{"id":312521,"date":"2019-11-21T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T20:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=312521"},"modified":"2019-11-21T06:00:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T20:00:24","slug":"businesses-support-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/businesses-support-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Businesses support women"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_312522\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-312522\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Businesses-Women-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-312522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Businesses-Women-pix-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-312522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CNMI Women\u2019s Association program administrator Felicidad Ogumoro, center, receives a $1,500 donation from McDonald\u2019s Saipan, in support of CWA\u2019s first annual \u201cFun-Raise-Her\u201d Dinner on Friday, Nov. 22, from 6pm to 10pm, at the Hibiscus Hall of Fiesta Resort &amp; Spa Saipan in Garapan. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The CNMI Women\u2019s Association welcomes business partners as corporate sponsors of the first Women\u2019s \u201cFun-Raise-Her\u201d Dinner on Friday, Nov. 22, from 6pm to 10pm, at the Hibiscus Hall of Fiesta Resort &amp; Spa Saipan in Garapan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe stress our strong commitment to continue supporting and advocating for the education, employment, and economic equity for all women for a better and stronger Commonwealth,\u201d CWA program administrator Felicidad Ogumoro said. \u201cWith corporate sponsorships, we can continue to realize this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McDonald\u2019s Saipan recently donated $1,500 to CWA support of its inaugural \u201cFun-Raise-Her\u201d Dinner. The event, which CWA wants to become a yearly fundraiser, is intended to be CWA\u2019s signature event to celebrate, support, and help raise much-needed funds for women.<\/p>\n<p>Other corporate sponsors that have signed up are Tan Siu Lin Foundation and TanHoldings, Bank of Guam, IT&amp;E, Marianas Variety, and Fiesta Resort &amp; Spa. Each gave CWA either $1,500 cash or in-kind donations.<\/p>\n<p>CWA invites the community to support the fundraiser, to help further advance girls and women in the CNMI.<\/p>\n<p>With tickets priced at $75 per person, proceeds from the first \u201cFun-Raise-Her\u201d would support CWA\u2019s operations and programs, services, and activities on women\u2019s education, career training, and leadership development.<\/p>\n<p>Year after year, CWA continues to expand traditional networks of assistance through its collaboration with employment and education providers while continuing community-based efforts to increase access and opportunity for our women and their families.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on CWA programs and to purchase \u201cFun-Raise-Her\u201d tickets, contact 233-8978\/9411, email cwa.fogumoro@gmail.com, or visit the CWA Office (Building #1223) on Capital Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI Women\u2019s Association welcomes business partners as corporate sponsors of the first Women\u2019s \u201cFun-Raise-Her\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}