Dear Organization,
The Vermont Workers' Center is working with dozens of campus and community organizations to recognize the week of December 7-13 as Human Rights Week, ending with the Ella Baker Human Rights Conference on Saturday the 13th, and we are writing to invite your organization to be a part of the Conference.
The Ella Baker Human Rights Conference will be held from 9am - 3pm at the Davis Center at the University of Vermont. This December 10 will mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the United Nations in 1948, and December 13 will be the 105th anniversary of the birth of civil rights leader Ella Baker.
The conference will feature workshops on a wide range of topics in the human rights framework, including healthcare, workers' rights, livable wages, tenants'/housing rights, the war, anti-racism and civil rights, women's rights, gender oppression and LGBTQ rights.
Our goals are to popularize and deepen understanding of and commitment to the human rights framework and movement-building strategies among our base and allies and to bring together organizations from different movements to discuss the intersections of our work.
We are hoping to involve a large segment of the Vermont community in this conference and week of activities, which is going to be a free statewide event. If you want to get involved and are interested in being a sponsor — which would include your name being on the advertising poster, event program, and media ads and your organization having table space at the conference — please let us know. We are confident that together we can use this as an important opportunity to advance the movement for human rights.
Sponsorship Sliding Scale:
| Budget | Sponsorship Amount |
|---|---|
| less than $5,000 | $25 |
| $5,000-$50,000 | $50 |
| $50,000-$200,000 | $100 |
| $200,000-$500,000 | $250 |
| $500,000-$1 million | $500 |
| over $1 million | $1,000 |
Contributions should be sent to the Vermont Workers' Center, 294 N. Winooski Avenue, Burlington VT 05401. Please contact us at conference [at] workerscenter [dot] org if you have any questions, or if your organization is unable to contribute financially but is still interested in sponsoring.
Sincerely,
Madeline Murphy Hall
Class of 2010, The University of Vermont
David Shiman
President, United Academics(AAUP/AFT) at UVM.
Donna Roberts Moody & John Moody
Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions
Ella Kaplan
Outright Vermont
James Haslam & Kate Kanelstein
Vermont Workers' Center
Jean Marie Pearce
Student Labor Action Project
Students For Peace & Global Justice, University of Vermont
Joshua Wronski
Student Labor Action Movement, St. Michael's College
Karen Tronsgard-Scott
Director, Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence
Moise St. Louis
Director of Multicultural Student Affairs, St. Michael's College
Sara Martinez de Osaba
We All Belong
Shela Linton & Curtiss Reid
ALANA Community Organization