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Birthdays are pretty huge for many of us these days, as they mark the passage of time when it can otherwise (some days) feel like it's standing still.

From my newest vantage point, more than 160 days into responding to a global pandemic by keeping isolated...a week into living in a brand new city across the country from where I had relocated a decade (and two reinventions) ago...and a few hours into 61 years old...I am seeing life through new, less rosy, more real glasses.??

Funny that the same year I lost my beloved mom, who was my greatest teacher, it's been my daughters who have taught me most. They've been enlightening me to the white privilege I didn't even know I was raised under, and are helping me better see and understand what I (and we) didn't even know was so very wrong with our world and the way we live in it.?

They're also teaching me what I had once taught them: that we're never too old to backtrack, write new stories and grow. Wowza.?

As the Founder of Campowerment, for the past seven years, I have been committed to helping women transform their lives, in person and now on this interactive digital playground we've created to help people learn, connect and grow. We've built an incredible community of purpose-driven people who belong together. Thousands of them. A community we have (many times) called our "Tribe."

Just this week, I learned it's time to dump that term, too. And upon reading the rationale, it's almost bizarre I couldn't see it before I did.?

1. We Are Preparing to GIVE Annual Memberships to Campowerment.com to Honor Those in Service of Women's Empowerment

When we launched Campowerment.com in October, we invited YOU to empower a giving program that encapsulates the domino effect of women in transformation; one that matches your year of membership with a membership we GIVE to another woman, like you, on a mission, to learn, connect and grow. We built it so that Annual Founding Memberships to this transformational digital playground could empower a Buy 1 // Give 1 campaign. To do the giving, we're partnering with inspiring organizations that empower underrepresented women and girls.

Self-care is key in the coming year, for all of us. And we want to bring it to as many women - by birth or identity - as we can.?So, if you've not yet become a Founding Member of our interactive, online expert-led community, and are ready to grow AND give, the time is now! Make it happen, here!?

Investment for all of 2021: $699, a 35% savings from monthly membership, now thru 12/31. Giving begins 1/1.

2. We Added "Impact" As a Major Pillar of Programming, Beginning with an Anti-Racist Agenda

Learn s'more about the seven peaks you can reach with us, HERE.

3. We Are Ready to Grant Retreat Scholarships to 21 Extraordinary Women in 2021

Campowerment's 501(c)(3) partner Give Her Camp, Inc. (FEIN: 81-1407528) provides scholarships to extraordinary women to re-ignite their lives at Campowerment's IRL?camp retreat experiences. Funded by members of the Campowerment community - with all overhead donated by the Campowerment Crew - Give Her Camp is a labor of love that, since 2016, has bridged an opportunity gap for more than 40 re-ignited women, who've told us their weekend at Campowerment was game-changing for their futures.

And in 2019, YOU provided the funding for 21 more scholarships!! A record-breaker. Of course, a global pandemic pushed us to put those scholarships - with our retreats - on hold this calendar year, but our incredible rebooted Board of Directors did vote to allocate all 21 bunk spaces to unbelievably inspiring applicants and nominees, 60% of whom were women of color.??We'll be letting those women know we'd like to honor them at our November 2021 camp retreat in Ojai as soon as the world gives us the green light to gather again.?

With that, it's important we let you know that while we are always open to receiving donations that directly fund more scholarships (HERE), we are not asking for anything.

There are so many causes that need your support -- our support -- right now, for urgent and dire services or sustenance, so they can keep doin' what they're doing on this rocky road that's taking us into 2021.

If you're looking for an org to support today but not sure where to look, may we suggest a few awesome non-profits connected to folx in this community?

Check out:

• Nola Black Youth Fund (via Emily Sussman)
• Freedge (via Ernst Bo)?
• Herb it Forward Foundation (via Shelly Fisher)?
• Inequality Media with Robert Reich (via Courtney Fuller)?
• SCOPE (via Lea Carlson)?
• Experience Camps (via Jesse Moss)?