Uplifting and Celebrating Women at Ocean Casino Resort

Ocean Casino Resort is proud to be a part of the Atlantic City Boardwalk community—a community that simply wouldn’t exist without the tireless efforts of women past and present. 

This is just one reason we’re excited to celebrate International Women’s Day this March. From the incredible women on our staff to those paving the way for equality beyond the Boardwalk, we recognize that women are the driving force for positive change on a community and national level. 

Let’s zoom in on how we’re celebrating International Women’s Day in Atlantic City. We’re excited to uplift some of the most important voices on the Boardwalk.

Check out our Women's Day Activations at Ocean Casino Resort!

What Is International Women’s Day?

Celebrated annually on March 8, International Women’s Day has two key intentions:

1. Honoring the achievements of women – International Women’s Day is a time to celebrate women’s biggest wins in all aspects of life: political, social, economic, and cultural.
2. Advocating gender equality – While women have been leading the charge for generations, the fight isn’t over. International Women’s Day also serves as a call to action for everyone (not just women) to join the fight for gender equality. 

Our plans for International Women’s Day incorporate both of these intentions: We want to celebrate the women in our community making a difference and offer financial support to the gender equality leaders of tomorrow. 

Creating Opportunities, Spotlighting Community Partners

This year, we’re focused on a couple of specific initiatives during our International Women’s Day celebration: offering scholarships to Atlantic City High School seniors and serving lunch to two local organizations supporting women in crisis. 

Scholarships for Atlantic City High School Seniors

To recognize the impact of women while extending opportunities to the next generation of changemakers, Ocean Casino Resort has opened an essay contest to Atlantic City High School seniors. Five winners will receive $1,000 scholarships to help further their education at a college, university, or trade program. 

Essays can address one of two topics:

1. The impact of women in the past or in current events
2. A woman who has significantly impacted the writer’s life

We want to recognize that big changes don’t just happen at the national level, in policymaking, or in activism—the women in our lives have the power to make a positive impact on the individual level, too. 

Lunch at Adelaide’s Place

In addition to our scholarship essay competition, Ocean Casino Resort will be serving lunch at two of our partner organizations: Adelaide’s Place and Avanzar. 

Adelaide’s Place offers daytime services to Atlantic City women with limited resources or places to go. The organization provides:

• Connections to housing, health, and other service agencies
• Life skills training
• Arts and crafts
• Coffee and snacks
• Clothing and toiletries
• Laundry facilities

Adelaide’s Place has been a community hub for homeless and disenfranchised women in AC for over 20 years. Their work offers a true refuge for local women in need, and their mission is simple: to improve the daily lives of women.

Lunch at Avanzar

We’ll also be serving lunch at Avanzar: an Atlantic City community cornerstone founded in 1975. 

Originally opened as The Women’s Center, Avanzar has grown to offer a wide range of services to local women in need:

• Crisis hotline services
• A crisis shelter
• Victim advocacy
• Emergency services
• Workforce development and counseling
• Support programs for human trafficking survivors
• Domestic violence and sexual assault awareness and prevention services
• Community education resources

Avanzar started as a group of five passionate women who established a 24-hour sexual assault counseling hotline, taking crisis calls from their home phones. Over nearly 50 years, the organization has expanded; now, they seek to “empower individuals and families by working to secure their physical safety, emotional well-being, individual freedom, and economic equality.”

We’re proud to support both Avanzar and Adelaide’s Place this International Women’s Day.

Ocean Cares 2025

Ocean Casino Resort isn’t just committed to philanthropic efforts on International Women’s Day; our Ocean Cares initiatives support national and local organizations year-round. 

Ocean Cares is our resort-wide charitable giving program. Each year, we select a number of partner organizations to receive financial support, in-kind donations, and event hosting. One of our most successful Ocean Cares campaigns was our 2023 Change for Change initiative—our guests donated over $90,000 in change slips to support non-profit organizations on the Boardwalk and beyond.

Check out our Ocean Cares page to stay up to date on our charitable giving efforts in 2025. We’re excited about this year’s initiatives, and we can’t wait to share them with you! 

Ocean Casino Resort: Celebrating and Supporting Women

Ocean Casino Resort is so much more than an Atlantic City Boardwalk hotel: We’re a hub of big wins and big love for the AC community. 

We’re looking forward to celebrating International Women’s Day with our guests, our staff, and our Boardwalk family. Learn more about our 2025 charitable giving and our past community support efforts here.

Sources:

International Women’s Day. Learn About International Women’s Day (IWD). https://www.internationalwomensday.com/About-IWD