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2024 report on women's equality is out. Utah is number 50 yet again... It's so sad, because we are not only dead last in so many areas, but our overall score is 20+ points behind #49. This is part of the reason I am involved in A Bolder Way Forward https://lnkd.in/gYfeNBiy to help make Utah a better place for girls and women to thrive. https://lnkd.in/g-xUiA5F

Submit an *anonymous* case study for upcoming RAISE sessions! Have questions? Keep reading for answers to our FAQs: 🗣 "What is the goal of submitting an anonymous case study?" - Submitting an anonymous case study allows you to foster community through your shared experiences. Sharing your experiences in academia whether you are faculty or staff can help someone else to feel less alone in their career. 🗣 "Can I remain anonymous through this process?" - Absolutely! While we do lead discussions surrounding each case study received, RAISE for Women in Academia will never reveal the subjects. Participating in a discussion allows you to not only receive solutions for the concerns of your case but provide sharp solutions for other cases. 🗣 "How/where can I submit an anonymous case study?" - Submit an anonymous case study by clicking here 🔗https://lnkd.in/g25XTNTZ Visit our website 🔗unthsc.edu/RAISE or email us at [email protected] with any questions!

An important part of the RAISE program, a robust virtual community of practice and learning which I founded with Emily Vail, MD MSc., is learning from each other and from the experiences of others. Please consider submitting your experiences or challenges faced as faculty, staff or student in an academic setting. Link below, it's anonymous 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 #mentorship #community #support #education #telementoring

History tells us that women have always been change-makers. Today is the anniversary of the Mud March – the first large-scale women’s procession through London, organised by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies to raise awareness of a private member’s bill calling for women’s suffrage. This LSE blog explains more about the march https://bit.ly/4bvBY96 It's a fascinating event to celebrate and reminds us how crucial women’s and girls’ organisations are – and always have been – to the fabric of society. Crucial to us having good laws, good public policy, and good politics. They work tirelessly to tackle inequality, discrimination, and injustice. Every bit of progress in culture, law, policy, and practice in women’s and girls’ lives over the last 200 years has been pioneered by women and girls organising and mobilising. So much of what we take for granted now: equal pay legislation, support for women prisoners, domestic violence refuges, rape crisis helplines, reproductive support, childcare, maternity rights, pensions for part-time workers, or the simple right for women to have access to their own bank accounts – every single one of these has been fought for and sustained by the collective effort of women. Yet our sector is chronically under-funded. Just 1.8% of charitable funding goes to organisations run by women and girls for the benefit of women and girls. 💥 This must change 💥 Rosa is an expert funder of women’s and girls’ organisations. We understand the context in which women’s and girls’ organisations operate. We have expertise and robust due diligence processes that mean funding goes where it is most needed and it is well spent. We reach organisations many donors wouldn’t be able to fund directly without building up a significant grant-making infrastructure. Through a single donation to Rosa, donors can reach a wide range of organisations, issues and regions. Find out more about how you can support us to support women’s and girls’ organisations to keep making change that benefits all of us: https://lnkd.in/esAetPnN #charityfundraising #philanthropy #womenandgirls #charity

From the start of working at the intersection of family-supportive policy and faith, I've queried any pastors and church leaders I can find about the moms in their congregations. What are their challenges? Who supports them? How are they organized? A common answer is MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers), now titled The MomCo - a nonprofit organization that facilitates tens of thousands of gatherings of parents in local churches. MomCo and its development is important, so I was delighted to interview Kelli Jo Smith, one of MomCo's executive leaders, on behalf of Center for Public Justice. In honor of Mother's Day, here are some highlights from our conversation + the pressure to live up to a perfect and perfectly curated vision of motherhood affects lots of moms. Social media, of course, ampflies this pressure. + many moms, even those who don't consider themselves political, are affected by the reality of political strife and division. + MomCo is taking the measure of these trends by encouraging women to take active roles in the church and their community. As Kelli shared, instead of having to feel like "“I’m nailing this” every day," there's an opportunity to focus on "how are we growing, how are we changing, how are we giving back to one another." Although many moms feel they aren't contributing meaningfully to the world, the important thing is that they *want* to be. The antidote to personal pressure and public division is to start acting in hope. There's something life-giving in the turn of attention from "me" to a "we," from personal life and family (which is important) to the neighborhood and the community at large. Depending on your vantage point this shift is a subtle or a sizeable one but certainly worth embracing as we head into this Mother's Day weekend.

