The 16th Annual Women’s Fund of Weld County Decadent Dessert event was held on Saturday, March 23rd, located at Zoe’s Cafe & Events in Greeley, Colorado!
Amanda M. (RM Preconstruction Coordinator), Melissa T. (RM Sourcing and Engagement Manager), Carly J. (RM Project Engineer), Kaylie B. (RM Office Manager), Angela S. (RM Project Manager), Brenda D. (Scott D.’s wife, RM General Superintendent), Stephanie Wright. (Jesse W.’s wife, RM Key Account Manager/Precon Manager), and Crystal Byrd with FCI Constructors, Inc.
The Women’s Fund of Weld County, Inc. was founded in 1999 by women from the Weld County community dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls. The Women’s Fund was established with the purpose of creating an endowment fund. This fund supports programs that address the unmet needs of women and girls in Weld County to enable them to become self-confident, independent, contributing members of the community. Currently, the endowment balance is over $700,000.
Their Endowment:
The Women’s Fund of Weld County is an endowment fund; a permanent source of community capital. Earnings from the Fund are used to make annual grants to programs that address unmet needs of women and girls in Weld County. Since 1999, the Fund has grown to over $700,000 through many generous donors and successful fundraising events and has distributed grants totaling more than $450,000 to 190 programs in Weld County. The Women’s Fund is a component fund of the Weld Community Foundation which manages the endowment fund, enabling the Women’s Fund Board of Directors to concentrate on fulfilling our mission.
The Fund supports projects and programs which are sensitive to the cultural and special needs of women and enhance women’s educational success and self-sufficiency.
Projects which may:
- Enable girls and women to become self-supporting through job training, education and job placement,
- Support women in their combined roles as workers and head of household,
- Focus on economic development, such as job creation
- Assist women and girls in career counseling, business planning and job seeking skills
- Raise an initial endowment to distribute grants made from the earnings of the fund.
- Pool the fund’s assets with endowed funds located in the Weld Community Foundation in order to maximize investment return while prudently managing risk and minimizing administrative overhead.
- Create a financial means to address gender-related problems particular to women, focusing on education for women and girls and economic self-sufficiency.
- Further opportunities for individuals, corporations and foundation to improve the well-being of area women and girls.
This worthwhile event was a blast – a great time was had by all!
