by Mary Urban | Mar 10, 2020 | blog
Inspiration is the ‘calling card’ of CWHF – Two years ago, during the CWHF annual strategic planning offsite, it was evident that in order to fully realize our mission, the organization needed to increase awareness throughout Colorado, tell the stories of our...
by Mary Urban | Mar 10, 2020 | blog
Like every nonprofit organization, funding is our life blood. While CWHF hasn’t been consistent about its end of year fundraising campaign, we are getting better and advance planning and articulating a compelling case to give. In 2019, so many of you were very...
by Mary Urban | Mar 10, 2020 | blog
The year 2020 may be the Centennial of the 19th Amendment granting U.S. women the right to vote, but Colorado women actually blazed the trail and started voting 27 years earlier in 1893. Colorado was the first state to grant women the right to vote. Priscilla Walker,...
by Mary Urban | Mar 10, 2020 | blog
Women’s History Month had its origins as a national celebration in 1981 when Congress passed Pub. L. 97-28 which authorized and requested the President to proclaim the week beginning March 7, 1982 as “Women’s History Week.” Throughout the next five years, Congress...
by Mary Urban | Mar 9, 2020 | blog
Reprinted from the National History Day in Colorado February Newsletter Rhiannon Szobody is an eighth grader at Broomfield Heights Middle School. When she began looking for topic ideas for this year’s theme Breaking Barriers in History, she was searching for a...
