Arizona Foundation for Women

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  • SHE Counts: Safety

    In the United States, more than 3 women are murdered by their intimate partners everyday. Arizona Foundation for Women actively partners with organizations like the Diane Halle Center for Family Justice to protect women and children from violence.

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  • SHE Counts: Health

    Arizona Foundation for Women focuses on health matters as they apply to Arizona women and children. We have funded programs providing dental care to homeless children as well as prevention programs.

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  • SHE Counts: Economic

    Arizona Foundation recognizes that homelessness and "working poor" are a real problem here in Arizona, which is why we fund emergency financial programs for women and children. Plus, our Live and Learn program offers career tract placement to help women get their lives back on track.

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  • Sandra Day O’Connor Awards Luncheon

    Thank you to all who made AFW's Sandra Day O'Connor Awards Luncheon a success!

    Congratulations to this year's award recipients:

    Sandra Day O'Connor Lifetime Achievement Award: Goldie Hawn
    Voice for Women Award: Ernie Allen
    Marilyn R. Seymann Award: Missy Anderson
    Special Guest: Harvey Mackay

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Welcome

AZ Foundation for WomenThe Arizona Foundation for Women promotes philanthropy by and for women, funds model programs or new ideas, facilitates community collaboration and influences public policy so women and children can live free from fear in a just society.

The Foundation works to enhance the lives of women and children by investing in and promoting innovative solutions to such issues as domestic violence and child abuse prevention, economic self-sufficiency and self-esteem for young women.

The Foundation promotes innovative solutions to fulfill the unmet needs of Arizona’s women and children. We do this by partnering with the community to assure the Safety, Health and Economic security (SHE). The SHE Counts® initiative combines research, grant making and advocacy to meet the AFW mission.

AFW affects measurable change through the:

  • Mobilization of our power and passion
  • Promotion of philanthropy by individuals, corporations and foundations
  • Empowerment of victims to become not just survivors, but thrivers!

 

 

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Fast Facts

40 percent of Valley teens have been affected by dating violence.

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If you are in danger, please call 911 or the U.S. National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or TTY 1-800-787-3224. If you are in need of services in the State of Arizona, please dial 211 for Community Information and Referral Services.

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Your tax-deductible donation to Arizona Foundation for Women assures that at-risk women and children’s lives will be improved through innovative programs. Thank you!

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