Happenings Page
WWOCN Annual Leadership Seminar and Election of Board Members
"Leadership Challenges and Initiatives We Face in This Current Economic Downturn" will be the topic of this event
sponsored by the Wisconsin Women of Color Network, Inc, to be discussed by a panel on Saturday, June 28, at the
MATC Truax Campus, starting at 9:30 a.am Cost $12.50 members; $15 non-members. Contact Agnes at apicons@aol.
com, or Addrena, 257-1552; Emraida at (414) 4277
A Fund For Women encourages Dane County community groups to apply for grants
Workshop to provide training on grant-writing scheduled at the Madison Community Foundation
A Fund For Women, a component fund of the Madison Community Foundation, is now accepting grant applications for its
2008 funding cycle. The Fund expects to distribute approximately $100,000 this year.
Nonprofit organizations that would like to know more about the grant-writing process are invited to attend a workshop
organized by A Fund For Women at the Madison Community Foundation, 2 Science Court, from 10 to 11 a.m. on Friday,
May 16. To register for the grant-writing workshop, please send an e-mail with your name, organization and contact
information by May 9 to affw@madisoncommunityfoundation.org.
The deadline for grant applications is Tuesday, July 1, 2008 . Winners will be announced on October 15, 2008 at A Fund
For Women’s annual fundraising event.
In the current grant cycle, A Fund For Women is seeking proposals for projects or programs that help women and girls
achieve greater self-sufficiency through:
• Enhanced parenting and life skills, especially through communication and language development;
• Greater access to preventive health programs and child-care;
• Improved academic and social success in all levels of girls’ education; and
• Reduced violence, including physical, sexual, domestic and peer or gang bullying and fighting.
A Fund For Women is particularly interested in innovative programs and services that will reach women and girls from
diverse backgrounds in urban, suburban or rural Dane County . Proposals should indicate how the project or program will
help connect women or girls to a support network or resource that will help them overcome emotional, social, intellectual,
occupational and/or physical barriers to self-sufficiency.
Interested nonprofit organizations may visit A Fund For Women’s Web site at www.affw.org to obtain the entire Request For
Proposal, or contact Jan Gietzel at (608) 232-1763 , ext. 232, affw@madisoncommunityfoundation.org to receive a copy.
To submit grant applications, send completed forms online to both affw@madisoncommunityfoundation.org and
jwiniger@madisonmagazine.com by Tuesday, July 1, 2008
UW TO LAUNCH RADIO, WEB PROGRAMS ON ISLAM AND MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD
MADISON - Nine area and international studies programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison received a grant from the
national Social Science Research Council (SSRC) to create an interactive program that will support public
dissemination of scholarship on the topic of Islam.
The grant is part of SSRC's project, "Academia in the Public Sphere."
UW-Madison's eight Title VI National Resource Centers, along with the Middle Eastern Studies Program, will host a 12-
month project titled "Inside Islam: Dialogues and Debates." Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) and the UW-Madison Division
of Information Technology (DoIT) are lead partners in the project.
Spearheaded by Global Studies, the grant will allow for the production of eight to ten one-hour, call-in radio shows with
local and international scholars on Islam, hosted by WPR's Jean Feraca. Topics may include such subjects as "Islam and
Music" and "Women and Islam," and will address the diversity of Muslim communities throughout the world. These
broadcasts will be followed by real-time chats and a blog on the WPR Web site. In addition, they will produce "insideislam.
wisc.edu," a Web site hosted by DoIT.
New Science equivalency option for Students
State Superintendent Elizabeth Burmaster announced new science equivalency options for students. Some agriculture
courses will count toward high school graduation credit in science; similar equivalency options for other subjects are to
follow. The Department of Public Instruction has also been working with University of Wisconsin institutions and other
campuses in the state to ensure that this certification will be widely accepted for the purposes of admission to colleges
and technical institutions.
The complete news release is available through the DPI news release page, http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/eis/prmenu.html.
For questions about this news item, please contact Patrick Gasper, patrick.gasper@dpi.wi.gov,
608-266-3559.
Nepali Association Picnic & Poetry call
In the last three years we have been celebrating Bhanu Jayanti in the summer picnic. This year we are planning to
celebrate our picnic on July 12. I throughly enjoyed the poetry reading program, I hope you did too. Many talented
people read very literary poems and some were very humourus as well. This year also Dinar-ji is coordinating and
collecting poems from you. Please write a poem and inform Dinar-ji so that he can put you on the schedule. If you have
any question or any suggestions, how the Bhanu Jayanti program can be made enjoyable to all, please contact Dinar
Shrestha at 231-6145 or send him an email dshresthaq@hotmail.com Hope you take time to write a
poem. Thank you for your cooperation. — Krishna Sijapati, Nepali Assn. President
SAVE THE DATE
University of the Philippines Alumni Association - Wisconsin
Invites you to our annual Picnic
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Mitchell Park Pavilion
12 to 6 PM
Please bring your favorite dish to share
We will be holding a bingo social as fund raiser to benefit the UPAA-W Foreign Exchange Student Fund during the picnic.
Tickets are available for $10 for 10 games of bingo with1 bingo card per game or $25 for 10 games of bingo with 3 bingo
cards per game. Win up to $100 worth of cash and prizes.
