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Pressroom:
Oakland-Based
Non-profit Celebrates International Women's Day with Open
House
3/1/01
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Oakland,
CA - Women’s
Action to Gain Economic Security (WAGES) is a private, non-profit
organization recently re-located to Oakland from Mountain View,
CA that helps low-income women reach economic independence by starting
their own business cooperatives. WAGES has been successfully starting
and replicating women-owned environmentally sound housecleaning
cooperatives since 1995.
WAGES
would like to announce an open house to commemorate International
Women’s Day as well as our new location:
Wednesday,
March 7, 2001
12:00 noon to 3:00 p.m.
1214 Webster St., Suite B
Oakland, CA 94612
WAGES
receives support for their education, management and technical assistance
services from individual donors and foundations. Grants received
in the first two months of 2001 include:
Comerica
Bank $2,500
Rosenberg Foundation $50,000
Skoll Family Foundation $10,000
With
this financial support, WAGES is looking forward to some exciting
work. The organization plans to launch a website, introduce its
program to organizations working with low-income women in the Oakland
area, continue providing technical support to Emma's Eco-Clean in
Redwood City and launch a new least-toxic housecleaning cooperative,
Eco-Care in south San Jose/Morgan Hill.
Press
contact:
Rebecca Bauen
510-272-0564
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