Winter 2018 newsletter

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Dallas Women’s Foundation Celebrates Women Leaders Leadership Forum & Awards Dinner

Presented by Featuring Keynote Speaker Nina Tassler

The April 19 Leadership Forum & Awards Dinner, presented by AT&T, and co-chaired by Effie Dennison and Jan Sharry, will celebrate exemplary leaders who have positively impacted the lives of women

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Arcilia C. Acosta

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Jocelyn D. Kidd, DDS

Arcilia C. Acosta is a first-generation college student who took over her father’s small business, CARCON Industries and Construction, and turned it into a leading construction company. Through her affiliation with the National and Regional Hispanic Contractors Associations, many company and energy boards, as well as her work as the Governor’s appointee to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, she has helped transform the mainly maledominated construction industry.

For those interested in purchasing a sponsorship, contact Ashley Lindsay, Senior Director – Annual Giving, at 214-525-5311 or visit www.dallaswomensfdn.org/lfad.

and girls in North Texas. We are proud to honor the 2018 recipients of the Maura Women Helping Women Awards, and the Young Leader Awards, presented by Capital One.

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Cynthia Mickens Ross

Gail Turner

Jocelyn D. Kidd, DDS is a respected community leader and dentist to countless individuals in the Dallas community. She serves on many professional and community boards. Through her leadership role with Delta Sigma Theta, Inc., she led efforts to establish the chapter’s Science,Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) Academy for girls to learn more about these career paths, along with healthy lifestyles and community service.

Cynthia Mickens Ross, Director – Community Relations at Methodist Charlton, is a captivating speaker, teacher, coach and author. She authored and teaches a 12-week Continued on page 2

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Message From the Board Chair

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32nd Annual Luncheon Recap

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Nina Tassler most recently served as the chairwoman for CBS Entertainment.

Under Tassler’s watch, CBS enjoyed a strong run of industry-leading ratings, including being the most-watched network for 12 of the past 13 years. Her tenure includes a long list of hit series, including comedies The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother, as well as dramas such as The Good Wife and the CSI and NCIS franchises (which she developed as head of the drama department before taking over the entertainment division). Tassler has also been included in an annual list of The Most Powerful and Influential Latinos in Entertainment by The Imagen Foundation in 2011 and again in 2013.

Message From the President

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Ensuring the Future for Women and Girls

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Women’s Leadership Initiative

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Leadership Key Club

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Since our earliest days, Dallas Women’s Foundation has attracted many of this community’s most outstanding leaders, who have served on our Board and committees, chaired our fundraisers, organized our giving circles, and given generously and often to support our work in grant making, research and advocacy. That holds true today, and I know that to be a fact, as I have the honor of serving as the Chair of a Board comprising 44 of this region’s most exceptional, effective and dedicated leaders.

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spiritual and personal development course entitled Path~Way to Purpose®, helping individuals discover their natural gifts, talents and abilities. Last year, she released her first book, Path~Way to Purpose Stories of Victory. She is also founder of the Path~Way to Purpose Residential Housing program that provides free, safe and supportive housing for women and children.

Gail Turner is a civic-minded leader and member of several organizations serving the needs of women. As a founding member of New Friends New Life, she has successfully lobbied the Texas Legislature on laws that help victims of human trafficking. She also serves on the boards of Shelter Ministries, Genesis Women’s Shelter, and, as the “First Lady of SMU”, she serves on the boards of the Meadows School of Arts and the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education & Human Development.

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in age, in geography and in the roles we play in the community and in business. Similarly, under our CEO’s leadership, our staff is 47 percent women of color.

This didn’t just happen. Diversity and inclusion have been at the heart of our values since we were formed. However, today, we are even more diverse and more intentionally inclusive – because we know, both from research and from experience, that organizations with diverse Boards perform better, devise better solutions and deliver greater impact on mission.

Caren K. Lock

We are very proud that our Board is one of the most diverse and inclusive in the region: 42 percent of our Board are women of color or members of the LGBTQ community. We are not only diverse racially, ethnically and by gender identity; we are diverse

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We live in such a dynamic and diverse region and state – with dramatic and positive growth, and deepening disparities. And we know that the quality of leadership and the diversity of our Board, committees, volunteers and staff are fundamental to our strength and our success at delivering on our mission.

