Send along your ideas for how GDRA can help strong women make stronger, safer, more just communities–we'll shout it out during Women's History Month!  Take a look at the Women Building Disaster Resilience Project notes and see whether, how and when you and your community might be a good fit.

On International Women's Day, March 8, reach out to women workers and women's unions about disaster resilience. How can we work together in workplace-based campaigns?

Link up with girls! Check out what this Girl Scout troop has done, with support from friends in EMPOWER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEwwAJR_ilo.  Girls around the country are making a difference in their families, schools and neighborhoods. How can you hook up with them in your town?

Chime in! All members are welcome to join in our quarterly telephone meeting. Would you like to contribute to the agenda? Please drop Ali Jordan a line a few days in advance: http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/awards/myers-award.html.

Please mark your calendars for Wednesday, February 23rd, at 13:00 PST, 14:00 MST, 15:00 CST, 16:00 EST.

Current GDRA co-facilitators Elaine Enarson and Bill Lovekamp will facilitate the call which will last one hour–we welcome your input. There are several items on the agenda (so far):

1)      Goals for 2011

2)      Activities/Projects and Updates

3)      Partnerships (who and how we structure them)

4)      Graduate Student Paper Competition

5)      GDRA Video

6)      July Hazards Workshop Meeting Planning

7)      Succession Planning

Are you able to call in on your own nickle? Please do, if possible.  If you are calling in from a landline or do not have free long  distance, you can use the toll-free number (866-491-8832).

Otherwise,  please call in using the local dial-in number (973-797-8951). Then, just  follow the instructions and enter the participant code: 284157.  If you have  problems accessing the line, please email Ali Jordan at
alexandra.jordan@colorado.edu or Elaine Enarson: enarsone@gmail.com

Please help us circulate the Call for Nominations, due May 15 2011. For more, visit the Mary Fran Myer page under RESOURCES or, to learn more about past recipients, visit the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado. Or download the Call for Nominations 2011 for circulation here. Thanks!

There was no daylight between the values of Mary Fran Myers and Brenda Phillips. To learn more about Brenda's work and why she received the 2010 Mary Fran Myers Gender and Disaster Award, visit the Mary Fran Myers page under RESOURCES. And huge congratulations again, Brenda!

Please visit the web page under RESOURCES for more information but mark your calendars now. The GDRA Graduate Student Paper Competition deadline this year is May 15, 2011. Please help us let others far and wide learn about this exciting opportunity.