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Soroptimist Ruby Award: For Women Helping Women


The Soroptimist Ruby Award acknowledges women who are working to improve the lives of women and girls through their personal or professional activities. Their efforts help to promote the issues that are important to the Soroptimist organization.

Honorees are women who have worked in extraordinary ways to benefit women and girls. Examples of the type of work honored include: spearheading an effort to open a domestic violence shelter, working to secure health services for low-income women, starting a mentoring program for at-risk girls, or lobbing companies to provide on-site child care.

The program enables local Soroptimist clubs and the Soroptimist organization to thank these women and encourage others to explore ways to assist women and girls. The program begins on the club level, where the type of recognition varies. Award winners at the club level are eligible for additional awards at other levels of the organization. The finalist receives a $5,000 donation to the charitable organization of her choice.



  • Meet Margarita Guille Tomayo, the 2011 Soroptimist Ruby Award: For Women Helping Women finalist

  • Meet Lisa Culp, the 2010 Soroptimist Ruby Award: For Women Helping Women finalist

 


Soroptimist Ruby Award: For Women Helping Women fact sheet


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Federation Sponsor of The Ruby Award


Janney Montgomery Scott LCC



Soroptimist is pleased to announce that JMS is now a proud sponsor of the Soroptimist Ruby Award: For Women Helping Women. This sponsorship demonstrates Janney’s investment in women who have worked in extraordinary ways to benefit women and girls. This generous sponsorship supports women and girls, which in turn impacts families, communities, and ultimately the world we live in. Watch a short video featuring this year's Soroptimist Ruby Award: For Women Helping Women recipient, Margarita Guille Tamayo.


Founded in 1832, Janney is an integral part of the United States’ financial history, holding the second oldest continuously operated membership in the New York Stock Exchange. The firm ranks as a major, full service securities broker/dealer, providing individual, corporate and institutional investors with comprehensive financial services and investment banking expertise.


Adrienne Horen of Janney Montgomery Scott is a Soroptimist member and long time financial advisor to Soroptimist International of the Americas. To ask Adrienne a question, click here!