Making a Difference in 2008

100 Women in Hedge Funds now has more than 8,000 registered members around the world. We run events in seven cities in the US and four in Europe and Asia. Check out upcoming events. Please contact our Education Committee if you have ideas for speakers or topics you would like to hear.

As many know, we host big fundraising events in New York and London every year, but members around the world also have fun and do good by establishing teams--of men and women--to participate in local "Race for the Cure" events. 2008 marks the 25th Anniversary of the Susan B. Komen 'Race for the Cure' and Team 100WHF will do its first walk/run on May 11, in Minneapolis. You can visit Susan B. Komen for the Cure to organize a race/walk in your town. Encourage friends and colleagues to get involved and 'make a difference' by organizing a 'Team 100WHF' in your local area or supporting one of the many events hosted throughout the country. Learn more about the Minneapolis race team.

We also have four women signed up already to do the Hike for Hope, a week's trek in March 2009 across the Sinai desert, for 100WHF's UK charity of the year, Wellbeing of Women. To participate or learn more about that event, please visit Action for Charity-Hike For Hope. To sponsor the women doing the trek or for other inquires, please contact our Executive Director.

There are many ways to get involved. We need your participation to ensure that we continue to offer the unique programming we are able to provide without charging membership dues.

• Become a Sustaining Angel by supporting the organization financially at a level of $1000+ for US angels or £1000 for London angels. Contact our Angels Committee for more details.
   
• Let us know if you have access to industry speakers. Contact our Education Committee.
   
• Get your company to host an education event in one of our 10 locations around the globe. Contact our Education Committee.
   
• Get your company to buy a table at one of our 2008 Galas. Contact our New York Gala Committee for US Gala and fundraisers, and London Gala Committee for London Gala and other fundraisers in Europe.

What's New

• 100 Women in Hedge Funds' Board of Directors has named The Harold P. Freeman Patient Navigation Institute at the Ralph Lauren Center as the beneficiary of its Annual New York Gala to be held at Cipriani 42nd St on November 19, 2008, and other fundraisers to be held in the US during the year. For full details, please read the press release (PDF).
   
  100 Women in Hedge Funds' support will help the Ralph Lauren Center augment its existing Screening and Patient Navigation Programs in the areas of breast, cervical and colon cancer, and leverage its expertise to establish two Satellite Patient Navigation Programs in medically underserved communities in Chicago, IL and in San Francisco/Oakland, CA.
   
  To purchase a table or individual tickets or to make a donation, please visit Annual New York Gala.
   
• Hong Kong's first education event was held April 2 with Dinakar Singh, Founding Partner, TPG-Axon Capital.

  www.flickr.com Photos from Hong Kong, April 2, with Dinakar Singh

  
   
• 100 Women in Hedge Funds congratulates Jane Mendillo, the 100 Women in Hedge Funds' Industry Leadership Award honoree from the 2007 New York Gala, on her appointment as President of Harvard Management Company.
   
• 100 Women in Hedge Funds London has named Wellbeing of Women its beneficiary for 2008 events, including the Second Annual Gala in London to be held on September 24. Industry veterans Leda Braga of BlueCrest Capital and Man Group plc deputy chairman Stanley Fink have been selected to receive the 100 Women in Hedge Funds Leadership and Effecting Change Awards.
  For full details, please read the press release (PDF).
   
  To purchase a table or individual tickets, for sponsorship opportunities or to make a donation, please visit Second Annual Gala in London.