The 2008 annual report from the Women's Foundation of Minnesota highlights efforts towards achieving economic, political, and social equality for women and girls, detailing funding of $965,027 awarded to 116 nonprofits and emphasizing community engagement. It addresses ongoing challenges such as the wage gap, violence against women, and the need for promoting women's health and political representation, while sharing success stories from various grantees. The report aims to inspire collective action and optimism for the future of women and girls in Minnesota.

1. GROWING EQUALITY FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS
ON
THE
ROAD
TO
EQUALITY
2008 Annual Report

2. HOPES & DREAMS
for Minnesota’s
women & girls
“That as professional
women, we nurture the next
generationofwomenleaders
and guide girls to the tools
they’ll need to achieve their
dreams.”
– Barbara, Rochester

3. We talk a lot here about the shared passion that drives our
work for women’s economic, political and social equality
–about the hopes and dreams that fuel our passion.
“Hope” is defined as “a wish accompanied by confident
expectation of its fulfillment,” and “dream” means “an
aspiration, or aim.” Together, it makes for an
unstoppable force.
What are your hopes and dreams for women and girls?
It’s a powerful question, and one we like to ask. In fact,
in this report we share with you the hopes and dreams of
seven Minnesotans we met during our statewide Road to
Equality Tour (May-July 2008).
While on the Tour, we were leading a community
presentation in one of the greater Minnesota cities we
visited. As we shared key findings from our new research
report, Status of Girls in Minnesota (released April 2008),
in walked two prominent, male community leaders to a
room filled with women.
While we suspected that these men weren’t used to being
the “minority” gender in a room, their initial tentativeness
gave way to active participation in the discussion about
our girls’ research.
“Let me tell you what I’m seeing,” one of the men began.
“I’m sending too many of my police officers to homes in
this community where woman have been beaten. And you
know what really troubles me? I think we’re seeing about
only 10 percent of what’s actually happening out there.”
Then he added, “My hopes and dreams for women and
girls in our community is that they don’t experience
violence – period – and that they can fulfill their dreams
of what they want to become and who they want to be.”
As we analyze what we’ve learned from the 18 diverse
communities we visited on the Tour, a striking similarity
has emerged: the concerns, hopes and dreams that all
Minnesotans share for improving the status of women
and girls.
To this end, in fiscal year 2008 (April 1, 2007-March 31,
2008) we awarded $965,027 in grants to 116 nonprofit
organizations through the Social Change Fund,
girlsBEST (girls Building Economic Success Together)
Fund, Donor Advised Funds, Giving Circles, and
discretionary grants.
Our grantees amaze and inspire us as we watch their
innovative programs bust through barriers and move
equality forward. For example, while the wage gap for
women persists and women continue to cluster in low-
paying jobs, Social Change Fund grantee, WomenVenture,
is creating new career paths for women in the science
and technical industries (see pg. 4). And girlsBEST Fund
grantee, Centro, Inc., has created its own girl-run dance
academy to apprentice Latina teens as dance instructors,
developing their skills to claim and establish their own
economic power (see pg. 15).
Thank you for your continued support of the Women’s
Foundation of Minnesota. Together, our collective hopes
and dreams embrace future change and equality. And as
you will read in these pages, this optimism is reflected
throughout our programs and partnerships.
Onward,
Dear Friends,
(l-r) Grayce Belvedere Young and Lee Roper-Batker.
LEE ROPER-BATKER
PRESIDENT & CEO
GRAYCE BELVEDERE YOUNG
CHAIR, BOARD OF TRUSTEES

4. SOCIAL CHANGE FUND
Awards grants and provides technical assistance
to nonprofits across the state working to achieve
equality for women in five Cornerstone areas:
1. Creating Economic Justice for Women
2. Advancing Women’s Safety and Security
3. Guaranteeing Women’s Health and
Reproductive Rights
4. Promoting Women’s Human Rights
5. Expanding Women’s Political
Representation
Highlights
• $313,000 in grants to 21 nonprofits;
$39,500 in discretionary grants to 17
nonprofits; $32,610 in administrative
grants to six nonprofits; $344,744
in Donor Advised Fund grants to 43
nonprofits; and $12,175 in Giving
Circle grants to three nonprofits.
• Convened statewide grantees for
capacity-building conference, “Building
the Movement for Women’s Equality.”
• Convened four, statewide evaluation
and capacity-building workshops:
Three for grantees and one for donors.
• Conducted 11 grants information
sessions: Nine in greater Minnesota
(Alexandria, Crookston, Duluth,
Eveleth, Grand Rapids, Moorhead,
Rochester, St. Cloud, Willmar) and
two to diverse communities in the Twin
Cities (Asian American/Pacific Islander,
Native American).
Awards grants to statewide programs that
prepare girls for future economic well-being in
three program tracks:
Academics: Programs that help girls
stay in school and pursue college and
future career goals; build girls’ future
financial and economic capacity.
Entrepreneurship: Programs that
teach and support girls in business
planning and development.
Public Education and Advocacy:
Projects in which girls organize around
specific issues that impact girls’ future
economic well-being, such as sexual
violence and body image.
Highlights
• Distributed $222,998 in grants to
13 new girlsBEST groups, and for the
research report, Status of Girls in
Minnesota.
• Convened statewide grantees for
“Girls in the Lead,” a day-long capacity-
building and networking conference
in partnership with Dunwoody
College of Technology.
COLLABORATIVE FUNDING
Establishes partnerships within Minnesota’s
foundation community dedicated to social
change grantmaking.
Highlights
• Distributed $100,000 in grants
to three nonprofits through the
Democracy! Fund. Founded in 2004,
the fund is run collaboratively by the
Women’s Foundation, Headwaters
Foundation for Justice, The
Minneapolis Foundation, and Otto
Bremer Foundation to support and
advance the legal, non-partisan,
political activity and effectiveness of
nonprofit organizations (see pg. 13).
• Sustained partnership in the
Minnesota Dream Fund, a collaborative
initiative to support efforts to ensure
the equal educational achievement of
women, people of color, and tribal
communities.
SOCIAL CHANGE GRANTMAKING. The Women’s Foundation of Minnesota distributed $965,027 in
grants to 116 nonprofit organizations through its two competitive funds, Social Change Fund (SCF) and
girlsBEST (girls Building Economic Success Together) Fund, combined with discretionary and administrative
grants, Donor Advised Fund grants, and Giving Circle grants.
2008 AT A GLANCE
Fiscal Year 2008 (April 1, 2007 – March 31, 2008)
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FUND
YWCA Duluth's Girl Power! program (grantee, pg. 16) connects
girls to activities and experiences intended to inspire learning and
nurture curiosity as a means to future economic success.

5. RESEARCH, EDUCATION
AND PUBLIC POLICY
Moves Minnesota forward by educating and
influencing leaders, institutions and communities
to invest in economic, political and social equality
for women and girls.
Highlights
• Convened four UPStart lectures:
- Patty Tanji, Pay Equity Coalition of
Minnesota, “Strategies to
Eliminate the Wage Gap”
- Vednita Carter, Breaking Free,
“Reframing the Issue: Prostitution is
Systemic Violence Against Women”
- Peggy Saika, Asian Americans/
Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy,
“Asian American Women, Social
Justice, and Philanthropy”
- Sen. Patricia Torres Ray (D-District
62),“Elections Matter! Putting
Women’s Issues Back on the
Statewide Agenda”
• Published two editorials in Star Tribune
newspaper about the wage gap for women.
• Published Equality Report focused on
outcomes from the 2007 Legislature.
• Worked on new research report,
Status of Girls in Minnesota, in partnership
with Institute for Women’s Policy
Research. (Released in fiscal year 2009.)
BUILDING WOMEN’S
PHILANTHROPY
Engaging diverse, new generations of Minnesota
donors to practice social change philanthropy for
women and girls.
Highlights
• Women’s Foundation chosen by the
University of Minnesota’s Center for
Women and Public Policy as the inau-
gural recipient of its 2007 Hubert H.
Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs’
“Young Women’s Leadership Award.”
• Women of African Descent Giving
Circle distributed $12,175 in grants to
three nonprofits (see pg. 17).
• George Family Foundation and
General Mills Foundation established
the Reatha Clark King Fellowship at
the Women’s Foundation to provide
renewable, two-year fellowships to
women of color in evaluation and
research.
• Welcomed 37 new members to
the Leadership Circle and six new
members to the Legacy Circle.
• Established three new Donor Advised
Funds (see pg. 17).
• Established the Women of Influence
Giving Circle (see pg. 17).
• Engaged two Development Fellows,
one Philanthropy Fellow (new
Reatha Clark King Fellowship), and three
Diversity Interns in Foundation
work to create a pipeline of leadership
opportunities for women of color
in the philanthropic and nonprofit
sectors (see pg. 23).
HOPES & DREAMS
for Minnesota’s
women & girls
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Statewide
Southwest
Southeast
Other
Northwest
Northeast
Metro Area
East Central
West Central
24%
3%
3%
11%
3%
11%
36%
5%
4%
FUNDING AREA
FUNDING USE
Program
79%
General
Operating
17 %
Planning 4%
“That they believe in their
own hopes and dreams and
aspirations, tuning out all
negativityandobstacles in
their way.”
– Shari, Willmar
Mujeres Unidas of the Red River Valley
(grantee, pg. 5) seeks to strengthen the voices
of Latina women and girls to create positive
change in the Fargo-Moorhead area.
Guaranteeing Women’s Health
and Reproductive Rights 11%
Creating Economic Justice
for Women 53%
FUNDING BY CORNERSTONE
Advancing Women’s
Safety and Security 19%Expanding Women’s
Political Representation 11%
Promoting
Women’s Human
Rights 6%

