Funded Programs


Proceeds from the Women’s Hall of Fame luncheon benefit the Women’s Research and Education Fund (WREF). The Fund is a non-profit organization founded in 1989 to promote equality and justice for women in Westchester County through training, advocacy, and recognition of their achievements. WREF is separate from the Office for Women. Examples of WREF-supported programs include the development of a video to teach women their legal rights in court relating to domestic violence; public hearings on the impact of welfare reform on women and children; the development of educational materials in English and Spanish on domestic violence; the distribution of scholarships to Westchester women, and many more.

WREF has made grants to the following:
  • Women’s Enterprise Development Center (WEDC): to assist women with financial and business development support to create/expand their business through a Lanza Microenterprise Awards Program
  • My Sisters' Place (MSP): to work with women seeking self-sufficiency who come through the Westchester Family Justice Center and the Avon Foundation grant program of Project Impact with WJCS and White Plains Police Department
  • Hope’s Door Counselor targeting middle eastern victims of domestic violence
  • Operation Talent Bank Program at Westchester Community College
  • Westhab ‘Top Chefs Soups’
  • Achieving Financial Freedom Conference for Hispanic/Latina Women
  • Camp Viva
  • Child Care Council of Westchester
  • Domestic Violence in the Workplace Initiative
  • Every Woman’s Conference: I, II, III, IV
  • “Her Honor” Mentoring Program
  • Women’s Enterprise Development Center’s Entrepreneurial Training Program for Latinas
  • Pace Women’s Justice Center of Westchester
  • The Martha Sloan Greenawalt Young Woman’s Mentoring Program
  • The Martha Sloan Greenawalt Social Policy Chair
  • League of Women Voters
  • The Janice Burns Memorial Trust Foundation
  • Training and Development Grants
  • Working Women Summits
  • Women’s Health Initiative
  • Women’s Individual Development Account (IDA) Program
  • Women’s Hall of Fame and Scholarship Awards Program
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