Women's Health Free Clinic Happy Hour Fundraiser this Saturday!

The WHFC is the nation's first comprehensive student-run free women's health clinic. The clinic is a partnership between New York University School of Medicine, the Reproductive Health Access Project, and the Institute for Family Health. Since our opening on February 9th, 2008 we have provided, at no cost to our patients, a full-range of reproductive health services including contraception, options counseling, medication abortion, specialty referrals, counseling, and patient education. We are dedicated to training medical students in patient-centered reproductive heath care and to nurturing the longstanding traditions of volunteerism and community service among healthcare professionals.

The fundraiser will also serve as the Medical Students for Choice (MSFC) Regional conference social event. This fundraiser is open to the public (so bring all your friends!) and will be broadly advertised to the greater medical community.

Please join us to raise money for WHFC. All of your donations will go directly to patient care. Belmont Lounge is a lovely venue right by Union Square- start your night early with a few drinks for a good cause!

WHAT: WHFC Happy Hour Fundraiser
WHEN: April 11, Saturday, 5-8PM
WHERE: Belmont Lounge (117 E. 15th Street New York, NY)
WHY: Because everyone deserves accessible, comprehensive reproductive healthcare!

Admissions*:
$5 for students in advance ($7 at the door)
$15 for non-students
*With admissions, every individual will receive a free vodka drink! Enjoy $4 beer, wine, and well mixed-drinks between 5-8PM.

We will be selling tickets in advance the week of the event (April 6-10) in front of the Ehrman Library.

We hope to see you there!

PS: If you can't make the fundraiser, you can still support the WHFC with an online donation: http://www.nyu.edu/giving/make.gift/giving.html?id=1000014

SOCIAL JUSTICE HAPPY HOUR BENEFITING THE MS. FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN

OUTRAGEOUS ACTS: A SOCIAL JUSTICE HAPPY HOUR BENEFITING THE MS. FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN

Where: The Beauty Bar @ 231 East 14th Street between 2nd – 3rd Avenues
When: April 7th, 6:00 – 9:00 PM
How Much: $8 minimum

Your donation supports the Ms. Foundation for Women in making grants and providing training to organizations at the local, state, Tribal and national levels working for progressive changes in policy and culture.

The evening will include: Drinks, desserts and conversation

NYAAF Book Reading Tonight in Brooklyn!

Book Reading: Kathryn Joyce, Jennifer Baumgardner and Michelle Goldberg

March Edition of the Other Means Reading Series Benefits the New York Abortion Access Fund (NYAAF)

Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: The Flying Saucer
Street: 494 Atlantic Avenue
City/Town: Brooklyn, NY


Great literary event for a suggested donation of just $5!

Journalists Kathryn Joyce, Jennifer Baumgardner and Michelle Goldberg are reading from their books Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement, Abortion and Life, and The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World.

The event is part of the Other Means Reading Series, a monthly progressive fundraiser which subscribes to the belief that small donations count and anyone can be a philanthropist.

Suggested donation is $5 at the door, which the authors have asked to go to NYAAF to help low income women pay for abortions they need but cannot afford.

For more about NYAAF, visit our Facebook page:
http://www.causes.com/nyaaf

Raising Women's Voices Speak Out Wednesday!

RAISING WOMEN'S VOICES FOR HEALTH REFORM

WOMEN’S SPEAK OUT!

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

7 to 9:30 p.m.

The InterChurch Center

475 Riverside Dr. at 119th Street, Manhattan

(Enter through the Claremont Avenue side of the building)

This is a FREE EVENT!

Come and share your stories about why we need health reform this year!

Emcee is Byllye Avery, founder of the Black Women’s Health Imperative

Moderator is Dr. Nancy Snyderman, NBC News Chief Medical Editor

Performance by the InterChurch Gospel Choir

DIRECTIONS: No. 1 train to 116th Street, walk 1 block west (toward Hudson River), turn right and walk 1 block north on Claremont Avenue to 119th Street), OR M5 bus to Riverside and 119th Street OR M104 bus to 120th and Broadway, walk 1 block west to Claremont Avenue and 120th.