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 …

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,” …

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 …

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 children’s lives. . …

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 …

Volunteer Spotlight – Diana Orozco

Diana is a WANDA volunteer and member of our Partnership Committee charged with building our collaborative engagement plan, management process and evaluation. She has also worked with the Program Committee on English to Spanish translation …