#our100days Day 9

Stories Matter

The danger of a single story—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2009 TEDTalk is particularly relevant and poignant today. “Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.”

Here’s what we’re doing today:

Click here to view this powerful and inspirational TEDTalk and share with 5 friends.

Get on social media, use #our100days, and let people know what you learned.

 

#our100days Day 8

Know, then Act

Women and girls across the country need our help to thrive economically. Before we can effectively act, however, it’s imperative that we are informed so we can create viable solutions to our community’s problems.

Here’s what we’re doing today:

Did you know? 1 in 4 women in the Washington region are living under the poverty line. Read & share our latest report on poverty statistics and more: http://wawf.org/2015PovertyRates. Get on Twitter and Facebook, use #our100days, and share what you learned. Let’s start an informed conversation about poverty in the Washington region.

Sample Tweets:

Did you know? 1 in 4 #DC #MD #VA women are living under the poverty line. Read @TheWomensFndtn’s report: http://wawf.org/2015PovertyRates #our100days

 

#our100days Day 7

Power and Potential

Thank you for joining us for #our100days campaign! Our movement is growing every day. So far we have over 1000 people with us, standing together for the women and girls in our communities. Through social media, our combined efforts have reached more than 250,000 people. Let’s keep up the good work.

Here’s what we’re doing today:

Get on Twitter and Facebook, use #our100days, tag a friend, and ask them to join you in spreading the word on the issues that directly impact women and girls. When we come together, we amplify our message.

Sample Tweets:

[Insert friend’s name] will you stand for women & girls? Join me & @TheWomensFndtn in taking 1 action every day: wawf.org/2jJH8qW #our100days

These are #our100days. [Insert friend’s name] join me and @TheWomensFndtn in standing with women and taking action every day: wawf.org/2jJH8qW

RT if you believe real change happens when we come together. Join me and @TheWomensFndtn for #our100days movement: wawf.org/2jJH8qW

 

#our100days Day 6

Helping Our Neighbors

Let’s keep our movement going forward!

Yesterday, President Trump signed two executive orders on immigration, one of which could threaten federal funding to sanctuary cities. Mayor Muriel Bowser had previously declared Washington, DC a sanctuary city, and she reiterated that commitment shortly after the executive order was signed, saying, “I will not let the residents of DC live in fear. The District is and will continue to be a sanctuary city.”

Here’s what we’re doing today:

Learn more about the important work five organizations are doing to protect and support immigrants, then share this information with your friends.

Ayuda
Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center
CARECEN
Many Languages One Voice
National Imigration Law Center

Get on social media, use #our100days, and let people know what you learned.

 

#our100days Day 5

Women Crush Wednesday

It’s a new day, and we have a new task for you. Join us in taking action and making a difference for women and girls.

Here’s what we’re doing today:

During these times, it’s important to look for inspiration from our heroes. Pay tribute to your favorite women’s activist on social media using #our100days.

Sample tweets:

Let’s fight with @cecilerichards for #our100days. Women need access to contraception! #WCW

Jane Addams is one of my biggest heroes. All women should have access to childcare and education. #WCW #our100days

Betty Friedan pushed for equality in the workplace in 1970, and equal pay still isn’t here. Let’s keep demanding change. #WCW #our100days

Shirley Chisholm is one of my favorite champions of equality. Every woman has the right to run for office and make change. #WCW #our100days

 

#our100days Day 4

Your Voice, Your Community

Thanks for joining us again. Taking action together every day ensures that our message is heard. Be sure to send our site our100days.thewomensfoundation.org to your friends who believe in the power and potential of women and girls..

Here’s what we’re doing today:

Tell us what issue impacting women and girls in your community is your biggest priority. Tag us on Facebook or Twitter, use #our100days, and let’s start a conversation.

 

#our100days Day 3

Ask the Question

Thanks for joining us in accomplishing today’s action. By focusing our efforts and working together, we can create lasting change for women and girls.

Here’s what we’re doing today:

A list of top issues on the new White House website fails to address priorities for women and families, including education, health care, child care, equal pay, civil rights, and LGBTQ rights.

Using #our100days, tweet at the White House and ask them what their agenda for women and girls will include.

