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A YEAR LIKE NO OTHER<br />
Women@NJPAC grew in<br />
new directions throughout<br />
an extraordinary season<br />
Even as NJPAC’s theaters remained closed for<br />
more than a year, Women@NJPAC’s unquenchable<br />
“sisterhood for good” branched out into new<br />
directions to fulfill its mission to inspire and educate<br />
women and girls, celebrate the voices of women<br />
and bolster NJPAC’s many programs for children<br />
and families.<br />
In Fall 2020, Women@NJPAC’s first-ever virtual<br />
celebration, the <strong>Spotlight</strong> <strong>Gala</strong> @ <strong>Home</strong>, brought<br />
the organization together to host a much-needed<br />
fundraising event that brought in more than<br />
$1.8 million to support the Arts Center. Broadway<br />
legend Brian Stokes Mitchell starred in and hosted<br />
the hour-long concert portion of the evening, the<br />
first to be shared with all of New Jersey as a free<br />
broadcast on NJ PBS.<br />
December brought the Women@NJPAC Annual<br />
Meeting — or, as outgoing President Marcia Wilson<br />
Brown dubbed it, “our Women@NJPAC Zoom<br />
Hollywood Squares annual meeting” — which<br />
included a Leading Ladies panel discussion with<br />
the team behind the newly created New Jersey Arts<br />
and Culture Recovery Fund: Evelyn McGee Colbert,<br />
President of Montclair Film; Sharnita Johnson of the<br />
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation; Ann Marie Miller of<br />
Art Pride New Jersey; and Allison Tratner, Executive<br />
Director of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.<br />
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In March <strong>2021</strong>, the third annual Women@NJPAC<br />
Gathering of Givers event was held. This time, the<br />
celebration of the impact of women in philanthropy<br />
was a virtual event devoted to examining the role<br />
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Andrea Jung, former CEO of Avon<br />
and current President and CEO of<br />
Grameen America, was one of the<br />
women philanthropists featured<br />
at the Women@NJPAC Gathering<br />
of Givers, to mark International<br />
Women’s Day.