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- WiNGS Welcomes 12 Local Professionals to Board of Directors
Please help us welcome 12 new members to the WiNGS Board of Directors. These professionals bring expertise from the financial, healthcare, legal and real estate industries, among others. They join with 18 existing members where they will provide leadership and expertise to drive our mission forward. New members will serve a 2-year term through June ... Read More - WiNGS Mentors & Allies Awards Luncheon Raised $230,000 for Programs Helping Women
WiNGS, a nonprofit that empowers women, fights poverty and impacts generations, welcomed 400 guests to its Mentors & Allies Awards Luncheon at the Hyatt Regency Dallas on May 9. The annual event honors individuals and corporations for their commitment to helping women in our community. The 2018 honorees included Salah Boukadoum, Sunny Nunan and Mary ... Read More - WiNGS 2018 Mentors & Allies Awards Luncheon Welcomes Business Powerhouse Elaine Agather as Keynote Speaker
WiNGS, a nonprofit organization that provides women the tools and resources to become strong mothers, successful in the workplace and financially secure, will host the Mentors & Allies Awards Luncheon at the Hyatt Regency Dallas on May 9, 2018. The annual event recognizes individuals and companies whose leadership and commitment positively impact women. Elaine Agather, Chairman ... Read More - Mentors & Allies Raises $250,000 to Help Women Lift Themselves Out of Poverty
WiNGS, a nonprofit organization that helps Dallas women lift themselves out of poverty, hosted its Annual Mentors & Allies Awards Luncheon at the Omni Dallas Hotel on May 1. The Mentors & Allies Awards recognize women, men and companies whose leadership and commitment positively impact women. The fundraising and awards event raised $250,000 for programs ... Read More - WiNGS and Women’s Business Council – Southwest Announce Partnership Project for Women
WiNGS Dallas, a non-profit offering programs to help women lead a better life, and the Women’s Business Council – Southwest (WBCS), the leading certification and networking organization for women business owners in the southwest region, announce a partnership project to showcase the power of women helping women in the DFW metroplex. The project will help ... Read More - WiNGS Enterprise Showcase highlights female entrepreneurs
PRESS RELEASE WiNGS Enterprise Showcase highlights female entrepreneurs Media Contact: Jennifer Ware 214.584.2314 jware@wingsdallas.org On Wednesday, November 16, WiNGS, a nonprofit organization that helps Dallas women lift themselves out of poverty, will host its second annual Enterprise Showcase at the WiNGS Center at Ebby’s Place. The Showcase will feature business concept presentations from three Women’s Enterprise Center graduates, and feedback from ... Read More - WiNGS presents Financial Coaching Model at national conference
In September, six members of the WiNGS team joined 1,200 other advocates, policymakers and academics in Washington, D.C. at the 2016 Assets Learning Conference, sponsored by CFED (the Corporation for Enterprise Development). The conference focused on efforts to address growing wealth inequality and help all families achieve economic opportunity, and featured sessions on subjects ranging ... Read More - Mentors & Allies Press Release
PRESS RELEASE WiNGS Mentors & Allies Awards Luncheon honors leaders who support Dallas women Media Contact: Jennifer Ware 214.584.2314 jware@wingsdallas.org On Tuesday, April 12, WiNGS, a nonprofit organization that helps Dallas women lift themselves out of poverty, hosted its Mentors & Allies Awards luncheon at the Fairmont Dallas Hotel. This year’s event included a keynote speech from Nina Vaca, Chairman and ... Read More
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Shelter, food, medicine. Now tell your child which one of these they will get today. WiNGS works to empower women, fight poverty and impact generations. Are you ready to join the movement? Visit wingsdallas.org/ to learn more! #TexasTributes #NTXFord #BuiltFordTough #GoFurther #EmpowerWomen
youtu.be/7GBY2BaehDANorth Texas Ford Dealers present WiNGS. They offer robust solutions for empowering women to lift themselves above poverty and adversity, giving women the too...
We wanted to ensure you saw this segment on CBS News this weekend, on a topic that is extremely concerning but can be very much impacted positively by the work of our nurse home visitors. www.cbsnews.com/news/maternal-mortality-an-american-crisis/ #maternalmortality
Maternal mortality: An American crisis
With its rate of maternal deaths increasing, the U.S. is the only industrialized country where young women have a higher risk of dying during pregnancy and childbirth than their mothers did
Volunteers change lives! Please join us as we celebrate WiNGS volunteers – both current and prospective! We are constantly looking for passionate, caring individuals to join us in the fight to break the generational cycle of poverty. Invite your friends, your co-workers, your family!
