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ELIZABETH KESSEL

Encore Fellow Profiles

Elizabeth Kessel
ELIZABETH KESSEL
Others Trade for Hope
Elizabeth Kessel has over twenty years of experience in the marketing and public relations sector, having worked with a variety of clients in a wide range of industries. Recent assignments were with Beauty with a Mission and The Event Loft.
Originally from New York, she spent many years in Southern California raising her family and has returned to New York for the many exciting opportunities the city has to offer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tulane University. Elizabeth will be starting the virtual part time 12 month fellowship with The Salvation Army, Others Trade for Hope.
She will be the Sales and Marketing Coordinator fellow focused on developing and implementing creative sales/marketing strategies; advising on new retail marketing; development of marketing campaigns for new and existing products, and brainstorming strategies to build strong brand recognition and engagement particularly among millennials and Gen Z. Elizabeth is excited and honored to begin her journey in the non-profit sector and to make a positive impact with Others Trade for Hope.
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EDGAR MAXION

Encore Fellow Profiles

Edgar Maxion
EDGAR MAXION
Sunnyvale Community Services
Edgar Maxion spent more than 20 years working in facilities and construction management for renowned Bay Area institutions including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Monterey History & Art Association. But after 12 years as Stanford’s chief facilities officer, he was drained.
“At the end I was juggling eight construction projects at once and I was kind of a mess,” Maxion, 53, confesses. “I wasn’t sleeping very well and my health was tanking.”
He left that job and spent time thinking about what he wanted to do next. “I called it my ‘I don’t know what’ phase,” he jokes. Maxion began volunteering for the Salvation Army in San Jose, giving out produce and helping to cook some evening meals.
A conversation with a career counselor led him to Encore Fellowships, a program that matches skilled, seasoned professionals with social sector organizations in high-impact, paid engagements lasting as long as a year. Shortly after filling out an online application, he grabbed coffee with Gina Cassinelli, who facilitates matches throughout the Bay Area.
“We talked for a long time,” he recalls, “and she understood that I didn’t want to go back to doing exactly what I’d been doing.”
But when Sunnyvale Community Services (SCS), an emergency assistance agency working to prevent hunger and homelessness, began searching for an Encore Fellow to manage the renovation of a multimillion dollar property they’d recently purchased, Cassinelli urged Maxion to meet with them.
Executive Director Marie Bernard “made it clear that while the job was construction project management, I would also be doing all these other things focused more on culture and change management,” he says. “That psychological part intrigued me.”
A month into his fellowship, the pandemic hit. Clients needed more help — and SCS employees needed a safe space to work.
Maxion rearranged space to account for social distancing. New signage was created, the HVAC was adjusted to bring in more air from outside, an intercom system was built, janitorial service frequency was increased, and personal protective equipment was procured.
With their facility secured, SCS workers have been able to distribute $900,000 in rent assistance to local residents so far — an increase of more than 200 percent over pre-pandemic times.
In July, Maxion was hired as a full-time employee to continue overseeing the new building renovation, which is expected to be complete by the spring of 2021. Right now, that means lots of time spent finding the right subcontractors, ordering furniture, and ensuring materials arrive on time in spite of delivery delays caused by the pandemic.
“Edgar’s asset and risk management knowledge became absolutely valuable when the pandemic hit hard,” says Hiroko Odaka, Maxion’s manager and SCS’s director of operations. “He led the agency-level efforts of both physical and policy modifications to comply with Santa Clara County Covid-19 protocol. We are very lucky to have him with us.”
Maxion feels lucky, too. “I was so done with my career,” he says. “I had fear that I was over the hill, and it started to weigh heavy on me. But being at SCS and seeing how much they value my skills, and all of the trust they have in me, I feel re-energized. It’s been a confidence-building experience.”
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CARRIE KNAPP