For details contact: Ito Conti (414) 828-8861
Conrad Nievera (414) 364-3420
Fe Visaya (414) 861-8512
We look forward to your support
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Join the City of Madison Department of Civil Rights for the 2008 Summer Celebration of Diversity Picnic
Thursday, July 17, 2008
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Warner Park Shelter
1511 Northport Drive
"Leadership Challenges and Initiatives We Face in This Current Economic Downturn" will be the topic of this event
sponsored by the Wisconsin Women of Color Network, Inc, to be discussed by a panel on Saturday, June 28, at the
MATC Truax Campus, starting at 9:30 a.am Cost $12.50 members; $15 non-members. Contact Agnes at apicons@aol.
com, or Addrena, 257-1552; Emraida at (414) 4277
A Fund For Women encourages Dane County community groups to apply for grants
Workshop to provide training on grant-writing scheduled at the Madison Community Foundation
A Fund For Women, a component fund of the Madison Community Foundation, is now accepting grant applications for its
2008 funding cycle. The Fund expects to distribute approximately $100,000 this year.
Nonprofit organizations that would like to know more about the grant-writing process are invited to attend a workshop
organized by A Fund For Women at the Madison Community Foundation, 2 Science Court, from 10 to 11 a.m. on Friday,
May 16. To register for the grant-writing workshop, please send an e-mail with your name, organization and contact
information by May 9 to affw@madisoncommunityfoundation.org.
The deadline for grant applications is Tuesday, July 1, 2008 . Winners will be announced on October 15, 2008 at A Fund
For Women’s annual fundraising event.
In the current grant cycle, A Fund For Women is seeking proposals for projects or programs that help women and girls
achieve greater self-sufficiency through:
• Enhanced parenting and life skills, especially through communication and language development;
• Greater access to preventive health programs and child-care;
• Improved academic and social success in all levels of girls’ education; and
• Reduced violence, including physical, sexual, domestic and peer or gang bullying and fighting.
A Fund For Women is particularly interested in innovative programs and services that will reach women and girls from
diverse backgrounds in urban, suburban or rural Dane County . Proposals should indicate how the project or program will
help connect women or girls to a support network or resource that will help them overcome emotional, social, intellectual,
occupational and/or physical barriers to self-sufficiency.
Interested nonprofit organizations may visit A Fund For Women’s Web site at www.affw.org to obtain the entire Request For
Proposal, or contact Jan Gietzel at (608) 232-1763 , ext. 232, affw@madisoncommunityfoundation.org to receive a copy.
To submit grant applications, send completed forms online to both affw@madisoncommunityfoundation.org and
jwiniger@madisonmagazine.com by Tuesday, July 1, 2008
UW TO LAUNCH RADIO, WEB PROGRAMS ON ISLAM AND MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD
MADISON - Nine area and international studies programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison received a grant from the
national Social Science Research Council (SSRC) to create an interactive program that will support public
dissemination of scholarship on the topic of Islam.
The grant is part of SSRC's project, "Academia in the Public Sphere."
UW-Madison's eight Title VI National Resource Centers, along with the Middle Eastern Studies Program, will host a 12-
month project titled "Inside Islam: Dialogues and Debates." Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) and the UW-Madison Division
of Information Technology (DoIT) are lead partners in the project.
Spearheaded by Global Studies, the grant will allow for the production of eight to ten one-hour, call-in radio shows with
local and international scholars on Islam, hosted by WPR's Jean Feraca. Topics may include such subjects as "Islam and
Music" and "Women and Islam," and will address the diversity of Muslim communities throughout the world. These
broadcasts will be followed by real-time chats and a blog on the WPR Web site. In addition, they will produce "insideislam.
wisc.edu," a Web site hosted by DoIT.
New Science equivalency option for Students
State Superintendent Elizabeth Burmaster announced new science equivalency options for students. Some agriculture
courses will count toward high school graduation credit in science; similar equivalency options for other subjects are to
follow. The Department of Public Instruction has also been working with University of Wisconsin institutions and other
campuses in the state to ensure that this certification will be widely accepted for the purposes of admission to colleges
and technical institutions.
The complete news release is available through the DPI news release page, http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/eis/prmenu.html.
For questions about this news item, please contact Patrick Gasper, patrick.gasper@dpi.wi.gov,
608-266-3559.
Nepali Association Picnic & Poetry call
In the last three years we have been celebrating Bhanu Jayanti in the summer picnic. This year we are planning to
celebrate our picnic on July 12. I throughly enjoyed the poetry reading program, I hope you did too. Many talented
people read very literary poems and some were very humourus as well. This year also Dinar-ji is coordinating and
collecting poems from you. Please write a poem and inform Dinar-ji so that he can put you on the schedule. If you have
any question or any suggestions, how the Bhanu Jayanti program can be made enjoyable to all, please contact Dinar
Shrestha at 231-6145 or send him an email dshresthaq@hotmail.com Hope you take time to write a
poem. Thank you for your cooperation. — Krishna Sijapati, Nepali Assn. President
SAVE THE DATE
University of the Philippines Alumni Association - Wisconsin
Invites you to our annual Picnic
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Mitchell Park Pavilion
12 to 6 PM
Please bring your favorite dish to share
We will be holding a bingo social as fund raiser to benefit the UPAA-W Foreign Exchange Student Fund during the picnic.
Tickets are available for $10 for 10 games of bingo with1 bingo card per game or $25 for 10 games of bingo with 3 bingo
cards per game. Win up to $100 worth of cash and prizes.
For details contact: Ito Conti (414) 828-8861
Conrad Nievera (414) 364-3420
Fe Visaya (414) 861-8512
We look forward to your support
----------
Join the City of Madison Department of Civil Rights for the 2008 Summer Celebration of Diversity Picnic
Thursday, July 17, 2008
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Warner Park Shelter
1511 Northport Drive