Here are three questions with Senior Marketing Specialist Sydney Polski, who shows that advocating for DEI can be done in many ways. This is the next post in our series for Women’s History Month, as we highlight Schwegman staff and attorneys who carry out the 2024 theme of “Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion” (https://bit.ly/3Taj92K). 1.What pursuits are you involved with, to advocate for DEI? “To advocate for DEI, I am involved in the SLW Academy, the DEI committee's Workweek Challenges, and Women in IP. Through these projects, we lift up voices for marginalized communities and learn how to be better advocates. Through these projects, I myself learn a lot by creating information to help/teach others! Outside of work, I am an advocate for people with mental and physical disabilities as a committee member for Living Well Disability services. I find it important to include this because DEI is not only race, ethnicity, and gender but also ability.” 2. What motivates you to advocate for DEI? “I am motivated to advocate for DEI because I have read a lot about the intricacies and history of inclusion. I want to push DEI initiatives toward a greater understanding of inequity. It is not simply cut and dry; rather, the next step for many DEI initiatives is to consider intersectionalities between race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Each work with each other to develop unique identities that deliver unique perspectives and challenges.” 3. What are some of the things you enjoy about DEI? “I enjoy that DEI uplifts everyone. I find it very empowering that I am able to use my voice for good.” #WomensHistoryMonth #WomensHistoryMonth2024

Today is International Women’s Day and March, Women’s History Month. It’s an opportunity for us to reflect on the women and girls in our lives and celebrate the achievements of women here at home and around the world in pushing for a more equal and just world. At the same time, it’s crucial to acknowledge the many challenges women, girls, and gender-diverse individuals continue to face. Housing is one clear example of this here in a part of the country that is one of the most impacted by Canada’s housing affordability crisis. Read more about this issue and how we're addressing it: https://lnkd.in/gnsWp87d #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2024

This past week has given me more hope for this country than I've had in a very long time. Seeing so many people and organizations unite to galvanize support for Vice President Kamala Harris has been inspiring and exciting to watch. Last night, my wife and I joined the Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) White Women for Harris virtual call and it honestly brought us to tears. As two people with long careers in non-profits, we were particularly impressed by how clear the organizers were that they were not creating a new organization or even a new platform, rather they represented a coalition of existing organizations coming together to leverage all their assets towards one common goal. They promoted donating to any and all entities, including the campaign, and continuously thanked not only each other but the Black, Indigenous and other non-White activists and organizers who have been working tirelessly to advance justice for themselves and the rest of us for far too long without enough of our support. I have read, and am sure there will be plenty more, criticism of SURJ and other organizations and individuals involved in this effort and I'm sure some (or even most) of it is well-founded. But we lost this election once before by spending way more time criticizing each other than working together to defeat the actually hateful, dangerous enemy. Let's not do that again. And for those who feel LinkedIn isn't a platform where it's appropriate to discuss or post about political issues, I respect anyone's personal decision not to do so. But as someone who has posted, liked, commented, and celebrated content about health, racial, economic, gender, sexual and environmental equity and justice, I cannot separate those things and my personal values from politics in this era. This work is political. How we participate-- or don't participate-- in the political process directly leads to who is in positions of power. The people in power design and pass the laws that uphold and strengthen systemic and structural injustice. The only way to dismantle those systems and structures is to put the people in power who will do so. It's all political. #HarrisforPresident #healthequity #racialjustice

In 2022, the Rozsa Foundation received feedback from our community suggesting that as a private foundation, we could play a significant role in advocating for increased government support for the arts sector. This resonated with our values and vision, leading us to allocate more resources to arts advocacy. We've been active in advocacy at all levels of government, from local to federal. We've joined initiatives like the Nonprofit Vote and the Canadian Arts Coalition, and we've invested in our own knowledge through professional development programs. Recently, there have been positive steps in Alberta, with the government announcing increases in funding for the arts. This is encouraging news. Moving forward, we plan to stay connected with relevant government ministries and continue advocating for the arts sector. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gA3jfNaC And don't forget, the dialogue series question for the week is: We want to hear from the community about what they think are important issues for government attention in the arts sector. What are your public policy priorities? Let your voice be heard! In case you missed out on what the 'Dialogue' series is, it is where we take a thought-provoking question or idea from our latest newsletter article and toss it out to our community, asking: 'What's your take? We invite you to dive in however you like! Share your thoughts by commenting, sending messages, recording audio clips, or emailing us —whatever suits you. 'Dialogue' is about your perspective on topics that impact the community. Your thoughts are the heartbeat of this series, so we encourage you to engage! . . . #rozsafoundation #artadvocacy #dialogue #art #artists #yycarts #alberta

Felicidades Leonor Branch! #SistersinService I'm immensely proud to be a part of this remarkable organization where community means collaboration, growth, and success. Here's to a decade of empowerment, and to many more to come! 🎉💼 #BALSAFoundation #LatinoEntrepreneurs #BALSAFam #LearningSeries #tenyearsservingfirsttimeentrepreneus #firsttimeentrepreneurs #SmallBusiness #STLbiz #smallbiz