August 6-7, 2022:
Join our team at Sleep Out VC 2022, a Relay for Life type event to benefit the unhoused in Oxnard.
Aug 6 at 10 am to Aug 7 at 10 am at Oxnard High School
Please:
Donate to our team here. Please note that you are donating toward "Team VC Women’s Forum Collaborative."
Volunteer by emailing vcwomensforum@gmail.com for the SignUpGenius link. We have shifts available at the Kids Camp and Luminaria Field Table.
August 18, 2020:
Centennial of the 19th Amendment: Our contribution to the Vision 2020 Ventura County Toast to Tenacity
Related program:
Uncovering the Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement
presented by the California Historical Society on June 7, 2022
March 8, 2019:
International Women’s Day Proclamation
Thank you to the Ventura City Council for the International Women’s Day Proclamation and considering adopting a CEDAW ordinance! Thank you to all of the allies in white, VCWPC, The Acorn Project, CAUSE, and others for showing up and speaking up in solidarity.
An update:
Like all organizations, we need to evolve to meet the needs of our community. With so many amazing organizations stepping up around critical concerns for women in Ventura County, rather than hosting forums, since 2018, we have been supporting those events with our boots, sponsorship, and communication, while working with The Acorn Project to establish a stronger voice for Ventura County in the national and global community.
Looking for Collaborative Leaders!
We are looking for leaders to move our 501(c)3 forward. Please contact us for more information, if you value the voice and action of Ventura County women. Must work collaboratively around the Critical Concerns outlined in the Beijing Platform for Action.
A Brief History of VCWFC:
Over many decades, the United Nations has made significant progress in advancing gender equality, including through landmark agreements such as the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
The Ventura County Women's Forum Collaborative is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to empowering Ventura County women around the most current global concerns for women, UN Women’s Four Strategic Priorities:
governance and participation in public life
women’s economic empowerment
ending violence against women and girls
women, peace and security, humanitarian action, and disaster risk reduction
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VCWFC began as a grass-roots gathering of local women leaders in 2005, 10 years after Diana Goodrow and Cecilia Fargo attended the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995 and set out to bring the 12 global critical areas of concern and platform for action to Ventura County:
Poverty Education Health Violence Economic Justice
Power Sharing Institutional Mechanisms Human Rights
Media Peace Environment The Girl-Child
Between 2006 and 2012, we held five major, full-day forums with broad community attendance.
In the Fall of 2013, we introduced a new format to provide a vehicle for our many member organizations to host single topic, 60 minute presentations on subjects related to our stated issues through a gender lens. Click on the tabs in the menu for more information about past forums and seasons.
In 2018, we decided to play a more supportive role to the many like-minded organizations that had emerged in the county and to apply for UN ECOSOC Consultative Status to reinforce our mission.
In 2020, our Consultative Status was approved - in the midst of the pandemic - while we continued (and continue) to support efforts empowering local women around the most current global UN concerns using our boots, sponsorship, and communication tools.
PLEASE JOIN US in bringing a intersectional, gender lens to important global issues in Ventura County and recognizing our role as members of the global community!
Show your support by becoming a member!
$15 annually for individuals
$25 annually for organizations
(click on the Membership tab in the menu)