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WGC eNewsletter - May 2022

5/26/2022

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WGC 2022 Feminine Hygiene Product Drive - Can You Help?

5/23/2022

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The Women's Giving Circle of Howard County is launching a year-long Feminine Hygiene product drive in 2022 as part of our 20th anniversary year, building on the success of our Young Women's Giving Circle efforts in 2019 and 2020. The WGC has chosen to continue our focus on this because it's a need that is easily and often overlooked.

Did you know ...
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  • 29% of girls miss school due to lack of supplies needed.
  • 39% cannot provide period products for themselves.
  • Some are forced to use towels and plastic instead of proper supplies.

Read more about this issue: WGC's Year-Long Feminine Hygiene Product Drive Aims to Ease "Period Poverty" in Howard County - By Lucia Denmeade, WGC Student Intern

Bita Dayhoff, Executive Director of our partners at the Community Action Council agrees, and adds: "Did you know SNAP (food stamps) do NOT cover feminine hygiene products? Nearly 60% of the 51,000 clients that the Howard County Food Bank serves are female! Please help us keep our shelves and all others in our county stocked with feminine hygiene products so we can help women and girls with this basic need on an ongoing basis."

We are hosting our 2022 WGC Feminine Hygiene Product Drive by providing two ways you can give: 1) Donating Money and 2) Donating Products.

Donate Money


​We have a goal of raising $2,000 during our 20th Anniversary Year, that we will give directly to the Community Action Council/Howard County Food Bank to purchase these items for women and girls in our community.

Please join us in our year-long effort to collect feminine hygiene products from donors around the county and provide them to our nonprofit partners who can distribute them, and/or by donating to our fundraiser to provide funds to our nonprofit partners to purchase needed items for women and girls in our community.

​​Read about our efforts to date this year: 
WGC’s Year-Long Feminine Hygiene Product Drive: The Road So Far - By Lucia Denmeade, WGC Student Intern
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​Donate Products

You can also bring products to drop in marked boxes at six Howard County Library System branches around the county. We are collecting donated products on a regular basis and bringing them to the Community Action Council/Howard County Food Bank, and Columbia Community Care to distribute to women and girls in our community.
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WGC’s Year-Long Feminine Hygiene Product Drive: The Road So Far

5/20/2022

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By Lucia Denmeade, WGC Student Intern

This year, the Women’s Giving Circle of Howard County launched a year-long Feminine Hygiene Product Drive as part of our 20th anniversary. This drive is built upon the work of the Young Women’s Giving Circle in 2019 and 2020. 

Information about the drive can be found here. In short, we are collecting products and money to distribute to women and girls in the community who need them through the Community Action Council/ Howard County Food Bank.

So far, we have collected $258.76 through our online donations. We are hoping to raise $2,000 by the end of the year. This money will go directly to the Community Action Council/Howard County Foodbank, and Columbia Community Care, to purchase items for women and girls in our community.

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here to donate, and learn about other ways to contribute.  


​Additionally, we have collecting products at each of the six libraries in the Howard County Library System. A special thank you goes to the people who have been helping along the way to ensure our drive is as successful as possible. They are as follows: 
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  • Lewis Belfont (COO, Howard County Library System)
  • Lauren McCloskey (Elkridge Branch)
  • Nay Keppler (Miller Branch)
  • Stephanie Darby (Miller Branch)
  • Nina Krzysko (Central Branch)
  • Katie Klebba (Central Branch)
  • Suki Lee (East Columbia Branch)
  • Diane Li (Savage Branch)
  • Victoria Riese (Savage Branch)
  • Mary Brosenne (Savage Branch)

We have been fortunate enough to receive lots of donations through the drop-off boxes, and are excited for the rest of the year. All donations were given directly to the Community Action Council/Howard County Food Bank.

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WGC Mother's Day Happy Hour - Thank You!

5/12/2022

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Thank you to everyone who joined us on May 12 at Bra-La-La for a fun and festive happy hour toast! It was great to network, socialize, and be together in person, while supporting a woman-owned business and women and girls through the WGC!

Check our Events Calendar for our upcoming events - hope to see you soon!
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3 Questions With ... Philanthropist Sue Song in Honor of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month

5/10/2022

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What moves you to give your time, talent and financial resources?

"Think about what values are most important to you and if you'd like to be a change agent to help those are suffering from racial and social injustice. You have a role to play through the generosity of your time and concern for the community ...

 ... That will be a great asset for the community and many would find a strong spiritual satisfaction for the rest of your life."​

​ - Sue Song

Learn more about the WGC's "Our Giving, Our Stories", an ongoing series of giving profiles designed to celebrate women's philanthropy and amplify the voices of women and girls in Howard County.

​Double click the profile to the right to read it as a large PDF - enjoy!
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3 things going on this week - please join us!

5/9/2022

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Women's Rights are Human Rights and Human Rights are Women's Rights

5/3/2022

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Women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights.

And we are all entitled to human rights. These include the right to live free from violence and discrimination, to be educated, to own property, to vote, to earn an equal wage, and to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.

The leaked draft decision by the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade will be a direct assault on the rights, lives, dignity, and personal authority of women in our country. We may soon find ourselves in a time where women and girls actually have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers had, in a country with the highest maternal mortality rate, no paid maternity leave, no universal child care, no continued birth parent care, and the need for increased mental health care. 

As highlighted in the WGC's State of Women and Girls in Howard County, many women and girls continue to face discrimination on the basis of sex and gender. Gender inequality underpins many problems which disproportionately affect women and girls, including lower pay, lack of access to education, inadequate healthcare, domestic and sexual violence, and reproductive health.

The Women’s Giving Circle of Howard County is building a community of philanthropists and creating a permanent legacy to address the needs of women and girls in Howard County. With a vision for women’s philanthropy to shape the future for women and girls through the power of collective giving, our goals are to:

  • Expand philanthropy and increase giving by local women.
  • Implement a diversity, equity and inclusion lens to all of our work.
  • Build a permanent endowment fund.
  • Increase the life skills of women and girls.
  • Encourage the healthy development and personal authority of young girls.
  • Raise the awareness of gender disparities in our community.
  • Sustain the WGC for future generations.

We believe:

  • All Howard County women and girls, and those who identify as women, have a right to an adequate and sustainable quality of life and an opportunity to develop their full potential.
  • Healthy development for girls is achieved through education, life skill training, and a sense of personal authority and safety.
  • The needs and concerns of all women and girls in Howard County must be fully understood, acknowledged, and addressed.
  • Available resources should be directed to achieving systemic change in the political, social, and economic institutions that influence the lives of women and girls.
  • Philanthropy is not measured by the amount of the gift but by the intent of the giver.
  • Women’s philanthropy has the power to improve the lives of women and girls in Howard County now.
  • A permanent endowment provides a legacy of giving to the generations of women and girls who will follow.
  • Education is the cornerstone of understanding and giving.
  • Women of concern, compassion, and generosity can make the greatest difference by working together for change.

We also believe that we are stronger together. Read our Statement of Unity here.

And, we believe women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights.

We must and will continue to support the fight for women's rights ... now, more than ever. 

- The Women's Giving Circle of Howard County Advisory Board


H/T: Amnesty International, Hillary Clinton, Tocarra Mallard
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