Dear Friend,

First, the thanks. Then, the invitation.

Thank you from each of us on the board. You make everything possible. The Women's Fund of Rhode Island is 100% charity funded. You are our investors.

Your support already means a better, more promising life for women and girls across Rhode Island.
You've done more than you might realize. With your gift to the Women's Fund of Rhode Island, you've helped launch a dozen innovative programs that can improve the well-being of our state's women and girls. You've influenced legislative action. You've researched the truth and revealed important new facts about the real situation for women and girls in Rhode Island.

Thanks to your help, women's issues are again receiving serious public attention. The Providence Journal devoted two days of front-page coverage to the Fund's surprising 2006 poll results regarding women's political behavior in Rhode Island.

Today, we're thrilled to say, we have yet another reason for writing. We want you to join us. We'd like to see you inside Simone's Circle.

Simone's Circle is our new legacy society. It is destined to be our most exclusive group...but the best kind of exclusive. In this small circle you will find just those determined to keep their values alive...forever.

If you believe that the problems of Rhode Island's women and girls can find solutions...as long as someone cares enough to stand up and do something...consider joining us inside Simone's Circle.

Which, though exclusive, is quite easy to join.

To enroll, simply include in your will a charitable gift for the Women's Fund of Rhode Island...and let us know. We will acknowledge your gift immediately and automatically enroll you in the Circle and all its activities. Of course, we will also assure your privacy, if you wish your gift to remain anonymous.

Any size gift in your will qualifies you for membership in the Society. Please, though, consider two more points:

• For a $5,000 bequest, you can name your fund, as a memorial.
• For a $100,000 planned gift, you can specify how exactly you'd like your money spent (for example, “financial literacy for women and girls.”)

By tucking something away for the Women's Fund in your estate plans, as a Simone's Circle member, you help guarantee that issues affecting Rhode Island's women and girls won't be ignored ... ever again.

(On another note, I hope you'll find it reassuring to know that your bequest to the Women's Fund will be managed by the Rhode Island Foundation, established in 1916, and one of the nation's most admired community foundations.)

Please consider joining Simone's Circle. Simply return the enclosed card to notify the Women's Fund of your pledged bequest.

And thank you, as always, for your essential support.

Faithfully yours,
Board of Directors, Women's Fund of Rhode Island

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