“I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.”
—Maya Angelou
President’s Letter
It’s been a busy month, one that has made me grateful to be a women and a Zontian. As we commemorate Women’s History Month, Zonta Rose Day and International Women’s Day, it is also the time to celebrate all of you, passionate women who are committed to passing on a world that is better for women and girls. I don’t need to remind you all of the many amazing things that are going on in our club, you can read it all here. But first, I do want to say, on behalf of the women and girls in Boulder County and around the world, thank you! You are all Women of Achievement, keeping our mission and vision in your sights and working together.
Happy March. I pass you the Yellow Rose as we celebrate one another.
-Pam
“Happy International Women's Day and Zonta Rose Day!”
- Zonta International President Ute Scholz
IMPORTANT FOOTHILLS CLUB DATES
March Business Meeting - Thursday, March 14, 5:30-7:30 pm. Location is Valmont Community Presbyterian Church, 3262 61st St, Boulder, CO. Ellen Marshall will be accepting her award as our 2024 Woman of Achievement. Please join us to honor our Ellen.
Zing for Zonta - Friday, March 22, Doors open at 6 pm at The Dairy
Advocacy Committee Meeting - Monday, April 1, 11:30-1:00 Pica's Boulder Mexican Taqueria
Board Meeting - Thursday, April 4 6:00 pm via zoom.
Golden Z and Platinum Z Club Meeting - Saturday, April 6, time TBD at the home of Tommie Atanasoff. Foothills Members are invited to join and meet our Z Clubs.
Business Meeting - Thursday, April 11. Meet our 2024 YWPA Winners and nominees.
“Take Back the Night” - Thursday, April 18 at Front Range Community College Longmont to commemorate Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Zappy Hour - Thursday, April 25th 5:30 pm. Bring a friend to learn about Zonta! At the home of Pam Malzbender.
Pantherz Z Club meeting - every Tuesday from 4-5 pm at Boulder High School. Let Marta, Tommie, Claudia or Gaby know if you would like to attend.
District 12 Governor’s Conference, October 4, 5, 6, 2024 at beautiful Chautauqua - Zonta Foothills Club will be hosting so SAVE THE DATE!
FLASH NEWS
The FUNdraising Committee
Get Ready for Zing… SELL TICKETS!
The FUNdraising Committee has worked diligently on Zing! Thank you all for the hard work and THANK YOU to the membership for getting all the silent auction donations and beautiful basket items. The baskets look marvelous! Soon you will be able to check out the pictures on the Bolder Events Zing site.
Member Incentives to Sell Tickets!
We have ONE MORE ASK from everyone: We have beautiful baskets, fantastic silent auction items, scrumptious food, entertaining talent, popular judges, a fun emcee and Bolder Events to handle the check in, silent auction bidding and the votes for talent. NOW - WE NEED YOU TO SELL TICKETS. You can buy them here. Share this link and all of our emails with everyone! Your friends, neighbors and anyone you know. They will have a great time and it’s for a great cause!
To make it even more fun we have some member incentives!!! Check it out:
For every 6 tickets you sell you will receive 1 free ticket AND
The member that sells the most tickets will win a MYSTERY BASKET.
So let's get busy and see who can be our top salesperson.
So Remember…
Zing is on Friday, March 22, 2024, at the Dairy Arts Center, our caterer is Front Range Catering and Erica Sodos is our emcee again.
Our 3 Zing judges are Debbie Pope, Penina Axelrad, & Jeffrey Kash and the talent prizes are the Judges Choice Prize and a Fan Favorite Prize - each winner will receive $500.
Bolder Events will be helping with check-in, the silent auction processing, audience voting and check-out; so it will be an enjoyable and smooth experience for our guests and most importantly, our members! You can enjoy the show!
So one more time…Our club fundraising process includes all of our members. That means, talking up this great event! Be proud because it will be a fun and impressive event! Anyone you invite will have a great time and know that they are helping us raise money for our scholarships and programs. They are helping us to Build A Better World For Women and Girls through our scholarships, service and advocacy.
Zervice Committee
Book Moving and Sorting is Coming!
The Zervice Committee project the Zonta Book drive is an all year project. We will be planning a book sorting right after Zing. We will need to move some 5 carloads of books from a hanger up at the Longmont Airport. We will also be moving our Boulder books from our current single storage locker to three lockers to have more space and save over $100 a month. The date is still TBD.
We will also be needing some additional shelving for our new space, so keep your eyes and ears open to see if someone might have one they are not using and would like to donate.
The committee decided that we as a club will work together with the Z Club and the GZ Club on Service Projects. This spring we will be working with Advocacy in addition to the Z Club and GZ Club on The Culture of Respect part of Zonta Says No to Violence against Women. Additional information available after our next Zervice Meeting.