Encore Fellow Profiles

Carrie Knapp

CARRIE KNAPP

Impact Justice
“I knew when I stopped working full time that I wanted to use my skills to benefit an organization doing good work,” says Carrie Knapp, 60, an HR professional who has since completed two Encore Fellowships.
Knapp worked for 30+ years, mostly at Wells Fargo, building expertise in strategic project planning, management and implementation. She heard about Encore Fellowships — short-term, high-impact, paid engagements at nonprofits — from a friend who had a positive experience.
“I care a lot about education and issues around inequity, racial disparity and economic injustice,” says Knapp. “My first Encore Fellowship was with College Track, and my second was with Impact Justice. With both organizations, I stayed on for a second year to work with the teams as a consultant.”
Impact Justice is a national innovation and research center that focuses on creating a more humane, restorative system of justice in the United States. Knapp’s first task: to create a job structure including standard job titles, job descriptions and a salary structure to support equity and ensure everyone at the organization understood roles, responsibilities and compensation.
She then shifted gears to rewrite the employee handbook. “That meant writing a lot of new policies that didn’t yet exist, but were needed.” Most recently, she’s been working on developing a more robust approach to performance management.
“All of my work for Impact Justice has been an incredible opportunity to go very deep with the leadership team and help them to articulate their values and to get aligned,” Knapp says. “I think sometimes HR work can be approached superficially, but that’s just not who I am. When I’m tasked with creating a compensation plan, I work with leadership to understand their values and philosophy to ensure that plan is a good reflection of the values of the organization and what they want to communicate to employees.”
Maureen Vittoria, the chief operating officer at Impact Justice, says having Knapp on the team has been invaluable. “She led our compensation philosophy work and the creation of equitable job and pay structures, our compensation and pay administration practices, and the refinement of our performance management process and our employee policies.”
It adds up to this, Vittoria says: “[Knapp] has been an integral part of Impact Justice’s maturity as an organization.”
Knapp says having meaningful work to focus on during a time of global unrest has been helpful. “To have something to do, so I’m not sitting around and just reading the news, is good for my mental health, for sure,” she says. “Supporting organizations doing good in the world is a wonderful thing. Plus, I get a bit antsy without a challenge.”
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Karen Milton

Karen Milton

Karen Greve Milton, a seasoned attorney and Senior Consultant at Danosky & Associates, LLC, boasts over 25 years of executive management expertise in revitalizing and restructuring local, state, and federal agencies, with a focus on governance, compliance, and policy. Notably, she served as the longest-tenured Circuit Executive of the Second Circuit for twenty-one years, overseeing thirteen federal courts in New York, Connecticut, and Vermont. In this role, Karen was the chief executive officer responsible for all non-judicial decision-making aspects, such as finance, procurement, HR, IT, cybersecurity, facilities management, and more.
Karen's diverse career also includes roles such as Executive Deputy Inspector General and Chief of Staff in the Office of the MTA Inspector General, the first Director of the Citibar Center for Continuing Legal Education, and General Counsel to the New York State Temporary Commission on Investigation. She began her legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in the Office of the late Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney for New York County.
Actively engaged in civic education and nonprofit work, Karen serves on the Board of Directors for Fedcap Rehabilitation Services, as well as the Center for Civic Education and has been its Treasurer since October 2021. She is a former President of the New York Women’s Bar Association, a Director of its Foundation, and a member of various bar associations and councils. Beyond her professional pursuits, Karen dedicates her time to community-based nonprofits, church choirs, and alumni organizations.
Karen holds a B.A. (cum laude) from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Case Western Reserve School of Law, where she served as a Law Review Editor. Her commitment to ongoing professional development is evident through her graduation from The Support Center's Interim Executive Director Training Program in Manhattan.
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He’d Never Considered the Nonprofit Sector. Now He Doesn’t Want To Leave

He’d Never Considered the Nonprofit Sector.
Now He Doesn’t Want To Leave.

