2010 Initiatives and Events

2010 Initiatives

Direct the Immigrant Women’s Roundtable in collecting survey data to increase assistance, outreach, and inclusion
Co-lead Domestic Violence Awareness Month campaign
Review the assembled gender healthy curriculum components for 14 to 18 year olds and outline terms for general city-wide implementation
Create additional Memory Lane: Women’s History Walks to promote interest in women’s lives and their impact on Cambridge
Co-lead the expansion of Cut it Out Cambridge initiative with area salons
Organize a Margaret Fuller Bicentennial celebration
Direct the expansion of the newly formed Alliance for Girls’ Services for providers serving young women and girls in the city
Co-lead the Cut It Out Cambridge Promtacular initiative targeting CRLS young women to attend workshops prior to having their hair done for the prom at local salons
Oversee the development of a new reference guide for women, You Find Your Strength: A Guide for Women and Their Families Who Are Homeless
Participate in the development of StoryStream Cambridge, a city wide initiative to bring story telling events to Cambridge that ensures the presence of female voices (i.e., oral history project of women on the home front during WWII, CWHP)
Sponsor Feminism and Dessert, a monthly forum for addressing relevant, essential issues affecting women today
Present nine week ENGAGE (Empowering the Next Generation about Gender Equality) curriculum to preteen girls group at West Cambridge Youth Center.