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The Washington, D.C.-based Berger-Marks Foundation provides financial assistance to women who are engaged in union organizing and to assist working women who want to organize other women into unions through training, research, and other resources.
The Foundation seeks applications for the Edna Award, a new $10,000 award created to honor a young woman leader in the social justice movement who has made an extraordinary contribution early in her career and whose achievements indicate that her work will continue to significantly improve the lives of working women and men.
Eligibility
Young women from labor unions, women’s groups, workers’ rights groups, and other areas of social justice are encouraged to apply. Applicants must be 35 years of age or younger on December 31, 2011. Women can apply for the award themselves or be nominated by others.
Panel of Judges
Elizabeth H. Shuler, Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO will lead a judging panel of extraordinary women that includes: Valerie Ervin, President, The Montgomery County Council; Mary Kay Henry, President, Service Employees International Union; Terry O’Neill, President, National Organization for Women; and Carol D. Rothman, Secretary-Treasurer, The Newspaper Guild, CWA.
They in turn will be looking for an extraordinary young woman leader in the social justice movement who has made a valuable contribution early in her career, and whose achievements indicate that her work will continue to significantly improve the lives of working women and men.
Last date for submitting the nomination is July 15, 2011
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