Zonta Zervice Committee - Co-chairs: Marta Lindrose and Cheri Magin, Kim Prosser-Noonan, Joan Siebenaler, Catherine Bailey
Advocacy Committee
Zonta Rose Day and International Women’s Day
a Time to Honor Our 2024 Woman of Achievement- Ellen Marshall
Our club recently elected our 2024 Woman of Achievement, Ellen Marshall. Nominated by Marta Lindrose, Ellen is a Zonta Foothills Past President and a leader in Women’s Reproductive Health for the last 25 years!
Our annual award goes to a woman in our community for her work Building a Better World for Women and Girls locally or around the world and exemplifies our club’s mission to “advance the status of women and girls worldwide through service and advocacy…” Ellen has done just that. As her nominator, Marta Lindrose explains in her nomination, “Ellen Marshall has dedicated her life to helping women, specifically to help women take control of their reproductive health. For more than 25 years her passion has helped to ‘Build a Better World for Women and Girls’ around the world.”
She is a past Zonta Foothills Club of Boulder County member and Past Club President who spent three decades working on U.S. foreign and domestic policy issues related to the health and rights of women and youth. From 2007 through 2016, Ellen developed and managed the public/private Colorado Initiative to Reduce Unintended Pregnancy which is recognized for reducing teen pregnancy rates in Colorado at unprecedented rates. Ellen has expertise on so many issues that impact women and she is an advocate who uses that knowledge to change their lives. She has worked on legislation and programs impacting domestic and international sexual and reproductive health and rights and HIV/AIDS prevention. For more than 20 years, Ellen:
oversaw US public policy initiatives on behalf of the International Women’s Health Coalition and with the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA),
managed a grassroots education and fundraising campaign and supported other policy work for UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund,
led legislative efforts to advance the development of HIV and pregnancy.
Currently Ellen is a state-wide advocative for Initiative 89, Coloradans for Reproductive Freedoms. which is working to get the reproductive rights codified into the state constitution.
Ellen Marshall has dedicated her life to help women and girls be in control of their education, their families, their careers. We recognize her commitment to making the world a better place for women and girls through our 2024 Zonta Foothills Club Woman of Achievement Award.
Ellen will be accepting our award at our March 14 business meeting. Please join us to hear her speak and to congratulate her.
Club Members Trained and Collecting Signatures for Initiative 89
Following our Club’s endorsement of Colorado Initiative 89, a number of Club our members got trained to go out and collect signatures in support of the initiative.
A big thank you to Sharon Trumble, Sheila King, Elizabeth Freedman and Pam Malzbender for their commitment to this important cause. They have attended local events, spent an afternoon in the Front Range Community College student center, reached out to students at CU and even attended caucuses around the county. This is advocacy in action!
Let’s Take in a Movie Together!
The Dairy Arts Center will feature What the Constitution Means to Me in May. Originally an award winning Broadway play, the movie tells the story of fifteen-year-old playwright Heidi Schreck who earned
her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. The movie is described as “a hilarious, hopeful, and achingly human show…tracing the relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives.”
The Advocacy Committee is putting a club event togather around this interesting film. They are planning to purchase tickets ahead of time in order to reserve a block of seats for our club. At Thursday night’s business meeting Sharon Trumble will have a sign up. Hope you will all come. More details to follow!
Support the Equal Rights Amendment
The Zonta USA Caucus urges all Zonta members to support the SIGN-4-ERA Petition, a national campaign asking Congress to recognize that the ERA has been ratified by the necessary 38 states and should be recognized as the 28th amendment to the Constitution. The petition has nearly 100,000 signatures with a goal of over a million. The Campaign is an easy way to get members, friends and colleagues to support the ERA.
The Caucus asks all clubs and members to:
Sign the petition: use the Zonta-specific https://www.sign4era.org/?Zonta or use QR code above. Add the code to your phone to share easily.
Share with others; ideas in the toolkit: https://www.sign4era.org/era-toolkit/
March 12th Reminds us of
The Wage Gap
The following letter was submitted by our Advocacy Chair and Zonta USA Caucus member, Ranelle Randles to the Daily Camera.
March 12 symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year. The wage gap is even greater for women of color. According to the latest U.S. Census figures, women who work full time are paid on average just 84% of the typical man’s pay. Women still face barriers in accessing good-paying jobs, and carry a disproportionate burden for caregiving responsibilities in our society. Additionally, the lack of affordable childcare and paid family and medical leave contribute to women being unable to join the workforce or stay in the workforce. Pay equity and family friendly policies make good business sense and will help employers attract and retain the best talent. The COVID-19 pandemic has deepened existing inequalities and has made the problem of unequal pay more urgent.
