SPECIAL NOTICE - DAY CHANGE

The September Membership Meeting will be held

WEDNESDAY, September 10, 5:30 pm Social Time, 6:00 pm Meeting

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From the Editor:

This is a special summer edition of the Flash. We hope that you are enjoying some time with family and friends. Even as we enjoy our downtime, some great things are going on that we want to share. And great things are coming up, so mark your calendars, and we will see you soon.

Here are some summer highights:

2025-26 Officer Team Installed

Finance Committee

This year’s budgeting process was an inspiring opportunity for us all to look ahead and imagine how our Club and Foundation can continue to grow its impact in our community. Launched at our June strategic visioning session, our board and committee chairs agreed that our focus should be to:

1. Make Zonta a household name.

2. Build on the things that we do well, like advocacy, scholarships, and mentorship.

3. Reach out to identify sponsors and bigger donors.

These three priorities were the impetus behind the productive committee meetings held through June and early July, and the result was an inspiring budget that will give our membership opportunities to truly build a better world for women and girls in the year ahead.

Thank you to our Committees and Committee Chairs who worked hard to develop creative and fiscally sound plans for their teams. Thank you to our Finance Committee members, who worked hard to compile the committee submissions, review our short- and long-term investments, to compile preliminary Foundation and Club budgets. And thank you to each member who attended a budget review meeting. It was truly a team effort. If you have any questions about our financial plans, please let any member of the Finance Committee know, and if you haven’t already cast your vote to approve the 2025-26 budgets, please send your email vote to Nancy by July 31.

In support of this strategic direction, we are proud to announce the release of “Women Taking Climate Action”, a video our Club has produced. It highlights the work of local women in public policy who are advocating for climate justice, along with the 2025 recipients of our Zonta Foothills Climate Justice Scholarships who are pursuing graduate degrees at the University of Colorado Boulder. The video features their work, which includes researching green materials for renewable energy and local action to reduce harmful emissions on the CU campus through the University’s Climate Action Plan.

“Women Taking Climate Action” was produced in concert with our first Climate Justice Forum, held on International Women’s Day 2025. It was funded by the Zonta Foothills Foundation with a grant from the Zonta District 12 Action for Environment and Gender Equality (AEGE) Committee.

We hope the climate action of these women will influence other women to pursue professional careers in climate research and policy, and that this short documentary film will inspire other Zonta Clubs to create Climate Justice Scholarships and support educational opportunities for women who will lead in climate action. Here it is!