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Partnership with Children FUNDay:
The Drawing Center
Date: Tuesday, October 14th
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Location: 35 Wooster Street (between Broome & Grand Streets)
We invite you to embark on a visual discovery of the magic of drawing. Ten
volunteers are needed to partner with students from IS 229 in the Bronx on
this field trip. After a guided tour of the Drawing Center’s exhibitions, a
museum educator will lead a detailed discussion of specific works and
facilitate a hands-on art-making project with partners. The program will
allow students and adults to practice sustained observation and produce
personal and thoughtful responses to art. After the workshop, we will head
to a local pizza parlor. Volunteers are asked to pay for their partner’s
snack.
To volunteer, contact Jennifer Stevens at Jennifer.Stevens@tamaleresearch.com.
Young Leadership Council of Bottomless Closet
Third Annual Evening of Art Under the Stars
Date: Wednesday, October 15th
Time: 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: Sara Meltzer Gallery, 525-531 West 26th Street (between 10th &
11th Avenues)
Help us champion the work of Bottomless Closet while enjoying cocktails,
hors d’oeuvres and a fantastic silent auction.
Tickets are $100, and are available at www.bottomlessclosetnyc.org to
order click on Donate Now and enter jc2008 in the designation box.
The mission of Bottomless Closet is to promote economic self-sufficiency by
providing interview skills, business clothing, and ongoing career
development and support programs to economically disadvantaged New York City
women. By enhancing their self-confidence and self-esteem, we enable them
to enter and succeed in the workforce and transform the vision for their
lives.
Fourth Annual Children’s Storefront
Cocktails & Dance Event
Date: Thursday, October 16th
Time: 7 PM – 9 PM
Location: Prince George Ballroom, 15 East 27th Street (between Madison & Broadway)
Join us to celebrate The Children’s Storefront, an independent, tuition-free school in Harlem, which serves 170 preschool through eighth grade students. Its mission is to provide students with a solid education, combining the open-admission policy of the public school system with the academic rigors and social and artistic exposures of a private school education. This event attracts members from the business and hedge fund communities. It is a great opportunity for meeting and greeting colleagues and peers with food, drink, music, as well as participating in a silent auction and watching a short, exciting performance by the Ailey/Fordham Student Dancers.
Tickets are $100, and are available at www.thechildrensstorefront.org For more information contact Melanea Colonna at melanea.colonna@nmfn.com or 917-747-7147.
Join Iris House to Celebrate 15 Years of Helping Women & Families
With a Night of Games and Dancing
Date: Monday, October 20th
Time: 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Location: Pressure, 110 University Place (between 12th & 13th Streets)
We will honor Burns McClellan for their work in healthcare and with
non-profit organizations. There will be cocktails served by Celebrity
Bartenders, passed hors d’oeuvres, billiards, casino games, and Nintendo Wii
for attendees to enjoy. Join Kathleen Kelley, President of HWW and member
of the Host Committee as well as Leslie Lake, a former Board member of HWW
and an Event Co-Chair to support Iris House, a long-time HWW partner. This
is not a black tie event and everyone is guaranteed to have a fun time.
Please visit www.irishouse.org for more
information on becoming a sponsor or
purchasing tickets, or contact Leslie Falconio at lfalconio6@msn.com.
The Children's Storefront: High Water Women Reading Week!
Dates: Tuesday, October 21st
Wednesday, October 22nd
Thursday, October 23rd
Friday, October 24th
Time: 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Location: The Children's Storefront, 70 East 129th St (between Park &
Madison Aves)
Our student population of inner city children enter school 3,000 words
behind average middle class students. Please help them catch up by reading
to them and discussing the stories. This will help them greatly improve
their vocabulary, reading, and comprehension skills. Volunteers will read
to Preschool, Kindergarten and 1st Graders in their classrooms. The
teachers will have pre-selected a book. After the reading, volunteers will
discuss the book with the students.
To volunteer, please contact Melanea Colonna at melanea.colonna@nmfn.com or
917-747-7147.
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4,612 Backpacks Distributed for the 2008 School Year!
 During the months of August and September 2008 over 4,612 backpacks loaded with school supplies, books and clothing were given to children who are homeless, in foster care, or impoverished and residing in Manhattan, Harlem, Astoria, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Newark, NJ, Providence, RI, Hartford, CT and Philadelphia, PA.
More than $100,000 was raised, including in-kind donations, and over 200 donors and 300 volunteers from the finance industry made the effort possible. In New York, Credit Suisse lent their offices and tremendous resources to assemble over 3,000 backpacks and JPMorgan’s Investment Banking Department lent their offices to assemble 479 backpacks. In Providence, Temple Beth El lent their space for volunteers to assemble the 561 backpacks. In Hartford, The Village for Children and Families lent their space for volunteers to assemble 300 backpacks.
All the backpacks were distributed to the Child Center of New York, Children’s Aid Society, DreamYard, Good Shepherd Services, Inwood House, Iris House, Jewish Child Care Association, Newark Now, Partnership with Children, TEAK Fellowship, Women in Need, and Young Women's Leadership Foundation. In Providence, the backpacks were distributed to the Summerbridge Enrichment Program and the Times Squared Academy. In Hartford, the backpacks were distributed to The Village for Children and Families and the Covenant Preparatory School.
More details and pictures will be posted soon to thank all of our wonderful supporters and volunteers!
Count Me In Update
The Make Mine a Million $ Business program, a dynamic, national movement empowering women to grow million $ businesses, selected its newest class of awardees on June 4, 2008 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. A standing-room-only crowd of more than 500 women from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania witnessed as ten new women were chosen to receive growth-focused business, marketing and technology resources and mentoring as part of the Make Mine a Million $ Business award.
Count Me In for Women's Economic Independence would like to thank the following wonderful vounteers from High Water Women for reviewing loan applications and selecting such great businesses as Finalists: Ann Short, Susan Stang, Grace Wong, Jennifer Chiu, Idelle Howitt, Clara Lipson, Janet Pickering, Arisleyda Veloz, Marisa Mackey, Diana Marin, and Lu Ann Bowers.
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Third Annual Casino Night Raises Record Amount to Support Math Education for Children and Financial Literacy Training for Teens and Women
(Photoby www.cavaweddings.com)
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High Water Women Foundation Rings NASDAQ Closing Bell
 (Photograph taken by NASDAQ photographer Rob Tannenbaum.)
January 25, 2008 - Kathleen Kelley, a Global Macro Portfolio Manager from Kingdon Capital Management and the Co-Founder and President
of High Water Women Foundation, presides over ceremony and is pictured with Anu
Sharma (center) a Managing Director at NASDAQ as well as with 20 members from
High Water Women.
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