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Description: Offers to female graduate students in Canada to assist them with university studies which will qualify them for careers which will improve the quality of women's lives. Includes board of directors, newsletters, history, and application forms.
Soroptimist Foundation of Canada To solicit, attract, and manage charitable donations in order to provide educational funding for the advancement of human rights and the status of women. The Soroptimist Foundation of Canada annually offers several $7,500 grants to female graduate students in Canada to assist them with university studies which will qualify them for careers which will improve the quality of women's lives. Examples include but are not limited to: providing services, providing legal counselling and assistance, counselling mature women entering or re-entering the labour market, counselling women in crisis, counselling and training women for non-traditional employment, and positions in women's centres.
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Page title:Soroptimist Foundation of Canada
Keywords:soroptimist, women, woman, ladies, lady, service, fundraising, children, environment, community, youth, making a difference, friendship, international, goodwill, volunteers, volunteer, voluntary, business, professional, girls, girl, economic, political, equality, politics, economy, global, leadership, world, peace, united nations, human rights, status of women, fellowship, diversity, domestic violence, violence
Description:Soroptimist International of the Americas (SIA) is part of Soroptimist International - the world's largest classified service organization for executive and professional women. Soroptimist International is (we are) a worldwide organization for women in management and professions working through service projects to advance human rights and the status of women. Soroptimist, coined from the Latin soror and optima (the best for women), was founded in 1921 in Oakland, California. Eighty women in professions that included medicine, laboratory technology, education and printing formed the first Soroptimist club to foster the ideals of service. Soroptimist International comprises four federations, with nearly 100,000 members in 112 countries and territories throughout the world. With almost 50,000 members in 20 countries and territories, Soroptimist International of the Americas is the largest of the four federations.
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Creation date: 2001/11/11
Expiry date: 2014/11/11