September 12, 5:30pm - 7:30pm, WiNGS
RSVP to volunteer@wingsdallas.org or click here to learn more: wingsdallas.org/for-partners-volunteers/become-a-volunteer/
Last week our team finished up a 6-week client recruitment project with IDEO.org. They are an extremely smart, inventive, and innovative group of designers who share our passion for improving the lives of people in vulnerable communities. Join the movement! www.wingsdallas.org #povertyfreeDallas
Celebrating our Mayors Intern superstar Valentina. Thanks Wells Fargo for funding our Wings intern. And thanks Mayor Mike Rawlings for personally inviting Valentine, she'd love to meet you again! 🙂 #Smart #WatchOutWorld
Nobody makes it alone - Mentorship can be the key to extraordinary success! Do you have Marketing, Business Finance or HR experience? Would you like to volunteer your time and talent? If so, WiNGS needs YOU! wingsdallas.org/for-partners-volunteers/become-a-volunteer/ or volunteer@wingsdallas.org. #volunteer #EmpowerWomen
Join us for a women's empowerment concert aka Girl's Club: Female voices of Dallas w/Sudie, Lorelei K.+ more! The concert will be held on Friday, Aug. 24th at 7:30pm at the Granada Theater. EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT knocks $2 off tickets and runs through Sunday at midnight. Enter promo code WINGS. Purchase your tickets today: www.prekindle.com/promo/id/25619896897743403
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WiNGS is excited to be featured as North Texas Ford Dealers' #TexasTributes nonprofit who represents the Best in Texas! At WiNGS we empower women, fight poverty and impact generations. Are you ready to join the movement? Visit www.texasfordcares.com/texas-tributes-wings to learn more! #NTXFord #BuiltFordTough #GoFurther #EmpowerWomen
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Together we can empower women, fight poverty and impact generations. Are you ready to join the movement? Texas Tributes is honored to present Wings. Thousands of North Texas women are forced to make decisions between necessities like food, shelter and medicine due to their financial situation. No mother should ever have to make that decision. WiNGS provides women with opportunities to lift themselves above poverty and adversity.
Visit texasfordcares.com/texas-tributes-wings to learn more about our #TexasTributes honoree. #NTXFord #BuiltFordTough #GoFurther #EmpowerWomen #TexasTributes
Celebrating our Women's Enterprise alumni! Do you have a business idea? Join us at WiNGS -- we will provide you with tools to become an independent business owner and grow your assets (for free)! wingsdallas.org/for-women/my-business/
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We are excited to introduce WiNGS Coaching Institute. A local training solution to help you launch or grow your financial coaching services. Register today! wingsdallas.org/training/
Coaching Institute – WiNGS Dallas
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Introducing WiNGS Coaching Institute. A local training solution to help you launch or grow your financial coaching services.Are you good with budgets? Do you love personal finances? We need people like you to volunteer as Financial Coaches! Coaches implement WiNGS Financial Coaching model of goal setting, action planning and provides task accountability. Coaches change lives!
For more info., contact Laura Gray at volunteer@wingsdallas.org, call 214-584-2316 or visit wingsdallas.org/for-partners-volunteers/become-a-volunteer/. #EmpowerWomen #FightPoverty #ImpactGenerations #Volunteer
So excited to partner with IDEO.org whose mission is to improve the lives of people living in poverty through design. They are doing a 6-week pro bono project implementing #humancentereddesign for our members at WiNGS. Get a glimpse inside their innovative minds!
#FightPoverty #IDEOorg
Announcing WiNGS Coaching Institute - Register today!
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Register for Coach Training – WiNGS Dallas
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Want to change lives and create opportunities? WiNGS is hiring! Check out our job openings here: wingsdallas.org/about-us/jobs/
"As a society and a world we need to look at scarcity of resources - and figure out how to fix poverty. No one should be so stressed out about getting food, paying rent, and having basic necessities that their cognitive functioning is impacted!" #EmpowerWomen #FightPoverty #ImpactGenerations
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This is your brain on poverty: 5 facts
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Poverty, the brain, and cognitive functioning - you’ll be surprised at the connection.Join us at the Granada (off Greenville Ave) for a women's empowerment concert aka Girl's Club: Female voices of Dallas w/Sudie, Lorelei K.+ more! The concert will be held on Friday, Aug. 24th at 7:30pm. EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT knocks $2 off tickets and run through Sunday at midnight. Enter promo code WINGS. #WomenHelpingWomen
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We’re here with the Dream Team at their annual auction and raffle event. All proceeds raised benefit WiNGS! We are grateful they chose US as their charity of the year!!! #FightPoverty
Thank you Jeanne Prejeanfor the awesome write-up in MySweetCharity! #WomenHelpingWomen #FightPoverty
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The Dream Team Women's Network is hosting a cocktail, auction, and raffle event on June 20th at Brookhaven Country Club. And guess what?! Proceeds raised benefit WiNGS!