Sample tweets:

@whitehouse How will you advance the rights of women and girls in #our100days?

@whitehouse (fill in the blank with your issue) is important to me. How will @POTUS advance (fill in the blank) in #our100days?

After more than 1 million women marched nationwide, what will the @whitehouse & @POTUS do to address their concerns in #our100days?

If you don’t have a Twitter handle, send a letter or an email. Just follow these easy steps: wikihow.com/Contact-the-President-of-the-United-States

 

#our100days Day 2 Action

A Tweet of Appreciation

For those just joining us, we’re coming together every day to accomplish a single task. By working as one, we’ll make a difference in the lives of women and girls in our communities.

Here’s what we’re doing today:

Using #our100days, tweet at Mayor Muriel Bowser (@mayorbowser) to thank her for standing up for women and girls at the Women’s March on Washington.

 

Juanita King 2016 Luncheon Remarks

Has anyone ever investigated themselves? I have and I realized I am an overcomer. The definition of the word overcomer is to beat, to defeat, to conquer, and to gain the victory of. And I have done all of that. Today I am 8 years clean of crack cocaine and undetectable of HIV. I would like to recite a poem by Alexis Xia:

If we can fight together, we must strive together
If we can play together, we must pray together
If we can plan together, we must stand together
If we can cry together, we must try together
If we sing together, we must make peace together
If we stick together, we must stay together
If we have faith together, we must believe together
If we work together, we can make this a better place.

I would like to thank the Washington Area Women’s Foundation for allowing me to stand here today. I would like to thank my daughter, my mother, my sister, my pastors, and my encourager, Mr. Thomas Penny, for coming out today. And I would also like to thank the Goodwill program, for it was you who helped lift me and today I can smile again.

Statement on Washington Area Women’s Foundation Leadership in New Regional Effort

Jennifer Lockwood-Shabat’s Statement on

Washington Area Women’s Foundation’s Leadership in New Regional Effort

to Strengthen the Early Care and Education Professional Workforce

 

February 23, 2016 – Today, Washington Area Women’s Foundation President and CEO Jennifer Lockwood-Shabat issued the following statement:

I’m pleased to announce Washington Area Women’s Foundation’s investment in the Washington Region Early Care & Education Workforce Network, a new effort seeking to drive change in the early care and education professional workforce across the Washington region.

 We know that early education is key to a child’s wellbeing and economic security later in life. To provide these critical building blocks for low-income children in our region, we must ensure that early care and education providers are fully equipped with the supports and skills they need. We also know that, despite its critical impact, early care and education is one of the lowest paying professional fields – and jobs are predominately held by women workers, themselves struggling to support families on low wages. By investing in this regional effort, we can support the advancement of these workers, and children and families will have access to higher quality programs.

The Washington Region Early Care & Education Workforce Network was formed as a unified, collaborative response to the recommendations outlined in the report, Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation,  released last year by the National Academy of Medicine.  This year, the Network will participate with a handful of states from across the country to develop local plans for implementing the recommendations of that seminal report. Our regional implementation plan will be released in October 2016.”

In addition to Washington Area Women’s Foundation’s Early Care and Education Funders Collaborative, other national sponsors of this project include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, McCormick Foundation, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

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About Washington Area Women’s Foundation

Washington Area Women’s Foundation is a DC-based public foundation dedicated to mobilizing our community to ensure that economically vulnerable women and girls in the Washington region have the resources they need to thrive. Learn more about The Women’s Foundation’s mission to transform the lives of women and girls, the Washington region, and the world by visiting us online, on Facebook or on Twitter.

About the Early Care and Education Funders Collaborative

Washington Area Women’s Foundation established the Early Care and Education Funders Collaborative in 2008, as a multi-year, multi-million dollar collective funding effort. The Collaborative is supported and directed by corporate funders and local and national foundations. Current investors include: Bainum Family Foundation, The Boeing Company, Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, PNC Foundation, Richard E. and Nancy P. Marriott Foundation, Washington Area Women’s Foundation, Weissberg Foundation, and The World Bank Group.

 

To sign up for updates and engagement opportunities from the Washington Region Early Care & Education Workforce Network, click here: http://goo.gl/forms/AvTx1DnmFB