Bring Your Three Event June 9

What a great opportunity to introduce your friends to Women Give San Diego and hear how we focus on under-served women and girls to build our community. We will share our mission, our vision, our values.We will share what we have learned about San Diego's under-served women and girls. We will share the opportunities for collaboration to make San Diego more inclusive. We will invite you to join us in this process.

We are asking that every current member invite three women who might be interested in joining Women Give San Diego. The more members we have, the greater our impact will be on the economic self-sufficiency of women and girls in San Diego! To learn more about the benefits of membership in Women Give San Diego please visit our website (www.womengivesd.org). Please RSVP here. We look forward to seeing you on June 9th!

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The Economic Self-Sufficiency and Security of Women in San Diego County

Research on The Economic Self-Sufficiency and Security of Women in San Diego County:

• Women in the managerial and professional ranks are segregated within the lowest paying occupations.
• At $33,300 per year, SD County’s full-time working women’s pay falls $7,200 short of the $45,000 average annual pay of full-time working men in the County.
• This shortfall is even higher when African-American, Latina, and Native Indian women are put into the equation.
• Women of color are especially vulnerable in San Diego County and are much more likely to live in poverty (17% live in poverty) than white women (8% live in poverty).
• The majority of high paying jobs in San Diego are in industry clusters that are dominated by men.
• Women in California have less access to state funding for microenterprise than in other states.
• A greater percentage of San Diego women are employed part-time than men, and women in the US as a whole, resulting in less wage income, less access to benefits, less job security and less wealth for these women.
• The Median Income for a woman in San Diego is $38,680; the income needed for a single parent with one child to meet the basic living expenses in San Diego is $39,907.
• There are approximately 34,500 foreign born single mothers in San Diego (15% of foreign born families) with median earnings of $26,274; 33% live at or below the poverty level and 33% have less than a high school diploma
• 42% of elderly women living in San Diego (more than 130,000 individuals) do not have sufficient income to meet their basic needs.
• Since 1990, the local economy has created eight times more low-paying jobs (median age $24,547) than high-paying jobs (median $79,764). For example, a typical two-bedroom apartment in San Diego County rents for $1,205 a month. For a family to be able to afford this, they would need to make three times the minimum wage.

For the complete report, contact us at info@womengivesd.org or womengivesandiego@gmail.com.

Women's History Month and SDNN

March is Women's History Month and San Diego News Network has asked women leaders throughout the region to share their stories of significant women in their lives. Send your blogs (700 words or less) to Politics@SDNN.com for consideration.

April 5th Membership Meeting

We hope you will be able to join us for the next membership meeting on Monday, April 5th, 5:00-7:00, pm at the AMN Healthcare Conference Center in Carmel Valley. At our last meeting we decided on the process and timeline for granting. The goal is to make our first grant by October of 2010. In this next meeting, we will further discuss this process and move forward to determine the values of our organization so our granting can be values-based.

Our website is now live! Please go to www.womengivesd.org and send your friends there as well! There is a form on our website to request our survey on the Economic Security and Self-Sufficiency of Women in San Diego County and more information about membership to our organization. Thank you to Emily Davis for creating this great resource for us!

Save the date for a membership recruitment event on Wednesday June 9th at Gayle Tauber's home in La Jolla, "Building Our Community with Underserved Women and Girls".

All of our membership meetings will be held on the first Monday of the month throughout the year. We look forward to your participation as we go through our granting process.

For more information you can email us at info@womengivesd.org or womengivesandiego@gmail.com.