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Your contributions will
help to support the Rosie the Riveter Memorial
project
Rosie the Riveter
Trust is the official non-profit partner of the
National Park Service for Rosie the Riveter WW
II Home Front National Historical Park.
Rosie
the Riveter WW II Home Front National Historical
Park was established in Richmond,
CA in 2000 to tell the story of how Americans
at home pulled together in a unified effort to
win World War II. There are many threads to this
story about “The Arsenal of Democracy,” including
the first time in American history that minorities
and women were integrated into and became an essential
component of the industrial workforce and the first
time that child care was routinely provided for
working women and the establishment of a comprehensive
health care system. Richmond, CA was chosen as
the national park’s location because it was
the location of the largest and most productive
shipyard in the world in WW II, and much of the
historic infrastructure is still intact.
Your donations will
help fund projects and programs to assist the National
Park service in telling this compelling story,
and your donations will be recognized in the Rosie
the Riveter Hall of Honor.
Rosie the Riveter
Trust has raised nearly $2.5 million in grants
and donations for Rosie the Riveter WW II Home
Front National Historical Park but needs much more
to preserve deteriorating infrastructure and help
pay for interpretive programs. Your contributions,
in any amount, are urgently needed.
Click here for the Rosie
the Riveter Trust Strategic Plan and IRS
Exemption Letter.
The park is the location
and the theme for an annual “Home
Front Festival” of national significance
that debuted on September 28, 29 and 30, 2007.
The festival kick off featured a fundraising dinner
in the Craneway of the former Ford Assembly Building
(future location of the park’s Visitor Center)
for Rosie
the Riveter Trust, the official non-profit
partner of the Rosie the Riveter WW II Home
Front National Historical Park.
Projects and programs
undertaken and underwritten by Rosie the Riveter
Trust include:
- Established a website (www.rosietheriveter.org)
and continue to maintain it.
- Contributed to cost of oral
histories video by Jon Plutte.
- Paid for attendance by Richmond
Planning Commissioners, Design Review Board
members and Historic Preservation Advisory
Board members to historic preservation conferences
and workshops.
- Paid for preparation of successful
National Register of Public Places nomination
for Atchison Village.
- Paid food and beverage costs,
photography, consultant expenses, space rentals,
transportation and other costs for National
Park Service workshops, recognitions charrettes,
tours, receptions, and other events.
- Paid food and beverage costs
for volunteers working for the National Park
Service
- Obtained a $30,000
grant and paid for preparation of scripts for
use in future interpretive presentations.
- Organized
and helped pay for the relocation of the Whirley
Crane to Shipyard 3 at a value of approximately
$130,000.
- Funded a temporary public
outreach position for the National Park Service.
- Prepared
a Strategic Plan through 2008.
- Secured
a $2 million matching grant from the California
Cultural and Historical Endowment (CCHE) the
Maritime Child Care Center and facilitated
an additional $5.5 million in commitments from
the West Contra Costa Unified School District
and the City of Richmond to fully fund the
project.
- Executed a 30-year
lease with Contra Costa County for the Maritime
Child Care Center for $1 per year.
- Distributed
$33,492.20 for community outreach activities
including park tours for community leaders
and funding a part-time community outreach
position.
- Debuted a webstore
(www.rosiehomefrontstore.com).
- Manned
a booth at the 2006 National League of Cities
Congress of Cities in Reno and at Richmond’ Juneteenth
Festival.
- Participated in the
National Trust for Historic Preservation Partners
for Preservation Bay Area Initiative and secured
a $105,000 in supplemental grants for the Maritime
Child Care Center.
- Entered into an MOU
between the East Bay Center for Performing
Arts and the Rosie the Riveter Trust for 10-lessons,
standard-based curriculum focused on the themes
of World War II Home Front.
- Presented
a “3-Minute Success Story” on the
moving of the Whirley Crane at the 2006 California
Preservation Conference in Sacramento.
- Worked
with the City of Richmond to install directional
signage from Interstate 580 to Rosie the Riveter
WW II Home Front National Historical Park.
- Participated
in the planning of the 2007 Rosie the Riveter
and contributed $15,000 toward festival costs.
- Planned
and executed the keynote event at the 2007
Rosie the Riveter and contributed with author
Emily Yellin as speaker.
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