Event Highlights

  • Three honorees
  • 2022-Trailbalzers
  • 2021-TB-smiling-panel
  • 2020 Trailblazers Luncheon Honorees
  • 2019 Trailblazers Luncheon Honorees
  • Trailblazers 2018
  • 2017-04-11 Girl Rising Speaker's Panel_Amy
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  • 2015 Key4Women check
  • Freihofers2015Finish
  • 3-19-15 two tables low res
  • ASI check Jan 2015 cropped n tweaked
  • Trailblazers 2014
  • Madeline and Vera with students at HVCC Oct 2014
  • outside
  • inspiring-women-3-28-2014
  • TB 2013 3
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  • table
  • Freihofer s Community Walk 2013
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  • Paula and Myra 400w
  • 3 trailblazers cropped
  • 5
  • Freihofers2012Before ORIGcropped
  • Coffee & Conversation March 2012
  • 3 scholarship winners with Mary S and Susan S at 4th TB luncheon
  • Trailblazers2011 low res 400x223
  • evoke store photo
  • Evoke Style square collage
  • moving-up party collage
  • two AHN students listening to Rachel 300x330
  • Rachel and Susan 300x192
  • Freihofer 2009
  • 2009 Luncheon Collage 300x402
  • Trailblazers
  • mother-daughter-team-spring-2009 450x251
  • Donna Rains and Marsha Lazarus 300x231
  • collage luncheon 2008 300x234
  • Trailblazers 2008 at luncheon
  • shopping 250w
  • Heather Prince 244x165
  • collage 1 small May 2007
  • Ruth at podium 2007 lo res
  • Trailblazers 1
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  • Steering-Committee-Feb-06-250x134
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    • Photos from previous events

    December 18, 2019

    We are excited to announce that The Women’s Fund of the Capital Region is merging with the Capital District Women’s Employment & Resource Center (WERC), effective January 1, 2020.

    This partnership will allow The Women’s Fund name and activities – including giving scholarships and emergency funds, and the Trailblazers Awards Luncheon – to not just continue, but to grow. We’re thrilled at the possibilities this merger will mean for expanding The Women’s Fund’s impact.

    March 8, 2019

    On Friday, March 8, 2019, the Women’s Fund of the Capital Region honored three outstanding women of achievement at its eleventh Trailblazers Awards Luncheon at the Glen Sanders Mansion.

    Through their generosity of spirit, and leadership, they have blazed trails to make a difference in the lives of women and girls in our community.

    I am writing to express my gratitude for your generous $5000.00 Women's Fund of the Capital Region Scholarship. I was thrilled and appreciative to learn that I was selected as the recipient of your scholarship.

    I am double majoring in Nanoscale Science and Engineering and Computer Science at SCCC.

     

    We may not be able to solve all the issues women face in the world, but one-year scholarships through The Women’s Fund of the Capital Region are making a difference for women in our community today.
     
    Here’s what one local woman said of the scholarship she received through The Women's Fund:
     
    "Every day I encounter woman just like me, working hard to better themselves through education. So please, I implore you to keep

    March 9, 2018

    On Friday, March 9, 2018, the Women’s Fund of the Capital Region honored three outstanding women of achievement at its tenth Trailblazers Awards Luncheon at the Glen Sanders Mansion.

    Through their generosity of spirit, and leadership, they have blazed trails to make a difference in the lives of women and girls in our community.