6. OUR VISION: In the future, women will thrive economically. Communities will benefit
when women – as a result of education, employment opportunities, and economic development
– make poverty history.
ECONOMIC
JUSTICE
GROWING
SOCIAL CHANGE
Indicators of Success enable us to evaluate
Social Change Fund grants. Examples of social
change that FY08 grantees measured:
• Effectiveness of models to achieve the
collective economic power of immigrant
and refugee women through enhanced
business knowledge and entrepreneurial
skills.
• Degree to which strategies to advance
women’s access to nontraditional
careers were effective in improving
job placement and long-term success.
• Effectiveness of program strategies to
identify, test and disseminate new key
messages to change the public conversation
about teen families to be better informed
and more positive and supportive.
• Numbers of Latina women and girls
achieving full and equal access to
educational and employment
opportunities in the Red River Valley
area in west central Minnesota.
SOCIAL CHANGE FUND
CORNERSTONE: Creating Economic Justice for Women
In Minnesota, the road to
economic equality for women has
been anything but a smooth path.
Today, women across the state’s
87 counties continue to make an
average of $0.73 to every dollar
made by a man for comparable
work. So it’s no wonder in
Minnesota that female-headed
families with children make up the
largest share of those in poverty.
Across the nation, the story is
much the same. Women continue
to represent a disproportionate
(more than 64 percent) share of
minimum wage earners – and an
even more disproportionate 40
percent are women of color.
So why the persistent wage gap?
Economists give three reasons:
One-third is due to differences in
skills and education; another third
is because women tend to cluster in
low-paying jobs; and the final third
is "unexplainable."
But no matter how you quantify it,
racism, sexism and poverty – across
all races and ethnicities – continue to
hold women at the bottom of the
economic, political and social
ladder. This is a powerful call-to-
action for our grantees, working
within their communities to replace
these “-isms” with viable solutions
towards lasting social change.
In fiscal year 2008, the Women’s
Foundation distributed $63,000
in grants to four nonprofit
organizations working to level the
economic playing field for women
and girls in Minnesota.
Women’s Foundation grantee,
WomenVenture (St. Paul), seeks to
redefine and reframe women’s
access to and opportunities
for success in higher paying,
nontraditional jobs. The group
builds strategies that focus on
improving job placement in three
industry sectors where women
comprise less than 25 percent:
construction; science, engineering
and technology; and energy
process.
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7. Grantee Partners
Aishah Center for Women | $20,000
(Minneapolis)
To empower immigrant and refugee
women by developing models to
achieve collective economic power
through the integration of Western
and culturally specific business
practices.
Minnesota Organization on
Adolescent Pregnancy & Parenting |
$10,000 (Minneapolis)
To support the Promoting Success
Among Teen Parents Initiative to
reframe public understanding about
teen families, train state advocates,
and advance work to promote success
among teen parents.
Mujeres Unidas of the Red River
Valley | $18,000 (Moorhead)
To challenge the educational systems
to increase the economic success of
Latinas in the Red River Valley, and
to teach Latina women and girls
about the empowering role education
plays in increasing economic success
and reducing domestic violence.
WomenVenture | $15,000
(St. Paul)
To support the Sector Project for
Women program to improve women’s
access to and opportunities for
success through higher paying,
nontraditional jobs.
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Warleah Teamah, pictured with her son Knowledge, has benefited from participation in
programs offered through WomenVenture, a Women’s Foundation grantee.
Photo:DawnVillella

8. The road to equality for far too
many women and girls in
Minnesota is marred with the
ravages of physical or sexual abuse.
Safety and security for these victims
is virtually nonexistent, and the
outcomes include physical and
emotional damage, homelessness,
prostitution, human trafficking,
and even death.
According to the Minnesota
Coalition for Battered Women,
at least 22 women were murdered
by an intimate partner or family
member in 2007. And of that
number, 73 percent took place in
the Twin Cities and 27 percent in
greater Minnesota.
Poverty and violence against women
often go hand-in-hand. In fact,
women’s shelter providers in the
economically depressed Iron Range
region of north central Minnesota
report a staggering 34 percent increase
in services over the past two years.
Statistically, women of color are,
quite literally, hit the hardest by
violence. Of all races and ethnicities,
Native American women and girls
suffer from the highest rate of
domestic violence in the nation,
and statistically more often at the
hands of non-Native perpetrators.
But in the face of such odds, the
Women’s Foundation and grantee
partners are creating solutions that
matter. In fiscal year 2008, the
Foundation awarded $106,000 in
grants to six nonprofits working to
end violence against women.
The Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual
Assault Coalition (St. Paul), a
Women’s Foundation grantee, seeks
to redefine and reframe the issues
of prostitution and human trafficking
of American Indian and Alaskan
Native women and girls in
Minnesota. The group will interview,
document and give voice to Native
women and girls prostituted and
trafficked in the state.
This data will feed a
research project the
nonprofit hopes will
lead to a culturally
specific resource
center for survivors.
OUR VISION: We aspire to a day when women experience the world as a place of safety,
and our media, policy makers, families and popular culture reject violence against them.
GROWING
SOCIAL CHANGE
Indicators of Success enable us to evaluate
Social Change Fund grants. Examples of social
change that FY08 grantees measured:
• Mobilization of the Latino community,
led by Latinas, to end domestic violence.
• Ways in which the dysfunctional
cultural norms and gender inequality
in the Asian American/Pacific Islander
(AAPI) communities are challenged that
decrease the number of runaways and
violence against AAPI women and girls.
• Increases in the number of immigrant
women and women of color reporting
domestic violence to better educated,
culturally sensitive government agencies.
• Degree to which local criminal justice
and judicial systems are better prepared
to assist women of color and immigrant
women in domestic abuse situations
through cultural and language
interpretation services.
SOCIAL CHANGE FUND
CORNERSTONE: Advancing Women’s Safety & Security
SAFETY &
SECURITY
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Minnesota Indian
Women’s Sexual Assault
Coalition (grantee) is one
of 16 coalitions in the nation
working to end sexual
violence in tribal communities.

9. Grantee Partners
Asian Media Access | $19,000
(Minneapolis)
To support the Ramen Ya project to
create a world of safety, equality, and
self-respect for Asian American and
Pacific Islander girls, with a special
emphasis on Hmong runaway and
homeless girls (12-18) that have
experienced sexual violence.
Casa de Esperanza | $15,000
(St. Paul)
To develop, implement, test and
document a new Latina Advocacy
Framework for mainstream organiza-
tions to use to provide resources and
support for battered Latina women.
Minnesota Indian Women’s
Resource Center | $15,000
(Minneapolis)
For general operating support. The
nonprofit advocates for culturally
appropriate social services for Native
American women and families.
Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual
Assault Coalition | $19,000
(St. Paul)
To create a database of interviews
and documentation about American
Indian and Alaskan Native women
and youth being trafficked and
prostituted in Minnesota; provide
community education and outreach
to organizations that serve Native
women and youth; and identify and
define the relationship between state,
federal and tribal governments
related to survivors’ legal issues.
Pangea World Theater | $19,000
(Minneapolis)
For the Journey to Safety theater
production to artistically and
emotionally explore the obstacles
battered immigrant women and
women of color encounter when
seeking help from government
agencies and their communities.
WATCH | $15,000 (Minneapolis)
To provide leadership in monitoring
the criminal justice system’s response
to violence against women and
children, including expansion of
their role in promoting court
monitoring, nationwide.
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WATCH (grantee) works to improve the way the courts in Hennepin County
handle cases of violence against women and children.

10. The road to women’s access to
comprehensive health and repro-
ductive services has been a volatile
and uncertain one to navigate.
Persistent attacks to these freedoms
continues to grab headlines in the
United States and polarize the
populace.
The impacts of such threats to
women’s health and reproductive
freedoms, though, are not restricted
to North America, but of greater
global concern. According to the
United Nations’ UN Population
Fund, reproductive health and
gender equality are the keys to
ending poverty.
At the Women's Foundation, we
believe that when women thrive,
families and communities thrive.
Simply put, when a woman has
access to healthcare, her children
are healthier. When she has a
living-wage job, her children are
lifted out of poverty. And when
she has access to prevention
services and nutritious food, her
children will break out of the cycle
of childhood obesity and diabetes.
Together with grantees, the
Women’s Foundation is working
to make comprehensive health and
reproductive care available to all
women and girls. In fiscal year
2008, we awarded $62,000 to five
nonprofits working to guarantee
women’s health and reproductive
rights.
East Hillside Patch (Duluth), a
Women’s Foundation grantee,
understands that gaining a critical
mass of support in the community
is key to transforming the current
health care system from one that
discriminates against low-income
women to one that welcomes and
supports them. Through its Health
Equity Project, the nonprofit trains
low-income women in social change
organizing, engaging and empow-
ering them to directly affect their
own future health and well-being.
OUR VISION: We envision a time when all women in Minnesota will have local, legal,
affordable, safe and comprehensive health care.
GROWING
SOCIAL CHANGE
Indicators of Success enable us to
evaluate Social Change Fund grants. Examples of
social change that FY08 grantees measured:
• Increases in the number of African
American women advocating for women’s
health and mobilizing other women and
the larger community to action.
• Degree to which community
engagement and coalitions safeguard
reproductive freedoms and advance
women’s health policies at the
Minnesota Legislature.
• Level of grassroots support and public
mobilization for women’s reproductive
health and rights.
• Legislative and public policy impacts
to women’s health and reproductive
rights in rural communities in northern
Minnesota resulting from targeted
education and lobbying presence at
the state capitol.
SOCIAL CHANGE FUND
CORNERSTONE: Guaranteeing Women’s Health & Reproductive Rights
Women’s Health Center of Duluth (grantee)
keeps rural women's health and reproductive
rights in focus at the Minnesota Legislature.
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HEALTH &
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

11. Grantee Partners
East Hillside Patch | $15,000
(Duluth)
To support the Health Equity Project
to engage and train low-income
women in social justice organizing
as a way to educate and engage the
community in transforming the local
health care system.
Kwanzaa Community Church |
$14,000 (Minneapolis)
To provide community-organizing
training through the Wellness Support
Group Project to empower women
and teen girls to analyze and exert
their collective power around issues
of disparities in health care for the
poor and the disproportionate affect
of HIV/AIDS on African American
women and girls of North
Minneapolis.
Midwest Health Center for Women |
$15,000 (Minneapolis)
To support the Reproductive Health
Policy & Advocacy Program to drive
legislative initiatives to protect and
promote women’s health and repro-
ductive freedoms at all levels of state
government.
Planned Parenthood of Minnesota
- South Dakota | $5,000 (St. Paul)
To support the Patient Engagement
Network program to educate and
mobilize patients about current state
legislation, and encourage women to
become more involved in policies
that affect their healthcare and
reproductive rights.
Women’s Health Center of Duluth |
$13,000 (Duluth)
To influence legislation and public
policy pertaining to reproductive
rights, with special focus on rural
communities in northern Minnesota.
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Midwest Health Center for Women (grantee) is dedicated to the belief that
reproductive choice is vital for the health and well-being of women.

