• March 1999 event at City Hall with US Postal Service unveiling the "We Can Do It" stamp received regional newspaper coverage and was included in national broadcast coverage.
• Helped to organize event honoring former Kaiser Shipyard workers at the 1999 Northern California Tradeswomen conference in November.
• Strengthened support from within Marina Bay neighborhood by several public presentations and by leading a tour of about 40 residents of the memorial site. The project artist and landscape architect gave a walk-through of design, during which they answered questions and addressed concerns. This outreach effort met with great enthusiasm from the Marina Bay community.
• Collaborated with Community Works for second year in sponsoring an education program at Kennedy High that allows students to interview former shipyard workers, study Richmond's war-time history and write about their perceptions of this topic.
• Organized two community outreach and education events with funding from the California Council for the Humanities; January 16th, 2000 - a community memory-gathering workshop at the Richmond Senior Center drew over 40 people; March 11th,2000 -- a lively panel discussion on contemporary memorials at the Richmond Art Center.
• Initiated new partnership with the Women's Bureau, Department of Labor, which will fund a project, "Rosies: Then & Now," in collaboration with Tradeswomen.
• Coordinated testimony before House of Representatives Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands House in support of the proposed Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park. Former Kaiser welder Ludie Mitchell and daycare worker Ruth Powers traveled to Washington DC, along with Councilman Tom Butt, Memorial Chairperson Donna Powers and Project Director Donna Graves.

Donna Stewart of Vacaville brought this photograph of her mother "Peg" Ella Clem and her Yard #2 welding crew to the event celebrating the U.S. Postal Service's "We Can Do It" stamp. Donna also donated her mother's and father's hardhats for the Rosie the Riveter Project Archives.

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