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Downtown Sacramento BPW

Downtown Sacramento welcomes 2024 as we celebrate 105 years of supporting the working women of the Greater Sacramento
Area.

The club will continue to periodically hold joint meetings with our Twin Club, St. Andrew (Jamaica). Last October we addressed
cultural differences in the perception of Sexual Harassment and on Saturday January 13 we took a cross-cultural look at Sexual
Abuse including defining it and support services available.

With the September meeting we were introduced to Sacramento Mayoral candidate Dr. Flo Cofer. She shared her extensive com-
munity involvement resume and her reasons for running as well what she hopes to accomplish as Sacramento’s Mayor.
In December the club welcomed NFBPW Military Affiliated Women Chair, Alice Gallop West. During her very interesting presenta-
tion she introduced us to “Camouflaged Sisters, Silent No More” an anthology of women’s military experience including Domestic
Violence, Military Sexual Trauma, Depression/PTSD/Self-worth and The Road To Healing. It includes how they survived and made
positive changes to “the system”. Alice is a contributing author and strong advocate. Alice can be reached at Alice Gallop West
militarywomen@nfbpwc.org.

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The February program will be in preparation for Winter Board and the 64 Public Policy Conference.

In the coming months Downtown Sacramento will be exploring ways to celebrate their 105th anniversary, with a hoped for in-
person gathering in the fall.

Increasing membership is a priority but difficult for us because of the distribution of our members from Oroville to Atwater and
from Santa Rosa to Minden NV. Vice President Sher Singh is working her Sacramento networks but we all know meeting colleagues
face-to-face is the best way to share benefits of BPW involvement.

Succession planning is also on our agenda. We have been recycling our leaders for quite some time now. In hindsight, the new
members we did attract (thank you Sher) were not properly introduced to BPW – they did not stick with us to experience the many
benefits of BPW. This is on all of us. It is the responsibility of all members to reach out to new members for a personal introduc-
tion.

The 2023 BPW year for Downtown Sacramento has been successful although challenging. With the club members working togeth-
er we can finish the 2023-2024 CFBPW year with a continued sense of accomplishment.

Submitted with gratitude to the work of our members

Katherine Winans
President Downtown Sacramento Business and Professional Women