At the 100WS Grant Celebration last week, we announced that Early Learning Shared Services Alliance (ELSSA) had been selected as the 2023 Women’s Economic Empowerment Impact Grant Recipient.
ELSSA is on a mission to provide childcare centers and home-based providers with centralized back-office support, so that providers can grow their businesses, achieve financial stability and focus on quality programming and education.
Grant Details: This is a two-year grant of up to $40,000 per year to develop a workforce pipeline of qualified childcare teachers through the following:
Recruitment at schools and colleges
Paid internship program
Development of a substitute pool
Continuing education and career advancement.
The Early Learning Coalition of Orange Co.will be matching this grant with an investment of up to $40,000 of monetary and in-kind contributions each year.
We look forward to working with ELSSA on this project and we are incredibly grateful for the support we have already gained from our community.
100 Women Strong’s mission is to elevate the lives of women and children in Central Florida while at the same time creating a passionate community of women philanthropists. We have committed to a 3-year impact focused on Women’s Economic Empowerment from 2022 to 2024.
This year, we celebrate our 17th anniversary as a strategic women’s giving circle in Central Florida.
May 9 at 12pm, Members & Friends Lunch at Bulla RSVP
May 19 at 8am, Members & Friends Breakfast at The Glass Knife RSVP
*We will continue to monitor conditions for gathering safely and adjust accordingly.
Member Spotlight
Jan Gamache
Jan Gamache is a retired grant writer. Jan grew up in Connecticut and is the oldest of five sisters. She and her husband Paul owned a gentleman’s farm in Southern New Hampshire where they raised two children and welcomed seven grandchildren. She spent many years working for the New Hampshire Public School System after graduating from Smith College at age 54. Jan resided in New Hampshire until losing her husband of 54 years in 2015.
She moved to Florida to be close to her daughter and now has 8 great-grandchildren. Her goal is to spend as much time as possible with her family and she absolutely loves being a “Gigi." She is extremely passionate about women and children’s issues, especially education and believes that women can change their communities for the better when they work together.