Parte das ações da semana em Washington/Nova York pela Vital Voices, as homenageadas com o Award abriram a Wall Street nesse dia 9 de março:

On the occasion of International Womens Week, March 8-14, Vital Voices Global Partnership will be joined by corporate partners Standard Chartered Bank, Avon, and Time Inc. to launch a global corporate media campaign entitled WOMEN CAN AND DO at the New York Stock Exchange and ring The Opening Bell on March 9, 2010. Designed in conjunction with Vital Voices Board Member Diane von Furstenberg, the media ad campaign will profile both established leaders and emerging heroines innovative and entrepreneurial women working to increase economic opportunity, strengthen, democracy and end violence against women worldwide. The NYSE Opening Bell event will ring-in Vital Voices week-long activities in celebration of International Womens Week: including a two-day State Department Summit in partnership with Vital Voices and Avon entitled The Global Partnership to End Violence Against Women, and the Launch of two special initiatives: the Vital Voices Global Investment Portfolio Program, and the Vital Voices Initiative for Reconstruction and Womens Economic Empowerment in Haiti.