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Vanessa Bouché, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of Political Science at Texas Christian University. As a principal investigator on several federallyfunded human trafficking projects, she has developed databases of human trafficking prosecutions in the U.S. and India. She’s also conducted public opinion research on human trafficking, interviewed traffickers in federal prisons and consulted for a variety of organizations.

Brooke López, a recent graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas, currently serves IGNITE National as a program facilitator and is a representative on its National Communications Advisory Council. At 15, she worked with a local congresswoman to propose a new bill; at 16, she founded the nonprofit “Students of Change”; and at 18, she was the youngest to run for Wylie City Council. She founded Lone Star Parity Project, a nonpartisan online publication dedicated to sharing research and stories for women in politics.

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Effie Dennison Texas Capital Bank

Jan Sharry Haynes and Boone, LLP

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impact on the economic security of women and on the education and advancement of women leaders. As a member of the Economic Leadership Council, I have seen first-hand how the “ripple effect” truly does bring benefit not only to women…but to their families, their companies, and the community. As a local leader, I have grown personally from my involvement with Dallas Women’s Foundation. I have met impactful DFW Executives and also learned about the issues facing women in North Texas – all while being a part of a foundation committed to creating economic security for women and ensuring a

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focus on women in leadership.

- Laura Maxwell

Senior Vice President Supply Chain, Frito Lay division of PepsiCo

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The work Dallas Women’s Foundation does to support

the women and children who are most in need is an important cornerstone of our community. But equally important is the Foundation’s commitment to preparing women to assume more, and more significant, leadership roles in organizations of all types and sizes. I’m particularly excited about the Foundation’s Women’s Leadership Institute, which launches in February. It brings together women from a number of our community’s best-known firms for an intensive year-long program that will enhance their preparedness to take on ever-increasing levels of responsibility.

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- Beverly Goulet Executive Vice President and Chief Integration Officer American Airlines (Retired)

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Gender equity is not happening fast enough.

Through the Women’s Leadership Institute, I am proud to work alongside Dallas Women’s Foundation to accelerate gender parity – within EY and in business at large. The participants will have a life-changing experience, and they will be inspired to pay it forward…

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continuing the ripple effect!

- Thear Suzuki EY Advisory Services Leader for the Southwest Region

Roslyn Dawson Thompson

2018 is being called “The Year of the Woman,” and our hope is that it’s the first of many Years of the Woman! It is time to double down on the work to advance equality, equity and opportunity for all women and girls.

The current estimate is that it will take until the year 2095 to achieve gender parity in the workplace. We believe we must accelerate the pace of change to increase the number of women leaders in every sector, and ensure that supports are in place…in every place…for women to advance in leadership.

Strengthening the pipeline of women leaders is the driver behind our new Women’s Leadership Institute, featured in this newsletter, and designed by the powerful women executives of our Economic Leadership Council to fill a critical need they see in their own companies and firms.

Advancing more women as leaders is also the driver behind our Leadership Forum & Awards Dinner that honors women helping women along the path to leadership. It is also the impetus for other new programs, research, grants and advocacy efforts we are undertaking in the coming months and years, to build the leadership pipeline for girls and women at all levels and in all sectors of society.

There’s much work to be done – and it’s time we do it, because the future of our community, our state and our country truly depend on how we address issues of gender and racial inequity, and how we create opportunities for all.

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Economic Leadership Council Drives Support for Women in Leadership The Economic Leadership Council is a select group of philanthropic women business leaders who believe that, together, we can use our voices, our resources and our networks to make powerful waves of change that advance women’s economic

Hilda C. Galvan Jones Day, Co-Chair

Colleen Affeldt RGT Wealth Advisors

Ellenore Baker Carter Financial Management

Laura Baldwin Waco Bend Asset Management

Jennifer Biry AT&T

Erin Botsford Botsford Financial Group

Shonn Brown Lynn Pinker Hurst & Cox

Bonnie Clinton Toyota

Summer Collins C1 Innovation Lab

Cheyenne Currall UT Southwestern

Julie England TTM Technologies, Inc.

