The Evanston Women’s History Project is proud to announce that it is one of the recipients of the 2010 YWomen Leadership Awards from the YWCA Evanston/North Shore! The YWomen Leadership awards honor and celebrate women and organizations for their work to empower women, eliminate racism, promote justice and encourage women’s leadership. For more information about the award, the other amazing recipients, or the October 14th event where the award will be formally presented, you can visit the YWCA Evanston/North Shore web site at: http://www.ywca.org/site/pp.asp?c=erLOK1PJLsF&b=4444857
The EWHP receives this award on behalf of the many Funding and Project Partners, and volunteers, who have made the project possible. For a complete list of Funders and Partners, click on this link: https://evanstonwomen.org/home/project-partners/.
It also receives the award on behalf of all the women and organizations whose stories we have documented, who struggled against great odds, worked tirelessly for the betterment of women’s lives both near and far, and left us a community where the leadership of women is valued, encouraged and recorded.