The Catherine Bertini Trust Fund for Girls’ Education


The Catherine Bertini Trust Fund for Girls’ Education

The Catherine Bertini Trust Fund for Girls’ Education seeks to fund projects that use food aid to expand access to education for girls and women. Friends of WFP is pleased to host this initiative, which was started with a generous donation from former WFP Executive Director Catherine Bertini – her entire $250,000 World Food Prize.

Goal

The goal of the Bertini Fund is to improve access to training and education for women and girls, primarily by supporting innovative efforts by WFP country offices to reach girls who are not currently participating in school meals programs.

Application Process

Projects may be submitted by WFP country offices for programs to be implemented by WFP or local partner organizations. Priority will be given to small-scale projects that specifically target women and girls. Projects should be new and innovative, rather than the expansion of existing programs.

 

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Tax deductible gifts via check can be made out to “The Catherine Bertini Trust Fund – Friends of WFP” and mailed to:
The Catherine Bertini Trust Fund
c/o Friends of WFP
1819 L Street NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20036

Catherine Bertini

Catherine Bertini
A former executive director for WFP, Catherine Bertini has received prestigious recognition, from the World Food Prize to the Gene White Lifetime Achievement Award. Since leaving WFP, Bertini served as U.N. under secretary general and now is at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School as professor of public administration practice. She is also senior fellow of agricultural development for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

For more information, contact:

Derry Deringer
Director, Major Gifts
Friends of the World Food Program
1819 L Street NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 530-1694
Fax: (202) 530-1694