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• Nurses' Investor Education Project
• West Virginia Rural Retirement Project
• Heinz Family Philanthropies

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2012 Events

Wyoming Retirement System Seminar: It's Your Financial Journey
WISER President Cindy Hounsell will be presenting a seminar she co-authored for the Wyoming Retirement System. The seminar is specifically developed to inform women of the unique challenges they face in achieving retirement security.
Kiwanis Community House at Lions Park
10:00am-1:00pm MDT (Mountain Daylight Time)
October 24, 2012 in Cheyenne, Wyoming

Free Two-Part Webinar Series
Click here for more information and to register for the series.

Planning for Your Financial Future, Part I: What Women Need to Know about Pensions and Retirement Savings
Featuring Amy Matsui, National Women’s Law Center, Rebecca Davis, Pension Rights Center, and Kathy Stokes, Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER). Join us to find out how you can save for retirement and use all the tools available to plan for your future.
12pm
September 6, 2012

Planning for Your Financial Future, Part II: What Women Need to Know about Social Security
Featuring Joan Entmacher, National Women’s Law Center, and Elisa Walker, National Academy of Social Insurance. Find out more about the benefits Social Security provides, including before retirement, and how your decisions (and your spouse’s, if you are married) about when to claim benefits can affect the income you’ll have for the rest of your life. Take control of your financial future! These informative webinars, part of the National Women’s Law Center’s Citi Education Series on Family Economic Security, will take some of the mystery out of pensions, retirement savings, and Social Security and help you get on the right track.
1pm
September 20, 2012

Taking the Mystery Out of Retirement Planning - A Focus on Women & Retirement.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012 1pm-2:15pm
On Tuesday, Sept. 11, Join WISER President Cindy Hounsell for a Webinar on "Taking the Mystery Out of Retirement Planning - A Focus on Women & Retirement." This webinar will run from 1pm-2:15pm and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration. Click here for more information and to register.
1pm
Septmeber 11, 2012

African Americans and Retirement: What You Should Know Before It's Too Late
WISER will be presenting at this public forum sponsored by Spelman College in coordination with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration. The discussion will focus on how to avoid pitfalls in the retirement marketplace, and ways, especially for African American women, to better manage and protect retirement savings.
Spelman College
12:30-3:30pm
April 28, 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia

American Society on Aging's annual Aging in America Conference
Re-Assembly Required: Why Midlife Boomer Women Must Rewrite Their Life, and It's A Crime! Elder Abuse: The Research, The Players & The Circumstances.
Marriott Wardman Park
8:00 - 9:30 am
March 29 & 30, 2012 in Washington, DC

Webinar: Single, Savvy, And Secure
AARP and WISER will be hosting Single, Savvy, and Secure: Five Tips for Living Well in the Future. With 28 million single women ages 45+, single is the new norm. AARP and WISER will discuss ways that single women can address retirement planning.
7:00pm
March 29, 2012

Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
Women and Retirement: What Every Woman Should Know Before It's Too Late
Bunker Hill Community College, Lecture Hall C202
12:30 - 3:30 pm
February 25, 2012 in Boston, MA