Raffle tickets are $25/each for the chance to win a $1,000 Visa gift card or a 3 night stay at Texas Hill Country lake house. NEED NOT BE PRESENT TO WIN! Purchase your raffle tickets today! #EmpowerWomen #beneficiary www.dreamteamwomensnetwork.com/2018/04/24/2018-annual-event/
We are grateful for these beautiful women, Julie and Booke, who sit on our Board of Directors! They orchestrated a wonderful event tonight to introduce alums from Dallas Leadership to WiNGS. Their dedication to WiNGS and the women we serve is empowering. #EmpowerWomen #FightPoverty
Prevention is key! #ImpactGenerations
Wings is at Voly at Klyde Warren Park! We have a spending by color -game at table #107. We are looking for Financial Coach and facilitators! #volynow
Join WiNGS for a fun day in the park, and learn how YOU can make a difference! The top volunteer festival in Dallas is returning to Klyde Warren Park on Saturday, June 6 at 12 noon! Voly in the Park is a vibrant showcase of nonprofits and volunteerism, with more than 70 nonprofits, hands-on volunteer projects and live entertainment - all to celebrate volunteerism and www.VOLY.org!
Voly | Where your passions and volunteer opportunities click.
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VOLY.org is the premier online volunteer matching program for volunteers and nonprofit organizations.We love celebrating our moms and their babies! Over the weekend, WiNGS Staff hosted a picnic in celebration of our Nurse-Family Partnership mom graduates and currenty enrolled moms. It's a joyous reunion for nurses to see how their moms become the strong moms they are today. Thank you Catering to Love for the delicious food and toys for the kiddos.
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Want to change lives and create opportunities? WiNGS is hiring! Check out our job openings here: wingsdallas.org/about-us/jobs/ #EmpowerWomen
The Mentors & Allies Awards Luncheon was an inspirational, powerful day. Thank you to our supporters! #WomenHelpingWomen
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Thank You Mentors & Allies Supporters!
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If you missed the Mentors & Allies Awards Luncheon last week, check out what WiNGS is doing to change women's lives in Dallas! #WomenHelpingWomen #EmpowerWomen #FightPoverty
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THANK YOU for helping us make the 2018 Mentors & Allies Awards Luncheon a success. We raised $230,000 for WiNGS Nurse-Family Partnership, Finance & Career and Women’s Enterprise programs. Read more: wingsdallas.org/wings-mentors-allies-awards-luncheon-raised-230000-for-programs-helping-women/. Photos compliments of Lisa Stewart Photography.
Being a mother is the most important—and most humbling—job. As we rightly celebrate motherhood, we should give special thanks to the women who are raising children on their own. And let’s vow to do more to support them, every day. #MothersDay #EmpowerWomen
Our amazing CEO, Jennifer Ware, took the stand on stage by presenting how WiNGS catalyzes change in the lives of women in our community. #FightPoverty
We’re here at the Hyatt Regency Dallas for the 11th annual Mentors & Allies Awards Luncheon! Over 400 people are here in support of WiNGS, to empower women, fight poverty and impact generations! POWERFUL!! #WomenHelpingWomen
This week in observance of National #NursesWeek, let us take time to honor and thank our Nurse-Family Partnership team. Our nurses meet with first-time moms through their pregnancies and until their children are 2 years old, developing enduring relationships. Their support helps them take control of their lives, nurture healthy children and build strong families. wingsdallas.org/for-women/my-first-baby/
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This week we participated in the 3-day Closing Summit of the Prime 5/Stand Together program. And this morning, the national group hosted a tour at WiNGS for people in their network. We love sharing the great things we are doing in the community to #FightPoverty! #StandTgthr #EmpowerWomen #ImpactGenerations
Come out to WiNGS and Kroger on Cedar Springs Rd. this Saturday from 10am - 2pm to support our Women’s Enterprise young entrepreneurs & taste some delicious lemonade!! 🍋
Lemonade Day Dallas is a free, fun, experiential learning program that teaches youth how to start, own and operate their own business – a lemonade stand. For more info visit lemonadeday.org/greater-dallas. #LemonadeDayDallas
Don't forget to purchase your raffle tickets! Drawing will be held at the Mentors & Allies Awards Luncheon on May 9th. $100/ticket. NEED NOT BE PRESENT TO WIN! wingsdallas.org/tablesandtickets/ #FightPoverty #EmpowerWomen
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Have you purchased your raffle tickets?
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Such a great party last night! Thank you to our Mentors & Allies Luncheon committee for a nice event, nice food, good vibe. And thanks to everyone who celebrated our sponsors with us. It was so much fun. We love our donors! More pics to come! wingsdallas.org/for-donors/mentors-allies/#EmpowerWomen
#FightPoverty #ImpactGenerations
Have you purchased your tickets? Don't miss powerful stories of women helping women on May 9th at the 11th annual Mentors & Allies Awards Luncheon. Your support will help empower women, fight poverty and impact generations.
