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We Celebrate Us
The year 2023 is not winding down quietly, as we might have hoped it would. In the preceding months we’ve experienced heartbreak as we witnessed our city unable to extend a proper welcome to its newest neighbors. Families displaced from their homes and arriving here with little more than the hope of a better future. We have struggled to reckon with the destruction in the present caused by our collective decisions in the past. The climate is out of order, violence rages, children suffer.
Our work may feel too small for the moment we’re in. But it matters.
In our CWIP community, women get up each day and address themselves to the bit of good they can do. Through our members' efforts, hungry people are fed, people are housed, the sick are made well, or at least made comfortable. It matters that we do these things, and that we continue to understand that they have value in themselves and also in the way that they address the world. They are a light in the darkest time of the year.
As your Co-Chairs, we are honored to serve an organization that increases our ability to turn things in a better direction, individually and as a sector. We celebrate another year of accomplishments with our members and friends. We are grateful for each of you and for all of you. And we wish us all peace in a difficult season, blessed rest and time with those we love, and the chance to do things better in the new year.
Clare Butterfield + Lindsey Moorman, CWIP Board Co-Chairs
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