Rise Up, Disrupt
JT team supports Chicago Foundation for Women’s annual luncheon
On September 13, nearly 1,000 attendees gathered (some at the Chicago Hilton, others virtually) for the Chicago Foundation for Women’s 36th annual luncheon – Rise Up, Disrupt. JT was proud to support this year’s luncheon with event planning, management and communications support.
In addition to a showstopping keynote from political leader, voting rights activist, entrepreneur, author and community activist Stacey Abrams – the luncheon celebrated its grantees and the women who have benefited from the work of CFW.
As part of the event, CFW also announced a new initiative, SHEcovery™, a call to action to invest in women and girls and an advocacy agenda for the policies needed to drive real change. As part of the announcement, CFW released a report that called out the challenges facing women and girls brought on by COVID-19 and outlined priorities and recommendations to move forward.
“If we want to defend our women and girls, if we want to defend our people, then we have to defend our democracy. Doing one without the other will guarantee that we will fail. And so I am here today because I believe in disruption. I get a lot of flack because I said that I will not concede a system that is broken. But I will rise up every day, every morning, every night, every hour of the day to declare that until we make it right for everyone, it will not be right for anyone.”
It was an amazing day for a client doing important work. In FY21, CFW awarded $3.2 million through nearly 250 grants to support women, girls, trans, and gender nonbinary individuals across the Chicago area – prioritizing investments in organizations both serving and led by women of color, frontline workers, single parent-headed households, immigrants and domestic workers.
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