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March is Women's History Month! |
of Women’s Organizations
Published by Project FLIGHT
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Organization
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Notes
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Contact
Person(s) |
Carol Griffith 48A Phone: (716) 810-0269 Email: cag2002@adelphia.net |
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Service Information |
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To encourage networking, training and promotion, and provide
educational resources and self-
improvement opportunities for women in the federal workforce. |
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Meetings,
Programs, & Services
· Monthly
meetings held the third Tuesday of each month.
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Programs are planned each year in celebration of Women’s History Month
in March, and Women’s
Equality Day in August. During
the August Event, a luncheon is held for honoring the recipients of
the Federal Women of the Year and Federal Agency of the Year
Awards. Other programs
include:
Take Your Child to Work Day, an annual Women’s Fair, an annual
Education Fair, a Lunch and
Learn Series of guest speakers, and participation in Kids Voting. |
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National
Affiliation
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Members
and Criteria
· Any
women in federal employment. |
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Organization
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Contact
Person(s) |
Ann M. Galli Computer Task Group Phone: (716) 564-4183 E-mail: Galliar@aol.com |
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Service Information |
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To connect women in all segments of the finanacial services
inducstry and emposwer them to attain their professional, cecomic, and
personal goals. The
organization provides tools, resources, and opportunities for linking
women in the inducatry to one another, for promoting learning and
professional growth, and for leveraging information into applied
knowledge. |
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Meetings,
Programs, & Services
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Fourteen meetings are held yearly. ·
Programs includeCommunity Outreach, Education and Training, and the
Foundation Program. · A
Student Scholarhsip is awarded yearly.
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Website: WWW.FWILIBERTY.ORG |
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National
Affiliation
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Financial Women International – WWW.FWI.ORG |
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Members
and Criteria
· The
group services women in the finanacial service industry. |
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Organization
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Contact
Person(s) |
Gia Alessandra Coone, Executive Director Phone:
(716) 632-3242 Website:
www.gildasclubwny.org |
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Service Information |
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To provide a place where people with cancer and their families and
friends join with others to
actively involve
themselves in building social and emothional support as a supplement to
medical
care. Free of charge and non-profit, Gilda’s Club offers support
and networking groups, lectures
workshops and social events in a non-residential, home-like
setting. Funding is solicited from
private individuals, corporationsm and foundations. ·
Gilda’s Club is named in honor of the late comedian Gilda Radner,
who in describing the support
she received in her own life, called for such places of
participation, education, hope and friendship,
to be made available to men, women, and children with cancer, their
families, and friends. |
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Meetings,
Programs, & Services
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Free of charge and nonprofit, Gilda’s Club offers support and
networking groups, lectures,
workshops and social events in a non-residential, home-like
setting. Funding is solicited from
individuals, corporations, and foundations. ·
Annual Celebration of Life Luncheon to be held ·
The Gilda’s Club Program is called the Basic III ‘Plus.’ We
will begin to offer this program once a
Gilda’s Clubhouse is opened in |
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National
Affiliation
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Gilda’s Club, Inc. Website:
www.gildaclubs.org |
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Members
and Criteria
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Membership is open to anyone. |
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Organization
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Notes
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Contact
Person |
Dottie
Watkins, Director of Public Information Cindy
Jones, CEO Phone:
(716) 837-6400 Fax:
(716) 837-6407 Website: www.bflogirlscouts.org |
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Service Information |
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Uniquely dedicated to preparing girls and young women for
tomorrow’s challenges by providing
opportunities today. |
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Meetings,
Programs, & Services
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Girl Scouts provide a safe, supportive way for girls to participate
in projects involving computers
and technology, careers, the environment, personal finance, and
sports, just to name a few. Over
5,200 adult volunteers are offered training to ensure the safest
and most productive environment
for girls. ·
Publish quarterly newsletter entitled “The Express.” |
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National
Affiliation
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The Girl Scouts of |
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Members
and Criteria
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Members of Girl Scouts must be girls between the ages of 5-17,
accept and live by the Girl Scout
Promise and Law, and pay a $7.00 membership fee and to which
financial aid is available. ·
Adult members, both male and female, must be 18 years of age or
older, accept and live by the Girl
Scout Promise and Law, and pay a $7.00 membership fee. ·
There are approximately 12,000 girl members and almost 5,200 adult
members in the Girl Scout
Council of |
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Organization
Name:
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Notes
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Contact
Person(s) |
Jennifer
O’Donnell, President Phi
Sigma Sigma 39
Windridge Center Phone:
(716) 689-4565 |
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Service Information |
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We,as fraternity women, stand for service through the development
of character inspired by the
close contact and deep friendship of individual fraternity and
Panhellenic life. The
opportunity for
wide and wise human service, through mutual respect and
helpfulness, is the tenet by which we
strive to live. |
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Meetings,
Programs, & Services
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Most general meetings are held on the first Wednesday of each month
during the school year at
the Original Pancake House restaurant on |
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National
Affiliation
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The greater Buffalo Alumnae Panhellenic is associated with the
National Panhellenic
Conference, whose member fraternities include the following: |
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Alpha Gamma Delta ·
Chi Omega ·
Kappa Kappa Gamma ·
Alphi Phi ·
Delta Delta Delta ·
Phi Mu ·
Alpha Sigma Alpha ·
Delta Gamma ·
Phi Sigma Sigma ·
Alpha Sigma Tau ·
Delta Zeta ·
Phi Beta Phi ·
Alpha Xi Delta |
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Kappa Alpha Theta ·
Sigma Kappa ·
Alpha Delta Pi ·
Gamma Phi Beta ·
Zeta Tau Alpha ·
Alpha Chi Omega ·
Alpha Epsilon Phi ·
Delta Phi Epsilon Kappa Delta ·
Sigma Delta Tau ·
Sigma Sigma Sigma ·
Theta Phi Alpha ·
Alpha Omicron Pi.
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Members
and Criteria
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Active members include alumnae of any NPC fraternity who lives in
the Greater Buffalo area.
Affiliate members include alumnae of those women's fraternal
organizations which are included in
a College Panhellenic or comparable governing body. |
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