12. It can be said that the road to
equality for women got a boost on
December, 10, 1948, when the
United Nations adopted and
proclaimed the landmark Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.
Truly a remarkable document, its
30 articles were created with the
human family in mind, regardless
of difference.
In our state, the Minnesota
Human Rights Act declares free-
dom from discrimination on the
basis of “…race, color, creed, religion,
national origin, sex, marital status,
disability, status with regard to
public assistance, sexual orientation,
and age” as the key underpinning
for all public policy.
So with all of these significant
societal declarations in place, why
are women around the globe still
fighting for basic human rights?
Sexism, racism, heterosexism,
classism, ableism and ageism continue
to keep women from reaching their
full economic, political and social
potential.
Whether its poverty, immigrant
rights violations, violence, lack of
full and equal access to quality
education, health and child care,
or persistent legislative threats to
the rights of LGBT people, when
women are denied basic human
rights, the entire community
suffers.
As champions of social change, the
Women’s Foundation and grantee
partners are determined to create a
Minnesota where women and girls
are valued, free from discrimination,
and able to act upon their dreams.
To this end, we awarded $25,000
in grants to two nonprofits pro-
moting women’s human rights in
fiscal year 2008.
Waite House (Minneapolis), a
Women’s Foundation grantee, seeks
to engage and build the leadership
skills of Latina women in the
community through its Mujeres
en Liderazgo internship program.
The program trains Latinas to
affect change in their personal life
and educate the larger community
about the contextualized impact of
globalization and immigration on
Latina women.
Waite House also offers women a
series of workshops on leadership,
personal and professional develop-
ment, immigration, and globalization
in the feminist context.
OUR VISION: We look forward to a day when women’s human rights and dignity are
unquestioned, when women are free from discrimination and able to act upon their dreams.
GROWING
SOCIAL CHANGE
Indicators of Success enable us to evaluate
Social Change Fund grants. Examples of social
change that FY08 grantees measured:
• Greater contextualized understanding in
both the immigrant and non-immigrant
community of the impact of globalization
on immigration for Latina women.
• IncreasesinnumberofLatinasinpositions
ofleadershipwithinthecommunityandwho
feeltheyhavetheauthoritytoaffectchange
intheirpersonallifeandsociety.
• Increased recognition of international
evangelical (Christian) scholars on
women’s equality in the church and home.
• Increases in the number of women
pastors, overseers, and elders serving in
evangelical churches and ministries.
SOCIAL CHANGE FUND
CORNERSTONE: Promoting Women’s Human Rights
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HUMAN
RIGHTS

13. Grantee Partners
Christians for Biblical Equality |
$10,000 (Minneapolis)
To support outreach and educational
efforts to conservative evangelicals
about the Bible’s support of equality
and justice for women, and that
traditional use of the Bible to
subordinate women to male authority
are misguided.
Waite House | $15,000
(Minneapolis)
To support Mujeres en Liderazgo,
an internship-leadership development
program that builds upon the strengths
and assets of women participants at
Waite House through surveys, leadership
andprofessionaldevelopment workshops,
and community presentation
opportunities.
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Waite House (grantee) is one of six neighborhood centers of Pillsbury United
Communities, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit recognized for its innovative approaches
and programs that address the complex causes and effects of social and economic
inequalities in the community.

14. Obstacles, including sexism and
racism, continue to impede the
road to political equality for women
around the world. Yet according to
the United Nations, it is in
developing countries and those with
emerging democracies – rather
than developed nations or long-
established democracies, like the
United States – where women are
making the greatest strides in
political representation.
We know that when women make
up 40 percent of a political body,
they achieve the critical mass
necessary to impact and change
the agenda. And with an historic
high of 34.8 percent or 70 women
now serving in the Minnesota
Legislature, parity seems within
reach.
There is danger in complacency,
however. Since the 2007 elections,
there is a common misperception
that women now saturate every level
of political leadership in the
United States. But the truth is that
we rank 67th out of 195 countries
in the world in terms of women's
political representation.
And beyond the Legislature here in
Minnesota, women remain under-
represented in elected positions in
local government. While its promising
that 845 (37.6 percent)of the
state’s 2,248 public school board
members are women, women make
up only 999 (28.1 percent) of the
state’s 3,554 city council members,
113 (13.2 percent) of its 854
mayors, and 52 (11.4 percent) of
its 457 county commissioners.
Moreover, Minnesota has yet to
elect a woman governor, and no
woman of color has ever served in
its congressional delegation or in
a statewide elected office.
We can, and must, do better.
In fiscal year 2008, the Women’s
Foundation awarded $57,000 in
funding to four nonprofits working
to expand women’s political rep-
resentation across the state.
Northeast Minnesota Rural Women’s
Leadership Project (Eveleth), a
Women’s Foundation grantee, is
affecting social change by employing
strategies to challenge the sexism,
racism and other barriers that prevent
rural women from seeking elected
office in northeastern Minnesota.
And in partnership with The White
House Project’s Go Run training in
the Iron Range last spring, the
nonprofit provided support and
networking for participants, with
special outreach to Native American
women and girls.
OUR VISION: Women will enjoy equal influence at all levels of government, bringing new
perspectives and expertise that advance equality and justice.
GROWING
SOCIAL CHANGE
Indicators of Success enable us to evaluate
Social Change Fund grants. Examples of social
change that FY08 grantees measured:
• Increases in the number of rural
women in northeastern Minnesota
engaged in programs to build women’s
political leadership and representation,
with particular focus on Native American
women and girls.
• Increased representation of Native
American and Alaskan Native women
leaders in government to address
domestic violence and human
trafficking of Native women and girls.
• Increases in the number of low-income
women and women of color who run for
elected office.
• Increases in the number of women
running for elected office in Minnesota.
Tri-College NEW Leadership Development
Institute (grantee) teaches participants to be
effective public advocates and community
organizers.
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SOCIAL CHANGE FUND
CORNERSTONE: Expanding Women’s Political Representation
POLITICAL
REPRESENTATION

15. Grantee Partners
Northeast Minnesota Rural Women’s
Leadership Project | $20,000
(Eveleth)
To provide resources and support to
women in northeastern Minnesota to
achieve political leadership, and lead-
ership mentors to area girls, with
special outreach to Native American
women and girls.
Tri-College NEW Leadership
Development Institute | $7,000
(Moorhead)
To support annual five-day residency
conference to engage women in
developing leadership skills in
community organizing and running
for elected office.
University of Minnesota’s Center on
Women and Public Policy | $15,000
(Minneapolis)
To reduce or eliminate the gender
gap through analysis of existing political
leadership training and recruitment
programs, and to identify the most
effective paths to elective office for
women.
Wellstone Action Fund –
Sheila Wellstone Institute | $15,000
(St. Paul)
To create and implement a voter
engagement plan for survivors of
Minnesota's 27 battered women's
shelter programs, and build the
political power within the battered
women's movement through training
workshops at Camp Sheila Wellstone.
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Liz Kuoppala (far right) of the Northeast Minnesota Rural Women's Leadership Project (grantee)
helped bring several Minnesota leaders to the Iron Range Go Run training last spring, including
(l-r) Virginia City Councilwoman Nevada Littlewolf, State Sen. Becky Lourey (D-District 8),
and Ann Bancroft, Arctic explorer and Ann Bancroft Foundation founder and president.
Democracy! Fund
In fiscal year 2008, this collaborative fund of the Women’s
Foundation, Headwaters Foundation for Justice, Otto Bremer
Foundation, and The Minneapolis Foundation awarded $100,000
in grants to three nonprofits to support and advance the legal,
nonpartisan political activity and effectiveness of nonprofits.
All Parks Alliance for Change $33,333
Joint Religious Legislative Coalition $33,333
People Escaping Poverty Project $33,333