Marta Engram U.S. Trust

Michelle Frymire US Risk

Beverly Goulet American Airlines (Retired)

Virginia Rose Harris Texas Health Resources

Hattie Hill Women’s Food Service Forum

Brenda Jackson Oncor (Retired)

Margaret Jordan Dallas Medical Resource (Retired)

Louise Kee Golden Seeds

Melody Lenox AXXESS

Laura Maxwell Frito-Lay North America, Inc.

Wendy Messmann U.S. Trust

Maribess Miller Midmark

Retta Miller Jackson Walker LLP

Neena Newberry Newberry Executive Solutions

Carol Nichols Circle C Ventures LLC

Diane Paddison 4word

Carrie Freeman Parsons Freeman

Holly Reed Texas Central

Zeenat Sidi Capital One

Debra von Storch Ernst & Young

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Janice V. Sharry Haynes and Boone LLP, Co-Chair

security and leadership. The 2018 members launched the inaugural class of Women’s Leadership Institute participants, and will continue to advocate for philanthropic investment and actions that increase economic security and leadership for women and girls.

Thear Suzuki Ernst & Young

Ellen Torbert Southwest Airlines

Janelle Walker BB&T

Shawna Wilson Frito-Lay North America, Inc.

For more information, please contact Ashley Lindsay, at alindsay@dallaswomensfdn.org or 214.525.5311.

Empowering Executive Women Dallas Women’s Foundation has adopted an aggressive Leadership Initiative to advance and increase the number of women in leadership positions at all levels of society – presenting leadership forums; featuring and publishing the voices of women leaders, particularly those in traditionally male-dominated sectors or roles; engaging in advocacy around women’s leadership; and creating and funding new opportunities for women and girls to learn to lead. We aim to provide leadership and training opportunities to 60,000 women and girls by 2021, and to raise awareness about the economic and social benefits of women leaders in North Texas and the community.

The Purpose

Women remain underrepresented on boards of directors and in the C-suite, despite evidence that companies with women in executive leadership roles have better business outcomes.

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The purpose of the Women’s Leadership Institute is to strengthen and accelerate the pipeline of women in executive leadership, advance gender parity in the workplace, and achieve better business outcomes for organizations and the economy.

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The current market is indeed saturated yet women are still underrepresented in executive roles. Dallas Women’s Foundation The current market is indeed saturated with leadership development programming, yet women Women’s Leadership Institute offers an innovative strategy to develop and retain highare still underrepresented in executive roles.

Women’s Foundation Women’s Leadership potential, senior-level women in the Dallas workforce, while empowering these women to their value throughto access to powerful leaders, simulations and content women Institute offers anincrease innovative strategy develop and corporate retain high-potential, senior-level utilizes the corporate and human capital of executivetheir women on thethrough ELC. in the workforce,that while empowering these women tothe increase value access to powerful corporate leaders, simulations and content that utilizes the corporate and human Collectively, ELC members possess decades of experience in navigating corporate capital of the executive women in the Economic Leadership Council (ELC). environments and have developed influential networks along the way. Unlike anything available in the market today, the Women’s Leadership Institute will empower seniorCollectively, ELClevel members possess decades of experience in navigating career women through collaboration with participants and memberscorporate of the ELC from a broad spectrum ofinfluential industries andnetworks sectors within the Dallas-Fort market. environments and have developed along the way.Worth Unlike anything

available in the market today, the Women’s Leadership Institute will empower senior-level career women through collaboration with participants and members of the ELC from a broad spectrum of industries and sectors within the Dallas-Fort Worth market.

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OF AMERICANS SAY IT’S IMPORTANT FOR WOMEN AND MEN TO HAVE THE SAME OPPORTUNITIES FOR CAREER ADVANCEMENT,

but only SAY THEIR CURRENT WORKPLACE PUTS A HIGH PRIORITY ON HAVING WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS

Participating Companies American Airlines AT&T AXXESS Beck Group Boeing Global Services Celanese Children’s Health Ernst & Young FC Dallas Frito Lay North America Haynes & Boone, LLP Hunt Consolidated Jackson Walker Jones Day Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Pinnacle Southwest Airlines Texas Instruments Toyota 5

32nd Annual Luncheon Raises $1.2 Million October 20, 2017 Event Featured Dr. Hope Jahren More than 1,400 attendees filled Chantilly Ballroom for Dallas Women’s Foundation’s 32nd Annual Luncheon. With the theme “She Who Dares,” the event was full of surprises and excitement.

