$200,000 Gift Takes Steinem Chair Campaign over $2 Million Mark
Just a year and a half after launching the campaign to create an endowed chair in honor of feminist icon Gloria Steinem, we have surpassed the two million mark in donations. The funds raised, totaling over $2.1 million, are from more than 250 individuals and 12 foundations. The goal for the Steinem initiative is to raise $3 million to create the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies and $500,000 for the Steinem Program Fund.
"Never before has an endowed academic chair been named for a living feminist icon," said IWL Director Alison Bernstein. "We are delighted that this latest donation to push the funds over $2 million came from another female media pioneer, Fran Zone/John Mack Carter Fund."
Fran Zone, an award-winning leadership communications strategist, is the founder and CEO of Zone Communication. She is also the founder and steward of the John Mack Carter Fund. According to Zone, "The Fund stemmed from a national public awareness campaign I helped create in 1992 called The Coalition to Stop Sexual Harassment. The Campaign's major champion was John Mack Carter, former Ladies' Home Journal, McCall's, and Good Housekeeping editor."
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