16. We know that the foundations of
women’s economic stability and
independence, academic and career
opportunity, and physical and
emotional well-being are established
when they are girls. So…what does a
healthy girl look like?
She is someone who believes in
herself and is secure in her talents
and abilities. She respects herself
and her body. She is ready to
pursue her hopes and dreams and
is confident she will reach them.
This girl will become a resilient
woman, able to meet life’s challenges
head-on and ready for the
opportunities that come her way.
This vision for girls is at the heart
of the girlsBEST (girls Building
Economic Success Together) Fund.
Since 2001, girlsBEST has funded
programs in Minnesota that
prepare girls for future economic
success. And to address racial,
economic and other disparities,
we include critical outreach to
underserved, underrepresented
girls. The Fund, now permanently
endowed, is the first of its kind in
Minnesota, and the nation.
In fiscal year 2008, we awarded
$162,998 in grants to 13 nonprofits
across the state that are using inno-
vative strategies to build girls’ future
economic success and well-being.
In October 2007, we published
an independent evaluation of the
first five years of girlsBEST that
confirmed the program’s success.
The findings? Participation in
girlsBEST raised girls’ grades,
self-esteem, leadership ability,
and expectations for the future.
Also last year, an additional
$60,000 in grants went toward
publication of the Foundation’s
latest research report, Status of Girls
in Minnesota (released in fiscal year
2009). In partnership with the
Institute for Women’s Policy
Research (Washington, D.C.),
the report is intended as a tool for
advocates, researchers, and policy
makers to develop interventions
that will ensure girls’ economic,
political and social equality.
GROWING
SOCIAL CHANGE
Annually, the Women’s Foundation measures the
progress of girlsBEST Fund programming against
the following Indicators of Success:
• Increase the readiness for individual
girls to achieve economic well-being.
• Create supportive environments that
will lead to increased readiness of girls
to achieve economic well-being.
• Elevate public recognition of the value
of women and girls to society and
decrease sexist attitudes.
• Build activism throughout Minnesota
on behalf of girls’ economic well-being.
• Invest girlsBEST grant dollars in
underserved and underrepresented
communities throughout Minnesota.
girls Building Economic Success Together FUND
KFAI, Fresh Air, Inc. (grantee) is creating the
next generation of diverse female leadership in public
broadcasting through its project,"Youth News
Initiative: Girls of Color Voicing Their Choice."
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“The girlsBEST program really had an impact on my life. If I had never participated,
I would never have become the person that I am today. I have learned to become a better
person, a better public speaker. I have learned about becoming economically self-sufficient.”
- girlsBEST Fund participant

17. Grantee Partners
Centro, Inc. (Minneapolis) | $10,000
Program Track: Entrepreneurial
Outcome: Increased readiness to
achieve economic success.
To support the Nican Tlaca Dance Academy,
apprenticing Latina teens as dance instructors,
developing their skills to claim and establish
their own economic power.
Division of Indian Work (Statewide) |
$14,714
Program Track: Public Education
and Advocacy
Outcome: Increased public education,
activism and advocacy.
To support “Live It” Youth Advisory Council,
convening American Indian teen girls from
statewide reservations to participate in awareness
and leadership training through the “Live It”
Teen Pregnancy Prevention program.
Girls in Action (Robbinsdale) |
$10,000
Program Track: Academic
Outcome: Increased public education
activism and advocacy.
To work with teen girls to decrease violence and
increase academic engagement, focusing on
personal power, leadership, service-learning,
and career coaching.
Girl Scouts of Minnesota
and Wisconsin River Valleys
(Minneapolis) | $10,000
Program Track: Academic
Outcome: Increased readiness to
achieve economic success.
To work with African American girls on
financial literacy, leadership skills, post-
secondary educational options, and to build
girls’ knowledge of their cultural heritage.
Independent Lifestyles, Inc.
(St. Cloud) | $14,714
Program Track: Academic
Outcome: Increased readiness to
achieve economic success.
To support GIRLS program, providing skills
training, self-advocacy and mentoring for teen
girls with disabilities. In partnership with St.
Cloud public schools.
KFAI, Fresh Air, Inc. (Minneapolis) |
$10,000
Program Track: Academic
Outcome: Increased readiness to
achieve economic success.
To support Youth News Initiative: Girls of
Color Voicing Their Choice, creating the next
generation of diverse female leadership in public
broadcasting through training and mentoring.
Liberian Women’s Initiatives of
Minnesota (Brooklyn Park) | $10,000
Program Track: Academic
Outcome: Increased readiness to
achieve economic success.
To support College Bound, pairing teen
Liberian girls with professional Liberian women
to mentor and encourage college enrollment,
while maintaining cultural values.
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Through the power of dance, Latina teens flourish at
Centro's Nican Tlaca Dance Academy (grantee).
- girlsBEST cont., next page.

18. Pearl Crisis Center (Milaca) | $14,714
Program Track: Public Education and
Advocacy
Outcome: Increased public education,
activism and advocacy.
To support TADA (Teens Against Dating
Abuse), a girl-led program to educate teen girls
in the Milaca area about teen dating violence
and impacts on future economic stability.
The Science Center at Maltby Nature
Preserve (Randolph) | $14,714
Program Track: Academic
Outcome: Increased readiness to
achieve economic success.
To create program engaging girls (ages 10-18)
in authentic science. Professional female
scientists serve as mentors as girls develop social,
leadership and teamwork skills. In partnership
with Girl Scout Council of Cannon Valley.
Western Community Action
(Marshall) | $14,714
Program Track: Academic
Outcome: Increased readiness to
achieve economic success.
To support Girls Take the Lead (Marshall) and
G-Girls (Windom) to develop girls’ financial
empowerment, leadership and self-esteem.
WINDOW (Hinckley) | $14,714
Program Track: Public Education and
Advocacy
Outcome: Increased readiness to
achieve economic success.
To support Open Window, providing a safe
environment for girls (ages 10-18) to address
domestic violence and its effects on individual
economic well-being.
YouthCARE (Minneapolis) | $10,000
Program Track: Academic
Outcome: Increased readiness to
achieve economic success.
To support Young Women’s Mentoring
Program, training young women from low-
income communities to be mentors and activity
leaders for programming for young girls.
YWCA Duluth (Duluth) | $14,714
Program Track: Academic
Outcome: Increased readiness to
achieve economic success.
To support Girl Power!, providing experiential
economic empowerment programming for
underserved girls in Duluth (ages 9-15).
girlsBEST Grantee Partners | cont.
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The mission of the Science Center at Maltby Nature Preserve (grantee) is to nurture curiosity,
stimulate imagination, and inspire the quest for knowledge through scientific inquiry.

