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WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS:

• How to increase women’s advocacy efforts – how women can take greater leadership roles in business and in policymaking.Confirmed for this are Theresa Szczurek about leadership in business and Gena Ozols about political advocacy. NFBPWC will present a short summary of the Advocacy Module of the L3 program – via Zoom.

       

• Environment/Sustainability – efforts to fight climate change and improve the environment, and how we can get more involved.Tracey MacDermott will present.

   

• Violence against women – state and federal legislation and resources to protect women from violence. Rita Smith and Elizabeth Newman from CCASA will present.

       

• Women’s Lobby of Colorado – what the WLC is, how BPW Colorado works with it, and what state legislation they are expecting in 2026. Ellen Buckley, chair of WLC, will present.

   

• Colorado Women’s Education Foundation – Christine White will present an overview of CWEF.

Proposed amendments to Advocacy Platform

• Under Health Equity & Justice, add to the first bulleted item the capitalized words:

• Access to affordable AND QUALITY care for all, especially reproductive healthcare, including contraception and legal abortion care.

• Under Economic Equity & Justice, add this item: 

 

• STATE FINANCE POLICIES THAT PROVIDE FAIR, EQUITABLE, AND ADEQUATE FUNDING.