Zonta International Foundation

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Zonta International Foundation

• The World ofZontian Giving

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The Reality of Women
Zonta International Foundation

• 1 in 3 women have been beaten, coerced into sex,
  or otherwise abused in her lifetime
• More than 80 of women do not have sufficient
  knowledge about HIV/AIDS and many women do not
  have the power to say no to sex with an infected
  partner
• Human trafficking is US9.5 Billion a year
  business
• Almost 2/3 of the worlds 800 million illiterate
  adults are women 63 of the 137 million
  illiterate youth between the ages of 15-24 are
  girls

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• Women's equality is not yet a reality. Women
  worldwide face systemized discrimination - they
  lack opportunities to live healthy lives, free
  from legal, social, economic and political
  inequality.
• Somebody ought to do something!

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EMPOWERMENT THROUGH ZIF
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• Zonta International empowers women to overcome
  barriers and to equate human rights
  through Programs and Service Projects funded by
  the Zonta International Foundation.

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Zonta International Foundation
Zonta International Foundation

• Since 1923, Zonta has provided
• more than 8 million
• to projects benefitting over
• 2 million womenrepresenting 25 countries.

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ZIF Funds 2006-2008
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Zonta International Foundation

• International Service
• Helping women in developing countries has been a
  passion of Zontians since the organization was
  founded in 1919. From 1923 when Zontians aided
  relief efforts for over 2 million women and
  children in Turkey to 2008, more than US8
  million has been disseminated to projects in
  countries as far reaching as Afghanistan,
  Argentina, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
  Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Chile,
  Colombia, Comoros Islands, Egypt, Ghana,
  Guatemala, India, Mexico, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria,
  Philippines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa,
  Sri Lanka, Thailand, Togo, Uruguay and Zimbabwe.

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Zonta International Foundation
2006-2008 International Service Fund

• IMPROVING
• WOMENS LIVES
• AFGHANISTAN

Afghan Institute of Learning US100,000
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AFGHAN INSTITUTE OF LEARNING
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• Each year
• classes for 650 women and girls in rural or
  urban poor areas
• on-site training for teachers and managers
• teacher and leadership training to 100 women
• health education to 24,000 women and children

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CARE International
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Mata Masu Dubara (Women on the Move) Microcredit
and Health Education for HIV/AIDS-Affected Women
Niger
CARE International US300,000
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Mata Masu Dubara (Women on the Move)
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• Empower AIDS-affected women and their children
  economically and socially
• Build the capacity of local organizations to
  ensure the projects sustainability and
• Work with community leaders to break the wall of
  silence about HIV/AIDS and reduce the
  stigmatization of women living with or affected
  by HIV/AIDS.

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2006-2008 International Service Fund
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• CARE International Education and Leadership for
  Girls and Young Women
• Bolivia
• CARE International US250,000

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2006-2008 International Service FundCARE
International Education and Leadership for Girls
and Young Women
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• Enhance educational and literacy skills for
  working girls and young women who are outside the
  formal education system.
• Improve teaching through innovative training
  approaches.
• Incorporate a basic rights and citizenship
  component into the alternative education
  curricula.
• Strength educational opportunities through
  vocational courses.
• Improve the female students knowledge of womens
  health issues.

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2006-2008 International Service Fund CARE
International Education and Leadership for
Girls and Young Women
Zonta International Foundation

• Centered on girls and young women, including
• 500 girls young women, aged 13-25, at six
  night schools located in Pasankeri Llojeta (La
  Paz)
• 800 girls in selected schools in perimeter areas
  of La Paz (total student population 2,000)
• 150 teachers who teach girls in night schools
• 350 health care providers and parents and
• municipal district and national education
  authorities and those supporting the Alternative
  Youth Education Program.

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2006-2008 International Service FundUNIDO
Support for Revival of Rural Community-based
Self-Help Initiatives
Zonta International Foundation

• Sri Lanka
• United Nations Industrial Development
  Organization
• US250,000

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2006-2008 International Service FundUNIDO
Support for Revival of Rural Community-based
Self-Help Initiatives
Zonta International Foundation

• Improve agro-based production skills by
  organizing workshops and training on the
  efficient use of simple tools, equipment and
  small-scale machinery, including post-harvest and
  processing equipment.
• Develop and promote micro-, small- and
  medium-scale agro-based businesses for/among the
  women and womens groups in the Trincomalee and
  Batticaloa districts.
• Facilitate the interaction between the women and
  womens groups and appropriate technical and
  business support providers in order to increase
  their productivity and efficiency for income
  generation.
• Increase the marketability of womens products
  through linking rural and urban markets.

