Women's Fund for Health, Education and Research (HER), 1979-1997.

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Women's Fund for Health, Education and Research (HER), 1979-1997.

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The Women's Fund for HER donated twelve record cartons to the University of Houston Women's Archive and Research Center in July 2000. Another contribution of four record cartons arrived in March 2002. The Women's Fund records include documents on fundraising and educational outreach events, with fundraising the dominant activity. Correspondence, membership rosters, income tallies, research grant applications, and newsletters comprise the collection. The special events series is the largest, and includes annual benefit luncheons, McGovern fall seminars, spring seminars, and membership coffee/lectures. The collection is organized topically into ten series: Administration, Board of Trustees, Special Events, Granting Process, Gifts and Donations, Printing Samples, Publications, Guest Books, and Austin Office. A few artifacts such as the guest books and 5 1/4 inch floppy disks with newsletter files are also included.

14 linear ft.

University of Houston, M.D. Anderson Library

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University of Houston, M.D. Anderson Library

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In February 1979 Jacqueline and Wayne Goettsche founded the Women's Fund for Health, Education and Research with a seed endowment. Concerned that women's health issues lacked appropriate funding and that research findings using only male subjects was applied indiscriminately to women, the Goettsches established the Women's Fund to support research on women's health issues and to disseminate women's health information through educational programs. The Goettsches organized a fundraisi...