News & Updates

The Women’s Fund of East Tennessee commenced the third installment of Journeys of Women on October 30th. The eight-day exhibit of women’s art was held at Jonesborough’s Mary B. Martin Program for the Arts. Every work of art sold during the Journeys of Women event...

The Institute for Women’s Policy Research’s (IWPR) Status of Women in the States ranks the state of Tennessee as 34th when calculating factors such as employment and poverty. The featured image illustrates states’ positions on women’s progress with shades of blue to...

The Women’s Fund of East Tennessee is thrilled to welcome Julianna Herod as Communications Intern. A senior, Julianna is excited to graduate in May of 2016 with a Bachelor of Health and Human Sciences degree in Child and Family Studies and Psychology with a...

Written by: Kathryn Lasky Significance: Tying together with the Suffragette movie premiere, this book follows Kathleen Bowen’s diary during the U.S. fight for women’s suffrage. Synopsis: A diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in...

Find Your Way Home: Words from the Street, Wisdom from the Heart Written by: Becca Stevens Significance: Becca Stevens spoke at the 2014 luncheon. Becca is a Nashville native, Thistle Farms owner, and founder of Magdalene- a Nashville home for women overcoming drug...

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide Written by: Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Significance: From two of our most fiercely moral voices, this book is a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights...

The Women’s Fund of East Tennessee encourages all its volunteers and supporters to apply to be a mentor to high school seniors through the Tennessee Achieves program. This program provides post high school educational opportunities for Tennessee high school students...

Part of a continuing series on the five women who established the East Tennessee Women's Fund. Alice Mercer became involved in the Women’s Fund of East Tennessee with the realization that she survived her own early years because her very strong mother encouraged and...

Part of our 2015 Grantee Highlights series. The Women's Fund proudly awarded the Boys and Girls Club of Elizabethton/Carter County (BGCECC) a 2015 grant in support of their Girls U program--a ten-week summer session for girls ages nine and up to recognize...

Part of our 2015 Grantee Highlights series. Tusculum College received a 2015 Women's Fund grant that helped enable young women in the community to attend the Tusculum College Women’s Search for Success and Self-Sufficiency program. The program was initiated to provide...