The pay gap over time results in women saving less for retirement than men, earning lower pensions and social security payments, having a larger burden of student debt, and results in women having less economic security than male counterparts.
We encourage women to advocate for themselves; state and federal governments to enact legislation that ensures equal pay for women; and businesses to review their compensation policies to ensure that historical policies and pay practices are not unfairly disadvantaging women.
Ranelle Randles, Advocacy Chair, Zonta Foothills Club of Boulder County
The Advocacy Committee- Chair Ranelle Randles, Sheila King, Elizabeth Freedman and Sara Gillespie
Educatez Scholarship Committee
Time to Recognize Young Leaders
The Scholarship Committee is in a BUSY time of year for inviting applicants, choosing winners, and giving out scholarship money! As always, we encourage you to join the committee for one or more if you are interested in being part of a very inspiring and rewarding process.
We will be announcing the winners of the Young Women in Public Affairs (YWPA) scholarship within the next week. With extensive outreach from the committee, we have close to 10 applications of accomplished candidates.
The Zonta EducateZ Scholarship will be next. This is for a woman who wants to return to school and needs financial assistance. The timeframe will be in May. Following that, we will move right into the Jane M. Klausman Women in Business (JMK) Scholarship with outreach to CU Boulder.
Bev Sears Climate Action Scholarship Winner Speaks to Commemorate Zonta Rose Day!
The Boulder Rotary Club reached out to us to see if we had any inspiring speakers who could talk to their club on International Women’s Day! When they mentioned climate as a possible topic we knew we had just the person! Erin Johnson, our first Bev Sears Climate Action Scholarship recipient, spoke today to an audience of over 100 people. Special guest at the luncheon was Bev Sears herself, who got to meet Erin for the first time.
Zonta EducateZ Scholarship Committee - Nancy Rowe, Michelle Médal, Jan Cheney, Kim Prosser-Noonan, Catherine Bailey
Membership Committee
You Rock Kathy!
At our February meeting Ann Hodgson passed the rock to Kathy Isaelson. Kathy is always there to lend a hand and has been helping with Zing behind the scenes. Thanks Kathy, for all you do!
Save the Date for Zappy Hour!
We will host a Zappy Hour on Thursday, April 25th 5:30 pm. Make a plan now to bring a friend to learn about Zonta! We would love to grow our club as we inspire everyone with our scholarships, leadership programs and other support in our community!
More information to come.
Zonta Membership Committee Colleen Farrell and Ann Hodgson, Amanda Elsnes, Kathy Israelson, Catherine Médal, Kay Meyer
Zonta EducateZ Committee
Pantherz Z Club Honors Teachers and Mentors for International Women’s Day
Our amazing Pantherz Z Club spent their last meeting making 150 Zonta Rose Day cards and roses with cards in English and Spanish. These were lovely messages to their teachers, mentors, couselors, recognizing anyone who has made an impact in theirs lives.
When teachers arrived the next day they found their mail boxes covered with Zonta Roses and a card that said: “Zonta Rose Day is celebrated on March 8, to commemorate International Women’s Day. It is a time to celebrate the courage and determination of ordinary women, to recognize their acts of kindness, dedication and passion, and to honor those who have helped make the lives of women and girls better.
Today we honor you for your inspiration and support to women in your community. To show our appeciation we present you with a single yellow rose, Zonta’s symbol of our worldwide commitment to Building a Better World for Women and Girls.”
Golden Z Club Gets Basic Finance Training
A big thank you to Past Golden Z Club mentor who came back via zoom to give our Golden Z Club and update about things like 401Ks. The Club is spending a few months focusing on financial literacy and this was the first workshop in a series. In April they will hear from past Zonta Foothills member Julie Martinez, an investment advisor with BSW Wealth Partners. Julie will talk about some of the basics of investing.
Zonta EducateZ Committee - Tommie Atanasof, Michelle Carpenter, Sheila Cohen, Gaby Lopez, Claudia Ibarra, Sheila King, Pam Malzbender, Marta Lindrose.
public Relations
Follow Us on Social Media
Just a reminder that if you are on Instagram or Facebook, follow our club and our Pantherz Z Club. Click on the links below and follow/like the pages:
Zonta Foothills Club Soical Media Web site - https://www.zontafoothills.org/ Instagram - zontafoothillslubboulder Facebook - Zonta Foothills Club of Boulder County
Pantherz ZClub Social Media Instagram - bhs.zclub
PR Committee - Pam Malzbender, Sheila Cohen, Sheila King, Sara Gillespie