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Development Doctor
Summer is often a time for vacation and relaxation, but don’t forget about reflection. My advice to you in the slower months of summer is to take stock of all the great things your program’s students have accomplished. Take time to crunch the numbers, compile the data and run reports to demonstrate the great work you do.
Send this information, with a personal note from you or a graduate, on to your current and potential funders to demonstrate your program’s success!
Questions or Suggestions?
Send your questions or leads to the Development Doctor. Remember good prescriptions for financial health should be shared, so let the Doctor know about resources you find useful!
Resources
Women Work! is proud to announce a partnership with Charm and Hammer, a company that sells Safety Gear for Hard Working Women. In business for more than four years, Charm and Hammer provides women WORLDWIDE with appropriately fitting safety gear - from women's fall harnesses to petite welding gloves and everything in between!
Now Women Work! members receive a 10% discount off anything in Charm and Hammer’s online store (some restrictions apply). Visit womenwork.org for more information.
Funding Opportunities
AspenWSI Grant
AspenWSI is seeking applicants for a new three-year demonstration, Courses to Employment: Sectoral Approaches to Community College-Nonprofit Partnerships, which will launch in 2008. The demonstration is designed to support efforts between community colleges and community-based organizations that employ sectoral employment development principles in their work with low-income adults. Funded by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the primary goal of the demonstration is to help low-income adults acquire the education credentials and skills they need for employment that pays self-sufficiency wages.
Full details about the Letter of Interest process are available on the AspenWSI web site. All materials must be received, in one package via e-mail, by the Aspen Institute by close of business June 29, 2007.
What's New at Women Work!?
2007 Annual Fund Nears End
There's only one month to go in Women Work!'s 2007 annual fund. This year we've set an ambitious goal of $25,000 - $5000 more than our 2006 goal. Contributions to the annual fund support our invaluable projects and policy work. Help us meet our goal by making a contribution by June 30. Your gift has never been more important.
Make a gift online today on our new donation web page.
Partnership with YWCA USA
Women Work! is partnering with YWCA USA to launch PROJECT CONFIDENCE Outreach Program, an initiative to build the personal and professional confidence of women through monthly workshops. Several Women Work! teaching tools and resources are incorporated into the workshop toolkit. For more information about the project and to learn how you can get involved, visit womenwork.org.
New RITA Project in RI
Women Work! member, the YWCA of Northern Rhode Island, will be the next site to conduct Recruiting for the Information Technology Age (RITA). A grant from the Rhode Island Foundation will help the YWCA of Northern Rhode Island conduct RITA with single teen mothers participating in their Parenting in Progress (PIP) program. Women Work! staff will provide technical assistance and support to the project, sharing best practices and lessons learned from past RITA grants and assist in reaching out to and partnering with local employers. For more information about the RITA project visit womenwork.org.
Featured Web site: Women Work!'s network of organizational members are doing great work.
Check out this month's featured web site to learn how our network is bringing economic justice to women across the country. |
Petition Contest Winners
Congratulations to Maryland Women Work! and Southeast Technical Institute in Sioux Falls, SD for being the state network and member organization that collected the most signatures for our petition asking The Department of Labor to Restore funding to the Women’s Bureau.
Thanks to them and to all who collected signatures and signed the petition themselves. Your hard work resulted in more than 1600 signatures being sent to the Department of Labor!
New Organizational Member in May
Women Work! welcomes its newest organizational member who joined during the month of May.
Grossmont College, CA
Missouri Center for Career Education, MO
What's New at www.womenwork.org?
New Features on the Career Center
Women Work! has teamed up with Salary.com and High Voltage to bring new, interactive components to the Women Work! Career Center. Now visitors to the web site can learn about the salary they should expect in their job with the salary calculator from Salary.com. Career Center users can also get information about the educational program that's right for them using the education portal provided through a partnership with High Voltage.
Women Work! will continue to add content and interactive options to the Career Center to enhance the experience of women who are using it to enter, reenter and advance in the workforce. Visit often to check out all the new features!
Upcoming Events
To find contact information for any of the following events or to submit your own event, visit the Women Work! Online Calendar.
June 22
Nebraska Women Work! Women’s Forum - Lincoln, NE
A coalition of business leaders, members of local women’s organizations and concerned citizens will meet to discuss the status of women in Nebraska and how they can combine resources to improve the lives of working women.
July 6
Nebraska Women Work! Summer Meeting - Omaha, NE
Nebraska Women Work! will meet to discuss and strategize the release of “How's Your Work Life” a survey collected this year that in which over 1,000 women provided information about the challenges and opportunities they face in the workplace.
in the News
Maloney and Ginsberg Parry High Court Ruling - The only woman on the Supreme Court called on Congress to come up with a law to counteract this week's majority ruling on gender-based pay discrimination, Juliette Terzieff reports today. New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney has done just that.
Marriages Are More Stable When Women Work - The marriages of women who work outside the home are more likely to last than the marriages of those who don't, according to new studies.
Stay-at-home mother's work worth $138,095 a year - If the typical stay-at-home mother in the United States were paid for her work as a housekeeper, cook and psychologist among other roles, she would earn $138,095 a year, according to research released on Wednesday.
Mentor Programs Help Girls Engineer Their Futures - Women continue to lag behind men in engineering in terms of degrees awarded, presence in the field and sheer numbers. But several mentorship programs are helping to attract girls and young women to the profession.
Federal Minimum Wage Set to Rise - The federal minimum wage will increase by more than $2 an hour over the next two years, reaching $7.25. The rise was included in the war-funding bill President Bush is expected to sign soon. The Economic Policy Institute says the hike will change wages for 4 percent of the country's workforce.
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