From the presentation of an inspirational video of three local women talking about their careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), to trading cards featuring 33 remarkable women leaders in STEM and an inspirational speaker, attendees were challenged to do more to create greater opportunities for women and girls to lead. NexBank also announced a matching dollar-for-dollar gift of up to $100,000 to challenge and inspire other Dallas-area businesses to increase their investment in programs that benefit women and girls in our community. The Luncheon, co-chaired by Shonn Brown and Lisa Singleton, lifted the issue of leadership equity by celebrating the triumphs and acknowledging the obstacles women and girls face advancing in

leadership fields in every sector, especially those in the STEM fields.

Dr. Jahren’s speech was also streamed to more than 2,000 students at 18 schools throughout Texas, thanks to the support of Lyda Hill.

Dallas Women’s Foundation’s 32nd Annual Luncheon keynote speaker Dr. Hope Jahren, an award-winning scientist and NY Times best-selling author

Luncheon Co-chair Shonn Brown, Dr. Hope Jahren, NexBank President John Holt, Luncheon Co-chair Lisa Singleton, Roslyn Dawson Thompson

Roslyn Dawson Thompson and Lynn McBee with Young Women’s Preparatory Network Students

THANK YOU TO OUR LUNCHEON SPONSORS “SHE DARES” SPONSOR

PLATINUM SPONSORS

Lyda Hill

SPEAKER SPONSORS

U.S. TRUST

® Bank of America Private Wealth Management

CRYSTAL SPONSORS

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DIAMOND SPONSORS

Suzanne Ahn, M.D. Speaker Endowment Fund at Dallas Women’s Foundation Nancy Ann and Ray Hunt

MEDIA SPONSORS

Dallas Women’s Foundation Board of Directors and Senior Staff Top L to R: Gail Griswold, Lael Brodsky, Janice Harissis, Karen Simon, Lisa Montgomery, Tracy Merzi Middle L to R: Angie Bain, Zeenat Sidi, Maria Mendez, Michelle Hudson, Roslyn Dawson Thompson, Teresa Giltner, Bonnie Clinton, Dena Jackson, Jane Hurst, Jennifer Biry, Laura Nieto, Shawn Wills Bottom L to R: Judy Sherman, Gwen McKinney, Thear Suzuki, Caren K. Lock (Chair), Shawna Wilson, Shonn Brown, Bonner Allen, Dawn Hooper

William Singleton, Lisa Singleton, Marvin Singleton

Maria Mendez, Caren K. Lock, Laura Nieto

Evan Brown, Ryan Brown, Shonn Brown, Lily Brown, Clarence Brown

THANK YOU TO OUR LUNCHEON SPONSORS

EMERALD SPONSORS AT&T, Inc. Ellenore and Kirk Baker/Carter Financial Mgmt Barings Multifamily Capital LLC Lucy and Henry Billingsley Cecilia G. Boone Chatham Hill Investment Partnership Toni Muñoz-Hunt and Dan Hunt Ashlee and Chris Kleinert Paula and Ron Parker Service King Collision Repair Betty and Steve Suellentrop Toyota

GOLD SPONSORS AdvoCare International, LP Bank of Texas Baron & Blue Foundation

Phyllis F. Bernstein Brunswick Group Nancy P. Carlson Serena Simmons Connelly Roslyn Dawson Thompson and Rex W. Thompson Dr Pepper Snapple Group Cindy Engles and Dodee Crockett The Episcopal School of Dallas Patricia W. Fagadau Amy L. Fikes Frost Bank Sheila Gallagher and Kay Winzenried Greenhill School and The Hockaday School The Hart Group, Inc. Haynes and Boone, LLP Al G. Hill, Jr. Trish Houck and Lyssa Jenkens Jane and Michael Hurst