19. DONOR ADVISED FUNDS
ACORN FUND | N. Jeanne Burns
Pro-Choice Resources
(Minneapolis), $5,000
ARTEMIS FUND | Blanche & Thane Hawkins,
Lisa Hawklove
Dads and Daughters (Duluth), $500
FairVote Minnesota (Minneapolis), $1,000
Planned Parenthood of Minnesota-South
Dakota (St. Paul), $500
The White House Project (Washington,
D.C.), $7,000
Women’s Foundation of Minnesota,
girlsBEST Fund (Minneapolis), $8,000
ASTIA FUND | Lee and John Roper-Batker
DIANA AND ROBERT CARTER FAMILY FUND |
Diana and Robert Carter
Grand Central Charities (Wayzata), $25,000
CONCOLE FUND | Barbara Smith Reis
Women’s Initiative for Self-Empowerment
(St. Paul), $5,000
EMPOWERING PROGRESS FUND |
Anonymous
HARRIS FAMILY FUND | Kay and
Martin Harris
Beth el Synagogue (St. Louis Park), $1,744
Chicago Center for Jewish Genetic
Disorders (Chicago), $500
HEARTLIGHT FUND | Nancy Ward
JAN MALCOLM/KRIS CARLTON FUND |
Jan Malcolm, Kris Carlton
JANET B. WATSON FUND | Janet B. Watson
The Tandem Project (Minneapolis), $500
KIM LUND FUND | Kim Lund
aMAZE (Minneapolis), $25,000
Camp Unistar (Cass Lake), $1,000
Casa de Esperanza (St. Paul), $1,000
Changemakers (San Francisco), $25,000
Corcoran Neighborhood Organization
(Minneapolis), $1,000
Dads and Daughters (Duluth), $50,000
Haymarket People’s Fund
(Boston), $10,000
Mano a Mano Medical Resources
(Mendota Heights), $1,000
Mind on the Media (Northfield), $25,000
Minnesota Public Radio (St. Paul), $1,000
Minnesota Women’s Consortium
(St. Paul), $3,000
Mixed Blood Theater (Minneapolis), $2,000
Mombo Moms (Minneapolis), $1,000
Parents United for Public Schools
(St. Paul), $5,000
Planned Parenthood of Minnesota-South
Dakota (St. Paul), $1,000
Rainbow Families (Minneapolis), $25,000
Southern Poverty Law Center
(Montgomery, AL), $1,000
Twin Cities Public Television (St. Paul), $1,000
Wellstone Action! (St. Paul), $40,000
Women’s Educational Media
(San Francisco), $5,000
Zing! Foundation (Arlington, VA), $25,000
LEXI FUND | Lynne Hardey
MEREDITH FUND | Kris Maritz
Headwaters Foundation for Justice
(Minneapolis), $1,000
Leadership Empowerment and Development
Group (Minneapolis), $1,000
Midwest Health Center for Women
(Minneapolis), $1,000
Metropolitan Consortium of Community
Developers (Minneapolis), $20,000
Southside Family School
(Minneapolis), $1,000
Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus
(Minneapolis), $500
Women Candidate Development Coalition
(St. Paul), $500
YMCA Camp Widjiwagan (Ely), $1,000
RENOTA FUND | Anonymous
ROBERT FINNEY TECHNOLOGY FUND |
Karen Finney, Kathryn Finney
SALLY JOHNSON AND KAY KRAMER FUND |
Sally Johnson, Kay Kramer
SCHARLEMANN/BAKER FUND |
Romaine Scharlemann, Richard Baker
THEA MILLER WECK & WILLA WECK
SANBORN FUND | Lauren Weck
Midwest Health Center for Women
(Minneapolis), $5,000
WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH FUND |
Kathryn Glessing
Pro-Choice Resources
(Minneapolis), $15,000
GIVING CIRCLES
WOMEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT GIVING CIRCLE
Coalition of African Women Rebuilding Our
Communities (Minneapolis), $3,600
Kwanzaa Community Church
(Minneapolis), $5,000
Minnesota International Center for
Traditional Childbearing
(Minneapolis), $3,575
WOMEN OF INFLUENCE GIVING CIRCLE
In fiscal year 2008, charitable gifts from Donor Advised Funds and Giving Circles held at the Women’s Foundation
helped move economic, political and social equality forward for women and girls in Minnesota and across the nation.
DONOR ADVISED FUNDS | GIVING CIRCLES
HOPES & DREAMS
for Minnesota’s
women & girls
“That more girls and girls
of color pursue careers in
technology and become the
next generation of space
explorers.”
– Earle, Rochester
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20. DONOR PARTNERS
April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008
We thank the following donors for their partnership in our work.
$1,000,000 +
Mary Lee Dayton
Barbara Forster and
Larry Hendrickson
Alida R. Messinger
$500,000-$999,999
The Bush Foundation
Beverly N. Grossman
Kim Lund
Janet B. Watson
Margaret and Angus Wurtele
Foundation
$250,000-$499,999
Otto Bremer Foundation
Blanche and Thane Hawkins
Carol and Bud Hayden
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Kris Maritz
Pohlad Family Foundation
Valerie and Ed Spencer
$50,000-$249,999
Anonymous (2)
Hugh J. Andersen Foundation
Blandin Foundation
N. Jeanne Burns and Elizabeth
A. Oppenheimer
Patrick and Aimee Butler Family
Foundation
Charlson Foundation
Julianne Corty
Sherry Ann and
Edward Dayton
Wendy and Doug Dayton
General Mills Foundation
The George Family Foundation
Polly Grose
Joan Higinbotham
Jan Malcolm and
Kristen Carlton
Peter Maritz
Joyce H. and
Richard McFarland
The Minneapolis Foundation
Susan and William Sands
Harriet and Edson Spencer
Mary W. Vaughan
Joanne and Phil Von Blon
$10,000-$49,999
Anonymous
Ameriprise Financial
Philanthropic Program
Sally A. Anson
Baskin Family Foundation
Grayce Belvedere Young and
Daniel Young
Best Buy Co., Inc.
Marney B. Brooks
Caliber Foundation
N. Judge and Reatha Clark King
Family Fund of the
Minneapolis Foundation
Patrice D. Cooper Foundation
Sage and John Cowles
Andrew Duff
Marion Etzwiler
Karen Finney
General Mills, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. James Gesell
Elizabeth C. Grant
Harris Family Fund
Susan Haugerud
Piper Jaffray
Sharon D. James
Kay Kramer and
Sally Johnson
Krisbin Foundation
Karen Leonard
Janet C. Leslie
Oak Grove Foundation
William D. Radichel Foundation
Jane Ransom
Reis Family Gift Fund of
the Fidelity Charitable
Gift Fund
Lee and John Roper-Batker
Romaine Scharlemann and
Richard Baker
Nancy Slaughter
Emily Anne Tuttle
Nancy Ward
Terry Williams and
Susan Cogger
Penny and Mike Winton
(Mike)
Women's Funding Network
$1,000-$9,999
The Allegro Fund -
Account B of The Saint Paul
Foundation
Sarah Andersen and
Christopher Hayner
Sally Anaya-Boyer
Marion H. Andrus
Endowment Fund -
MWF of Minneapolis
Foundation
Margaret and
DeWalt H. Ankeny, Jr.
Connie Archbald
Katherine Austin Mahle
Jean Backlund
Connie Barry
Shayna Berkowitz and
Phyllis Wiener
BlasegHansen
Susan Boren
Brown Family Foundation
Sheila Carrington
Diana and Robert Carter
C.H. Robinson Foundation
Erin Ceynar and
Kevin Dalager
College of St. Catherine
Brenda and Jim Coulter
Amy and
Dave Cram Helwich
Lesley Crosby
Mary Lou Dasburg
Judy Dayton
Delta Dental
Charles M. Denny, Jr.
Karen Diver and
Arnold Selnes
Karla Ekdahl and
Peter Hutchinson
Sarah Farley and Betty Tisel
Kathryn Finney
Charlotte Flowers
Connie Foote
Leslie Frecon
Kay Fredericks
Heidi Gesell and
John Edgerton III
GMAC Rescap
Janel Goff
Goff Group
Sheila and Tim Gothmann
Joanne Green
Susan Hill Gross
Nancy Gruver and Joe Kelly
Elizabeth Hannaford
Mark and Kate Hanson
Lynne Hardey
Duchess Harris
Gayle Hayhurst
Hazelden
Mary Ellen Hennen
Jeffrey Slocum &
Associates, Inc.
Carol McGee Johnson
Katharine Kelly
KeyStone Search
Laura Kinkead and
Richard Neuner
KLB Financial
Mary Kloehn
Ruth Lane
Little & Company
Harriet Ludwick
Prisca and George Lupambo
Sida Ly-Xiong
Dusty and George Mairs
Siri and Bob Marshall
Catherine McBride
McElrath Foundation
Katherine and
Timothy McGinley
Sandra Morris
Joan Moser
Frances Naftalin
Robin Nelson
Gail Nordhaus
April Oertwig
Ellen Phelps
Patricia Ploetz
Polish Your Star, LLC
Prouty Project
Joyce Prudden and
Michael Shoop
RBC Dain Rauscher
RBC Dain Rauscher Foundation
Teri and Paul Richardson
Roszak Financial, PLLC
Ann Ryan
Terry Saario and
Leland Lynch
Pat Samuel
Patricia Bratnober Saunders
Anna Schaefer
Jean Schlemmer
Dorothy Skobba
Stablish Foundation
State Farm Insurance
Mrs. Irene Steiner
Evelyn Swenson
Thomson West
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
Karen Trouba
U.S. Trust Company
Maxine Wallin
Wenda Weekes Moore
Pamela Weisdorf
Wells Fargo Insurance Services
Mary Wong
$500-$999
Anonymous
3M for Womens
Advisory Committee
Jane Blanch
BlueCross BlueShield of
Minnesota
Kim Borton
Business and Professional
Women's Club of Minneapolis
Cincinnatus Inc.
Gloria Contreras Edin
Pam Elliott
Franklin Bank
Paula Gottschalk
Debra Greer
Kao Ly Ilean Her
Diane and John Herman
HLB Tautges Redpath, Ltd.
Michele Jensrud
Art and Martha Kaemmer
Susan Kinder and
David Vealitzek
Littler Mendelson
Foundation, Inc.
Peggy Lucas
Jennifer Martin
Maren Milbert
Pamela Moore
Martha and
Jonathan Morgan
Oppenheimer, Wolff
& Donnelly LLP
Carolyn and Robert Papke
Terese Pritschet
Sharon Rozzi
S&T Office Products, INC.
Susan Sanger
Erika Shatz and
Roxanne Ornelas
Ginger Sisco
Jeffrey and Helene Slocum
Jean Thomson
Edie Thorpe
Donna Thorud
Jane Treston
Carol and Lynn Truesdell
Ruth Usem
Sharon Van De North
and Lee Knight
Whitney Foundation
Jessica Wilson
Deceased
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21. $100-$499
Anonymous (1)
Mary Adamski
Alexander Design Group, Inc.
Nancy Alsop
Wendy Amundson
Anne and
Michael Andreasen
Sandra Antonelli
Connie Ardin
John and Rebecca Arenivar
Deb Bahr-Helgen and
Lee Helgen
Georgia Bailey
Beverly Balos and
Mary Louise Fellows
Ann Bancroft
Deborah Bancroft
Margaret Barrett
Kathleen Baczko
Jasmine Beach-Ferrara
Carol and Tom Beech
Christine Belfrey Johnson
Gail Belvedere
Ruth Ann Benson
Dan Bergeron
Denise Bilbao
Michael and Sally Bosanko
Priscilla Braun
Kelly Bretz
Briggs and Morgan
Ronnie Brooks
Debbie Brown
Elizabeth C. Bryan
Sarah Bryant
Gayle Burdick
Jo Ann Buysse
Maura Cahill
Nancy Cameron and
Edward Seifert
Debra and James Campbell
Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
Alan Carlson
Catherine Carlson
Lois Carlson
Alexina Chai
Karen Chandler
Lillian Clark
Sheba Aldridge Coffey
Community Shares Minnesota
Yvonne Condell
Janet Conn
Susan Crawford
Marilyn Cuneo
Toni D'Eramo
Terrell Daniels
Cynthia Daube
Mary Davidson
Mesha Davis
Mary H. Dayton
Karen Desnick
Glenna Dibrell
Eugenia Dixon
Linda Donaldson
Mary-Carolyn Dorfman
Mary Loomis Dorn
Sharon Drews
Marta Drury
Duke Financial Group, Inc.
Marilynn Dunbar
Maryann and
Robert Eliason
Linda Engberg
Sara Evans
Wendy Evans
Linda Ewing
Gloria Faivre
Kathleen and Bill Farley
Fast Print
Amy Ford Adnersen
Polly Franchot
Sharon Frank
Nicole Fredricks
Bobbie Fredsall
Angela Freeman
Carol Freeman
Nancy Fulton
Patricia Gaarder
Diana Gabriel
Jane Galbraith
Christine Galloway
Susan Gebelein
Cathy and Rick Giertsen
Kathleen Gill
Francie Glickman
Carter Graham
Mary Griesedieck
Katherine Hadley and
Cynthia Fay
Jocey Hale
Janice Hammond
Mary Handke
Teresa A. Hanratty and
Luz Maria Davis
Stephanie Hansen
Sunny Sundal Hansen
Mary Beth Hanson
Miriam Hanson
Alfred and Ingrid
Lenz Harrison
Ellen Hatfield
Alice Hawks
Karen Hawley and
Charlaine Tolkien
Lora Hedin
Marge Helmer
Elayne Hengler
Phillip Henoch
Saanii Hernandez-Mohr
Mary Kay Hicks
Nell Hillsley
Cecily Hines
Mollie Hoben
Anne Hodgson
Margaret Holahan
Kristin and Thomas Holtz
Ruth Howe
Kathryn Hoy
Teresa Hudoba
Dee Dee Hull
Patricia Hummel and
Richard Mammem
Sally Hwang
Qamar Ibrahim
Jeff Coate and
Sylvie Martinez
Elizabeth Jackson
Vanessa Jacobsohn
Suzanne James
Susan Jaqua
Wayne Jennings
Lois Jenson
Wendy Jerome
Linda Jirovec
Sandra Johnson
Ruth Jones
Sally Jorgensen
Phyllis and
Donald Kahn
Gretchen Kelly
Laurie Kienke
Wendy Klager
Kristine Kniefel
Linda Krach
Dianna Krogstad
Sharon Krumme
Teresa Kruse
Maureen
Kucera-Walsh
Carolyn and
Valerian Kuechle
Jean Kummerow
Marleen and
Richard Kurschner
Susan Lacek
Janis Lane-Ewart
Marjorie Larson
Eleanor Layton
Susan Lenfestey
Gwen Lerner
Beryl Levine
Virginia Levy
Theresa Lewis
Llewellyn Linde
Georgia Lindeke
Alice Lloyd and
Jeff Crawford
Marjorie Loeffler
Ann Longfellow
Jessica Looman
Carol Ann Lowinske
Kristen Lund
Marilyn Maloney
Phyllis Maritz
Katie McElrath
Heather McKay
Judith McKloskey
Deborah McKnight
Mary McMillan
Mary McNellis
Helen McNulty
Michele McRae
Susan Melrose
Jeri Meola
Messerli & Kramer Foundation
Camille Meyer
Jill Meyer and Louise Hotka
Alice Mikel
Minesota Women in Marketing
and Communication
Minnesota Women in
Networking
Lois and Keichi Mizuno
Ann Moll
David Moore
LaVonne Moore
Pat Moore
Diane Morehouse
Louise Morgan
Bonnie Mulligan
Margaret Murphy
Karla Myers
Naviate Forward, Inc.
Kimberly Nelson
Kristen Nelson
Lynn Ingrid Nelson
Glen and Marilyn Nelson
Katherine Nevins
Ann Newhall and
Rick Schleuss
Lynn Newman
Kate Nott
Ocel, Heimer &
Associates, Ltd.
Tracey O'Neill Ruzicka
Linda Ojala
Cathryn Olson
Elizabeth Olson
Tonja Orr
Melanie Ounsworth and
Shirley Shimota
PCL Construction
Services, Inc.
Heidi Peterson
Katie Pierson
Sally Pillsbury
Sheila Plunkett
Christina Porter
Catherine Przybylski
Kathryn Purcell
Marni Radcliffe
Susan and Gary Rappaport
Barbara Reichter
Susan and Charles Reinhart
Susan Richey
Megan Roach
Deborah Roesler and
John Kephart
Andrea and James Rubenstein
Trisha Rutter
Barbara W. and
Roy H. Saigo
Stephanie Sarantopoulos
M. Patricia Schaffer and
David Weissbrodt
Kari Schlachtenhaufen
Barbara Schubring and
Molly Morton
Christine Schulze
Judy Schumacher
MaryFrances Schurb
Perry Sheffield
Catherine Shreves
Carolyn Shrewsbury
Sara Spiess
The Spiller L'Chaim Fund
Caroline Stacey
Susan Stacey
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“That they will have full
and equal rights to make
every dream they have
come true.”
– Terra, Twin Cities
HOPES & DREAMS
for Minnesota’s
women & girls

