by CWHF | 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 CWHF | 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 CWHF | 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 CWHF | 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 CWHF | 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...
by CWHF | Dec 13, 2019 | 2019 Fall Elevate Newsletter, blog
Letter From the Chair Dear Friends of the CWHF, This time of year always reminds me to be grateful. Grateful for my family and friends. Grateful for your trust in me to lead CWHF for the next two years as Chair. Grateful for how far the Hall has come in 2019....
by CWHF | Nov 13, 2019 | blog
The Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame Names Inductee Class of 2020 Ten Extraordinary Women to be Inducted in March A Secretary of the Interior and Colorado State Attorney General, a journalist and publisher, a frontier physician, suffragists, journalists, educators, head...
by CWHF | Nov 12, 2019 | blog
The Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame is delighted to announce its partnership with the Colorado Encyclopedia, a digital encyclopedia to serve as a reliable resource for all those interested in the Centennial State. Visit the Colorado Encyclopedia Conceived and developed...
by CWHF | Aug 31, 2019 | blog, Summer 2019 Elevate Newsletter
Join Us to Celebrate WOMEN IN STEM October 3, 2019
by CWHF | Aug 28, 2019 | blog
Say Hello to Our new Board Chair, Vice Chair and Newest Board Members The Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame (CWHF) has named Deborah Radman Chair of the CWHF board of directors. Barbara Beckner will fill the role of Vice Chair. Deborah Radman is CEO of Radman...
by CWHF | Aug 28, 2019 | blog
Three Hall Inductees being inducted into the Colorado Author’s Hall of FameThe newly established Colorado Authors Hall of Fame inducted three CWHF inductees into their first class: Madeleine Albright, Jill Tietjen, PE, and Marilyn Van Derbur Atler...
by CWHF | Aug 22, 2019 | blog
The Center for Colorado Women’s History and the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame will host an essay contest to celebrate International Day of the Girl on October 11, 2019. Denver metro students in grades 3 through 8 are invited to learn about women who have...
