Rita Henley Jensen
WeNews editor in chief

Women's eNews team is determined to deliver The Memo on the status of women in the U.S. to the delegates at the national conventions. We will need your support to do it though.





(WOMENSENEWS)--The Women's eNews team is busy researching and writing The Memo on the status of women in the U.S. We plan to hand-deliver it to both conventions--yes, put it the hands of the delegates--and promote it everywhere staff and volunteers go.

The Plan for The Memo

Women's eNews delivers The Memo--a series of six key stories--to our readers via our Web site and e-mail subscriptions. It will offer a status report on U.S. women: our health, wealth, safety and autonomy.

And then we will take it to the next level.

Women's eNews staff and board will hand deliver The Memo to participants at the national Democratic and Republican conventions--we have asked to put it in the delegates' welcome packets--and our reporters will ask follow-up questions at the numerous public forums they attend and cover. We won't be shy.

We also will sponsor a public forum on the issues raised by The Memo and ensure Women's eNews' bloggers have a space in the official blogging tent in Denver during the Democratic convention in late August and tap similar options in Minneapolis during the Republican convention in early September.

Our staff, board members and volunteers will be wearing "Get the Women's eNews Memo" T-shirts with the link to The Memo's Web page. And we will continue to explore ways to get everyone on the same page as The Memo.

We will need your support to get The Memo reported, written and delivered. Airfare, desk space at the conventions, booth rentals, printing and materials all add up. Please support this effort and donate now.

Rita Henley Jensen is founder and editor in chief of Women's eNews.

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