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Dear John,
Your gift today supports our programming that elevates girls of color and their joy. Read the email below, by my colleague Ruth McFarlane, to learn why joyful resistance is an important value of our Girls Fund Initiative. Join the Joyful Resistance Matching Gift Campaign and your gift will be doubled.
Thank you,
Elisabeth Gaikema Platt
Dear John,
When I was a little girl learning to play the piano, I had to memorize the saying “Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge” to help me remember the notes on the five lines of the treble clef: E G B D F. It was helpful but also very distracting. Don’t good girls deserve fudge too? I was one step closer to becoming a committed feminist!
 Children, especially girls, have always been close to the heart of the Ms. Foundation's mission. We understand that girls’ voices and leadership are critical to the strength of our social justice movements.
Support the work the Ms. Foundation will be doing over the next 12 months, including funding and amplifying the leadership of girls of color. Double the value of your gift through our Joyful Resistance Matching Gift Campaign, which ends on June 30, 2021. All new gifts to the Ms. Foundation during the campaign will be matched by a generous, long-time donor up to $50,000 and will go towards supporting all of our work in the coming year.
When Shawnda Chapman, the Director of the Girls Fund Initiative at the Ms. Foundation, talks about her program she names joy as both a survival strategy and a powerful act of resistance. “We celebrate joyful resistance, “ she says, “and we prioritize strategies that boldly and unapologetically name joy as a central element.”
With your gift to the Ms. Foundation, you help bring a bit more joyful resistance into the world. Will you make your gift to the Joyful Resistance Matching Gift Campaign today before time runs out?
Help the Ms. Foundation to fuel gender and racial justice for generations to come.
In solidarity,
 
Ruth McFarlane,Vice President of Advancement
P.S. Make a gift today!
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