President’s Monthly Letter-

I’m Holding on to Summer

Whether you are still “barefoot in the woods” or heading “back to the city, shoe shops and school”, you are hopefully enjoying time with family, friends and nature. We still have a bit more time and hopefully sunny (but cool) days to enjoy.

Even through the summer days, our committees have been hard at work! Thank you everyone for your commitment to our club and especially to our committee chairs who have been strategically planning for next year, helping us build our budget and our calendar. We will be presenting the rough draft of our 2023-24 budgets for both the club and the foundation in a few weeks and we hope that you will take a peek and bring any questions or concerns to our membership-wide budget review sessions which will be held via zoom at NOON on Tuesday, August 15th and at 5:30 on Thursday, August 17th. See Zoom link below. Then on August 21st, you will receive the final budget draft for a membership vote. Thanks ahead of time for emailing us your “yeah” or “nay” as soon as possible. Our vote help us jump start the new fiscal year!

As you can see from the pictures below, there were great ideas brewing at the productive and FUN retreat that we held in June and these ideas and recommendations have been a strong foundation for the committee planning that has been going on for the past month. Check out our Retreat recap below.

Hope to see you all at our Lake-side Summer Social on July 27th!!!

— Pam

IMPORTANT DATES

September Business Meeting - Thursday, September 14. Based on member input at our retreat we will have social time from 5:30-6 pm along with optional dinner. The business meeting will begin at 6 pm. Our honored guests will be our JMK Scholarship winners! Come to be inspired. More details to follow.

66th Zonta District 12 Conference - (Save the Date) September 15-17. Join us and learn about our District and Zonta International. See Info Below.

“Zappy Hour” - Tentative Date - September 21, 6 pm (Who will you invite?)

FLASH NEWS

In the meantime, here are the top line take aways from our meeting:

Food options at business meetings: Catered (including delivery and set up) Bring your own, or no food. In the past price is not always a good deal. 

Meeting Location: Church is good, try another year? Purchase a new projector that is compatible with any computer and more current for ease of hook up.

Meeting Time/Day: Prefer a set schedule (same time and day each month), Keep in the evening, better for those working.

Meeting Feel: Friendly and welcoming. Membership needs to have a greeter at door each month to welcome everyone. Designated social time at meetings (shorter agenda not just meeting stuff).

Annual Calendar: OK as is.

Speakers: Have a speaker quarterly on a topic that is related to our mission.

District 12 Conference

So Please mark your calendars for:

September 15-17, 2023 Fort Collins, CO

The three-day event features 2 keynote speakers; a distinguished researcher at NREL's Center for Integrated Mobility Sciences, an NCAR scientist in the Climate Science and Applications Program, Dr. Patricia Romero-Lankao. PLUS Past International President Sharon Langenbeck. Sharon was a recipient of the AE Fellowship twice and continued on working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she held both line and project management positions. She managed over 200 mechanical engineers designing and developing space flight hardware and was responsible for all technical, cost and schedule performance of the Section’s business.

You will also be able to choose from 4 amazing workshops, participate in a service project, Advocacy project and HAVE LOTS of fun giving you plenty of information and inspiration to bring back to your club. And of course, it’s a great time for you to reunite with old friends and make new ones as you enjoy working together with Zontians from you district. Click here for your Call to Conference packet.

Bridget Masters, Zonta District 12 Governor

Educatez Scholarship Committee

This year, we received nearly 50 applications for the JMK scholarship after we reached out to the CU Boulder School of Business. The committee had its work cut out for them! It was a lot of work to review so many applications and compile our scores, but our top choices were clear!

Lauren Hanley is a recent CU Boulder graduate with a degree in International Affairs and a minor in Leadership Studies. She is excited to pursue her master’s in Business Analytics with a Marketing and Advertising specialization at the Leeds School of Business this fall. During her undergraduate studies, Lauren interned at several nonprofits, including Make-A-Wish and the United Nations Association of Boulder, where she focused on advocacy work for women and children, and worked on a successful Cities for CEDAW (Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women) campaign, encouraging the cities of Erie and Lafayette to lend their support.

Erin’s long-term career ambition is to emerge as a leader in the renewable energy industry who champions equitable renewable energy solutions across the globe. 

As you can see, all three of these women are incredibly intelligent and ambitious trailblazers in the business world, and they understand the importance of increasing the representation of women in impactful roles. We could not be more proud, and we look forward to inviting them to a future business meeting. Thank you to the selection committee, Catherine Médal, Collen Farrell, Kathy Israelson, Michelle Médal, Kim Prosser-Noonan, and our incoming EducateZ Scholarships Chair, Nancy Rowe for all their hard work reading the applications and then working through this competitive selection process!