JLL Locke Lord Lottye and Bobby Lyle Lynn Pinker Cox & Hurst Mankoff Family Foundation Alice and Erle Nye Parish Episcopal School PepsiCo Sewell Automotive Companies Sidley Austin LLP Julia Simon and Mary Kay Southwest Airlines Sue Spellman Tabani Family Foundation Tolleson Wealth Management Trinity Industries, Inc. Donna M. Wilhelm Continued on page 8

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Endowments Support Current Work and Ensure the Future One of Dallas Women’s Foundation’s most venerated leaders – chair of the board in 1990-91 and a dedicated, ongoing supporter – established a testamentary gift a number of years ago to benefit the Foundation’s general endowment for operations. Following her untimely death in May 2017, the Foundation Board – with permission of her family – designated this gift as a named fund, honoring her memory and her marvelous legacy of service to the Foundation through the Arlene J. Dayton Endowment, supporting general operations. To date, 105 friends have contributed to the fund in memory of Arlene.

Recently, as well, the Foundation Board voted to convert the donor advised fund established by the Board Alumnae to support annual grant making into a permanent endowment. Today, that fund is the Virginia B. Whitehill Board Alumnae Endowment, supporting the annual community grants.

The Board Alumnae Steering Committee issued a challenge to all Board Alumnae to make a special one-time gift to increase the total of this endowment from $100,000 to $300,000. Gifts from 11 donors, including

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SILVER SPONSORS Aetna Angie Bain Bank of America Plaza Beck Group Julie Bleicher and Gail Griswold Brenda F. Brand and Ann Berger Lael Brodsky A. Shonn Brown Veree Hawkins Brown Capital One Bank Civitas Capital Group CBRE Children’s Health Communities Foundation of Texas Ka Cotter and Sydney Hicks Cristo Rey Dallas Kaleta A. Doolin Julie England and Marcia Page The Enrico Foundation Melissa Fetter Marion T. Flores and Margaret Keliher Michelle Frymire HilltopSecurities Inc. HudsonLake Insperity Brenda L. Jackson

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two significant major gifts, have been made, and the fund to date totals over $165,000.

Each of the endowments and field of interest funds, which are treated as quasi-endowments, are invested, and the earnings create an ongoing source of income to support the Foundation’s mission and work. These funds represent $15.16 million or 44% of the Foundation’s total assets. Through the Unlocking Leadership Campaign, the Foundation is seeking to increase its endowments to $18 million.

Contributions may be made at any time to any of the Foundation’s existing endowments, or a named endowment may be established through meeting a minimum contribution level of current or testamentary gifts.

To make a contribution, or for more information about Foundation endowments and field of interest funds, please contact Shawn L. Wills, Senior Vice President – Development, at swills@dallaswomensfdn.org or 214.525.5318.

Jackson Walker L.L.P. JP Morgan Chase Junior League of Dallas, Inc. K&L Gates Kastl Law and Laura Benitez Geisler Mirjam and Chris Kirk LDWW and the Jody Venturoni Family Katherine Glaze Lyle and Sharon Lyle McKinsey & Company Methodist Health System Foundation Gwen McKinney Neiman Marcus Cecilia and Tim Norwood Oncor Electric Delivery Lori Reisenbichler Securus Technologies, Inc.

Tricia Miller, Becky Bruder, Fay Lidji

In addition to the Arlene J. Dayton and Virginia B. Whitehill endowments, Dallas Women’s Foundation endowments and field of interest funds are: Dodee Frost Crockett Endowment Fund, established in 2016, supporting general operations Catherine M. Coughlin Endowment for Women’s Leadership, established in 2015, supporting programs advancing women’s leadership Rebecca R. Sykes Staff Fund, established in 2007, enabling each Foundation staff member to select a community grant recipient Ruth Ray Hunt Memorial Fund, established in 2004, to benefit nonprofits that are faith-based or have some current or historical tie to a faithbased entity Becky R. Sykes Operating Endowment, established 2003 and renamed in Becky’s honor in 2011, supporting general operations Suzanne Ahn, M.D. Speaker Endowment Fund, established in 2003, supporting costs of annual luncheon speakers General Endowment, established in 1995, supporting operations with the majority of earnings to be spent on grants

