Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation Offers a Fundraiser Twist

During difficult times, creativity is a necessity in raising money for mission. And when we raise money with a mission-based activity, even better. Here is a great example of a mission-based fundraiser from the The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation (a museum and historic house). A creative idea, this is an example for any nonprofit to learn from.

"Meet the woman who was ahead of the women who were ahead of their time." --Gloria Steinem Join Gloria for an intimate afternoon tea in her apartment to celebrate the ideas of a 19th-century radical feminist that will transform the 21st century

May 31, 2009
2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
East Side, New York City $500- $2,000

Seating limited to first 30 people with paid reservations

In this living room, where many historic meetings of the Second Wave have been held ever since the late 1960s, Gloria will talk and answer questions about past events and future hopes. Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner will also reflect on new discoveries about the origins of the First Wave of feminism.

A benefit for the Matilda Joslyn Gage Home Restoration Campaign

CO-HOSTS
- Coline Jenkins, descendant of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Jennifer Baumgardner, third-wave feminist activist- Louise Bernikow, History Consultant for Women's eNews- Michael Patrick Hearn, L. Frank Baum biographer
- Sally Roesch Wagner, Ph.D., Executive Director, Gage Foundation
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The proceeds from this day will help us to complete the restoration of the Gage Home Museum by January 1, 2010, and begin a program of education and dialogue on the basic issues of peace and freedom that Gage championed. Each of the major rooms will be dedicated to one such area: women's rights, the Haudenosaunee who inspired early feminists, slavery and the Underground Railroad, religious freedom, and the feminist utopia that Gage imagined and inspired her son-in-law to write about for children in his Wizard of Oz series. (For background on Gage, go to www.MatildaJoslynGage.org. )

Your monetary gift will be matched, dollar for dollar, by a secured grant from New York State. The monies will be used to restore and interpret the home of Matilda Joslyn Gage, and gifts will be tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law. For more information about the Steinem tea, contact:
The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation
foundation@matildajoslyngage.org
(315) 637-9511