In response to the continuing financial impacts on the arts and culture community, Leeway Foundation is launching the WOO Community Care Fund in 2021.
Co-written by Josh Maxwell, Vice Chair of the Chester County Board of Commissioners, and Michelle Legaspi Sanchez, Executive Director of the Chester County Fund for Women and Girls
Funding will address needs exacerbated by COVID-19 pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the challenges faced by working mothers, but it has also provided an opportunity to not only address longstanding inequities but to strive for healing and change of systems that have consistently put women at a disadvantage.
With the deep and ever-widening economic inequities exposed by the COVID-19 crisis, it's time we come together to invest in strategies and policies that decrease and eventually eliminate the gender and racial wealth gap.
CCFWG will present two innovative programs -- the Virtual Girls in Action Summit on May 18th and Virtual 15th Annual Making a Difference Luncheon on June 5th -- to raise awareness about the pandemic’s impacts on local women and girls.
In the new reality spurred by the COVID-19, women are on the frontlines of the pandemic which puts them at increased risk of infection, economic hardship and gender-based violence.
