk BipGas, will join the Board of Municipal Water and Sanitation (JMAS) to distribute free water in the southern colonies (east and west of the city) that are currently not connected to such a facility.

Veronica Jimenez, director of the Foundation, said two trucks belonging to the enterprise will be distributed, on a schedule, as of today in 22 colonies.  She said that around 6,000 families will benefit from this, being the recipients of 800 liters of water on each distribution day.

Tankers have a capacity to charge between 15 thousand liters of water per trip. According to the schedule in the division, every Monday the trucks will go to Plazuela de Acuña, San Rafael, Plazuelita and Tarahumara. On Tuesday they will go to Golden Valley, Desert Farms and Eye of God. By Wednesday, the tour begins in Loma Blanca, then  Emiliano Zapata and will end in in San Isidro Extension. Thursday’s schedule will be in Lomas de Poleo Alto, Lomas de Poleo Low, Santa Elena Farm and New Millennium.  On Friday it will go to Polo Gamboa, Peasant, Villa Esperanza, United Farm Bello Horizonte.  The schedule will begin daily, at 10 am prompt.

The families concerned will be contacted by the Foundation which will also be in touch with the Bipgas and Lucerne Group to provide trucks, drivers’ salaries and water transfer.  It was also indicated that over the hot summer months, the high temperatures that affect our city impacts everyone but it is the children and low-income seniors who do not have the basic service of water in their homes, so are more exposed to health problems who are the most vulnerable.  Jimenez also pointed out that this program is activated each year by the Foundation and the Zaragoza group, generating very good results.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation seeks to “help all people lead healthy, productive lives.”  It firmly believes all lives have “equal value” and thus tries to provide the resources people are lacking to ensure they have enough food and live above the poverty line.  Health and (adequate) wealth are the foundation’s main aims.  In America, the charitable organization (headquartered in Seattle, Washington) works toward facilitating and enabling access to educational opportunities for all, leading to a greater chance of being successful in life. The foundation’s co-chair is William H. Gates Sr., CEO Jeff Raikes, and directed by Bill and Melinda Gates as well as Warren Buffet.  Their mission is to “increase opportunities for people in developing countries to overcome hunger and poverty.”

The three main areas the foundation works in are: Global Development, Global Health, and United States.  In the first, work is done to reach as many people as possible in the areas that have the most potential for “high-impact, sustainable solutions”; in the second, attempts are made for progression in science and technology to save lives in poor countries, focusing on health issues and in the third, the  United States Program work, is geared towards citizens achieving the best – and most – education possible.