Organization Name:
Women's Overseas Service League

Notes

Contact Person(s)

Helen Jacob

20 St. Margaret's Court

Buffalo , NY   14216

Phone:  (716) 874-6193

Service

Information

Mission Statement

·  A national organization that provides services for women who have served during wartime.

Meetings, Programs, & Services

·  Supports the Youth Leadership Conference of the Freedom Foundation of Valley Forge , PA.

·  Endeavor to visit women veterans at the VA in Buffalo and the Nursing Home in Batavia .

National Affiliation

·  Status:  501 (C) (3).

Members and Criteria

·  Members are women who have served overseas in the Armed Forces, CIA, Red Cross, or as Civilians during Wartime or Aftermath, or during a National Emergency.

Organization Name: 
Women's Studies Minor— Niagara University

Notes

Contact Person(s)

Carolyn Morell, Ph.D., CSW

Service

Information

Mission Statement

Meetings, Programs, & Services

·  An interdisciplinary program leading to a Women’s Studies Minor for Niagara University

    students. 

·  Linkages with student services and community organizations concerned with women's issues.

National Affiliation

·  None.

Members and Criteria

·  Open to all Niagara University students.

Organization Name:  
Women's Studies Program State
  University College of New York at Buffalo

Notes

Contact Person(s)

Professor Amitra Hodge, Co-ordinator

SUC at Buffalo State College

Sociology, HB 323

Buffalo , NY   14222

Phone:  (716) 878-3542

Email:  hodgeaa@bscmail.buffalostate.edu

Service

Information

Mission Statement

·  The Women’s Studies Interdisciplinary Unit coordinates and initiate activities with other academic

    and community groups involved with women’s issues.

Meetings, Programs, & Services

·  Unit only offers a minor.

·  Clases vary with semester schedule. 

·  Students are allowed to develop a flexible, wide-ranging baccalaureate degree program that meets their academic needs as well as the needs of their careers.  Students develop their own academic plans of study, consisting of a combination of academic fields.

National Affiliation

·  National Women’s Studies Association.

Members and Criteria

·  Must be a student at the College.

Organization Name:
Women's Studies Program
  State University of New York at Buffalo

Notes

Contact Person(s)

Professor Alexis De Veaux

SUNY at Buffalo

712 Clemens Hall

Buffalo , NY   14260

Phone:  (716) 645-2327

Service

Information

Mission Statement

·  To provide students with a major in Women's Studies at the B.A., M.A., or Ph. D. level

     through American Studies (pending approval of an application for separate women's

     studies graduate degrees). Also provides courses for non-majors at the undergraduate

      and graduate levels.

Meetings, Programs, & Services

·  Classes dependent on semester schedule. 

·  Linkages with student services and community organizations concerned with women's issues.

National Affiliation

·  National Women's Studies Association.

Members and Criteria

·  Must be a student at the University.

·  Please contact the University for registration and schedules.

Organization Name:  
Women's TAP Fund
(Taking Action Politically)

Notes

Contact Person(s)

Jane F. Griffin, President

P.O. Box 54

Buffalo , NY   14201-0054

Phone:  (716) 881-3241

Service

Information

Mission Statement

·  To elect women to local and statewide offices who are Pro-Choice, support the Equal Rights  Amendment, and Child Care Legislation and to educate women to give.

Meetings, Programs, & Services

·  Meetings are held monthly.

·  Speaker three or four times per year for fund raising events.

National Affiliation

· None.

Members and Criteria

·  A 14 member Steering Committee and over 500 contributors.

Organization Name:  
Women's Volunteer Round Table

Notes

Contact Person(s)

Silvia B. de Rosas

27 Kingston Circle

Lockport , NY   14094

Phone:  (716) 433-6670

Fax:  434-0093

Email:  beasil8@hotmail.com

Service

Information

Mission Statement

·  The Round Table works to establish linkages between participating organizations, in

   the hopes of  developing collaborations for greater community impact.  The Round

   Table  promotes networking,  nurturing, and provides training opportunities for

    women volunteers in Western NY .

Meetings, Programs, & Services

· Two meetings a year, spring and fall.

National Affiliation

· None.

Members and Criteria

·  Free to all volunteer women’s organizations.