Every year, the DMGT Charity committee match funds a number of charities that its five principal businesses partners with. In a series of articles we will profile these partnerships and explain why they were selected for matched funding.

Euromoney Institutional Investor supports the High Water Women Foundation

Our next profile is focussed on Euromoney and their charity partner High Water Women Foundation (HWW). High Water Women is a non-profit organization in New York City that provides economic empowerment programs to women and low-income children. Its two primary programs are a school Backpack Drive and an after-school Financial Literacy Program.

How long have Euromoney worked with the charity?

Euromoney have been supporting HWW for three years now, each year increasing its activities and fundraising, and expects to continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

How are Euromoney employees involved?

So far more than 70 Euromoney employees and their children have helped assemble backpacks that HWW distributed to kids for the start of the 2015 school year whose mothers are involved in some stage of the criminal justice system.  And this volunteer program will continue in 2016. It is also planned that HWW's Financial Literacy Program will became one of a handful of charities that Euromoney's employees will be invited to volunteer with. Working with HWW, Euromoney employees will be trained to become program instructors, and will be dispatched to teach at designated partner locations.

Euromoney's Head of Custom Media & Events, Tracey Fenton, is a trained instructor and herself volunteered personal teaching hours in 2015.  Tracey has recently joined HWW's Board of Directors.

How does the charity fit with Euromoney's strategy?

Both the Backpack Drive and the Financial Literacy Program are directly aligned with the core business of Euromoney and have a long-term impact on the children they serve. Both programs rely primarily on Euromoney's core constituencies - firms in the financial services industry and their employees - as their sources of funding and volunteerism.

Tracey Fenton, Group Head, Events, Custom Content and Partnerships, Institutional Investor Publishing - Euromoney, said, 'It's astounding that with a full-time staff of only 1 ½ people, High Water Women, through its dedicated network of community partners, corporate supporters and volunteers, were able to service more than 20,000 disadvantaged children with its programs last year. The DMGT grant will be instrumental in enabling them to far extend their reach.'

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