The Women’s Foundation of Mississippi has an exciting year of events and programs planned for 2018! Add these events to your calendar and make plans to join us! Questions? Email frances@womensfoundationms.org for more details re: tickets, sponsorships, etc. Click here for the 2018 WFM Events Schedule
The Women’s Foundation of Mississippi is excited to announce a series of panel discussions for our “Consider This” program. The discussions will feature experts from different fields. The events will be facilitated by WFM. We provide conversation and appetizers; cash bar for drinks. We’re excited to announce the first two panels: Thursday, April […]
The Women’s Foundation of Mississippi is excited to partner with the Mississippi Humanities Council and ReThink Mississippi for the Spring 2018 “Ideas on Tap” series! All Spring, we’ll be joining these groups to host panel discussions about the impact young people make by staying (and sometimes leaving) Mississippi. We’ll look at areas […]
The Women’s Foundation of Mississippi is thrilled to be in our new space in the Fondren Corner Building! Our new address is: 2906 North State Street Suite 302 Jackson, MS 39216. Save our new address for your records! When women thrive, Mississippi thrives.
Please join the Women’s Foundation of Mississippi as we celebrate and introduce our 2017 Honorees and Grantees! Mary Currier, MD, MPH – State Health Officer, Mississippi State Department of Health Portia Ballard Espy, Director of Community Building, William Winter Institute of Racial Reconciliation Grace P.C. Lee – Co-Founder, Co-Owner, and retired President of Trilogy Communications, Inc. […]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]With the mission of economic security for women, the Women’s Foundation of Mississippi (WFM) is awarding a total of $670,000 in grants to non-profit organizations and community colleges across the state for the 2017 funding cycle. The sixteen recipients of the grants stretch across the state and provide programs to women in the […]
The abused and neglected girls in foster care at Methodist Children’s Home (MCH) are already at a social and economic disadvantage. The RN-led Girls Matter program teaches these girls comprehensive sex ed including safe sex and STI/HIV prevention, abstinence, consent, birth control options, and healthy relationships. The grant also funded the setup of a separate room […]
We are thrilled to be able to fund $785,000 in grants to help women in Mississippi thrive. In our first year of operating as an independent Foundation nine years ago, we awarded $68,000 in grants. Through expanded support of national foundations, corporate sponsors, and our generous individual donors, we are now able to help even […]
Kimberly Hilliard, Ph.D., serves as the the founding Executive Director for the Office of Community Engagement at Jackson State University. Dr. Hilliard, native of Washington, DC, holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Tuskegee University, a M.S. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of New Orleans, and obtained her Ph.D. in Urban and […]
Over the span of 30 years, Melissa started and stopped college numerous times. Derailed by major life events such as complications of pregnancy, death of her husband and being a single parent of two small children, and diagnosis and treatment of cancer, she was hesitant to try again. So Melissa stayed out of college. Instead […]