Thank you to our SPEAK UP! 2018 sponsors AIDS Healthcare Foundation, AIDS United, Amida Care, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Ford Foundation, Housing Works, MAC AIDS Fund and ViiV Healthcare!
Far too often, people living with HIV are talked about, instead of talked to, at the tables where decisions are made about our lives.
The mission of Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN-USA) is to shift that balance: to prepare and involve women, including women of trans experience living with HIV, in all our diversity, to be at those decision-making tables. In Spring 2018, during the anniversary of our 10th year, we’ll take a tremendous step towards living that mission by hosting our third National Leadership Summit for women living with HIV.
In September 2016, PWN-USA held our second National Leadership Summit for Women Living with HIV: SPEAK UP! Organizing for Power. This year, we invite you to invest in building leadership by women living with HIV by sponsoring SPEAK UP! 2018: A National Leadership Summit for Women.
Following the 2016 Summit, participants reported better understanding of how policy affects themselves and others, from health care to reproductive rights for people of trans experience; increased preparedness to engage in advocacy; and new connections with other women living with HIV. Since the 2016 Summit:
- PWN members in 5 states are leading active campaigns to decriminalize HIV;
- Hundreds of PWN members and allies have been active in the fight to protect the Affordable Care Act, including dozens of members who organized in-district meetings and others who were arrested for civil disobedience in Washington, D.C.;
- Members formed a Black women living with HIV affinity group focused on self-care, healing, peer support for leaders, and addressing trauma;
- Members formed an anti-racism working group for white women living with HIV which is developing and implementing an anti-racism curriculum;
- PWN has begun working on developing a trans-centered reproductive justice agenda.
For more details about the outcomes of SPEAK UP! 2016, please see the SPEAK UP! report.
This year, PWN-USA is building on that success, and we need your support. We are thrilled to announce the third SPEAK UP! National Summit for Women Living with HIV! The urgency of the present political climate demands that women living with HIV understand our rights and how to protect them. To this end, we plan to increase the number of women living with HIV compared to 2016, with a focus on bringing in more women from underrepresented communities and states. Up to 350 women living with HIV from across the United States will gather in Myrtle Beach, SC, from April 12-15, 2018. During the Summit, women living with HIV will build leadership skills, discuss timely policy, legal and research trends relevant to women’s lives, and strategize to support grassroots organizing and advocacy at a federal and state level.
The goals of SPEAK UP! 2018 are to:
- Increase policy analysis and advocacy capacity on timely and strategic issues among women and people of trans experience living with HIV.
- Inspire our base and enhance our resilience by honoring our victories, examining our successes, and strengthening our relationships.
- Prepare our constituency to effectively engage in issue-based and electoral campaigns in 2018 and beyond.
- Advance the field’s commitment to intersectionality and racial and gender justice through political education.
We invite you to become an official sponsor of SPEAK UP! National Summit for Women Living with HIV. A detailed description of sponsorship opportunities is below.
PWN-USA is committed to ensuring women living with HIV most impacted by the HIV epidemic are able to participate. Your support will cover lodging, meals and other participation costs for low-income women and people of trans experience living with HIV. Further, your support will allow us to resource high-quality panels, workshops and breakout activities for participants.
Thank you for helping to make this herstoric event a reality. Giving at any amount is a significant contribution to women’s leadership! Thank you for your support!
Sponsorship Opportunities and Perks for
Positive Women’s Network-USA’s
2018 SPEAK UP! Summit April 12-15, 2018
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Level | Program | Banner and Material Distribution | Press, Links, Acknowledgement | Summit special edition T-shirts |
Movement Builders $35,000+ | Full page Ad prime placement in 10th anniversary book | Most prominent dedicated banner, Dedicated table for literature distribution | Link on website; acknowledgement on social media; in Summit program and post-event report | Five T-shirts |
Allies + Accomplices $25,000 | Half page Ad in 10th anniversary book | Dedicated Banner, shared table for literature distribution | Link on website, acknowledgement on social media; in Summit program and post-event report | Four T-shirts |
Organizers $10,000+ | Quarter page in 10th anniversary book | Logo with Others on Banner, shared table for literature distribution | Link on website, acknowledgement on social media; in Summit program and post-event report | Three T-shirts |
Activists $5,000 | Quarter page in 10th anniversary book | Shared table for literature distribution | Acknowledgement on social media; in Summit program and post-event report | Two T-shirts |
Solidarity Circle $2,500 | Quarter page in 10th anniversary book | Shared table for literature distribution | Acknowledgement on social media; in Summit program and post-event report | One T-shirt |
Supporter $1,000 | Business card size (2 x 3) placement in 10th anniversary book | Acknowledgement on social media; in Summit program and post-event report | One T-shirt |
Checks should be made payable to Movement Strategy Center, memo line: Positive Women’s Network – USA and mailed to
Positive Women’s Network, 436 14th St, Suite 500, Oakland CA 94612
https://pwn-usa.org/