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"The
seminar was fabulous! I received ideas that I started implementing the
next
day."
Center for Women
workshop participant
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Job: To Help Women Build Better Lives for Themselves
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only comprehensive women's development center in South Carolina,
the Center for Women (CFW) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization
whose mission
is to make personal and professional success an everyday event for women in the
Lowcountry.
Our efforts are working and being recognized!
Oprah Winfrey
honored the CFW in 2006 with an Oprah’s
Angel Network $25,000 grant. The
Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce awarded the CFW with their prestigious 1773 Award in
the Public/Non-profit category in 2009. The Family
Circle Cup Tournament
selected the CFW
as their charity
of choice for four years in a row 2006-2009. The CFW
was the winner of the 2005 Award for Excellence in
Non-Profit Management by the South Carolina Association of Non-Profit
Organizations. Know more>>
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 Pictured
from l to r: Finance
Coordinator, Mary Mallette; Marketing Coordinator, Ginger Rosenberg;
Program Coordinator, Amanda Bunting Comen; Events Coordinator, Leigh Ann S.
Garrett; and Executive
Director, Jennet Robinson Alterman.
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The
CFW has reached more than 70,000 women since it was established in
1990, connecting
thousands of women across the Tri-County area to professional sources for practical
help by providing counseling, facilitating peer support groups, and making referrals.
We provide educational programs on important issues such as emotional,
physical and financial health, life transitions, discrimination of all types,
multiculturalism, and career and business.
Our educational outreach programs are particularly popular and well-attended,
including The Brown Bag Lunch Series, The Entrepreneurial Woman Series, The You
Can Do It Series, Legal Clinics, The
Annual Women in Business Conference, Special Entrepreneurs Networking Event, The Annual "It's
In The Bag" Purse Silent Auction, and monthly Support Groups. Know
more>>
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Doretha Walker,
President
Shari Schleis,
VP of Board Governance
Alison L. Standard,
VP of Development
Colleen
Troy, Secretary,
Shari Stauch, Treasurer
Susan Romaine,
Immediate Past President
Cathryn Cato
Pam Everitt
Cindy Floyd
Alison H. Gregory
Charlene Harris
Kendra Haskins
Star Israel
Ann G. Kulze
Amanda Lawrence
Dorothy P. Moore
Susan Parsons
Alison
Piepmeier
Harriet McDougal Rigney
Abby Simon
Debra A. Turner
Staff
Jennet Robinson Alterman,
Executive Director
Amanda Bunting Comen,
Program Coordinator
Leigh Ann S. Garrett,
Events Coordinator
Mary Mallette,
Finance
Coordinator
Ginger Rosenberg,
Marketing Coordinator
Faye Slater, M.A.,
LPC
Licensed Clinical Counselor
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Community
Involvement
In 2008 the CFW conducted over 80 programs and events, and
we reached 6000 women!
The
CFW works closely with other community based organizations receiving
and making referrals. Among the organizations with whom the
CFW collaborates are: Trident United Way 2-1-1, My Sister's
House, Crisis Ministries, Legal Aid, People Against Rape, Darkness
to Light, Habitat for Humanity, Family Services Center, Dress
for Success, Carolina Youth Development Center, the
SC Bar Association, the Charleston County Human Services Commission,
the Small Business Development Center, city, county, and state
government agencies, and many more organizations. We are
members of the SCCADVASA and SCANPO. Know more>>
The
CFW spearheaded Lowcountry Women Vote, a new coalition urging
women to vote. The non-partisan coalition includes the American
Association of University Women, Bethune-Leonard Section of the
National Council of Negro Women, Center for Women, Charleston
Chapter of The Links, Inc., Charleston Junior Woman's Club, Continental Societies, Inc.,
The Jessamine Chapter of the American Business Women's Association, Hadassah of Charleston, The Junior League of Charleston,
Inc., League of Women
Voters of the Charleston Area, The National Council of Jewish Women
Charleston Section, Women@Work Professional Network, Women Making a Difference, and YWCA of Greater
Charleston, Inc.
Socialize
with the CFW!
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Policy
Statement |
It
is the policy of the CFW to be inclusive, to provide a safe
environment in which women of any race or persuasion feel free
to express their views, discuss their concerns and find answers
to the questions their lives pose to them. It is with this in
mind that the Board of Directors and Staff believe that the
CFW should not issue policy statements endorsing any one particular
political or social issue.
Such
endorsements would in effect negate the purpose for which the
CFW was founded: to provide any woman, regardless of race, political
or religious affiliation, or sexual orientation, with services that will enable her to fulfill her
greatest human potential
in accordance with her own personal belief system.
As
a result, it is the CFW’s policy to offer the broadest range of
services possible in accordance only with sound fiscal practices.
The
CFW does believe, however, that advocacy in the form of disseminating
information on issues women face is also part of its mission
and it is its policy to strive to ensure that the information
the CFW provides is accurate and reflects the views, to the
greatest extent possible, of the women it serves.
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