Karen J. Simon The Sister Fund Solis Mammography Debby Hay Spradley Gail Warrior-Suchy and Colleen Affeldt Texas Capital Bank Texas Muslim Women’s Foundation Texas Woman’s University Thompson & Knight LLP TIAA UT Southwestern Medical Center UTA University Crossroads Vinson & Elkins LLP Katrina Watland Westwood Management Williams Family Foundation

Nancy Ann Hunt, Lisa Simmons

Selwyn Razor, Joyce Goss

Sara Duran, Jane Hurst

Child Care Advocacy With 62% of Texas mothers in the paid workforce, we know that child care is an important work support for women’s economic security. Increasing access to affordable, geographically available, highquality child care has been a key initiative at Dallas Women’s Foundation since 2014, and that includes advocating for systems change with partners across the community.

The Foundation participates in Early Matters Dallas, a coalition of business leaders and nonprofits that is elevating the economic argument that quality child care is imperative both to support today’s working mothers and to build tomorrow’s workforce.

The focus is on the role corporations and business owners can play to improve the child care system, and simultaneously working in Austin with elected officials on the funding and quality roles the state plays.

We are also a major funder of Dallas Early Education Alliance. DEEA comes at the issue from a different perspective: child care providers and educators. DEEA proposes and follows legislation, meets with elected officials on the impacts and issues of proposed legislation, and provides

information to supporters to increase civic input.

Child care is not just important in Texas.

It is a national issue, and Dallas Women’s Foundation has received a grant from Women’s Funding Network and W. K. Kellogg Foundation to look at this issue from a two-generation perspective. Along with women’s funds in SE Arizona, Birmingham and Colorado, this project will focus on advancing policy and rule changes around child care subsidies, public benefits like TANF/SNAP, and increasing the linkage between child care and workforce development programs.

The power of Dallas Women’s Foundation advocacy comes from you, our supporters, who share our passion for gender equity and a future where all women and girls are financially secure, healthy and welleducated. By voting, contacting your elected officials, sharing the Dallas Women’s Foundation mission with friends, and using your own “gender lens” when examining policies in the workplace, we can build a better world for women and girls together.

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Dallas Women’s Foundation encourages you to use your voice.

Vote in the Texas Primary Elections Early voting begins Early voting ends Primary election voting

February 20 March 2 March 6

If you did not get registered in time for the primaries you can get ready early for the general election in November! Register today!

Voter registration forms can be obtained by visiting: www.votetexas.gov/register-to-vote Registration forms must be mailed 30 days before the election date.

The Dallas Women’s Foundation community funding process is moving to one annual cycle.

Applications will open on June 1, 2018 and close in mid-July.

To find out more, visit: dallaswomensfdn.org or contact Shonda Barnett: sbarnett@dallaswomensfdn.org

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Leadership Key Club Members Meet Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall Dallas Women’s Foundation Leadership Key Club members met the city’s first female Police Chief, U. Renee Hall, at an exclusive reception at Le Meridian Dallas, The Stoneleigh, on November 15. Chief Hall talked about her path to becoming Dallas’ first African American female police chief, and thanked the members for their work in improving the lives of women and girls in North Texas.

The Leadership Key Club is for those who have contributed major gifts to the Foundation’s Unlocking Leadership Campaign. In 2013, Dallas Women’s Foundation began the Unlocking Leadership Campaign to raise $50 million to improve the future of North Texas by investing in the economic security and leadership potential of women and girls.

For those interested in becoming a Leadership Key Club member and donating to the campaign, contact Shawn Wills at swills@dallaswomensfdn.org or 214.525.5318.

L to R: Dawn Hooper, Kalita Beck Blessing, Betty Regard, Dena Jackson, Janie McGarr, Brenda Jackson, Jan Sharry, Ellenore Baker, Betty Suellentrop, Roslyn Dawson Thompson, U. Renee Hall, Diane Paddison, Martha Wells, Julie England, Hannah Cutshall, Peggy Dear, Shawn Wills

Dallas Women’s Foundation Hosts First Women & Wealth Event On November 7, Dallas Women’s Foundation’s Women & Wealth event, sponsored by U.S. Trust, featured keynote speakers Jackie VanderBrug of U.S. Trust and Lauren Sanfilippo of Bank of America.

