Toast to Tenacity kicks off Women 100

MONTHLY NEWSLETTER • AUGUST 2020

Join Us August 26 for Toast to Tenacity!

Vision 2020 will celebrate the kickoff of Women 100: A National Celebration of American Women, with Toast to Tenacity™ on August 26, Women’s Equality Day! Join us for the webcast at 12 pm ET featuring a toast from the Philadelphia Eagles, Philadelphia Orchestra musicians and the debut of a new music video by award-winning singer-songwriter Meghan Cary.

This billboard promoting Toast to Tenacity is being seen in the Philadelphia area.

Watch the webcast at Women100.org. It will be streaming live from Independence National Historical Park (INHP) with prerecorded segments woven in. The 90-minute program will mark the centennial of the 19th Amendment and women’s hard-fought battle for voting rights.

Speakers include:

Vision 2020 President Lynn Yeakel, who will host and emcee the event
First-time voters
Historians and authors telling stories about the suffrage campaigns of African American women
The Hon. Marjorie Rendell, senior judge of the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and Alexia Hudson Ward, director of libraries at Oberlin College & Conservatory, telling about the battles fought by three generations of suffragists
INHP Superintendent Cindy MacLeod explaining the significance of Independence Hall to the women’s suffrage movement
Author Neylan McBaine describing the contributions of activist women in the American West, many of whom won local voting rights decades before national suffrage.

Meghan Cary will perform her women’s empowerment anthem River Rock and premiere a new music video with a virtual choir assembled to promote voter mobilization this election season. (Learn how you can be in Cary's video.)

At 1 pm ET, Vision 2020 will lead a toast to the tenacity of the suffragists by raising a glass of grape juice (in 1920 wine was illegal due to Prohibition). Several sister toast events across the country will be featured via livestream.

Vision 2020 thanks Bank of America, Lincoln Financial, Wawa and Welch's for sponsoring this event.

Women 100 Events

Fall Leadership Forums Move Online

Sign-up information will be available soon on the web page Women’s Leadership Forums.

The Women 100 Women’s Leadership Forums, a day-long series of three panel discussions honoring the past, enriching the present, and shaping the future, is moving online.

This signature event on November 4 – the day after the national election – will be free and open to the public.

Presenting the Forums as a virtual event enables more people to participate around the nation. Audience members will be able to engage with prominent women leaders from a variety of fields, and the conversation will inform the development of a bold new agenda for completing the unfinished business of women’s equality.

Vision 2020's National Coalition

New Vision 2020 Coalition Members

We are pleased to welcome a new Delegate and a new Allied Organization to the Vision 2020 family this month. Many of our Proud Partners are hosting women-themed events in 2020-21. Check the Women 100 Events Calendar regularly to learn about upcoming events and check the organizations’ websites for programmatic changes, postponements, and/or cancellations due to CDC recommendations.

Allied Organization

Rendell Center for Civics and Civic Engagement

National Delegate

Jessica Bellwoar (PA) – development officer, Clean Air Council

Empowerment News

Record Number of Women on Corporate Boards

In the past year, 115 companies have appointed a woman to their corporate governing boards for the first time, setting a record for the “Adopt a Company” campaign of the Thirty Percent Coalition, a Vision 2020 Allied Organization. Nearly 400 companies have appointed a woman to their boards since the campaign began in 2012. Read more here.

267 Women of Color Run for Congress

An analysis by the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at Rutgers University shows at least 267 women of color are major-party candidates for Congress in 2020 — breaking the previous record of 179 in 2018. CAWP, a Vision 2020 Allied Organization, details the findings in a press release. The analysis shows the breakdown by party is 163 Democrats and 86 Republicans for the U.S. House; 13 Democrats and 5 Republicans for the U.S. Senate. A Huffington Post article about the CAWP analysis included the photo at left of Tennessee candidate Keeda Haynes.

Worth Reading

August is National Women's Suffrage Month, and in this 19th Amendment centennial year that has generated tons of media coverage. Below are a few of the many articles worth reading. These and others are curated and collected by Vision 2020 on the News page of the Women 100 website, which is searchable by category or keyword.

New York Times – 100 Years of Voting Hasn’t Done What We Thought It Would

Smithsonian Magazine – What the First Women Voters Experienced

Washington Post – The Black sorority that faced racism in the suffrage movement but refused to walk away

News from Allies and Proud Partners

Nannie Burroughs (left) and eight fellow African American women pose with a banner reading: Banner State Woman's National Baptist Convention. Source: Library of Congress

InLiquid Seeks Artwork for Women Voting Exhibition

Women 100 Proud Partner InLiquid is seeking artwork for its exhibition Remembering the Suffragists, 100 Years of Women Voting in the United States, curated by Patricia Moss-Vreeland. InLiquid states: "Art’s ability to represent history and personal narrative is its own form of activism. This multi-phase exhibition offers a chance to come together as womxn in recognition of the women’s suffrage movement and draw a connection to current and ongoing inequalities." Submit your artwork by November 4.

Panel on Social Justice, Public Health, 2020 Election

US Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, PA Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta and Delaware County Councilwoman Monica Taylor will take part in a virtual panel discussion on social justice, public health and the 2020 election. The online event is hosted by Vision 2020 Allied Organization Temple University’s College of Public Health, School of Social Work and Social and Behavioral Sciences Department. During the event, the League of Women Voters, also a Vision 2020 Ally, will share information about voting, researching candidates and supporting elections. The event is on September 18 from 1-2:30 pm ET. Register here.

Association for Public Art, a Women 100 Proud Partner, is the Liberty Bell host in Philadelphia, where the image floats above the historic steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Photo by BFA, courtesy of Art Production Fund.

Association for Public Art Co-hosts Liberty Bell

Liberty Bell is an augmented reality public art project at the intersection of social consciousness and tech. Created by artist Nancy Baker Cahill, it can be viewed in six U.S. cities: Philadelphia; Washington, D.C.; Boston; Charleston, South Carolina; Selma, Alabama; and Rockaway, New York. Liberty Bell relies on geolocation. To experience the full animation, which includes sound, download the free 4th Wall app to a smartphone or tablet and view when you are at one of the sites.

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This is one of the social media ads that Vision 2020 is running with the hashtag #socialdifferencemaking.

Let's Break the Record for Women Voting!

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Women 100 Schedule

Women 100 events and dates are as follows:

August 26, 2020 – Toast to Tenacity, celebrating the suffragists on the day 100 years ago when women won voting rights
October 16-17, 2020 – SHE Leads Road Rally to Seneca Falls, the birthplace of the women’s rights movement, from Philadelphia
November 4, 2020 – Women’s Leadership Forums, a conversation with prominent women from multiple fields about women’s leadership
March 19-21, 2021 – Spring Breakthru, civic engagement and social justice training for college students from around the nation
March 22, 2021 – Celebrating Women, a stand-up-and-cheer evening honoring trailblazing women past and present
March 21-23, 2021 – Vision 2020 National Congress, a gathering of advocates and influencers dedicated to designing a bold new agenda for completing the unfinished business of women’s equality

The Women 100 Seat at the Table exhibition at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts will be open through June 2021 whenever the Kimmel Center is open.

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