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...When Fonda decided to stay in Atlanta after the breakup, it was widely presumed she did so to stay close to Turner. In fact, she says, she moved into her loft so she could be nearer to the downtown offices of the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (G-CAPP), an organization she founded after learning that Georgia had one of the highest teen-pregnancy rates in the U.S. G-CAPP teaches girls and women that they have authority over their bodies and that gender equality is essential to strong relationships. Fonda launched it in 1995, while she was still...
...What Fonda resents, though, is any inference that she's insincere or a dilettante. Michele Ozumba, executive director of g-capp-which now has 19 full-time employees, an annual $4.2 million budget and very little daily interference from Fonda-admits there is some skepticism when one of the most famous white women in the world speaks to minority families about sexual health and gender equality. "People definitely come with perceptions," says Ozumba. "But because this is so obviously personal for her, she's been able to disarm the stereotypes...
...supporting actress, and I liked Jennifer. She's smart. She's talented. I didn't get to know her real well, but it was fine." Fonda admits some of the attraction of returning to the screen was the cash it provided, much of which went straight to G-CAPP. She might act again, but she does not hunger for one more career-defining role. "I don't hunger for anything," she says...
...former UC treasurer Clay T. Capp ’06, who voted not to consider the bill, said that the issue was not the UC’s reluctance to get involved in the controversy, but faults of the bill itself...
...There needs to be defined expectations about what can be paid and what evidence is necessary for payment and how that is transmitted,” Capp said...