Fundraising Talking Points
The following points may help you to ask your guests to make a contribution to the Ms. Foundation and its work supporting the outrageous acts of grassroots organizations nationwide.
Thank you for attending our party!
Part of our theme of outrageousness includes asking you to consider making a gift to the Ms. Foundation for Women.
The Ms. Foundation and its grantee organizations are committing outrageous acts for simple justice every day across the country.
The Ms. Foundation helps women in communities nationwide achieve policy and culture change that will build a more just and inclusive society for all of us.
As you heard in the video (and can read in the brochure) the Ms. Foundation and its grantees work in areas that include Economic Justice, Women’s Health, Democracy Building and the prevention of Gender-Based Violence.
Some examples of recent work include:- Achieving policy wins in four states to ensure that medically accurate, comprehensive sexuality education is taught in schools (rather than abstinence-only education). This battle continues in other states!
- Protecting women’s reproductive rights in Colorado and California in the November elections. They continue to fight these battles in states across the country where a woman’s right to choose is threatened over and over again.
- An ongoing demand that the needs of women with HIV/AIDS are recognized nationally and provided for by the Centers for Disease Control.
- Providing aid to the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Gustav through the Katrina Women’s Response Fund for relief, community rebuilding and advocacy efforts to fight for a socially just recovery.
- The Ms. Foundation and its grantees are also working to ensure that the economic needs of women, families and vulnerable communities are elevated throughout the current economic crisis.
The Ms. Foundation works to connect grassroots organizing to national movements for progressive change to benefit people of every race, class and gender. Together we can strengthen this movement for change by making a gift to the Ms. Foundation today.
