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Title IX Don't Let Our Daughters Grow up Without It !! 
                         
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FWF Announcing Title IX Awareness
Community Campaign

Title IX: No person in the United States shall, based on Gender, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.

Title IX of Education Amendments in 1972
No matter what gender you are, you are to be allowed the same rights and privileges as the people around you in your school and place of work.

FWF Title IX GOAL:  with your help, FWF will raise $200,000, for Granting to support

Community Non-Profits by September 2009.

Here are some ways YOU can help…

1. Collect $9 for 99 days

2.  You and 8 Friends can give or collect $1 daily for 99 days

3. Small Business’ can ask 9 Customers or Clients to donate $9 for 99 days as they visit your place of Business

4. Create a Giving Circle of 9 members to raise $9 for 99days

.89cents of every dollar YOU RAISE

goes to support local programs working to:

• Reduce the rising DROPOUT rates in the Region
• Support Micro Enterprise
• Provide Job Skills Training
• Help to End Domestic & Street Violence
• Increase Access Healthcare

What does YOUR Community get in return?

• Educated & Highly Skilled Workforce
• Future Leaders, Entrepreneurs, & Skilled Professionals
• An Opportunity to Reduce these NEGATIVE statistics

Why Title IX IS Important to YOU!   

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DID you Know?

• Girls who play sports are 50% less likely to get pregnant as their non-athletic peers!

• Playing sports makes girls and boys less likely to abuse drugs & alcohol, both of which can lead to risky decisions about sex.

• When girls participate in any physical activity, they report higher levels of self-esteem and wait longer before having sex for the first time, have it less often, and have fewer partners.

• High school athletes of both genders and all ethnicities tend to have better grades, wether it is for eligibility or just from being engaged
 

In El Paso County School Districts combined:

• 62% of our community’s children are considered at-risk.

• 70% are economically disadvantaged. 

• 1 in 2 Hispanic, African American or Native American children are likely to drop out

• In El Paso, the Hispanic dropout rate is 45.2%

(El Paso Average: 42.7%, Texas Average:  33.2%, National Average: 30.4%)
Statistics: U.S Census 2007 & Institute Women’s Policy Research

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