David Pfeifer brought decades of experience running small and mid-size businesses to Futures and Options last year when he joined the team as an Encore Fellow — a seasoned professional paid a stipend to work at a nonprofit for 3 to 12 months.
When his fellowship ended in September, he accepted a full-time job there. “We hired him because he is the best person for the job,” says Patty Machir, executive director. “David’s prior experience in the for-profit world as a COO, CFO and CEO has been immensely helpful and, because of his efforts and contributions, we are a much better-managed nonprofit.”
She adds, “His ability to communicate effectively with our team, his respectfulness, his integrity and his terrific sense of humor are all much appreciated. And he will roll up his sleeves to tackle any project — he just gets it done.”
Learn more about Pfeifer’s fellowship experience, and why he wasn’t ready to leave, in his own words below.
Even if there was no Covid-19 and I could travel freely, I would want to be doing this — working to support a nonprofit that provides career development and paid, mentored internships to underserved high school students in New York City.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m proud of every business I’ve been associated with. But to be helping high school students who maybe haven’t had the same advantages that my son had? That feels really good, especially with all the social justice issues being surfaced right now. To be contributing, in my own small way, to something that’s making a difference to the things that I believe in.
I started out at Futures and Options as the operations manager with three direct reports and now I’m the director of finance and administration, and I’m part of the management team. I thought my skills could help the organization, but I way underestimated how much I was going to learn. The whole idea of profit maximization is completely thrown out the window. You still have to pay super close attention to revenue, expenses and cash, but it’s just with a different mindset — you’re measuring service impact, efficiency of use and that kind of thing. It’s been fascinating.
My department supports all the other staff that drive the mission of the business. We help onboard hundreds of interns per year and manage all the HR issues of our staff. We make sure to invoice for the work we do, and provide financial reporting and analysis to the management team and the board. It is our job to make sure our computers work and there is paper for the copiers, and to see that our vendors get paid. It’s a broad range of tasks.
Our goal is to ensure that the people working with the funders, business partners and students don’t have any issues with the gears behind the operation. But we aren’t an accounting firm. We’re a finding-students-internships firm. That’s what’s exciting.
During the pandemic we’ve shifted our career preparedness classes online and a lot of businesses were able to transition to remote work for the interns. Everyone is finding ways to be creative and we’re ramping up for a pretty busy summer.
Earlier in my career, as I started working my way up the management chain, I found that the rooms got smaller, older and less diverse. At Futures and Options, there’s a lot of diversity and many of the people I work with are much younger than me. If there’s anything I can teach them, great. But if I can support them as they develop in their careers, well, that’s awesome.
I’d never worked in the nonprofit sector before. But I believe right now, if I had to leave this role for some reason, I would stay on this career path. I would look for another nonprofit and find a similar role. I would have never done that, if not for the Encore Fellowship program. I’m very grateful.
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This Encore Fellow Is Helping a Nonprofit Serve 60,000 Children a Year

