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Hedge Fund Women, Credit Suisse Aid Kids With School Supplies
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It looked as if 8-year-old Raven Rivera would start third grade without a book bag, and then a truckload of backpacks came to her rescue, thanks to a nonprofit formed by women executives from the financial world.
In its fifth annual drive, High Water Women collected about 5,800 backpacks this summer and distributed them through other organizations to needy children in the New York area. Raven’s bag, which came through the Iris House: A Center for Women Living with HIV Inc., also had notebooks, pens and pads.