22. Reginald Stanley
Jo-Anne Stately
Susan and John Stedman
Kathy Stennes
Marcia Stephens
Judith Strong
Mary Tambornino
Michelle Theis
Irma Thies
Mary Ida Thomson
Deborah Thorp
Peter Tiffin
Marlo Turcotte
Mary Udseth
Mary Van Evera
Betsy Vinz
Phyllis Wagner
Heidi Walsh
Victoria Wang
Naomi Warshawsky
Ruth and David Waterbury
Kathleen Wedl
Wendy Wehr
Susan Weinberg
Allison Welch
Karin and David Wendt
Lisa Wersal
Beverly Wexler Fink
Kathryn Wilson
Winnidell Wilson
Molly Woehrlin
Sara and Doug Wolff
Gail and Peter Wollan
Elizabeth Wray
$1-$99
Maria Aagesen-Reznecheck
Abeo Consulting Group, LLC
Gail Ahern
Veronica Ahern
Rhonda Ailts
Betty Albitz
Lisa Albrecht and Pat Rouse
Kathryn Alexander
Al Franken for Senate
Lori Allen
Diane Anderson
Donna Anderson
Gary Anderson
Janice and
Lawrence Anderson
Joyce Anderson
Karla Anderson
Julie Andrus
Jo Ann Augdahl
Alison Baker
Joan Banashek
Otto Bang
Linda Bannigan
Jodi Bantley
Barbara Bassett
Nell Batker
Marion Bauer
Walter and Louise Bauer
Sally Baumgartner
Caroline Beckman
Tracy Belanger
Barbara Belew
Shawna Benson
Wendy Blomseth
Patricia Bloodgood
Elizabeth Blue
Body One Wellness, LLC
Booth Law, LLC
Lisa Borelli
Margaret Bosshardt
Susan Boutwell
Sharon Bowman
Sarah Bratnober
Virginia and Rawley Brodeen
Joanna Brofman
Linda Brooks Panone
Kate Brown
Eileen Bujold
Kathleen Burek
Regina Burkhart
Joy Bussert
Leslie Butler
Cynthia Cairney
Mary and Charles Carlsen
Constance Carlson
Karen Carlson
Linda Carr
Casa de Esperanza
Jodi Cedarleaf
Marilou Cheple
Rachel and
Donald Christensen
Marlys Chutich
Josie Cimbura
Debra Cimino
Jean Clarke
Rusty Cohen
Beverly Conerton
Marie Conway
Melissa Conway
Karen Coons
Margie Cooper
Nancy Cosgriff
Laurie Coyle
Julia Craig
LaVonne Craig
Jessica Cripps
Jan Cronquist
Helen Crosson
Christine Custer
Piyali Nath Dalal
Cheryl Davis
Jean Davis
Patricia Davis
Kathy Davis Graves
Amanda Decker-Barnhouse
Anna Deneui
Verona Devine Burton
Marilyn Dietrich
Liz Brenner Dodson
Sara Doure
Carol Russell Drinkard
Colleen Drum
William Drury
Sandra Duel
Jennifer Duesman
Mary Duroche
Eagan Shirt Werks
Edgestone Consulting, INC.
Mary Eggen
Barbara Ego
Christy Eichers
Kay Elliasen
Kathi Ellis
Sarah Emery
Linda Engebretson
Judith Engel
Bonnie Esposito
Phyllis Fairman
Elizabeth Feckter
Florence Felknor
Suzanne Finbraaten
Carmen Fish
Susan Fitzke
Carroll Flaten
Judite Fluger
Carol and Richard Flynn
Fogel Law Offices PA
Kathryn Foley
Holly Folkers
D. Forsberg
Scherrie Ann Foster
Julie Free Heart
Patricia Frey
Rosemary Froehle
Sheila Fuchs
Janine Fugate
Mary Lou Fuller
Lynn Galle
Laura Garbe
D. J. Gascoigne
Judy Gaviser
Linda Gawthrop
Melissa Gennert
Cynthia Gilbertson
Susan Gillespie
Karen and Howard Gochberg
Jacqueline Gohdes
Adele Gorrilla
Diane Gray
Emily Green
D. Carol Grim
Christa Groshek
Gail Gruis
Sylvia Gunderson
Virginia Gustafson
Julie Guth
Adrienne Gutierrez
Anne Haddad
Kathryn Hanna
Mildred Hanson
Suzanne Hargis
Diana Harms
Jean Haverstock
Terri and Jack Hawthorne
Ruth Hayden
Dawn Hayes
Jennifer Hedican
Jelan Heidelberg
Catherine Heilman
Heilman & Schlotthauer, PLLC
Kelly Heirigs
Kathleen Heisler
Mary Hennies
Dorothy Hentges
Sharon Heywood
Karen Hillerman
Lisa Hinz
Lisa Hlavacek
Lisa Hoch
Suzanne Hodder
Marilyn Hoegemeyer
Katy Holden
Roseanne Hope
Diana Horrigan
Coral Houle
Kathryn Houston
Cheryl Hovik
Sarah Howard
Carolyn Howland
Jonda Hughes
Patricia Hughes Baumer
Laurel Kay Humphreys
Mary Hunter
Thelma Hunter
Mildred Huttenmaier
Ange Hwang
Beth Hynes-Ciernia
Lillian Indeck
In Food Marketing & Design
Jo Irons
Dawn Isackson
Julia Jaakola
Jacqueline Jacob
Jeanne Jacobs
Karen Jacobson
Julie Janckila
Carrie Jennings
Abby Jensen
Herdis Jensen
Kari Jensen Thomas
Alice Johnson
Elizabeth E. Johnson
Elizabeth G. Johnson
Emily Johnson
Jenelle Johnson
June Johnson
Leann Johnson
Marion Johnson and
Julie Dereschuk
Jan Jones
Lisa Jones
Kathe Jorgenson
Jostens Inc.
Anita Juntti
Mary Jo Kaiser
20
HOPES & DREAMS
for Minnesota’s
women & girls
“That they are no longer
defined by the media or by
history, but by the legacy
they leave behind.”
– Jake, Grand Rapids

