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Good News: WWFC Foundation and School Merge
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 We in the WWFC community share good news with you! Women Writing for (a) Change, LLC, the
School, and the WWFC Foundation, have merged to become one not-for-profit
organization. Effective January 1, 2010,
these sister-organizations are now effectively one in their mission of creating
a space for the words and lives of women and girls.
Mary Pierce Brosmer,
who founded Women Writing for (a) Change, the school, in 1991, will remain
active in the life and vision of WWFC not only as Founder, but also broadening
the scope of the WWFC movement through her consulting practice and the
promotion of her newly published book. *See the related message from Mary below.
The merger will further streamline services, resources and
staff at WWFC, creating the opportunity to expand offerings. Joining the current staff to develop this
opportunity, as the new Program Director, is Nan Fischer, who has been a writer, consultant and teacher in the
WWFC community since 2007. Nan brings
experience and skills as an educator of youth and adults, a trained
facilitator, and professional coach. She
joins Kathy Wade, Executive
Director; and Bronwyn Park and Katie Hall, Assistant Directors.
We also welcome the leadership of a newly elected Board of
Trustees: Beth Fritsch, President; Marja
Barrett, Vice-President; Suellen
Hugan, Treasurer; and Trustees Michele
Elsaesser, James O'Reilly, Christine Schiff, and Joe Wiman. |
*The Next Wave of WWFC: A Message from Founder Mary Pierce Brosmer
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 "The task of a leader is to make more leaders."
I'm writing to let you know that, as of January 1st,
2010, the next wave of the Women Writing
for (a) Change movement began to flow into the world.
Many of you have likely heard of "Founder's Syndrome,"
the inability of a founder to allow leadership to pass fully into the hands of
her successors. Luckily, I have not been
afflicted with this particular syndrome.
Rather, since 1998, I have set about a plan of stewardship for the
thriving of this lovely and powerful "baby" I birthed now 18 years
ago. This process was not unlike my
biological mothering in which I nurtured my son until such time as
responsibility for his day-to-day well-being would pass from my leadership into
his.
Happily, I am not " leaving" or disconnecting from
the WWFC movement any more than I have left or disconnected from my son. I will be carrying the mission of WWFC into
the world through my consulting practice, and through traveling and presenting
workshops in conjunction with the publication of my book.
Here were the stepping stones I saw on the path to continued
well-being of WWFC back in 1998, when I worked with many of you, and with arts
management consultant Michael London, to imagine our future:
1. Create and deliver a school for conscious feminine
leadership to educate women for our
movement and from our movement (The
Feminist Leadership Academy).
2. Use my energy and resources to create an accessible home
for the movement in Cincinnati which the community would own in trust for the
future of women and girls: i.e., the
building at 6906 Plainfield Road owned by our WWFC Foundation.
3. Write the
story. Women Writing for (a) Change, the
book, was published in October, 2009, by Sorin Press at Notre Dame University.
4. Intuit the moment
to step away from direct, day-to-day, buck-stops-here management. In June, 2009, I ritualized with many of our
leaders my "letting go" and theirs.
The remainder of 2009 has been putting the proverbial ducks in a row
legally and financially to effect the transition.
I know you will welcome, celebrate and support, as I do, the
next wave of leadership.
With love and thanks,
Mary Pierce Brosmer
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