This Encore Fellow Is Helping a
Nonprofit Serve 60,000 Children a Year

Helping Mamas provides essential baby items and period products to women and children in need throughout the state of Georgia and in Knoxville, TN. The nonprofit was started in 2014 by Jamie Lackey, a social worker who saw moms use plastic grocery store bags as diapers and knew something needed to be done.
Helping Mamas has experienced exponential growth over the past eight years, particularly during the pandemic. The organization now serves nearly 60,000 children a year and distributes 2 million essential items through 150 partnerships with social services agencies.
Last year, Pegi Amend, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) retiree, joined Helping Mamas as an Encore Fellow, a seasoned professional who takes on a significant, paid assignment at a nonprofit for 6-12 months. When her fellowship ended, Amend accepted a full-time position as Helping Mamas’s director of finance and operations.
Learn why, in the words of Jamie Lackey and Pegi Amend, below.
Jamie Lackey CEO
When the pandemic hit in 2020, we saw a 400 percent increase in need and that hasn’t slowed down one bit. I needed someone to help with finance and operations, because we basically blew up overnight.
We posted a job listing and I believe Pegi saw it and reached out to someone from Encore.org who contacted me, to see if I’d be interested in bringing her on as an Encore Fellow. She’d taken an early retirement from HPE and they were offering to cover the stipend. That struck me as a pretty incredible opportunity – to get access to someone with so much experience for six months before investing in a salaried position.
And it turned out being such an easy and natural fit. Within a week I was like, “Will you stay forever?”
I couldn’t even wrap my brain around the processes we needed, and she immediately knew how to organize everything. She had a lot of experience working with smaller companies that had been acquired, so all of that change management work allowed her to clearly see best practices and processes for our organization. That’s really what we were lacking – we had policies, but not practices and procedures. I had no idea how efficient we could be until she came along.
I was willing to do whatever needed to happen to get her to stay. In September, I started planning the budget for her position. I asked for her recommendations on the job description. And when her fellowship ended, we rolled her into a full-time position.
She’s helping us get a blueprint in place because we’re looking to expand into other locations. We’ve also been experimenting with a mobile program, where we have a van that we take out to communities, and people are able to drive through and get the items they need —like what food banks have been doing, but with baby supplies and period products.
The pandemic opened us up to partnering with a lot of schools and campuses, in addition to continuing to work with domestic violence shelters, kids and families in foster care, refugee resettlement organizations and hospitals — to name a few.
We certainly get a lot of thank yous and grateful comments from people who can put the money they would have spent on diapers toward rent and utilities. That feels good, to know we’re making a difference. This whole thing started out as a passion project and it’s turned into something much bigger.
We certainly get a lot of thank yous and grateful comments from people who can put the money they would have spent on diapers toward rent and utilities. That feels good, to know we’re making a difference. This whole thing started out as a passion project and it’s turned into something much bigger.
Pegi Amend Director of Finance and Operations
At HPE I had a number of roles. I eventually moved into operations, but the whole time I was there I was very focused on helping the community and I ran HPE’s employee volunteer program for 15-20 years.
If life had been different, I would have been a social worker. But my mom encouraged me in another direction, so I went into engineering. I knew at some point, though, after the kids finished school and the house was paid off, I’d retire and be able to spend more time working in the nonprofit space.
About five years ago, I started eyeing what would be next and, I think through Google searches, I learned about the Encore Fellowship program. When I retired in 2020, I knew HPE sponsored a certain number of people in Encore Fellowships each year. But I was still exploring nonprofit opportunities and having a field day volunteering — at The Red Cross, a couple of food pantries, Covid-19 vaccination sites — trying to figure out what I wanted to do.
When I saw the job at Helping Mamas I was really interested — their work seemed like such an essential piece of the poverty puzzle — but I worried that if I just sent my resume over they’d say no, seeing me as overqualified. So I reached out to someone at Encore.org to have them approach Helping Mamas, and see if they’d be interested in having HPE sponsor me as an Encore Fellow in the role. And, luckily, I was able to get one of the two sponsorship opportunities HPE offered in 2021.
At the beginning, a lot of my work was just straightening out the financials, reviewing their systems and helping to organize and document their processes. I had just done that at HPE so it was something I could easily pass along. I also had a lot of experience with software and hardware and knowing which programs could help. It was exciting to realize what a big impact I could have through making little changes here and there – things that come second nature to me, but that you don’t often have time to think about at a small organization.
At HPE, I was working with mostly older people.. My experience at Helping Mamas is much more age diverse. Every year, we have eight AmeriCorps VISTA members serving one-year terms and they skew pretty young. They’re energetic and willing to take on anything, and I feel like they’ve helped me understand my kids better. It’s been fun.
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This Encore Fellow Helped Embed Social Justice in Engineering