23. David Kane
Linda Kaner
Keith Kapphahn
Katherine Kardell
Sandra Karnowski
Michael Kazemek
Ann Kemske
Beth Kennedy
Lynda Kern
Judith Kim and Gary Larson
Lindsay King
Sheila Kiscaden
Lena Kishaba
Vicki Klasell
Ann Kline
Bonne Kluge
Thomas and Lona Kluge
Chrstine Kobold
Phoebe Kohman
Frances Kolb
Kathryn Kopp Adam and
Mark Adam
Lynda Koren
Luanne Koskinen
Carol Kraft
Joanne Kuehl
Kathy Kuempel
Charlotte Kunkel
Patricia Lamb
Anna Mae Lambert
Louann Lanning
Ruth Ann Larson
Linda Lawrence
Patricia Lawrence
Donald Layton
Don and Marlyce Lee
Kathryn and Theodore Lee
Angela Leigh
Diane Leigh and
Janet Hamilton
Leonard, Street and Deinard
Anne Lewis
Audrey Lien
Lifeshine Coaching and
Consulting
Lifescience Alley
Beth Lilja
Lindquist & Vennum
Sharon Link
Theresa Lippert
Jill Lloyd
C. Lynn Lockhart
Craig Luedemann and
Mary Robischon
Anthony Lund
Maribeth Lundeen
Raymond Lundquist
John and Barbara Lynskey
Kathy Magnuson
Constance Mahler
Glenn Mahler
Rita Majerle
Marie Maland
Julie Mall
Elizabeth Malmberg
Judith Malmo
Howard Malmon
Sara Marck and
Duncan Odegard
Jennifer McCord
Rachel McDonough
Kathleen McLaughlin and
Daryl Skobba
Megan McRae-Hastings
Katherine Meerse and
David Woodard
Roberta and Robert Megard
Eric Meininger
Elaine Melby-Moen
Maria Menendez
Elizabeth Merz
Margaret Meyer
Linda Miller
Barbara Milon
The Minikahda Club
Catherine Misko
Tracey Mittelstadt
Jean Moede
Lynn Moline
Forrest Moore
Janie Moore
Mrs. Earl Mosiman
Amy Muehlbauer
Dorothy Muffett
Carol Mulligan
Audrey Nelson
Conrad Nelson
Muriel and Norwood Nelson
Nicole Joy Nelson Hines
Vicki Nelson-Luhm
Audra Newell
Ralph Nordstrom
Ferne Noreen
Wendy Noren
Grace Norris
Deborah Novak
Catherine O'Brien
Claire Olson
Viann Olson
Charles and Margaret Opp
Joyce and Martin Orbuch
Laverne Orwoll
Elizabeth Ozmon
Mary Pagnucco
Jeri Parkin
Janet Parta
Shirley Pearl
Erica Pearson
Mary Jean Pearson
Peg Peck Chapman
Patricia Pedersen
Polly Penney
People Incorporated
Patricia Peschman
Elise Peters
Merrell Peters
Jean Petersen
Shirley Pettis
Lee Pitman
Maureen Plitzuweit
Anna Prakash
Beverly Propes
Roberta Radford
Kathryn Reali
Red Ladder, Inc.
Barbara Renshaw
Susan Rheingans
Arlene Roehl
Connie Roehrich
Sheila Ronning
Barbara A. Rose and
Charles O. Lentz
Marilyn Rossman
Linda Roszak
Claire Ruebeck
Debra Ruegg
Ann Ruschy
Anne Russell
Sandra D. Sandell and
Clayton F. Giese
Ann Sargent
Katherine Sasseville
Dorothy Sauber
Jodie Schafer
Bonnie Schanzenbach
Robin Schirmer
Karen Schlotthauer
Christine Schmidt
Lynn Schmidtke
Barbara Schmiechen
Patricia Schulte
Virginia Schumacher
Judith Burns Schuster
Kirsten Schwichtenberg
Belle Scott
Diana Lynn Scott and
Thomas H. Scott
Janice Selness
Joe Selvaggio
Stacy Senden
Melanie Shepard and
Alan Netland
Lisa Shoemaker
Sasha Shonoiki
Shunu Shrestha
Bernice Sisson
Theodore Sitz
Marilyn Small
Carolyn Smallwood
Joan Smith
Susannah Smith and
Matt Sobek
Bea and
Robert Sorenson
John Spillane
Spoken Impact
Sandra Sponem
Jeanne Stadick
Jane Sternberg
Melissa Stone
Strategic Financial,
Inc.
Susan Strauss
Nicole Stretar
Dorothy Sunne
Sandra Swami
Dorothy L. Joy
Swanson
Bertha Jean
Swisher
Todd Sylvester
Valerie Tanner
Carol Thompson
Erin Thompson
Carol Tillitt
Terri Tilotta
Mary Toberman
Maile Topliff
Michael Trepkowski
Janet Tschida
Mildred Turner
Janis Tweedy
Twin Cities Tosca
Margaret and
Robert Twiton
Patricia Vauk
Jean Velleu
Joyce Vincent
M. Wacker
Janeth Walker
Bethmarie Ward
Joan Warner
Patricia and
Ralph Watkins
Dennis Watson
Kathleen Watson
Esther Wattenberg
Sarah Watters
Bonnie Wedel
Deborah Weiss
Wells Fargo Foundation
Margaret Wenner
Ellen Wersan
Darrell and Judith Westby
Ardis Wexler
Darlene White
White Space Architecture
Cathy Whitman-Spear
Karen Wick
Barbara Butts Williams
Marguerite Wilson
Maureen Wilson
Sara and Robert Wolf
Elaine Wolter
Barbara Woodhead
Kristine Wyant
Natalie Wyatt-Brown
Joanne Youngstrom
Gayle Zabel
Karen Zellner
21
“In my
[Native American]
community, that women
can support each other,
invoke our strengths,
and create real change
in the world.”
– LeAnn, Duluth
HOPES & DREAMS
for Minnesota’s
women & girls

24. The Women’s Foundation of Minnesota is dedicated to ensuring the accuracy of our donor information.
To update or correct donor information, please contact Amy at 612-236-1806 or amy@wfmn.org.
22
GIFTS IN MEMORY
OF JANET B. WATSON
Lori Allen
Jean Backlund
Kathleen Baczko
Deborah Bancroft
Jasmine Beach-Ferrara
Dan Bergeron
Michael and Sally Bosanko
Briggs and Morgan
Debra and James Campbell
Mary and Charles Carlsen
Community Shares Minnesota
Melissa Conway
Amy Ford Andersen
D. Forsberg
Cathy and Rick Giertsen
Susan Gross
Carol and Bud Hayden
Kristin and Thoams Holtz
Coral Houle
Sandra Johnson
Ann Kemske
Bonne Kluge
Thomas and Lona Kluge
Ruth Ann Larson
Linda Lawrence
Anthony Lund
Constnace Mahler
Glenn Mahler
Helen McNulty
The Minikahda Club
Lee and John Roper-Batker
Nancy Slaughter
Susan and Jon Stedman
Maxine Wallin
Joan Warner
Kathleen Wedl
Karin and David Wendy
Sara and Robert Wolf
Barbara Woodhead
GIFTS IN MEMORY
Luella Gascoigne
D. Gascoigne
Meredith Horne
Phyllis Maritz
Molly Ivins
Ann Lonstein
Ellen Kapphahn
Keith Kapphahn
Kari Ann Koskinen
Luanne Koskinen
Hank Kristal
Connie Barry
Alice Rose Rogers
Margaret Barrett
Barbara J. Stuhler
Jane West
Helen Williams
Judy Gaviser
GIFTS IN HONOR
Barb Abrahamson
Linda Jirovec
Jenny Abrahamson
Linda Jirovec
Terry Baker
Romaine Scharlemann
Dorothy Ciernia
Beth Hynes-Ciernia
Judy Clark
Lillian Clark
Andrea Earnest
Barbara Schmiechen
Margaret Ellis
Kathi Ellis
Nancy Elverum
Sarah Emery
Margaret Foster
Sherrie Foster
Sara Fulton
Nancy Fulton
Kathryn Glessing
Sarah Cox
Nancy Gruver
Joe Kelly
Elizabeth Hoch
Lisa Hoch
Katy Holden
Dorothy Skobba
Mary Ann Hotka
Jill Meyer and Louise Hotka
Jeanne Hynes
Beth Hynes-Ciernia
Janet Jennings
Carrie Jennings
DeeDee Jirovec
Linda Jirovec
Janet Jirovec
Linda Jirovec
Sue Jubert
Linda Jirovec
Celine Kunkel
Charlotte Kunkel
Marleen and Richard Kurschner
Lee and John Roper-Batker
Antoinette Lippert
Theresa Lippert
Kim Lund
Sarah Farley and Betty Tisel
Jean Marck
Sara Marck
Jacqueline Sage Maren
Kay Harris
Jan Marlin
Allison Welch
Kathleen McLaughlin
Dorothy Skobba
Michele McRae
Megan McRae-Hastings
Carol Meissner
Jo Ann Augdahl
Peggy Meyer
Jill Meyer and Louise Hotka
Shannon Monahan
Linda Jirovec
Linda Murchison
Harriet Spencer
Kim Nelson
Janel Goff
Kathleen Parrish
Harriet Spencer
Elizabeth Peters
Merrell Peters
Elizabeth Plitzuweit
Maureen Plitzuweit
Verna Cornelia Price
Janel Goff
Erica Quist
Linda Jirovec
Jane Ransom
Patricia Saunders
Martha Rast
Ruth Usem
Laura Roehl
Linda Jirovec
Dorothy Russell
Anne Russell
Beth Rutledge
Mary Lou Fuller
Helen Scharlemann
Romaine Scharlemann
Anne Hedberg Schmiechen
Barbara Schmiechen
Rena Smilkstein
Jonda Hughes
Polly Spencer
Harriet Spencer
Valerie Spencer
Harriet Spencer
Belva Sunne
Dorothy Sunne
Renee Usem
Ruth Usem
Char Weinand
Linda Jirovec
Rose Weinberg
Susan Weinberg
Betsy Weiner
Ruth Usem
Micky Wherley
Katherine McGinley
Nate Wolf
Kay Harris
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Grayce Belvedere Young | Chair
President, Organizational
Performance, The Prouty
Project
Sheba Coffey | Vice Chair
Sales Director
Joanne Green | Treasurer
Director, Corporate Finance
Training, UnitedHealth Group
Kao Ly Ilean Her | Secretary
Executive Director, Council on
Asian-Pacific Minnesotans
Kim Borton,
Assistant Director, Public and
Nonprofit Leadership Center,
Humphrey Institute of Public
Affairs
Julia Classen,
President, Aurora
Consulting, Inc.
Gloria Contreras Edin,
Executive Director, Centro
Legal, Inc.
Barbara Forster,
Community Volunteer
Saanii Hernandez-Mohr,
Midwest Regional Program
Manager, Hispanics in
Philanthropy
Joan Higinbotham,
Community Volunteer
Wilhelmina Holder,
Executive Director,
Women’s Initiative for Self
Empowerment (WISE), Inc.
Jan Malcolm,
CEO, Courage Center
Tara Mason,
Director, White Earth Human
Services
Catherine McBride,
Principal, Vincent &
McBride, Inc.

