La Jolla resident Deborah Lindholm knows the power of a dollar. She also knows the strength of a woman. Lindholm is one of six women who will be inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame on March 25 at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Price Center ballroom. Dinner begins at 5 p.m., followed by the ceremony, entertainment and silent auction at 6 p.m. The women were selected for their impact on the quality of life for women in San Diego County.Inductees include Lindholm, honored in the Empoweror section; Kate Sessions and Nona Cannon, both named under the Trailblazer category; Jeri Dilno, under the Activist category; Ashley Walker as part of the Cultural Competent category; and Lucy Gonzales in the Historian category. Lindholm envisioned a community in which women could gather to support one another, and also work to help impoverished women around the world. “I got the vision from some power bigger than me,” she said. In 1997, Lindholm created Foundation for Women (FFW) that provides microcredit loans to the poor, a support and meditation group for women with life-threatening diseases and support and companionship to homeless women. Lindholm often tells the story of meeting a woman who had borrowed $4 to buy a comb, a pair of scissors and a mirror to launch a barbershop. While half the world’s population ” 3 billion people ” lives on less than $2 per day, the need for microcredit banks is obvious, and gaping. FFW aims to open a microcredit bank each year. So far, the foundation has opened five banks in Tamil Nadu, India, with the capacity to serve 2,500 women and their families. Prior to starting up FFW, Lindholm ran an international financial research company. She has a master’s degree in education and counseling and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. Sessions (1857-1940) will be honored for her work in horticulture and for her introduction of trees and landscaping to Balboa Park, which she leased in 1892. Cannon helped create the world’s first Women’s Studies Department in 1969 at San Diego State University. In 1975 she attended the first United Nations (U.N.) Conference on Women and subsequently founded the U.N.’s Women’s Equity Council of San Diego. She is the author of “Roots of Violence, Seeds of Peace in People, Families and Society.” Dilno was the first woman to head San Diego’s Gay Center in 1975. She has been active in the local gay and lesbian community since the 1960s and serves as an advisor to the police on gay issues and as a community liaison. Walker spearheaded the movement against domestic violence in San Diego 20 years ago. She has operated child-abuse and domestic-violence training programs at the police department and at community agencies, and has helped advance the San Diego Police Department into a national model on domestic violence. Gonzales co-founded the Maria Clara de Pilipinas Sorority 35 years ago, which strives to preserve and promote Philippine culture in San Diego. Inductees were selected by a panel of judges, comprising representatives from the Women’s History Museum and Education Center, the San Diego County Commission on the Status of Women, the Women’s Studies Department at San Diego State University and the Women’s Center at UCSD.Admission to the induction ceremony is $64 for the public; $35 for students and seniors; and $55 for the Women’s History Museum members. A scholarship fund is also available. The Price Center is located at the corner of Villa La Jolla Drive and Gilman Drive on the UCSD campus, 9500 Gilman Drive. For more information call (619) 230-1801.The Women’s History Museum is located in downtown San Diego at 2323 Broadway, Suite 107. Admission is free; donations are suggested. The museum is open Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and on Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. For more information call (619) 233-7963 or visit www.whmec.org.