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In Partnership With Women of Courage
The Global Fund Celebrates 15 Years

Friday Evening, November 15, 2002, 6:30 PM
Grand Ballroom, Fairmont Hotel
950 Mason Street, San Francisco, CA

Honor women leaders around the world.
Invest in the empowerment of women and girls worldwide.
Celebrate 15 years of grantmaking for women's human rights.

Event Chairs Susie Tompkins Buell and Darian W. Swig invite you to join them for an evening to benefit the Global Fund for Women.

FEATURING:

Mary Robinson
Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi
Executive Director,
African Women's Development Fund

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE BY
Eve Ensler
Creator and Producer of
the award-winning Vagina Monologues

15 YEARS – A CELEBRATION

by Mirta Rodriguez Calderon,

Co-Editor of "A Primera Plana," (On the Front Page), a Cuban GFW grantee in the Dominican Republic.

In many countries of the Americas there is a special custom to throw a big party when a girl reaches her fifteenth birthday, to "present" her to society and introduce her to adult life. The Global Fund for Women has reached its fifteenth birthday, and its intense journey of commitment, drive, encouragement and shared dreams with many groups of women throughout the world has little to do with the usual ostentatious "quinceañera" party. Nevertheless, many of us who have received the resources and solidarity of the Global Fund feel like dancing. I want to dress up beautifully for the Global Fund for Women, and sing them songs and recite verses spoken from the heart of hundreds of women from so many places that have found in you an oasis of love, a strong pillar of solidarity and sisterhood.

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
$25,000 Women's Fund Supporter
$15,000 Partnership Grant Supporter
$10,000 Strengthening Grant Supporter
$5,000 Linking Grant Supporter
$2,500 Seed Grant Supporter

PARTNERSHIP AWARDS
Continuing the tradition from the Global Fund's 5th and 10th anniversaries, the Global Fund for Women will award 15 partnership grants to women's groups around the world, who will in turn award smaller grants in their communities. Partnership Awards exemplify a central philosophy of the Global Fund: that philanthropy
– the gift of money or resources to help others – provides an opportunity to support women's rights groups that enable women to gain economic independence, increase girls' access to education and stop violence against women. In doing so, the Global Fund shares its belief in the strength of women worldwide to determine their needs and propose solutions for lasting change.

Eve Ensler photo credit: Joan Marcus

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