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WANDA Awarded Sutter Health Palo Alto Community Foundation Grant
We are thrilled to announce that WANDA has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the Sutter Health Palo Alto Community Foundation. This generous grant will support our mission of transforming the lives of striving single mother families through socioeconomic mobility and...
Recap: Mother’s Day Tea
We hosted a fabulous Mother’s Day Tea for new WANDA allies to hear directly from two of our moms, Stacey Mobley and Sophia Sandoval. Both Stacey and Sophia kindly shared their first-hand experiences and how transformative the WANDA program was for their financial...
Volunteer Spotlight: Sheetal Bagde
Sheetal Bagde is a Certified Financial Planner professional with extensive experience supporting high net worth families in investments, taxation, stock options, and estate planning. Sheetal has volunteered with WANDA for the last seven years, providing pro-bono...
Alumna Spotlight: Corinna Chan
Corinna Chan's journey with WANDA has been one of perseverance and transformation. Originally a member of cohort 13, financial difficulties made it impossible for Corinna to save for several months, forcing her to drop out of the program. However, she refused to let...
Happy Women’s History Month
Happy Women’s History Month! All March long, we are celebrating mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts, and grandmothers; honoring the contributions, experiences, and individuality of women everywhere. March 8 marked International Women’s Day and March 12 marked National...
Recap: “Beyond Surviving to Thriving”
Earlier this month, we attended the webinar “Beyond Surviving to Thriving: Building a Gender Equitable Economy Based on Womens’ Lived Experience,” hosted by Asset Funders Network (AFN). This engaging event highlighted “Women in the Economy,” a two-year research and...
Alumna Spotlight: Blanca Medina
A huge congratulations to one of our amazing Alumnas Blanca Medina for recently facilitating WANDA’s new Financial Literacy class focused on budgeting. We are thrilled to announce that she will be the lead facilitator for our next partnership cohort with MidPen...
DiversityInc Profiles WANDA Mom, Charisse
WANDA alumna Charisse Fontes shares her story in this DiversityInc article, "Race, Homelessness and the Role of Corporate Social Responsibility." Read the full article: https://bit.ly/3YWZ3u5 "When Fontes was homeless, she was determined to improve her...
Keep Moving Forward
Moving forward is what WANDA moms do – they overcome obstacles and build a legacy of accomplishment that inspires others and changes their family’s trajectory upwards. MLK honored his mother and talked of how the best thing she and other mothers could do was instill a...
WANDA Awarded Grants from Atkinson Foundation and Sutter Health
We are thrilled to share that the Atkinson Foundation and Sutter Health Palo Alto Medical Foundation each awarded WANDA $10,000 in grant funding in support of our program and operations. We’d like to extend our gratitude to both foundations for their continued support...