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Washington Women In Need agency wins
Bellevue Chamber of Commerce’s Nonprofit/Impact award
A year ago, Deborah Cushing had never heard of Washington Women In Need (WWIN). Then a recruiter contacted her about the agency’s vacant executive director position. Now Cushing is running the low-profile but high-impact organization. “I love this job,” said Cushing.
Founded in 1992, the Bellevue non-profit helps low-income women improve their lives by supporting their educational and health care needs. During the agency’s current fiscal year, it will award more than $740,000 in grants to over 300 women statewide.
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Here's to the good guys - and count among them the 1,100 people who showed up for the annual Washington Women In Need spring luncheon in Bellevue last Wednesday.
By the time they were done, they'd raised $570,000 for the organization, which provides funds for education, medical insurance and health services for low-income women trying to get back on their feet. That's a record both in terms of attendance and fundraising for WWIN.
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Washington Women in Need raised $253,000 at Wednesday's
12th annual spring luncheon at the Meydenbauer Center.
Women in Need provides education and health-care assistance
to low-income women. The record proceeds were donated by the 800 people
who attended the event. Founder Julia Pritt pays the nonprofit agency's operating
expenses, so all of the money donated will assist clients.
Seattle
Times, 4/30/2005
Washington
Women In Need (WWIN), a local non-profit that pays for
dental services, mental health counseling, insurance
premiums and education for poor women, recently helped
its 3000th client obtain much-needed dental work.
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The
story behind Julia Pritt’s nonprofit agency, Washington
Women in Need (WWIN), comes out in bits and pieces,
slowly, without loud whistles and bells. A successful
businesswoman who has raised three children, Pritt and
her husband started Attachmate in 1982, a corporation
that designs management software and services for major
businesses and government agencies. A decade later,
while she was in her late fifties, Pritt experienced
several life-altering changes…
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Washington
Women in Need: Helping women help themselves. Debra
Rubens felt like she'd hit bottom in 1994. The Mercer
Island woman had just gone through a divorce, and was
determined to stay on the Island. But after six years
of raising her children at home, she had few marketable
skills…
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Starla Adams traces the bottom of her downward spiral
to the day she received a phone call from Washington
Women in Need. With help from a two-year WIN education
grant, she obtained her associate's degree this winter,
17 years after receiving a high-school-equivalency diploma.
"There was the massive sense of completion after a long,
hard struggle," she says…
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Divorce
wasn't the only trauma Debra Rubens faced in 1994. The
Mercer Island resident was suddenly a single parent
of two sons, ages 3 and 7. She had no money, no marketable
skills and no self-esteem...
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2285 116th Avenue NE, Suite 100, Bellevue, WA 98004
Phone: 425-451-8838. Toll Free: 888-440-WWIN
Email: wwininfo@wawomeninneed.org
webmaster@wawomeninneed.org
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