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Don't Miss Powerful Stories of Women Helping Women!
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Thank you to our sponsors who have come in to support our annual Mentors & Allies Awards Luncheon! There is still time to join us May 9th, visit wingsdallas.org/for-donors/mentors-allies/ to purchase your tickets today! #EmpowerWomen
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Shelter, food, medicine. Now tell your child which one of these they will get today. WiNGS works to empower women, fight poverty and impact generations. Are you ready to join the movement? Visit wingsdallas.org to learn more! youtu.be/7GBY2BaehDA
We wanted to ensure you saw this segment on CBS News this weekend, on a topic that is extremely concerning but can be very much impacted positively by the work of our nurse home visitors. cbsnews.com/news/maternal-…
WiNGS is hiring a bilingual Financial Coach! The Coach works one-on-one with clients to set financial goals, learn budgeting tools, reduce debt and increase credit, savings and income. Evening and weekend hours required. For more info visit wingsdallas.org/about-us/jobs/ #wearehiring
Volunteers change lives! Please join us 9/12 from 5:30pm - 7:30pm as we celebrate WiNGS volunteers – both current and prospective! Invite your friends, your co-workers, your family! RSVP to volunteer@wingsdallas.org or click here to learn more: wingsdallas.org/for-partners-v… #Volunteer
Last week we finished up a 6-week client recruitment project with @IDEOorg. They are smart, inventive, and innovative group of designers who share our passion for improving the lives of people in vulnerable communities. Join the movement! wingsdallas.org
Celebrating our @Mayorsinterns superstar Valentine. Thanks @WellsFargo for funding our Wings intern. And...thanks Mayor @Mike_Rawlings for personally inviting Valentine, she'd love to meet you again! #Smart #WatchOutWorld
Nobody makes it alone - Mentorship can be the key to extraordinary success! Do you have Marketing, Business Finance or HR experience? Would you like to volunteer your time and talent? If so, WiNGS needs YOU! wingsdallas.org/for-partners-v… or volunteer@wingsdallas.org.
Join us for a women's empowerment concert - Girl's Club: Female voices of Dallas w/Sudie, Lorelei K.+ more! Friday, Aug. 24th at 7:30pm at the @granadatheater . EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT knocks $2 off tickets. Enter promo code WINGS. Purchase your tickets today: prekindle.com/promo/id/25619…
We are excited to be featured as @ntxford Texas Tributes Best in Texas! At WiNGS, we empower women, fight poverty and impact generations. Are you ready for the movement? Learn more: texasfordcares.com/Texas-tributes… #NTXFord #BuiltFordTough #GoFurther #EmpowerWomen
Celebrating our Women's Enterprise alumni! Do you have a business idea? Join us at WiNGS -- we will provide you with tools to become an independent business owner and grow your assets (for free)! wingsdallas.org/for-women/my-b…
What is your hope or worry? #ImpactGenerations @IDEOorg
We are excited to introduce WiNGS Coaching Institute. A local training solution to help you launch or grow your financial coaching services. Register today! wingsdallas.org/training/
Are you good with budgets? Do you love personal finances? We need people like you to volunteer as Financial Coaches! Coaches change lives! For more info., contact Laura at volunteer@wingsdallas.org or 214-584-2316.
So excited to partner with @IDEOorg whose mission is to improve the lives of people living in poverty through design. They are doing a 6-week pro bono project implementing #humancentereddesign for our members at WiNGS. Get a glimpse inside their innovative minds! #FightPoverty
Announcing WiNGS Coaching Institute - Register today! wingsdallas.org/register/ #WiNGSPowerfulCoaching
Want to change lives and create opportunities? WiNGS is hiring! Check out our job openings here: wingsdallas.org/about-us/jobs/
No one should be so stressed out about getting food, paying rent, and having basic necessities that their cognitive functioning is impacted! globalcitizen.org/en/content/thi…
Join us at the Granada (off Greenville Ave) for a women's empowerment concert aka Girl's Club Dallas! The concert will be held on Friday, Aug. 24th at 7:30pm. EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT knocks $2 off tickets and runs through Sunday at midnight. Promo code WINGS. prekindle.com/promo/id/25619…
Thanks Dream Team for choosing us as your charity of the year and hosting an event that benefits WiNGS!
WiNGS is the beneficiary of Dream Team's cocktail, auction, & raffle event on 6/20 at Brookhaven! Raffle tickets are $25/each for chance to win a $1k Visa gift card or a 3 night stay at Texas Hill Country. NEED NOT BE PRESENT TO WIN! Purchase today! dreamteamwomensnetwork.com/2018/04/24/201…
