UVM Film Series and more

Some interesting events next week:

Thursday, Nov 10
UVM Film Series presents: "Blackboards"
6:00pm pre-film lecture
6:45pm Film
Billings Lecture Hall (formerly Campus Center Theater)
www.uvm.edu/laneseries
656-4455
This is a drama, not a documentary.

Sunday, November 13

7:00pm

Joel Salatin in Middlebury.

Where51 Main. (map)

Description:
Salatin, the farmer featured in "Omnivore's Dilemma" and "Food, Inc.," talks about his latest book, "Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World." Info: 388-2061.

He is the owner of Polyface Farm in Virginia. This event is free but someone is paying his $10,000 speaking fee...Middlebury College, perhaps?

http://www.polyfacefarms.com/

If you want to make a dinner date with this, check out Storm Cafe. Unfortunately, Flatbread is not open on Sunday evenings. 51 Main will not be open for regular service, but there will be complimentary light snacks and a cash bar.

Email from WMI.org

Hi Amy,

Thank you so much! Your package arrived with the donations from the women in your giving circle. You have created a wonderful initiative. We are very grateful that you chose WMI as one of your giving partners.

Thank you for putting the time and effort into researching our organization. Separate thank yous will go out from our board. But, I just wanted to let you know how much we appreciate your support. Your group's contributions will help fund much needed loans for the rural women in east Africa that WMI serves.

Very best regards,

Robyn G. Nietert, President
Women's Microfinance Initiative
8609 Fenway Drive
Bethesda, MD 20817
rgnietert@aol.com
301/520-0865
wmionline.org

Video from WMI

http://youtu.be/as8HI7-h_Cw

New video from WMI...

Amy

Email from WMI.org

Hi Amy,

WOW! Thank you so much. We love to have the support of women's groups, since we were started by a group of women to support other women on the other side of the globe.

If your members are interested, we would like to add their emails to our bi-monthly update list. You can send us the email addresses of those who are interested, or you can just send them the wmicontact@gmail.com address and they can email back requesting to be added to the list. People seem to like the bi-monthly updates and pictures from the villages.

We appreciate your efforts to research WMI and find out about our mission and work. The support of women like you and your friends has made our loan outreach program a reality for thousands of rural African women.

Thanks again.

Best regards,

Robyn G. Nietert, President
Women's Microfinance Initiative
8609 Fenway Drive
Bethesda, MD 20817
rgnietert@aol.com
301/520-0865
wmionline.org

I was thinking last night that WMI is really a direct KIVA model. The money goes back and forth from lender to borrower directly!

Amy

Links for October Meeting

Links for October Meeting on Micro Financing:

This video will be shown before both Amy and my presentation since it gives a good background to Micro-financing in general

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/uganda601/video_index.html


Tammy
here are all the links are in order again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPk2gRuIdj0&feature=relmfu
http://vimeo.com/16991128
http://media.kiva.org/20081009_Kiva_Introduction.pdf
http://vimeo.com/28413747
http://vimeo.com/19812500

Amy’s
Women's Micro Finance Initiative: The region for the charity is Uganda and Kenya so that you can bring it up on the map.

http://www.wmionline.org/
http://youtu.be/9kA7bEgnYro
http://www.wmionline.org/WMI-Journey.pdf
http://www.wmionline.org/2010-WMI-Annual-Report.pdf

http://www.wmionline.org/finance/WMI_Overview.pdf
http://www.wmionline.org/aboutus/locations.html
http://www.wmionline.org/2010-WMI-Annual-Report.pdf

October Agenda

VERMONT WOMEN’S GIVING CIRCLE
AGENDA
October 5, 2011

Welcome and Introductions
(Unable to attend: Sally Wadhams, Lynda Siegel, Cathy Westphalen)

Follow up from last Meeting’s donation – Marianne

Micro Financing Presentation by Amy and Tammy

Vote

Blog - any questions

Future business:
• July Jodi and Sally Maternal health
• August Tina and Debra Water
• September Betty and Marianne Education
October Tammy & Amy Micro Financing
November Wendy and Cathy Sex Trafficking
December
January Revisit previous foundations
February
March
April
May
June
Other Areas we might focus on in future meetings:
Shelter
Food
Famine relief
Legal Rights for Women
Gender based violence
Business and Skills training
Health Services
Vaccination programs

Current Events New York Times Science Times Tuesday, Sept 27, 2011
“Small Fixes” whole section devoted to “low-cost innovations that are making a big difference”

Suggestions for future meetings

Address for Sept foundation?

