New Haven Independent

The luncheon marked the 10th anniversary of the Community Fund for Women & Girls. Run out of the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, the fund has made grants to over 40 not-for-profit groups that work on issues important to women.

Those grants has supported everything from bus passes for job seekers and babysitter training to health care, the arts, quilting nad workshops in self-esteem, noted the event’s keynote speaker, the actress Jane Alexander.

“Grassroots organizations … make a difference one by one,” Alexander said. “What is a community but connecting from one to another until we form a circle together or a many-pointed star” with “infinite” points outward.

“Today we celebrate the power of women and girls,” said TV anchor Ann Nyberg, the event’s emcee. “Go out and network, girls. We know how to do that, OK?”

To learn more about the fund and to contribute, click here.