This Encore Fellow Helped Embed
Social Justice in Engineering

Jim Blakley joined an intergenerational team at Arizona State University working to make social and environmental justice practices the norm for engineers
After working in the tech industry for nearly 40 years, Jim Blakley knew he wanted to pursue an Encore Fellowship, working part-time for a nonprofit organization that aligned with his values. At 60, he was ready to retire and knew several colleagues who had enjoyed their Encore Fellowship experience. He submitted an application, expressing interest in a virtual opportunity so he could work from his home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Around the same time, Darshan Karwat, 37, heard a colleague at Arizona State University (ASU) mention Encore.org (now CoGenerate) and the next day saw Encore.org mentioned again in a book he was reading. Seeing it as a sign, the college professor and founder of Project Confluence, googled the organization and was excited by the Encore Fellowship program. He sent an email, saying he’d love to have an Encore Fellow collaborate with him on a new project.
Shortly after, this intergenerational pair was matched. Both spoke with CoGenerate’s Sarah Gibson below.
What is Project Confluence and what inspired you to start it?
Darshan: In talking with students and other practicing engineers, I was hearing a hunger to apply their skills in other ways – not just following orders or designing systems to ensure a profit, but also considering the social and environmental impacts of their work, and creating positive social and environmental value in the world. I saw them struggling to see themselves working in engineering, being dissatisfied, and dropping out of engineering altogether. It was frustrating to see so much talent leaving this field when they could be having such a positive impact.
Engineers build things — the cars we drive, the way power is generated, the buildings and infrastructure we live and work in, the weapons used in wars, artificial intelligence — and all of these things have impacts on the world, positive, negative, and unclear. I believe it is possible for engineers to create less damage and more beauty in the world. Project Confluence is one effort to embed environmental protection and social justice in engineering.
How does it work?
Jim: Eventually, we hope it will become a certification program like LEED, but to start we created a professional development program that sensitizes engineers to social and environmental justice and teaches them how to make decisions with that in mind. We developed a curriculum and delivered it over eight weeks to an architecture, engineering and consulting firm as a pilot. Next up is rolling it out to other firms in the industry.
In the early part of the fellowship, I helped Darshan develop a strategy and plan for Project Confluence. In the second half, I was one of the developers and instructors for the curriculum.
Darshan: Engineering promotes values. For example, we hear a lot about efficiency as a driving value in engineering. But there isn’t yet a standardized process for how to approach social and environmental justice, for how people and natural resources are impacted.
Can you give us an example of how decisions might change, using the lens of social and environmental justice?
Jim: Sure. We worked with a firm that was tasked with building a bypass in a busy area of South Carolina. They did an analysis and the client chose to go through a historic community that was predominantly African American. Their reasoning was that it would impact the fewest number of people, and the firm had no real way to factor in the impacts or influence of their client’s choice.
The community went into an uproar and the engineering firm had to go back and re-do some of the design as well as improve a local park as a way of mitigating the impact. This was all because there were no standards applied to help the engineers make decisions with social and environmental justice in mind. Engaging with the community in a meaningful way early and often could have changed their design decisions and saved a lot of money and heartache.
How was the Encore Fellowship experience?
Darshan: It was awesome. I gained a mentor and, in doing so much work together, Jim became my friend. He has a perspective that I generally am not exposed to. He has 40 years of experience and has all of this wisdom. He was at a very high level at a large tech company when he retired, and I assume you only get to that point by having demonstrated leadership, management and organizational talent. The way he thinks about what we’re doing is different from how I think about it, and I love that.
Jim: It was such a great collegial exercise, working with Darshan, some of his students and other professors and professionals with subject area expertise. There was a great deal of respect between everyone and it felt like we were on a shared mission. We each had to apply our creativity and skills to put this program together and deliver it. To get such a positive response from the firm we did the pilot with has been really rewarding.
The participants from Mead & Hunt and facilitators in the Project Confluence pilot program.
What kind of impact are you having?
Jim: The firm we did the pilot with is now getting new business from clients who value social and environmental justice. They’ve gone after new grants that support doing this specific type of work, and they’re experiencing cost savings by avoiding potential problems they may have encountered down the line. Their current employees report being more engaged and they’re having an easier time attracting new talent since young engineers really care about environmental impact. They’re demonstrating leadership in this space and are able to include their efforts in their ESG reporting. So far, there really hasn’t been a downside.
Darshan: Longer term, we want to create working examples of how principles of environmental and social justice can become part of how engineering firms do their business. To date, the connection between engineering and social and environmental justice has tended to engage individual engineers and communities rather than firms. There are regulatory changes coming where firms will have to think about this differently but that can all too easily become a checkbox exercise, like greenwashing. We’re trying to move beyond that – so this isn’t something you have to do, but something you want to do.
Any final thoughts for those considering becoming an Encore Fellow?
Jim: One of the main reasons I retired was to have more time to do things that I cared about and to get more involved in causes that were important to me. The Encore Fellowship was a great way to make the jump from a high-pressure work environment to a nonprofit. I was able to use what I’ve learned and not just be an extra set of hands. The match was ideal and my friendship with Darshan is a great added bonus.
LEED certification took 25 years to become a standard practice and this might take just as long. I probably won’t be around then, but hopefully what we’ve built will be the seed.
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Remembering Dick Cattani—A Longtime Friend of The Fedcap Group

Remembering Dick Cattani—A Longtime Friend of The Fedcap Group

It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to our friend and colleague Dick Cattani. Over his many years with Restaurant Associates, Dick and his team developed a strong partnership with The Fedcap Group. Restaurant Associates catered many events for Fedcap including our Galas, hired people who graduated from our Culinary School—offering them a good job with a career ladder in their journey toward economic well-being. Dick participated in numerous Fedcap Golf events, served as a distinguished panelist for our Solution Series, and was a generous supporter of our work.