Can someone send me the address of the latest foundation so I can send my check? I was unable to attend Sept meeting but did not see the foundation address on the blog.

I think I found it.... Getting a hang of this blog thing, I think!

Amy

Jodi.how do I get the list of questions for preparing my presentation?

Amy

A test...

Just checking this blog thing out...

Amy

NSJOF reply from Peter

Peter Garang Deng responds to my announcement from last night's meeting:

Excellent! I am soooooooooo excited Marianne to read in your email that you voted for my foundation. Thank you so much for such a great help to my foundation and thank to all women. Please pass my excitemtment to all the women. Let them know that I am so excited for what they have done to my foundation and I look forward to meeting them all in the near future face to face.
I will be giving talk to students at Champlain Valley Union High School but I haven't received the day they would like me to come there yet. I will let you know if anything comes up within Burlington, Vermont. In addition, I am willing to come and talk at your meeting as a speaker if you with your group would like that.

Thank you
Peter

So Peter has offered to come to us. Can we put this up for further discussion?
Marianne

Hello all

I just finished re-posting all the posts we had up on the old typo blog which I deleted so no mistakes anymore...hopefully:)
I also sent everyone an invitation to post so check it out it's fun and easy.
Finally, if you scroll all the way down the blog you will find an option called FOLLOW BY EMAIL, enter your email address there and follow the link the blog sends to your email address to confirm.
Thank you for a wonderful presentation yesterday, I felt as if I really learned a lot!!
Tammy

Agenda for Sept. 5 Meeting

VERMONT WOMEN’S GIVING CIRCLE
AGENDA
September 5, 2011

Welcome and Introductions
(Unable to attend Wendy Saville, Lynda Siegel)

Follow up from last Meeting’s donation – $710 to Aqua Para La Vida

Education Presentation by Marianne and Betty

Vote

Blog
How to upload things on to the Blog 
How to stay informed of updates on the Blog

Future business:
• July Jodi and Sally Maternal health
• August Tina and Debra Water
September Betty and Marianne Education
October Tammy & Amy Micro Financing
November Wendy and Cathy Sex Trafficking
December 
January
February
March
April
May
June

Other Areas we might focus on in future meetings:
Shelter
Food
Legal Rights for Women
Gender based violence
Business and Skills training
Health Services

Current Events Effecting Women’s Health

Suggestions for future meetings
Jodi

Foundation Form

Vermont Women’s Giving Circle
Foundation research form 
Month/year of presentation 
Area of work (for example health care, food, shelter, education, etc.) 
Organization name 
Address 
Phone 
Email 
Status (for ex. 501cs, foreign non-profit, other) 
Year Founded 
Annual Budget 
Examples of major Funding Source (s) 
Number of people served in a period of time (designate if annual, daily, etc) 
Approximate percentage of administrative costs to overall budget 
Focus group (pregnant Mothers, newborns, children all ages etc) 
Explain specific services offered by the organization 
Highlights of your research: 
Vermont Women’s Giving Circle
Additional research findings 
Process used to find info. 
Helpful hints 
Recommended Resources/ Websites 
Recommended Reading 
Recommended Viewing (videos) 
Future ideas 
Other notes 

Jodi

Kiva Video (August 11th)

Ana is a Kiva borrower from Ecuador. She's using her loan to provide for her children, support her home & fill up the stomachs of hungry market-goers and is known for her cooking prowess!

See you in Sept.!

xox

Tammy

Amy (July 12th)

Ok. I got the blog...Looks great....

Amy

New to the blog (July 12)

I am hoping this will be my first successful blog entry with this note. It is just practice but, if it works I will be back soon with the links we promised from our last meeting.
I hope everyone is staying cool.
Jodi

Blogging instructions (July 10th)

Another test and blogging instructions

Just testing the blog using the blog invitation link I sent all of you yesterday.

In order to post on this blog you will need to create a google account, I actually didn't realize this until today since I have a google account so it was never an issue, sorry about this but it's a free blog and one that is very easy to use, creating an account take two seconds, just follow the invitation link.

Here are the instruction for posting:

1. Follow the link I sent you yesterday, you will see a request to create a google account

2. Once you created your account you can log in with it and just click on NEW POST

3. that's it, you are ready to go, don't forget to click on PREVIEW so you can see it before you PUBLISH.

Email me here if you have more questions

tamar@nestprettythings.com

or call me any time

985-2597

xox

Tammy