They discussed the increasing influence of women on the economy and the burgeoning growth in gender lens investing, both nationally and globally. Women & Wealth is a new series of events offered by the Foundation for women investors and donors, wealth advisors, estate planners and accounting professionals, focused on the key trends in gender lens investing, impact investing and the increasing demand by women and millennials to align their investments with their values. The series is a complement to the Foundation’s Women Give: Empowering Women’s Philanthropy events.

For more information visit https://www.dallaswomensfdn.org/ womenandwealthevent Lauren Sanfilippo, Roslyn Dawson Thompson, Jackie VanderBrug, Jennifer Chandler

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XIX Society Grants $30,000 to Jonathan’s Place On December 5 at Times Ten Cellars, Dallas Women’s Foundation’s XIX Society members gathered for their annual holiday party and to present a $30,000 check to Jonathan’s Place, whose mission is to provide safe places, loving homes and promising futures for abused and neglected children, teens and young adults.

At the gathering, Wendy Messmann said, “We have had a remarkable year with incredible growth in our service and philanthropy for women and girls. We have all played a role in making a difference through our collective impact as XIX Society members, so thank you for your support.”

XIX Society Members present check to Jonathan’s Place

Schermisia Jones, Ashley Lindsay, Shana Alegria

Dallas Women’s Foundation thanks Wendy Messmann (right) for her leadership as XIX Society Steering Committee Committee Co-chair and welcomes Bonner Allen (left) as 2018 Co-chair, with Co-chair Laura Nieto (not pictured) Barby Crabtree, Ava Norris, Sara Grenier

Marsha Beasley, Roslyn Dawson Thompson, MariaCristina Esteves-Jaramillo

The XIX Society—named for Dallas Women’s Foundation’s 19 founders—is the Foundation’s annual giving society for women and men of all backgrounds who are passionate about the Foundation’s mission and want to support concrete solutions to improve the lives of women and girls. For more information on becoming a member contact Jessica Weidman, Manager - Donor Relations, at 214-525-5315 or jweidman@dallaswomensfdn.org

Women Give: Empowering Women’s Philanthropy On October 25, 50 women attended a workshop offered through Dallas Women’s Foundation’s signature women’s philanthropy education program – Women Give.

This program empowers women’s philanthropy by providing tools to help participants align their values and their giving, as well as learn about charitable trends and best practices.

We invite you to join us to learn more about your personal philanthropy and how you can make more of an impact.

March 22, 2018; 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.

Dallas Women’s Foundation Mezzanine Conference Room

For more information visit: www.dallaswomensfdn.org/ philanthropyeducation

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Women Give March 22, 2018 | Dallas Women’s Foundation www.dallaswomensfdn.org/philanthropyeducation Dallas Women’s Foundation empowers women’s philanthropy by providing its signature Philanthropy Education Workshops, offering high-quality programming on best practices and changing trends in philanthropy.

Leadership Forum & Awards Dinner Presented by AT&T April 19, 2018| Omni Dallas Hotel www.dallawomensfdn.org/leadershipawards The Leadership Forum & Awards Dinner is a cornerstone of our Leadership Initiative, which includes programs that address gender stereotypes in the media, as well as programs to increase gendered asset investment in women-owned, women-led and women-benefitting enterprises. Join us to celebrate remarkable women making strides in leadership, and creating a pathway for others to follow.

Breakfast Club May 23, 2018, 2018 | Communities Foundation of Texas www.dallaswomensfdn.org/2018breakfastclub Women Aging into Poverty examines how women are earning less assets and have less opportunity to build assets for retirement and long-term financial security. The presentation covers how groups can collectively advance policies and practical strategies that build wealth for women.

Breakfast Club August 30, 2018, 2018 | Dallas Women’s Foundation www.dallaswomensfdn.org/2018breakfastclub We welcome you and a friend to our quarterly Breakfast Clubs, a complimentary content series, to learn about the unique issues facing women and girls here in North Texas.