Subject: Today! You Can Lead the Change in 2025 (Let Me Explain)

A decade ago, after I found that despite being half the workforce, women held only 18% of senior leadership positions, I co-founded Take The Lead with a bold vision: to prepare, develop, inspire, and propel all women — of all diversities and intersectionalities — to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions across every sector by 2025.

Thanks to supporters like you, we’ve moved the needle by 10 points, or 56%, in 10 years, despite the pandemic and a tsunami of political and economic challenges.

Gender Parity, ParityGloria FeldtDecember 31, 2024Donation, Female Leadership, New YearComment

🎁 Happy Holidays! THANKS for Your Gift of Impact!

We are so grateful for you, donors and supporters of women’s equality and leadership parity. We wish you a Happy Holiday, during this season when Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa all spread their light and hope together.

Because of you, Take The Lead has accomplished so much this year. Your commitment to our shared mission of gender parity in leadership has transformed lives — make no mistake about it.

Movement BuildingGloria FeldtDecember 29, 2024Holidays, Women Leaders, DonationComment

I Wish My Mother Had Taken Mackenzie Scott’s Advice

Issue 215 — December 19, 2022

My mother’s Wedgewood Bone china and Tiffany crystal wine, water, and cordial glasses glisten in the hutch I bought, where they could be not just stored but seen.

Mother had kept them packed away for many years. Why? Because she was “saving them for nice,” as she put it.

The SumGloria FeldtDecember 19, 2022Philanthropy, Women Leaders, Donation, gender parityComment

Saving Daylight: what time is it anyway and why does it matter?

Issue 183 — November 8, 2021

Don’t you love the day each year that we get an extra hour?

Well, maybe not so much if you have small children whose body clocks still awaken them and their parents, at what will now be one hour earlier than before.

And maybe you’d prefer to keep daylight saving time all year to stave off darkness in the late afternoon, thus reducing seasonal affective disorders while avoiding the complications of a mid-year time change.

The SumGloria FeldtNovember 8, 2021Intentioning, Gender Equity, Covid-19, Take The Lead, DonationComment

The Great Conjunction + You

Issue 154 — December 21, 2020

Today on the winter solstice, the stars align. For the first time since 1226, the planets Jupiter and Saturn will be so close in the night sky that they might look like one large star.

Astronomers call it the Great Conjunction. Some people call it the Christmas star.

The SumGloria FeldtDecember 21, 2020Donation, Covid-19, Leadership, leadership trainingComment

You Have the Power to Double Your Impact to Help Women Today

Issue 151 — November 29, 2020

Do you sometimes feel powerless in these challenging days?

Let me assure you of this: you have the power to help women recover from the pandemic’s effects on their lives and livelihoods when you make a contribution to Take The Lead.

And — great news — your contribution will be matched by our amazing board members, led by chair Dr. Nancy O’Reilly.

Give What You've Got: Helping Women By Donating Time, Resources, Energy

Very few women have the resources of Melinda Gates to commit billions to causes they believe in. But every woman can have a cause to believe in and commit to it. That commitment can include pooling together small donations for a larger impact, donating valuable time and services and volunteering time to be a board advisor, mentor or someone who gives her professional acumen and services to help the cause and organization for free.

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