SAN ANTONIO (ABP) — Global Women established its first endowment, created a funding plan for its projects and adopted next year’s projects at a recent board meeting.
Gathering in San Antonio, board members established an endowment to ensure the future of an organization that seeks to minister to oppressed and marginalized women around the world. They also determined to earmark 40 percent of Global Women’s undesignated receipts to fund several projects in 2009, and voted to support the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
The ministry will focus on “creating global friendships among women for shared learning and service while meeting needs of women in Afghanistan, Burma (Myanmar), Central Asia, Iran, Moldova and Thailand, among refugees in the United States and through training for emerging Latina leaders,” according to a press release.
Because directors recognized that the Millennium Development Goals parallel Global Women’s core values and purpose, they voted to affirm them.
The eight U.N. goals include eradicating extreme poverty and hunger; achieving universal primary education; promoting gender equality and empowering women; reducing child mortality; improving maternal health; combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases; ensuring environmental sustainability; and developing a global development partnership by 2015.
“We stopped and looked and realized that this is what we do, this is who we are, this is what we stand for,” noted Trudy Johnson, Global Women’s director of development, by phone Sept. 17.
Also at the meeting, board members elected Lita Sample, a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field representative in California, as president; Nell Lockhart of Kirkwood, Mo., as vice president; Ann Wilson of Maryville, Tenn., as secretary; and Martha Isom of Birmingham, Ala., as treasurer in 2009.
Sample will assume the president’s post from current president Deniese Dillon, who has served on the board since 2003 and must rotate off in January.
In addition, Laura Savage-Rains, Nomie Derani and Melissa Ward were elected as directors.
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