100 Years of Empowering Women Through Service and Advocacy 1919 - 2019 - Zonta-district 14
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1919 - 2019 100 Years of Empowering Women Through Service and Advocacy
100 Years of Empowering Women
• The theme for our centennial anniversary
derived from our mission to empower women
through service and advocacy.
Honor and Empower
• A central idea that allows us for honoring the
past while focusing our actions on Zonta‘s
future.
Honor and Empower: 3 Challenges
Membership Challenge
Centennial Membership
Awards
Club Service International
Challenge Fundraising
Challenge
Centennial Local Centennial
Service Awards Fundraising
Awards
Membership Challenge
• Encrease the number of our members
• Retain our members
• Club training sessions → to improve knowledge and competence
regarding ZONTA
• Common activities → to improve the experience of membership
• Active members to support our mission.
• Next generation → Let them become advocates for our mission.
Service Challenge
• ZI and ZIF support long term projects according to ZONTA‘s mission
• ZI and the Zonta clubs initiate and support programs to fight the
cause and effect of inequality.
• There is a close cooperation between ZI and governments as well as
the UN and like minded NGO‘s.
Fundraising Challenge
Centennial Fundraising Awards
ZIF Funds:
• International Service Fund
• Strategies to end violence against women (ZISVAW) Fund
• Education Funds
• Special Funds
→ Rose Fund
→ Endowment Fund
Honor and Empower …our action motto to ensure visibility across the Zonta world
100 years of ZONTA
A once in our lifetime opportunity,
externally to…
• celebrate our success and longevity,
• increase Zonta‘s visibility,
• influence opinions and attitudes about women‘s
issues,
• enhance ZI‘s impact as leading advocates for issues
affecting women and girls.
Aims of CAC and ZI Board,
internally
• Set up active and informed archive and history programs
in clubs and districts.
• Explore and develop a concept for a Centennial History,
• Create a program of events to celebrate our 100th
Anniversary.
Preparations for the Centennial Anniversary (1) 2010-2012: Focus: Archival collections. 2012-2014: Focus: Club histories • Designate a Club Historian. • Create a club history in brief. • Forward to District Historian. 2014-2016: Focus: District Histories • District Historian creates a history in brief. • Historian D14: Franziska Wein, ZC Erfurt. 2014-2016 • Defining a concept for the history and how presented – in electronic or printed form.
Preparations for the Centennial Anniversary (2) 2016-2018: • Ideas and media toolkit will be provided on website. • Event checklists on ZI website. • Tips for ‚Centennial Award‘. • New Centennial Logo will be released. • Letterhead and Power Point templates. • Zonta‘s history will be published in order to be used as a PR tool or for exhibitions. • Book: ‚Stories of Empowerment‘. • Portraits of great women who shaped ZONTA to share via social media and a print book.
Celebrations in 2019
• Not only one year but one entire biennium (2018 – 2020) of
celebrations.
• Kick off at Convention 2018 in Yokohama
• ZI Headquarters plan to celebrate during Founders Day
weekend, November 8 to 10 but also later in 2020.
• Common action on November 8, Zonta‘s birthday.Action Milestones
• Launch www.zonta100.org
• 2018 Convention kick-off celebration
• 100 quotes posted on www.zonta.org in 2019
• 100 stories on heroines posted on
www.zonta100.org in 2019
• Centenntial Anniversary Endowment Campaign
• District Conferences with Alumnae events
• Common action on November 8th, 2019
• Special event at CSW 2020
• 2020 ConventionTimeline
What?
end of June 2017 Planning tools continually posted on the website
September 2017 Centennial logo and first templates available
Sept./Oct. 2017 CAEC presentations at District Conferences
end of Dec. 2017 Centennial microsite up, constantly filled up
Convention 2018 Kick-off Centennial Biennium, CAEC booth, from now on
updates on the status of donations to the Endowment fund
posted on the Centennial microsite
Nov./Dec. 2018 Campaign: Zonta Says No to Violence Against Women
January 2019 First portrait of a Zonta heroine posted, one per week will follow
August 2019 Pre-ordering of Centennial book starts
Sept./Oct. 2019 Districts will include celebration element in their program, as
well as invitations of Alumnae of ZI’s educational programs
Nov. 8, 2019 Common action for all Zonta clubs
November 2019 Centennial book is published
Centennial issue of ZONTIAN with Call to Conference
Nov./Dec. 2019 Zonta Says No to Violence Against Women
March 2020 Special Anniversary event at CSW
July 2020 Chicago Centennial ConventionGoals
• Celebrate what we have achieved.
• Increase Zonta‘s visibility and advocacy actions.
• Propel ZONTA into the future.
• Increase Zonta‘s influence as the leading organisation for
women‘s rights.100 Years ZONTA International
Centennial Anniversary Events,
Plans and Ideas
on how to celebrate between
2018 and 2020
Results of the team meetingAP2
8 different Countries
and 47 ZONTA clubs in District 14
Austria (14),
Croatia (1),
Cyprus (1),
Germany (20),
Greece (4),
Hungary (4),
Italy (South Tyrol) (2),
Lebanon (1)Folie 17 AP2 Angelika Pletka; 21.09.2017
Questions
• How can we attain one of our aims to achieve more visibility?
• One grand District event?
• When we consider a central event of district 14, where shall it
take place?
• What kind of event should be taken into consideration?
• Which time of 2019 is preferable?
• November 8, Rose Day, other dates?AP1
Budget: keep budget low! Look for sponsors.
Time requirement: try to make our preparations not time
consuming.
Synergies: joint actions and events in cooperation with
other Zonta clubs.
Partnering events: with other organisations and partners with
philosophies similar to ours.
Club activities: with legislators of your community / state
capital. Look for support.Folie 21 AP1 Angelika Pletka; 04.06.2017
Visibility
Question:
How can we increase our visibility?Exhibitions:
• Zonta‘s history (Eva Nielsen, member CAC)
• District 14 history (historian: Franziska Wein, ZC Erfurt,
archivist: Ingeborg Geyer)
• Concurrent panels of events and projects of D 14
• Pictures of clubs in D 14, of home town / country, projects
• Stories of women who empowered or were empowered by
ZONTAPanel discussion • Politicians, minister for family and social affairs • Journalists • Celebrities • Members of other NGOs (e.g. medica mondiale) • ZONTA members • Discussion leader • Print media, TV, radio
Alternative options (1)
• Calendar: publish and sell. Pictures of District 14
history, outstanding events etc.
• Recipe book: Recipes from countries of D 14
• Balloon contest: ZONTA balloons (families)
• Birthday cakes: Sale in connection with exhibition etc.
• Concert: music of the last 100 years
• Testimonials: Ask prominent people to voice their support
for ZONTA.Alternative options (2)
• Performances: art event
comedy night
author‘s reading
• Partnering events: with other organisations and partners with
philosophies similar to our and Zonta clubs.
• Club activities: with legislators of your community / state capitol
• Sporting events: „running for a 100 years and still going strong“
• Take an existing event and rename it.List of ideas for centennial anniversary
celebrations in district 14 (1)
• Use social media for biographies of Zontians, honorary members.
• Media interviews with Zonta officers.
• Newspaper reports.
• Events around the number 100
• Magnets / stickers: 100 years empowering women with ZONTA logo
• Plant 100 yellow rosesYou can also read