25. Melanie Peterson-Hickey,
Senior Research
Scientist, Center for
Health Statistics,
MN Dept. of Health
Teresa Richardson,
Director, Cash & Pension
Investments, Northwest
Airlines, Inc.
Valerie Spencer,
Community Volunteer
Anne Bryant Wight,
Community Volunteer
Mary Wong,
Vice President, Fixed
Income Banking, RBC
Capital Markets
PRESIDENT’S
ADVISORS
Mary Lee Dayton
Karen Diver
Blanche Hawkins
Carol Hayden
Kristine Maritz
Wenda Weekes Moore
Senator Mee Moua
STAFF
Sheila Carrington,
Development
Assistant Fellow
Erin Ceynar,
Assistant
Development Director
Nicole Cooper,
Program Intern
Amy Cram Helwich,
Development Director
Charlotte Flowers,
Program Officer
Sheila Gothmann,
Finance and
Operations Director
Mary Beth Hanson,
Communications
Director
Carol McGee Johnson,
Vice President of
Community Philanthropy
& Programs
Sida Ly-Xiong,
Reatha Clark King
Fellow/Associate
Director of Evaluation
and Research
April Oertwig,
Executive Assistant
Lee Roper-Batker,
President & CEO
Romaine Scharlemann,
Senior Gift Planner
Dorothy Skobba,
Development
Manager
Heidi Walsh,
Office Manager
Terry Williams,
Senior Gifts Officer
FELLOWS/INTERNS
Development Fellows
Sheila Carrington
Shunu Shrestha
Reatha Clark King
Fellow
Sida Ly-Xiong
Diversity Interns
Nicole Cooper
Kristina Thao
Christine Belfrey
Johnson
Interns
Nicole Cooper
Selena Moon
Monica Qiu
Emily Saunoi-Sandgren
(l-r, front) Sida Ly-Xiong, Romaine Scharlemann, Lee Roper-Batker,
Carol McGee Johnson, Dorothy Skobba, Nicole Cooper. (l-r, back)
Mary Beth Hanson, April Oertwig, Sheila Gothmann, Sheila Carrington,
Heidi Walsh, Amy Cram Helwich, Erin Ceynar, Terry Williams,
Selena Moon. (Not pictured: Charlotte Flowers.)
WOMEN’S FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA
BOARD, STAFF, COMMITTEES
23
(l-r, front) Mary Wong, Sheba Coffey, Lee Roper-Batker,
Grayce Belvedere Young, Joanne Green, Anne Bryant Wight.
(l-r, back) Kao Ly Ilean Her, Catherine McBride, Julia Classen,
Saanii Hernandez-Mohr, Barbara Forster, Valerie Spencer,
Melanie Peterson-Hickey, Joan Higinbotham, Gloria Contreras Edin.
(Not pictured: Kim Borton, Wilhelmina Holder, Jan Malcolm,
Tara Mason, Teresa Richardson.)
COMMITTEES
FINANCE
Joanne Green |
Chair
Diana Carter
Brenda Coulter
Amy Cram Helwich
Denise Doll-Kiefer
Pauline Fofana
Sheila Gothmann
Mary Ellen Hennen
Katy Kopp-Adam
Lee Roper-Batker
Anna Schaefer
Jane Treston
Heidi Walsh
Maureen Wilson
Mary Wong
Fund>>Forward
COMPREHENSIVE
CAMPAIGN
Valerie Spencer |
Campaign Chair
Mary Lee Dayton |
Honorary Co-Chair
WendaWeekes
Moore | Honorary
Co-Chair
Barbara Forster |
Leadership Gifts
Kathi Austin Mahle
Connie Barry
Amy Cram Helwich
Karla Ekdahl
Betty Grant
Carol McGee Johnson
Reatha Clark King
Karen Leonard
Ann Lonstein
April Oertwig
Ellen Phelps
Lee Roper-Batker
Romaine
Scharlemann
Dorothy Skobba
Emily Anne Tuttle
Anne Bryant Wight
Terry Williams
girlsBEST
ADVISORY
Grayce Belvedere
Young | Chair
Shante Carter
Amy Cram Helwich
Charlotte Flowers
Wilhelmina Holder
Ange Hwang
Lorrie Janatopolous
Carol McGee Johnson
Andrea Larson
Kerrison
Caroline Kupchella*
Sida Ly-Xiong
Kristine Maritz
Karen McElrath
Katie McElrath*
Eliza Messinger*
Claire Muller*
Rachel Amma Neil*
Cammy Nelson*
Marilyn Ochoa*
Tracey O'Neill
Ruzicka
Melanie Peterson-
Hickey
Rosaura Ramos*
Lee Roper-Batker
Beth Rutledge
Alicia Smith
Elon Smith*
Sarah Stinson
GOVERNANCE
Julia Classen |
Chair
Grayce Belvedere Young
Alexina Chai
Sheila Gothmann
Mary Ellen Hennen
Carol McGee Johnson
Mary Kloehn
Tara Mason
Teresa Obrero
April Oertwig
Lee Roper-Batker
INVESTMENT
Catherine McBride |
Chair
Jennifer Fogg
Sheila Gothmann
Becky Klevan
Kay Kramer
April Oertwig
Elizabeth Olson
Teresa Richardson
Lee Roper-Batker
Cindy Tupy
PROFESSIONAL
ADVISORS
Lynne Hardey |
Chair
Mary Adamski
Nancy Buttweiler
Eileen Day
Ann Kirchner
Sharon Krumme
Ellyn Marell
Rachel McDonough
Lee Roper-Batker
Romaine
Scharlemann
Terry Williams
RESEARCH,
EDUCATION &
PUBLIC POLICY
Kim Borton | Chair
Sally Anaya-Boyer
Margaret Boyer
Amy Brenengen
Ipyana Critton
Stephanie Devitt
Mary Beth Hanson
Kao Ly Ilean Her
Joan Higinbotham
Qamar Ibrahim
Liz Johnson
Carol McGee Johnson
Sida Ly-Xiong
Jan Malcolm
Kathleen Murphy
April Oertwig
Lee Roper-Batker
Susan Segal
Bharti Wahi
SOCIAL CHANGE
FUND
Gloria Contreras
Edin | Chair
Sheba Coffey | Vice
Chair
Kim Borton
Julia Classen
Charlotte Flowers
Sheila Gothmann
Saanii Hernandez-
Mohr
Sonia Hohnadel
Carol McGee Johnson
Sida Ly-Xiong
Dawn Peterson
Lee Roper-Batker
Pat Samuel
Lupe Serrano
Sara Spiess
Jo-Anne Stately
Lonna Stevens
April Sutor
Heidi Walsh
Pamela Weisdorf
Kayva Yang
* Girl Member
Board Member in brown
Staff Member italicized

26. 24
FINANCIALS
Summarized Financial Information
Statements of Financial Position 3/31/2008 3/31/2007
Assets
Cash 549,646 243,381
Prepaid Expenses 33,076 42,180
Contributions Receivable 1,882,460 1,548,088
Property & Equipment, Net 63,496 81,728
Long-Term Investments 13,050,318 11,846,169
Employee Receivables 6,302 6,302
Beneficial Interest in Trust 60,329 0
Contributions and Pledges Receivable - Long-Term, Net 1,675,321 2,015,407
Total Assets 17,320,948 15,783,255
Liabilities and Net Assets
Accounts Payable 62,950 39,481
Accrued Expenses 41,098 46,400
Grants Payable 18,935 45,500
Capital Lease Payable 0 14,214
Total Liabilities 122,983 145,595
Unrestricted, Including
Board Designated 2,356,876 3,293,964
Temporarily Restricted 1,911,236 1,710,812
Permanently Restricted 12,929,853 10,632,884
Total Net Assets 17,197,965 15,637,660
Total Liabilities and Net Assets 17,320,948 15,783,255
Statements of Activities
Temporarily Permanently 3/31/2008 3/31/2007
Support and Revenue Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total Total
Grants and Contributions 825,109 887,900 2,326,704 4,039,713 2,393,673
Other Income 86,364 86,364 56,455
Investment Income, Net -100,777 -100,777 1,003,355
Net Assets Released from Restrictions 637,476 -637,476 0 0 0
Net Asset Transfers 79,735 -50,000 -29,735 0 0
Total Support and Revenue 1,527,907 200,424 2,296,969 4,025,300 3,453,483
Expenses
Grants, Research, Public Education & Convening 1,903,903 1,903,903 1,795,105
Administration 130,935 130,935 150,588
Fundraising Expenses 430,157 430,157 336,893
Total Expenses 2,464,995 2,464,995 2,282,586
Change in Net Assets -937,088 200,424 2,296,969 1,560,305 1,170,897
Net Assets, Beginning of Year 3,293,964 1,710,812 10,632,884 15,637,660 14,466,763
Net Assets, End of Year 2,356,876 1,911,236 12,929,853 17,197,965 15,637,660
The above financial information is summarized from our records. To receive a copy of our audited financial statement,
please call Erin at the Women's Foundation of Minnesota at 612-337-5010.

27. HOPES & DREAMS
for Minnesota’s
women & girls
“Thattheyexperiencewholenessby
recognizingtheirownvalue,well
outsideofsocietalexpectations.”
– Maureen, (left) Moorhead
“That they have equal voice in all
decision making.”
– Deb, (right) Moorhead

28. MI SSION
The Women’s Foundation of Minnesota
champions economic,
political and social equality for
women and girls through
fundraising, grantmaking, research
and public advocacy.
155 FIFTH AVENUE S., SUITE 500 MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55401-2626 612.337.5010 www.wfmn.org