If you read one thing today, read this and #PutWomenAtTheCenter
Hello friends, today I have a special ask of you.
As you may know, over five million women’s careers have been disrupted by COVID-19.
To get back on track, we must #PutWomenAtTheCenter of the recovery.
Since Take The Lead's founding in 2014, we have been there to support women in claiming their power. Our organization has the program and proof it works to help women advance in their careers.
But, we urgently need your support to help them get back on track now.
Today, we are calling upon you, our community, to invest in the vision of a world where all women of all diversities and intersectionalities share with men equal leadership positions, pay, and power. You can do that easily by activating as monthly donors to the mission we share.
Need a few more reasons to step in and become a monthly sustainer?
Studies say women have been set back 10 years or more. Women of color have been disproportionately affected.
But at Take The Lead, we believe disruption can be the very opportunity to make headway—if we have the vision, courage, and the funding to take action to do it.
Before the pandemic, we were on track to achieve our mission of gender parity in leadership by 2025. That’s 70 years sooner than predicted. We still can, with your support!
Dear Take The Lead Supporters,
In 2020 fundraising was especially challenging. Yet we delivered many free trainings and other support for women who needed to retool or re-envision their lives. This depleted our funds.
Now as the country is collectively emerging in 2021, we are poised with the programs, the proof they work, and the potential to deliver them at scale.
Our “life changing” 9 Leadership Power Tools to Advance Your Career” course has been updated as a self-directed course anyone can access from anywhere any time.
We’ve applied a racial justice lens to all our curriculum.
We’ve listened to the women who are asking us to create communities of support to help them on their way and added coaching that supercharges the impact of training.
Many women can’t afford to pay for these services, but if we help them re-enter or rethink their careers, they will regain confidence and be able to support themselves and their families.
We’ve amped up free resources such as our award winning blog and newsletter, topical webinars, and downloadable worksheets.
And we have an ambitious plan to deliver our most powerful program that creates cohorts of women to lead toward parity in the hardest industries to crack--50 Women Can Change the World--in sectors like technology, media and entertainment, finance, public service, and entrepreneurship.
Help us raise the funds for our recovery so we can ensure women make a comeback after Covid-19. Together we can take this opportunity of disruption to move us even faster toward equality.
#putwomenatthecenter
Say that every day, no matter what, you will be there to ensure women own their power, step into leadership, and have a community of support to keep them connected in the face of every adversity. Become a monthly donor now!
Our first campaign launches TODAY to bring in 25 new monthly donors by clicking one of these levels.
Join us and make a big difference in women’s lives—like Deniece!
"The 9 Leadership Power Tools course re-shaped my thinking on personal power and how to embrace it to create the vision I want for my life and career. While taking this course, I was exploring new job opportunities and I used the power tools to successfully navigate the process. As a result, I received several job offers for leadership roles within the technology industry. If you have a chance to take this class do it!"—Deniece Moxy, Senior Manager, Product MarketingAppZen
Thank you. We can’t do this without you. With you, we can meet any challenge! Click here to donate now.
Gloria Feldt, Cofounder and President
Take The Lead
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P.P.S. Thank you again.
GLORIA FELDT is the Cofounder and President of Take The Lead, a motivational speaker and expert women’s leadership developer for companies that want to build gender balance, and a bestselling author of four books, most recently No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power. Former President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, she teaches “Women, Power, and Leadership” at Arizona State University and is a frequent media commentator. Learn more at www.gloriafeldt.com and www.taketheleadwomen.com. Tweet Gloria Feldt.