Partnerships
Some of our successful partnerships in the past include:
We engage in partnerships based on the issues and principles enumerated in our Chicago Women’s Agenda. Our partnerships are many and successful, including both issue-based, through which we worked at the city and state levels to increase the minimum wage, enhance police accountability and enact stronger gun control legislation and on-going partnerships through the CWTA Alliance, the multi-group creator and adopter of the Women’ Agenda.
Through the Alliance we have co—hosted important gubernatorial and mayoral forums during every election cycle since 2014, including most recently mayoral forums for the 2023 primary and general elections. At present the CWTA Alliance is reviewing and renewing the 2014 CWTA Alliance Women’s Agenda and discussing our goals and strategy for the coming period.
CWTA has developed successful partnerships with numerous organizations through the years as a means of furthering our goals and expanding our reach into various Chicago communities.
We welcome requests from other organizations to co-sponsor events, actions, and projects. Requests for endorsements should be made by email and include a deadline for approval.
The CWTA Board will review requests from organizations that provide the following information:
Organization name and mission
Leaders
Event, action or project description
Other co-sponsors
Co-sponsor responsibilities
A Brief History of Partnership work:
Organizing a Chicago Women’s Assembly in 2014 that resulted in the formation of the Chicago Women Take Action Alliance. This summit brought together nearly 200 women from diverse communities across Chicago that, through discussion and debate at the end of a two month process, forged the first Chicago Women’s Agenda.
Hosting through CWTA Alliance a Chicago mayoral forum, held in on January 24, 2015, which brought together twenty Chicago women’s organizations to seek the views of five candidates for mayor of Chicago on women’s issues.
Hosting through CWTA Alliance a Women’s Gubernatorial Candidate Forum on December 9, 2017 sponsored by the Chicago Women Take Action Alliance which included forty partner organizations and sought the views of six gubernatorial candidates on issues related to our women’s agenda.
Hosting through the CWTA Alliance, on February 2, 2019 which involved eleven mayoral candidates and included thirty eight members of the Chicago Women Take Action Alliance organizational partners.
Hosting through the CWTA Alliance two mayoral forums, on January 14, 2023 and March 11, 2023 which involved all 40 CWTA partners