Dick started with Restaurant Associates right out of college as back of the house steward. He eventually became General Manager of the famous “Newarker Restaurant” at Newark Airport. Over the years, Dick has held many regional and corporate operating positions. He became President of Restaurant Associates in 2003 and, under his leadership, grew the company three-fold in ten states. Dick retired at the end of 2021.

Upon his passing, Restaurant Associates said this: “As we reflect on our loss and celebrate his life, we are reminded of his genuine kindness, inspiring vision, passion for life, and love for his family. A winning combination for a truly exceptional leader. Dick’s legacy is unparalleled and his memory will live on through all of us. His favorite quote will forever echo in our hearts: Work Hard and Be Nice.”

Dick was a wonderful combination of innovation, attention to detail, humanity and humor and he will be deeply missed.

 

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May is Mental Health Awareness Month

May is Mental Health Awareness Month

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. This important recognition was established in 1949 to increase awareness of the importance of mental health and wellness in Americans’ lives, and to celebrate recovery from mental illness. This year, the National Alliance on Mental Illness encourages the amplification of the message “Together for Mental Health,” and to advocate for access to quality care for anyone affected by a mental illness.

The prevalence and impact of mental illness are hard to overstate. U.S. prisons are filled with people suffering from untreated mental illness. Incidences of mental illness have gone up significantly since the pandemic began in 2020, when The National Institute of Health reported that one in five American adults experienced a mental health issue, and one in 20 Americans lived with a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression. One in 6 young people experienced a major depressive episode, and suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death for people ages 10-24.

The companies of The Fedcap Group understand that most people with mental health problems can recover, and that treatment and recovery are ongoing processes that happen over time. We also believe that work completes treatment. The first step is getting help, and each day across our agency we provide proven treatments, supports and community-based activities to help people living with a mental illness on their path to recovery, through a lens of long-term economic well-being.

Together we can fight the stigma of mental illness, and help build a world where care and treatment for mental illness are available to all.

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Celebrating the Strength and Tenacity of Women

Celebrating the Strength and Tenacity of Women

March is National Women’s History Month, which recognizes the contributions of women to history, society and culture. The month-long observance, celebrated since 1987, honors women who changed history—women like Abigail Adams, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony and Rosa Parks—and countless others who, despite systemic discrimination, fought for equality and justice, and achieved greatness in their chosen field of endeavor.

Despite the incredible courage and hard work of generations of women, we are still a long way from an equitable society. Women constitute 27 percent of Congress, but over half the population. At Fortune 500 companies, women account for just over seven percent of CEOs. Women make up only 28 percent of the STEM workforce. Women’s median earnings are 80.8 percent those of men. A black woman has to work 19 months to earn what white men do in a year, according to the National Partnership for Women and Families. Latina women earn $0.57 for every dollar earned by white men.

Across the U.S., 15.5 percent of women live in poverty compared with 11.9 percent of men. Retired women are twice as likely as retired men to live in poverty. Workplace sexual harassment and assault are common, and drive many women from their jobs. Sixty-six percent of female service members report sexual harassment or assault. As many as one in four women are victims of domestic violence.

These inequalities and injustices were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had a disproportionate impact on women’s participation in the workforce, placed greater burdens on paid and unpaid caregivers, and increased rates of domestic violence. Today, the constitutional right to abortion is threatened as States seek to restrict and deny critical reproductive health care and bodily autonomy.

Yet women everywhere, inspired by heroines who changed history, are making great strides in the ongoing fight for equality. According to A Proclamation on Women’s History Month, 2022 by President Joe Biden—“Women of the labor movement are achieving monumental reforms to help all workers secure the better pay, benefits, and safety they deserve. LGBTQI+ women and girls are leading the fight for justice, opportunity, and equality — especially for the transgender community. Women and girls continue to lead groundbreaking civil rights movements for social justice and freedom, so that everyone can realize the full promise of America.”

The companies of The Fedcap Group are represented by women at every level, and we are stronger for it. Please join us during this Women’s History Month in honoring women who have changed the world, and those who continue the struggle for equality and fairness.