Rosie The Riveter Tr

Programs: The rosie the riveter trust helps preserve the historic resources of the rosie the riveter/world war ii home front national historical park, implement park and trust programs, and teach the story of the home front. The trust partners with government, business, labor, academia and individuals to support visitor services, research and interpretation of the history of the home front, preservation of park sites, youth and public education programs for more than 70,000 visitors a year, and the establishment of links to other home front sites across the country. The trust continues to pay for an artifact collection of 2000 unique wwii items for the park to display at its visitor education center.

the trust has helped to renovate, preserve, and manage historic sites, including the wwii era maritime child development center in richmond california. It manages and maintains the maritime child development center building as a "living" national park site for tours and educational programs. In 2016 the trust and it's film team captured extensive footage of 95 year old legendary ranger, betty reid soskin, both for park archives and for a 30 minute broadcast quality documentary film, capture a legacy, that we hope to complete in 2017 to highlight her impact on audiences and the way national parks articulate the history.

the trust produces youth programs, including the rosie's girls summer camp which provides thirty free scholarships for low income girls to learn the history of women who broke barriers, the history of the wwii home front, and to learn non-traditional skills for girls, including welding, carpentry, outdoor skills and more. In 2016 the trust conducted a special project for former campers to design an travelling exhibit about rosie's girls. In 2016 the trust also funded bus transportation and other expenses to bring 1200 fourth graders from under-served schools to visit the park. Students learned history, bay ecology and climate impacts, and took a healthy one mile hike. They received a free pass to take their families to national parks for one year as part of the every kid in a park program.