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• Preventing Violence Against Women
• Every woman has a right to live free of
  gender-based violence, and Zonta has been
  committed to preventing violence against women
  for many years.
• "In all societies, to a greater or lesser degree,
  women and girls are subjected to physical, sexual
  and psychological abuse that cuts across lines of
  income, class and culture...Violence against
  women both violates and impairs or nullifies the
  enjoyment by women of their human rights and
  fundamental freedoms."
• Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action,
  Paragraph 12

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Zonta International Strategies to Prevent
Violence Against Women Fund
Zonta International Foundation

• Funded by annual contributions
• US619,357 raised during 2006-2008 Biennium

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Zonta International Foundation ZISVAW Fund

• Funded five projects to end human trafficking,
  combat violence against women/girls and implement
  laws protecting women in six countries

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5 ZISVAW PROJECTS INCLUDED
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• Preventing Trafficking in Women in Thailand
  UNIFEM US100,000
• Preventing Trafficking in the Greater Mekong
  Sub-Region Development and Education Program
  for Daughters and Communities (DEPDC) US63,500
• Combating Violence Against Women and Girls in
  Sierra Leone United Nations Trust Fund to End
  Violence Against Women US50,000
• In addition.

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CARE International
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Implementation of Laws, Policies and Action Plans
on Violence Against Women in Niger
United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence
Against Women US50,000
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2006-2008 / STAR NETWORK

• Regional Anti-trafficking Mobilizationfor
  Prevention (RAMP)
• for the
• Prevention of Cross-border Regional Trafficking
  in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and
  Serbia-Montenegro

STAR Network US150,000
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2006-2008 / STAR NETWORK
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• Advocacy modules for Zonta Clubs as guides for
• Local anti-trafficking action on legal reform and
  implementation
• Public awareness
• Economic opportunities for trafficking victims

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Zonta International Foundation
Amelia Earhart Fellowship Fund

• Graduate (PhD) fellowships in aerospace-related
  sciences andengineering
• US10,000 to each 35 recipients every year
• 1,192 Fellows in 58 countries
• Olena M. Lopatina Ukraine - 2008 AE Fellow -
  Kent State University Chemical Physics
  adopted by Zonta Club of ABC

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Zonta International Foundation
Jane M. Klausman Women in Business Scholarship
Fund

• 5,000 Scholarships to young women pursuing a
  business management career
• Over US260,800 disbursed for 175 scholarships to
  women representing 39 countries
• Megan K. Garner 2008 International Recipient
  and District 5 nominee University of Findlay
  Economics International Business Sponsored by
  Zonta Club of Findlay

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Zonta International Foundation
Young Women in Public Affairs (YWPA) Fund

• Encourages young women to pursue careers in
  public service, government, volunteer
  organizations
• 1,000 Scholarship US255,750 disbursed for 465
  awards to young women from 47 countries
• Audrey Joy Gillette 2008 YWPA District 5
  Recipient Springfield High School, Holland, OH
  honours student The Ohio State University
  Journalism Biology double major sponsored by
  Zonta Club of Toledo I

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Emma L. Conlon Service Award
Zonta International Foundation

• Established in 1948, recognizes Z Clubs and
  Golden Z Clubs whose programs/projects best
  express those ideals of ZI through local and
  international service and advocacy for women and
  girls.
• 1st place-US500 2nd place-US250 3rd
  place-US100 funds to be used for Z/Golden Z
  Clubs service projects
• 2007-2008 Award Recipient 1st Place Liberty
  Benton High School Z Club sponsored by Zonta
  Club of Findlay

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World Headquarters Property Preservation and
Improvement Fund
Zonta International Foundation

• WHPPI ensures the preservation and improvement of
  Zontas historic World headquarters building
• A home, built together,
• is a concrete achievement
• which unites Zontians
• from all Nations.
• - Helvi Sipila, PIP

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The Rose Fund, the Foundation Annual Operating
and Program Support Fund
Zonta International Foundation

• Provides unrestricted support to ensure quality
  professional management and operation of the
  Foundation
• Allows the Foundation to add to specific program
  support when and where most urgently needed
• May support new program development

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The Endowment Fund
Zonta International Foundation

• A permanent fund established to preserve the
  continuity of Zontas mission for the benefit of
  future generations
• During the 2006-2008 biennium, minimum goal of
  US1 million has been achieved
• Contributions are invested only interest and/or
  income earned will be distributed
• It takes a noble person to plant a seed
• for a tree that will one day provide shade
• to those whom he may never meet.
• Author Unknown

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Zonta International Foundation

• 2006-2008 Fundraising
• Rose Fund, the Foundation Annual
  Goal Recd Operating and Program
  Support US 800,000 883,700
• Amelia Earhart Fellowship Fund
  650,000 536,773
• Jane M. Klausman Women in Business
  Scholarship Fund 125,000
  137,690
• Young Women in Public Affairs Fund
  150,000 179,412
• International Service Fund
  1,500,000 1,472,818
• ZISVAW Fund 550,000 619,357
• WHPPI Fund 30,000
  28,365
• 3,805,000 3,858,115

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Zonta International Foundation

• 20082010 International Service Goals
• Every Zontian contribute an individual
  annualgift to the Foundation Zonta Club of
  Findlay had 100 participation of members in
  2006-2008.
• Provide and promote service projects focused on
  ZIs mission and objectives.
• Service projects combined with and include
  legislative awareness and advocacy.
• Every Zonta Club participates, promotes,
  disseminates information and sponsors student(s)
  internally and externally about all ZI awards.

