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2018 ANNUAL REPORT and CALENDAR of WOMEN Letter from the Executive Director Staff & Board 2018 ANNUAL REPORT and CALENDAR OF WOMEN Letter from the Executive Director Staff & Board Dear Friends, Additionally the women are practicing leadership Staff in St. Paul, Minnesota Some days I feel weighed down by the magnitude skills within ESPERA and in their communities. • Katherine Wojtan | Executive Director of the troubles in the world. These times are truly We have honed these two models of supporting • Grace Garvey-Hall | Development and fraught with frustration and fear. In the Mary’s women over the lifetime of Mary’s Pence by Communications Liaison Pence offices we gather regularly to light a candle responding to the needs and circumstances of • Nadine Sehnert | Bookkeeper in prayer and solidarity with those who are suffering women in the United States (Grants) and Mexico • Aline Filippo | Office Coordinator from poverty, discrimination, violence and systemic and Central America (ESPERA). Each program • Kaye Cassidy | Ignatian Volunteer injustice. And then, we turn our hearts and our is unique in the way it supports women, based on minds to our work. With your local needs and resources, but ESPERA Staff support we are working together both are grounded in our values • Gilda Larios | ESPERA Team Lead | for a world where empowered of feminism and social justice. Mexico City, Mexico women and their communities We are especially proud this year • Eva Martinez Menjiver | ESPERA flourish in solidarity and justice. to have been recognized as the Promoter | Suchitoto, El Salvador Despite our frustration we hold on winners of the 2017 Minnesota Board Members to this vision, and the work of so Nonprofit Award for Responsive • Bridgette Kelly | Board Co-President | many is reason for hope. Philanthropy. St. Paul, Minnesota This year Mary’s Pence turned None of this work can be done • Rita Lampe | Board Co-President | 30, and while we worked hard, without our donors, who have Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania we also took the opportunity to given generously and loyally. • Sister Julie Fertsch, SSJ | Secretary | celebrate. First we gathered with Fiscal Year 2017 was the best our supporters in Minnesota in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania fundraising year for Mary’s • Patty Moran Barocio | Chicago, Illinois April for a panel discussion with Pence yet! This is all thanks to three local grantees. Then we took the party to • Sister Barbara Battista, SP | the many committed supporters who gave what Terre Haute, Indiana the Leadership Conference of Women Religious they could because they believe, as we do, that assembly in Orlando in August. Women religious • Shelley Coppock | Oakland, California all people deserve to live with dignity, that those • Carol Fendt, PhD | Chicago, Illinois have been our longest and strongest supporters who experience injustice are best able to create • Katie Lacz | Louisville, Colorado since our founding. effective solutions, and that when women work • Claudia Preza | Los Angeles, California Over 30 years of granting, we have funded more together, communities are transformed. • Mariana Amescua Salgado | Mexico City, than 700 grassroots women’s organizations that In deepest gratitude and solidarity, have increased women’s economic security, Mexico liberated women from trafficking, welcomed • Andreen Soley | Los Angeles, California immigrants and refugees into supportive • Amanda Steepleton | Minneapolis, Minnesota communities, and trained new generations of Katherine Wojtan women leaders. Inspiring Women Leaders Since 2008, over 1,000 women have started small PS – You can see many, many stories of the This calendar offers a daily reminder of the business initiatives with ESPERA loans. With women funded by Mary’s Pence on our new many women throughout history who have their increased income they are providing better mobile-responsive website. Check it out: challenged injustice. Read about these nutrition, housing and education for their children. maryspence.org. women at maryspence.org/about About Mary’s Pence Mission Mary’s Pence invests in women across the Americas by funding community initiatives and fostering collaborations to create social change. Vision We envision a world where empowered women and their communities flourish in solidarity and justice. Mary's Pence staff and board members OUR VALUES Dignity of the Human Person and of Work first. A just society can be achieved only if its WHO’S MARY? Every human life is sacred and should be honored members give special attention to those most in Mary’s Pence was named for all the women — the and valued. All workers have a right to productive need. Marys — of the Bible, who practiced a ministry of work, fair wages, and safe working conditions. Global Solidarity daring accompaniment. For more