June 5, 2015

The Women's Fund of the Capital Region was the charity partner of KeyBank at the Key4Women 2015 Forum. KeyCorp Chairman and CEO Beth Mooney shared the lessons she learned as she built her career to become the first woman CEO of a top 20 U.S. bank.

Here are some items from her speech:

• Beth advised her listeners to think of their eventual legacy when they start a new job.
• She shared something she learned at Harvard's class for new CEOs: If you don't like change, you're going to hate extinction.
• She informed her listeners that women-owned businesses are the fastest growing segment of the economy.

May 30, 2015

The Women's Fund of the Capital Region organized a team of walkers to participate in the annual Freihofer's Community Walk on Saturday, May 30.

Thank you to our dedicated walkers (from left): Elaine Bair, Kathy Capel, Doris Chow and Megan Allen (holding her son Jack). Thank you also to everyone who donated in support of our education initiative, helping to raise $730!!

Spring 2015

The Women's Fund in partnership with SCCC will be presenting two workshops for students and faculty. Two of our scholship winners at SCCC, Emily and Emilee, are helping in setting up these workshops:

March 26 at 5pm: Communicate Effectively
April 8 at 5pm: Networking

Both workshops will be held in the Begley Library Conference Center Room.

March 19, 2015

We appreciate all those of you who came to this event.

Members of the Steering Committee, Amy Clinton, Madeline Connolly, Paula Marshman and Tricia Tauss, spoke about the history of the Women's Fund as well as our current activities, including the upcoming mentoring workshops at Schenectady County Community College.

January 2015

The Aesthetics Science Institute of Latham, NY 12110 generously donated 50% of all services performed during the month of January to The Women's Fund of The Capital Region. A check for $1,856.36 was presented to the WF Steering Committee by Michelle D'Allaird-Brenner.