AWF

Since 1993, CREW Atlanta has donated over $1.3 million to the Atlanta Women’s Foundation (AWF) to help battle the following statistics:

• More children in Atlanta live in poverty than in any other city in the U.S.
• 48% of these children live in families with annual incomes of less than $15,000.
• For children under age 6 living in female-headed families with no spouse present, the poverty rate is 58.8%.
• Minimum wage in Georgia is $7.25 per hour, which yields $15,080 per year before taxes.

CREW Atlanta directs our dollars through AWF to support non-profit organizations that prepare girls for economic empowerment and self-sufficiency.  In these troubled economic times, the programs supported by AWF are strained by the enormous demand, so the efforts of AWF, and therefore CREW Atlanta, are more important than ever before. 

CREW Foundation

In 2009, three Georgia students were awarded $30,000 scholarships from the CREW Foundation, which grants only ten scholarships nationwide each year.  We asked one of the 2008 scholarship recipients to let us know what it meant to her to win this scholarship.  She said, in part:

“…First I got to participate in the CREW convention in Houston, where I not only met the CREW board of directors. . . . It was the first time that I felt from members of an organization such a genuine desire to help each other achieve their career and professional goals, no matter where you are on the social/corporate ladder. My internship this summer at CBRE may open doors that I would not have dreamed of without the scholarship...and I feel that this is just the beginning!”

You

CREW Atlanta cannot support these important initiatives without member participation that goes above and beyond membership dues.  With the current economic crisis our country is suffering, your assistance is appreciated more than ever. 

Individual contributions made payable to the CREW Foundation are tax deductible and support local charities identified by CREW Atlanta as well as the CREW Foundation and the 8,000 Strong Campaign.