Zonta EducateZ Scholarship Committee - Nancy Rowe, Michelle Médal, Jan Chaney, Kim Prosser-Noonan, Catherine Bailey

Service Committee

Service Committee - Co-chairs Marta Lindrose and Cheri Magin, Kim Prosser-Noonan, Joan Siebenaler, Catherine Bailey 

Membership Committee

Thursday, September 21.  Please plan to attend and bring guests. Having our members there is a great way to inspire new members to join!

Kay Myer, Colleen Farrell and Catherine Medal will be updating our club profile book. It is fun to read about our fellow members, their families and interests and it gives us a sense of belonging to a group of friends we care about. And a new club directory is coming as soon as we get photos of some new members.  If there are errors with your entry, please let Ann Hodgson know.

Finally, we are in the process of finding a source to make new member name badges.  You will be contacted to submit the information you want to appear when we are ready to order.

Membership Committee - Co Chairs Ann Hodgson and Colleen Farrell, Amanda Elsnes, Catherine Médal, Kathy Israelson, Kay Meyer

Zonta EducateZ Committee

Audrey is a rising junior at CU Boulder maintaining a 4.0 average and is majoring in psychology. She was a member of the Pantherz Z Club while at Boulder High School and Club Vice President during our challenging COVID years. Despite virtual connections only, she worked hard to keep the club focused, helping to coordinate our COVID Education Project and running virtual meetings. Since then she has served as an Advisory Board member for our Flatirons Golden Z Club. So she brings a wealth of experience.

Audrey is a first-generation college student,  immigrating to the U.S. from Ivory Coast, Africa at age 8 with her single mother. Although her English is flawless, French is her first language and she speaks a local Ivory Coast dialect as well. She explains that “My bicultural roots have given me the tools to hear all perspectives, appreciate the differences and the commonalities of my community, and in turn, through my work with Zonta I have tried to unify students and create a platform for those whose voices are not heard.”

She is eager to jump in to fill the very BIG shoes of Gaby and Claudia and we are so excited to have her!

Zonta EducateZ Committee - Tommie Attanasoff, Michelle Carpenter, Sheila Cohen, Gaby Lopez, Sheila King, Pam Malzbender, Marta Lindrose.

The Advocacy Committee

2018. Child Marriage is defined as any marriage where at least one person is under age 18. It was legal in all 50 states until 2018. Since then, 10 states have passed bans to end the practice. Although Colorado passed a law in 2019, it allows someone under 18 to marry with judicial approval. Those who advocate against child marriage, like Unchained At Last, do not believe this is sufficient. 

Visit the Zonta USA Caucus web page to video this informational video.

The Caucus is comprised of a Delegate and Alternate  from each District that has Clubs in the US. It is an Advocacy focused group and has several committees that work various issues. One of the most important things the Caucus does are the Fast Action Fridays that come out usually biweekly during our meeting season (excludes summer). This is how we leverage the voices of the nearly 7000 US based Zonta members. 

Rannell Randles, Advocacy Chair and USA Caucus Representative for D12 would be happy to connect with you to tell you more about the Caucus. Just let her know if you want a chat. 

You will see on the ZI website you can sign up for email or text alerts to participate. We will remind you in the fall to be sure we are all signed up. For email alerts here.

For text alerts here TEXT ACTION FOR USA -TEXT “ZONTA” TO 50457 #FASTACTION

Advocacy Committee - Chair Ranelle Randles, Elizabeth Freedman, Sheila King, Sara Gillespie

• Spur conversations on how to share best practices.

• Inspire you on how you can take action.

• Address a gender-equal climate NOW in your community and beyond.

Register for a session by clicking the buttons below.

Fund raising Committee

1. Log on to www.kingsoopers.com

2. In the upper right hand corner where it says 'Welcome Sign in', sign in using your email and password 

3. Go back to that same drop down box and select 'My Account'

4. Under My Accounts on the left hand side of the screen you will see 'Community Rewards'

5. Click on Community Rewards

6. In the box for the organization name key in Zonta

7. Several Zonta clubs are present, make sure you go to the Enroll button under Zonta Foothills Foundation

8. Click on Enroll and you will be all set

Please tell everyone you know or ever have given these cards to as gifts and anyone else to help out Zonta Foothills Foundation by enrolling in this program.  This will be a much easier process than Safeway and is super simple.

Fund Raising Committee - Chair Marta Lindrose, Colleen Farrell, Catherine Médal, Nancy Rowe

Zonta news!

You are also invited to join the Zonta International Board for an informational call to learn more about the strategic plan and Zonta International’s vision for 2023 and beyond. Members of the Zonta International Board will also share more information about the strategic plan and be available to answer questions at district conferences later this year. Sessions are:

Wednesday, 9 August 4:00 PM Central Daylight Time …. REGISTER HERE

Thursday, 17 August 10:00 PM Central Daylight Time …. REGISTER HERE