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2008-2010 International Service Programs
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• Total biennium ISP funding of US1,650,000 is
  apportioned as follows
• US600,000 Prevention of Mother-to-Child
  Transmission of HIV in Rwanda UNICEF
• US600,000 Safe Cities for Women Project in
  Guatemala City, Guatemala, and San Salvador, El
  Salvador UNIFEM
• US450,000 Reduction of Obstetric Fistula in
  Liberia within the contest of Maternal and
  Newborn Health - UNFPA

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2008-2010 ZISVAW PROGRAMS
Zonta International Foundation

• Total biennium ZISVAW funding of US600,000 is
  apportioned as follows
• US300,000 Ending Violence Against Women
  through Community Action in Cambodia UNIFEM
• US200,000 Combating physical violence against
  women supporting implementation of protective
  and anti-discriminatory laws/policies in Egypt -
  UNIFEM
• US100,000 Community-based Center for Housing
  Rehabilitation of Women Victims of Violence in
  Syria UNIFEM

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Zonta International Foundation
2008-2010 ZIF Fundraising Goals Rose Fund, the
Foundation Annual Operating and Program Support
US 800,000 same Amelia
Earhart Fellowship Fund 650,000
same Jane M. Klausman Women in Business
Scholarship Fund 150,000
25,000 Young Women in Public Affairs Fund
190,000 40,000 International
Service Fund 1,600,000 100,000
ZISVAW Fund 600,000 50,000 WHPPI
Fund 30,000 same
4,020,000 220,000 Endowment
Fund 500,000 4,520,000
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YOU can change the world by
Zonta International Foundation

• being active in your clubs fundraising efforts
• creating a Signature fundraising event -
  celebrity roast, Eat Dessert First, Victorian
  tea, Harley raffle, recognition program honoring
  women in community
• tying your fundraising to local service

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District 5 Foundation Ambassador Joanne
VanSants Challenge
Zonta International Foundation

• During the past biennium, Van offered a challenge
  grant in the amount of 3,000.00. Van is
  offering the same challenge this biennium. It is
  based on a one for two A Zontian gives 2.00
  and Van gives 1.00. To receive the full
  3,000.00 challenge grant, individual Zontians
  contributions (not counting Club contributions)
  within the District as a whole must total at
  least 6,000.00. The challenge grant is directed
  to the Rose Fund where the funds raised can be
  used for any ZI Service Program that does not
  meet its monetary goal. When you send ZIF a
  check, please indicate on it Vans Challenge.
• Club/Members dues, as you already know, are used
  for the operation of Zonta International only.
  Zonta International and ZIF are two separate
  organizations.

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Zonta International Foundation

• Our District 5 Challenge.
• Every year of biennium, every Zontian writes a
  check to ZIF 513 Zontians x 25.00 per year
  12,825.00/50.00 per biennium 25,650.00
• Every month, every Zontian skips one latte and
  brings that money to club meeting for ZIF 513
  members x 4.00 a month 2,052.00
• Save all your change every month and give to ZIF
  through District 5 Change for Change

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It all adds up..
Zonta International Foundation

• If every Zontian contributed 25/year
• 25 x 513 Zontians 12,825.00/year -
  25,650.00/biennium
• If every club contributed 2,500/year
• 2,500 x 17 clubs 42,500.00/year -
  85,000.00/biennium
• Joanne VanSants Challenge 3,000.00/biennium
• The results - 55,325.00 per year
• 113,650.00 for the biennium
• for ZIF from District 5!

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Its up to US
Zonta International Foundation

• We do what we do
• because women and girls around the world whom
  we will never meet nor know need our help.

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The World of Zontian Giving

• Why We Should Give
• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
  committed citizens can change the world indeed,
  its the only thing that ever has. -Margaret
  Mead
• We make a living by what we get, but we make a
  life by what we give. -Winston Churchill
• There is no greater joy under the sun than the
  joy of giving giving of ones time, energy,
  talent and money to help ones fellow
  man. -William H. Taylor

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Zonta International Foundation
District 5 Foundation Ambassador Joanne Van
VanSant Zonta Club of Columbus
Thank You!