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Women's Center Awarded Grant for WE Conference

For Immediate Release
December 18, 2004
Contact: John Hammond, Director
San Antonio College - Public Relations, 210-733-2147

The San Antonio College Women's Center has been awarded a $5,000 grant from the Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundation to fund the WE (Women Empowered) Conference, which is scheduled for May 14, 2005.

The WE Conference is a recruitment and outreach event for low-income, adult women, with an emphasis on single parents, displaced homemakers, adult learners, welfare-to-work program participants, and GED graduates whose education has been interrupted.

The Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundation funded the 2004 WE Conference, with more than 300 women attending and 13 receiving $10,000 in scholarships from the City of San Antonio and other women's organizations to enroll at San Antonio College.

Co-sponsored by the Mayor's Commission for the Status of Women and the Hispanic Women's Network of Texas, the WE Conference includes inspirational speakers and workshops providing information about furthering their education and opportunities for the future.

The San Antonio College Women's Center was established in 1981 to serve adult re-entry women and made 3,000 contacts in its first year. In the 2002-2003 academic year alone, the Center served 21,453 people with its expanded mission to serve non-traditional college students, single parents, dislocated workers, welfare recipients, and first-generation college students. About 75 percent are Latinas who are academically and economically disadvantaged.

The Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundation is a Bexar County private foundation serving to enhance the lives in the communities of 50 South and Central Texas counties.

For more information about the Women's Center or the WE Conference, call Dr. Helen Vera, Coordinator, at 733-2299.