The mission of Women Building Community is to inspire, encourage, and educate women to impact their community and enhance their lives through volunteering, leadership, and philanthropy.

The vision of Women Building Community is to empower every woman to impact the community through devoting time, talent, or treasure to causes.

The Community Foundation of the Great River Bend sees the need to recognize the good work being done by the women involved in the Women and have agreed to establish two funds for Women. The Women’s Endowment Fund will be funded by gifts from those who seek to support charitable activities that benefit women. Anyone giving $1,000 or more to the fund can participate in the process of grantmaking that will distribute annual support from the endowment fund. The gifts to this fund become a part of the permanent endowment of the Community Foundation.

The Women Building Community Fund will be funded by gifts from those who want to support the program activities of Women Building Community. It will not be endowed, and the entire fund is available to support the initiatives that Women Building Community undertakes. This fund will help to increase the number of women who can participate in programs by keeping the costs to participants at an affordable level. However, you do not have to donate money to be a part of the Women Building Community Steering Committee, we want to empower every woman to impact the community through devoting time, talent or treasure to causes.

Women Building Community has many objectives including the following:

• Education of women on philanthropy
• Educate women to understand their power to effect change and their ability to give back to their community.
• Keep women informed of changes in philanthropy at the national and local levels.
• Identify areas that women be represented
• Provide a sense of advocacy and outreach to help women take a position on philanthropic issues.
• Identify the inclusiveness of philanthropy
• Unify the community to develop an environment for philanthropy for everyone to participate no matter phases or transitions of life or age.
• Instill a passion in women to invest in philanthropy and keep it thriving by involving others such as friends and relatives in its joy and significance.
• Broaden the horizons of women on the issue of philanthropy through awareness of opportunities in the community.
• Instill a sense of community for the betterment of our community at-large so that there will be no lost opportunity to impact what is valued
• Establish an ethical standard in philanthropy at all levels
• Stress the importance for parents to be role models for their children by their participation in philanthropy.
• Plant the seeds of philanthropy so that dreams are fulfilled.