Join us for part 2 of our webinar series exploring your unique financial journey. In this ongoing conversation, we’ve been taking a close look at the ways life and finances intersect, especially for women. We are thrilled to continue this discussion with Natalea Simmons Beaudean, Managing Director and Wealth Management Advisor with the Simmons Group of Merrill Lynch, who will explore the ways you can save and invest to ensure your financial security for years to come. As much as we plan, we know that life often throws us the unexpected, so we’ll discuss how you can prepare for the most challenging times. We’ll also highlight the ways employer benefits support a woman’s ability to save.

July 15, 2021 from 12:00-1:00PM via Zoom

Registration free but required To register:

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Join us for a 3-part webinar series exploring your unique financial journey. In this first discussion, we will be taking a close look at the ways life and finances intersect, especially for women. We'll be joined by Natalea Simmons Beaudean, Managing Director and Wealth Management Advisor with the Simmons Group of Merrill Lynch, who will explore how the wage gap accumulates over a course of a woman’s lifetime and ways women can make sure they are well positioned for success. Keri Koehler, Executive Director of the Women’s Foundation of Greater St. Louis, will discuss how employers can further support the economic advancement of women through best practices and policies.

This event is free but registration is required. Click here to register.

This Women’s History Month event will feature a brief presentation and panel to provide an intersectional look at how the COVID-19 pandemic has had disproportionate impacts on women in the workforce. From their roles as caregivers to frontline workers, women’s career trajectory and overall well-being have been negatively impacted in ways we may not fully understand for some time. There will be intentional focus on both the real impacts that society’s oppressive structures have created while also honoring the brilliance and resilience of women.  There will be time for audience Q&A.

We welcome as our introductory presenter, Keri Koehler, MSW, the Executive Director of Women’s Foundation of Greater Saint Louis. 

Our other wonderful panelists include:

• Dr. Neha Navsaria – clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

• Dr. Matifadza Hiatshwayo Davis, – Infectious Disease physician at the John Cochran VA Medical Center

• Katherine Goodenberger – 4th year medical student at Washington University School of Medicine

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This year, to keep everyone healthy and safe, Making a Difference will be a virtual event. Register now to reserve your spot.

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Carol Daniel will moderate a panel which will include:
Carolyn Kindle Betz, St. Louis MLS Owner and
Ali Kindle Hogan, Founder of Rung for Women

Each year we honor someone at the event with our “Making a Difference Award” who has made a significant contribution to women and girls in our region. This year's honoree is Laurna Godwin. 

Changing Public Policy: Economic Success for Women

Award Ceremony

If you missed the award panel you can watch it here.

We will honor elected officials who have worked on valuable legislation that supports the goals of our foundation: Economic Success for Women. These goals include the following:

• Closing the Gender Gap

• Increasing Missouri’s minimum wage

• Promoting paid family leave

• Supporting equitable hiring practices

• Making affordable and quality childcare accessible

The three-part series is entitled, COVID-19, A Woman’s Role in the Economic Recovery and seeks to explore the issues unique to working women during the quarantine and as we consider returning back to work. 

The event is free but registration is required. Register here!

Ronke Faleti

Veta Jeffery

Cherrie Summa

The three-part series is entitled, COVID-19, A Woman’s Role in the Economic Recovery and seeks to explore the issues unique to working women during the quarantine and as we consider returning back to work. 

HOME: WORK: Women Navigating A Changing Work Reality

June 23

12 - 1 pm

Webinaris free but registration is requested

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The COVID-19 Quarantine required us to stay at home, combining our work and home life in an unprecedented manner. How do we manage our time, stress, our lives when all of our roles--employee, caregiver, teacher, spouse overlap at once? 

Moderator:

Emily Cantewell, Esq. Partner, Lathrop GPM, LLP; WFSTL Board

Featured Panelists:

• Rebeccah Bennett, Founder & Principal, Emerging Wisdom, LLC

• Jill Farmer, Coach & Author, Jill Farmer Coaching

• Kristen Wild, Executive Director, Operation Food Search

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Join us for Making a Difference on September 19

Join the Missouri Humanities Council for the first of their three-part Think-N-Drink series: “Women in Power, Politics, and Media.”  In honor of  the United States’ Women’s Suffrage Centennial, these events will aim to promote, highlight, and encourage discussion around the struggles and success of women in today’s world. Lisa Picker, Executive Director of the Women’s Foundation of Greater Saint Louis will be on the panel.

Cost is $10 and registration is required. To register CLICK HERE.

RATIFICATION RALLY ON APRIL 11, 2019

Make a plan, bring a group and help us rally our state legislators in Jefferson City to ratify the ERA.

April 11, 2019

Jefferson City, MO

Missouri State Capitol - First floor rotunda

It you’d like to join the WFSTL to carpool or meet at the Capitol email info@wfstl.org

https://www.project28mo.com/clients

Equal Rights Amendment Rally (All day, leave STL 7 a.m.)

                                    Jefferson City

                                    https://www.project28mo.com/clients

Women's History Month Event
with the Missouri History Museum

This is My Story 
as told by Kameel Stanley and Brittney-Noble Jones

Thursday, March 21, 2019
6:30 pm 
Missouri History Museum

Kameel Stanley, producer for the We Live Here podcast, and freelance journalist Brittany Noble-Jones will discuss gender politics in journalism. They’ll also share stories from some of the toughest topics, including the death of Michael Brown, whose shooting gained national attention and led to weeks of protests and demonstrations in Ferguson.

Event is free and open to the public.  Registration is not required. 

Coffee and Conversation with WFSTL ED Lisa Picker scheduled at Rise Collaborative Workspace on March 13 from 9-10 am.  Space is limited, but must register by emailing info@wfstl.org. 

Seeking Solutions Symposium:
Period Poverty in the St. Louis Region 

Friday, March 8, 2019
Lunch at 11:30; Program from 12 - 1:30 pm
YWCA Phyllis Wheatley Heritage Center
2711 Locust Street St. Louis, MO 63103

A recent study found that nearly two-thirds of low-income women in the St. Louis region can’t always afford pads or tampons – often resorting to rags, diapers or paper towels. This issue is often referred to as “period poverty,” and has serious economic and health implications for women and girls.  Join us to connect with fellow program leaders, advocates and others as we learn more about this issue from a variety of local experts and seek tangible solutions and opportunities for action.

Panelists: 

Anne Sebert Kuhlmann, Saint Louis University
Liza Weiss, Executive Director, Missouri Appleseed
Jessica Adams, Executive Director, Period Supplies Alliance
Senator Jill Schupp (tentative) 

Moderated by Megan Armentrout, Incarnate Word Foundation

This symposium is free but registration is required. Lunch will be provided.  Register HERE. . 

Special thanks to the Incarnate Word Foundation for sponsoring lunch.

The Women’s Foundation of Greater St. Louis is supporting the 2019 St. Louis Women’s March to highlight the issues facing women and girls on their path to economic independence and to inspire action. The WFSTL is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization with a mission of raising awareness and funding to support organizations that address the needs of women and girls.  

For more information check the St. Louis Women’s March website.