The fourth Ventura County Women’s Forum, hosted by the Ventura County Women’s Forum Collaborative, was held on Saturday, April 2, 2011, at California State University Channel Islands. Past forums focused on Economic Justice (2006); Educational Justice (2008); and Economic Insecurity and Women (2009). At this forum, we continue the discussion with a focus on Organizing for Empowerment. We viewed the topics of human rights, immigration, labor, media, and consumer awareness through a woman’s lens, exploring the specific challenges for women, identifying potential opportunities and developing coordinated action plans for improving prospects for the women of Ventura County.
Producer and director Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar and others from the “Made in LA” documentary team presented their powerful film and participated in breakout discussions and action planning workshops around issues of labor & organizing, women’s empowerment, immigration and consumer awareness.
Please consider joining forces with us to ensure the success of future events. This series of forums has become a signature event for women in Ventura County, providing a vehicle for women leaders from all sectors to come together to tackle the issues that stand as barriers to gender equality and equal opportunity.
Participating organizations have included AAUW Camarillo Branch; CAUSE; CAWA/WIN; CBW (Concerned Black Women of Conejo Valley); Community Action of Ventura Co. Inc.; Congress of CA Seniors; CSUCI; Democratic Women's Council of Conejo Valley, NWPC-Ventura Co; Business and Professional Women of Conejo Valley; SEIU 721; Planned Parenthood Santa Barbara, Ventura, San Luis Obispo Counties; Ventura County Reproductive Rights Network; Learning in Communities.
Detailed sponsorship information from the 2011 forum is below, including sponsorship levels and vendor information. A pdf of our sponsorship/vendor letter, form, and list of packages is available for download at the bottom of this page.
We also accept donations on an ongoing basis to cover attendance costs for students and women of limited financial means interested in attending our events,our operating costs (e.g., website hosting, PO Box fees), and follow up events.
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Future forums will focus on the remaining Critical Areas of Concern developed at the Beijing International Women’s Conference in 1995: Health, Violence, Power Sharing, Peace, Environment, and the Girl-Child. We will continue to move Ventura County forward by thinking globally and acting locally.
For more information about sponsorships, contact Helen Conly (805) 746-0199 or Celeste Weingardt (805) 340-7046 or send an email inquiry to info@vcwf.org.
2011 Forum Sponsorship/Vendor Packages
(see women's bios below)
Eleanor Roosevelt......................................................................... $1,000.00
VIP Seating, Full Page Ad, Special Recognition, 8 Forum Tickets
Mother Jones.................................................................................... $500.00
VIP Seating, Half Page Ad, Special Recognition, 4 Forum Tickets
Florence Kelley................................................................................ $250.00
Quarter Page Ad, 2 Forum Tickets
Katie Quan....................................................................................... $100.00
Business Card Size Ad, 1 Forum Ticket
Vendor Display Space........................................................................ $50.00
Space is limited. Subject to availability.
Please complete and return the following information to VCWFC, P.O. Box 7003, Ventura, CA 93006 or info@vcwf.org
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Ventura County Women’s Forum Collaborative is a 501c3. EIN #27-3122895. Contributions are tax deductible.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 –1962)
was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. Roosevelt was one of the co-founders of Freedom House and supported the formation of the United Nations. She chaired the UN committee that drafted and approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. During the JFK administration, Roosevelt chaired the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women. In 1999, she was ranked in the top ten of Gallup's List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century.
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (1837 –1930)
was a prominent American labor and community organizer who protested lax enforcement of child labor laws, helped coordinate major strikes and co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World. She worked as a teacher and dressmaker but after her husband and four children all died of yellow fever and her workshop was destroyed in a fire in 1871 she began working as an organizer for the Knights of Labor and the United Mine Workers union. The magazine Mother Jones is named after her.
Florence Kelley (1859 –1932)
was a social and political reformer from Philadelphia. Her work against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays and children's rights is widely regarded today. Career highlights include Chief Factory Inspector for the state of Illinois, a newly-created position and unheard-of for a woman; founder of the National Consumer's League; and in 1909 Kelley helped create the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Katie Quan
is Associate Chair of the Labor Center at UC Berkeley. Her areas of specialization are labor strategies in the global economy, policies that promote the rights of immigrant workers, and equity issues for women workers. Katie chaired the founding convention of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, and her organizing experiences have been documented by Rugh Milkman in Women and Unions (Cornell ILR Press, 1993), and by Xiolan Bao in Holding Up More than Half the Slky (University of Illinois Press, 2001).
