In today’s rundown: The announcement of a new initiative to create jobs for thousands of women. | A local nonprofit is the victim of vandals. | Virginia is scheduled to execute the first woman in nearly a century tonight.
— As the Clinton Global Initiative wraps up in New York today, Women’s Funding Network will announce its commitment to fund $3 million in projects for job creation, placement and retention to improve the lives of thousands of women and girls and their families, while also contributing to the recovery of the U.S. economy. The Women Moving Jobs program is being carried out in partnership with five women’s foundations, including Washington Area Women’s Foundation.
— Some of D.C. Central Kitchen’s vans were vandalized earlier this week and TBD.com reports that it appears the nonprofit was deliberately targeted. Nine vehicles were tagged with red spray paint and have been taken out of service.
— The first woman to be executed in Virginia since 1912 is scheduled to die by lethal injection tonight. Teresa Lewis was sentenced to death for hiring two men to kill her husband and stepson in 2002. There has been international opposition to her execution, including from the European Union and Iran.