than 30 years Feminism is an essential component of human “Love your neighbor” stretches across all Mary’s Pence has been providing resourceful dignity. Our work is based in the belief that women national, racial, ethnic, economic, and ideological support for the Marys and Las Marias of the have political, social and economic equality with differences. We are one human family. Americas — the poor, the imprisoned and the men. This equality is essential to a just society. oppressed. Care of Creation Call to Community and Participation The earth’s resources are intended for the benefit Everyone has the equal right and responsibility to of all and should be cared for and preserved for Mary's Pence Wins Award for participate economically, politically, and culturally future generations. Responsive Philanthropy in society. This creates strong communities. A NOTE ABOUT OUR CATHOLIC ROOTS Rights and Responsibilities Every person has a right to a dignified life, Our founders rooted this work in the values of including food, shelter, clothing, work, health care, Catholic Social Teaching and it remains our and education, and each has a responsibility for foundation today. However, Mary’s Pence is the well-being of others. independent of the Catholic Church. Our work addresses the ongoing and emerging concerns Subsidiarity of women in the Americas and we are blessed by Actions should be taken at the lowest, most local the people of all faiths and no faith who engage level possible, and decisions should involve those with us. There is no criteria that any of the most impacted. organizations we fund be faith-based, and we do not ask. We gratefully embrace the diversity of the Nausheena Hussain — pictured here with Mary's Preferential Option for the Poor and whole Mary’s Pence community — board, staff, Pence board members, nominated us for the Vulnerable grantees, ESPERA women, and supporters. 2017 Minnesota Nonprofit Award for Responsive We must put the needs of the poor and vulnerable Philanthropy, which we were awarded in October. Mary’s Pence Grants ESPERA Community Lending Grants from Mary’s Pence fund women’s organizations in the US ESPERA is a unique micro-lending program that grew out of a need to and Canada that are working in their local community to create long-term partner more deeply with women in Central America. systemic change. The organizations we fund are all small, with budgets We partner with grassroots women’s organizations to start community under $200,000. Yet they collaborate with diverse populations, advocate lending pools. The funds are collectively-owned by the women and to change unjust policies, and educate to build skills and increase they are the decision-makers. This increases their empowerment and capacity. commitment to the work. Our grants act as seed money for organizations that are newly created, Mary’s Pence staff in the region support the women as they manage the and as support for organizations that have been working on the lending process and invest in agricultural initiatives, corner shops, food grassroots level for years. stands and other small businesses. The loans are repaid with interest into Our granting process is intentional and holistic. In order to meet emerging the local pool, creating a growing and lasting resource for the community. needs, we do not restrict funding to prescribed issue areas. Rather, the Mary’s Pence staff also provide coaching on business skills, encourage issues we fund arise organically as needs change and emerge within a participation and relationships, work to increase our partner organizations’ community. We also provide our grantees with additional support including capacity, and strengthen connections among individual participants as networking, retreats, information sessions and publicity. well as our organizational partners. MARY'S PENCE GRANTS FISCAL YEAR 2017 OUR ESPERA PARTNERS Adelante Mujer | Fond du Lac, WI and Kamla, Nicaragua Asociación de Mujeres Rurales “Olga Estela Moreno” (ASMUR) | Financial aid for poor/rural Nicaraguan women studying to be Bajo Lempa Region, El Salvador medical doctors, 2nd Grant Partner since: 2011 • Number of Loans: 111 Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera | Austin, Texas Asociación de Mujeres Sembradoras de Esperanza | Santa Cruz del Cross-border solidarity delegation of Mexican maquiladora workers Quiché, Guatemala to Texas, 2nd Grant Partner since: 2009 • Number of Loans: 314 Bridges | São Paulo, Brazil Cendro de Promoción y Salud Integral (CEPROSI) | Nindiri, Re-Entry preparation for women prisoners who are mothers, 3rd Nicaragua Grant Partner since: 2009 • Number of Loans: 183 Center for Women in Transition | Little Rock, Arkansas Concertación de Mujeres de Suchitoto | Suchitoto, Life skills education and transitional re-entry services for El Salvador incarcerated and recently
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