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Early Bird Rates END TOMORROW!
It's your last chance to take advantage of a great deal on the Women Work! 2007 National Conference, A Woman's Work is Still Never Done. The early bird rates for conference registration end TOMORROW, March 2! Visit www.womenwork.org now to register for the conference and SAVE!
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Development Doctor
Aligning your organization's fundraising efforts with local events is a great, low-cost strategy to grow your budget while gaining visibility in your community.
March is a great time to market your organization through events in support of Women's History Month. Participate by setting up a table at a local event or getting your events on a community calendar. Women's History Month is also a prime opportunity to partner with women-owned businesses in your area. These partnerships can be as easy as a donation jar at the cash register or donating a portion of the sales revenue on a particular weekend.
Make sure to take advantage of opportunities such as Women's History Month, Mother's Day and other holidays to make sure your organization is part of your community's activities. Incorporating these types of strategies into your annual fundraising plan will equal consistent giving throughout the year.
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
March is Women's History Month! Take a few minutes to look at some of these resources about the great strides women have taken in the past several hundred years.
Founded in 1999 as the first and only organization devoted to a comprehensive array of recruitment services for women, Women For Hire offers signature career expos, inspiring speeches and seminars, a popular career-focused magazine, customized marketing programs, and an online job board that help leading employers connect with top-notch professional women in all fields.
Funding Opportunities
The Foundation Center is the nation's leading authority on philanthropy, connecting nonprofits and the grantmakers supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust. The Foundation Center now provides Cooperating Collections, free funding information centers in libraries, community foundations and other nonprofit resource centers that provide a core collection of Foundation Center publications and a variety of supplementary materials and services in areas useful to grantseekers. Cooperating Collections are available in every state.
Neighborhood Excellence Initiative
The Neighborhood Excellence Initiative, Bank of America's signature philanthropic program, provides grants of $200,000 each for operating support to two nonprofit/charitable organizations in each of Bank of America's forty-four markets. Recipients also benefit from specially designed leadership development programs. To be considered for the Neighborhood Builders program, applicant organizations must be tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the IRS and must be based and serve communities in any of the forty-four Neighborhood Excellence Initiative markets. Deadline: June 29, 2007.
What's New at Women Work!?
Tax Time!
As April approaches, it's time to start thinking about taxes. Women Work! has some great information about the tax credits available to help women make ends meet. Make sure to check out the tax section of the Women Work! website as tax rules change every year, and there are special refunds available this year. Be sure to share this information! Many people who might not otherwise file a tax return may still be able to get money back. Look for the information and printable tipsheets at www.womenwork.org.
Q & A with Dr. Riche
Coming Soon to the Women Work! Career Center - Beth Sperber Richie, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and coach in private practice in the Washington, D.C. area who coaches individual clients to achieve the optimum integration of their career development and life goals. She was honored by an award from the American Psychological Association for her research on the career development of highly achieving women.
Dr. Riche gives workshops and presentations to organizations and women's groups around the D.C. areas and this spring will present a Skill-Building Clinic on Finding Your Dream Job at the Women Work! National Conference.
While you are waiting for your chance to submit a question to Dr. Riche, visit the Women Work! Career Center home page and sign up for her free monthly enewsletter on balancing work and life.
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. |
New Organizational Member in February
Women Work! welcomes its newest organizational member who joined during the month of February.
Delaware State University Cooperative Extension
What's New at www.womenwork.org?
A Woman's Work is Still Never Done
New conference materials are now available at www.womenwork.org.
Advocacy Day
One of the most exciting events at the Women Work! 2007 National Conference will be the Equal Pay Day Rally and Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill. Now available at the website are materials to help you prepare for your lobby visits and convince your representatives that women need support to achieve economic security.
Hotel Deadline
Once you've registered for the conference, make sure to make your hotel reservations as well. Take advantage of the great conference participant rates at the Doubletree Crystal City. Make your reservations by calling (703) 416-4100 (make sure to mention you are with Women Work!) or through the link at www.womenwork.org. Rooms are going fast. Reserve yours today!
Speaker Bios
Interested in finding out more about the skilled and inspirational speakers at this years conference? Bios for all speakers and many presenters at the 2007 National Conference are available at the Women Work! website. Check it out today to find out about the great workshops and events taking place at the conference.
Dine in DC
One of the many great events during the conference that will help you get to know your fellow advoacates for women's economic security is the Dine in DC night. Members of the Women Work! staff will take you to one of their favorite DC restaurants. Descriptions of these great DC eateries are now available. Don't miss this chance to enjoy good food and conversation with fellow conference attendees.
Upcoming Events
To find contact information for any of the following events or to submit your own event, visit the Women Work! Online Calendar.
March 5-7
"The Road to Reentry": 2007 Defendant / Offender Workforce Development Conference - Charlotte, NC
Over 500 participants from across the United States and other countries are expected to attend this conference to learn about "hands-on" practices and tools to implement offender workforce development initiatives and network with others who are implementing best practices and partnerships. For information about the conference, please visit the conference website
March 22-25
Leadership Training & Family Retreat - Port St. Luice, FL
For once, you don't have to choose between work and family with Execu-Care's Leadership Training (& Family Retreat). Participants receive professional leadership and work/life balance coaching, world-class team building and corporate communications training with Edy Greenblatt, Ph.D. while children and travel companions enjoy Club Med's all-day supervised land & water sports, arts and circus activities. Resort accommodations, childcare, gourmet buffets and entertainment are all included in this unique program.
March 26-27
Women's Equality Summit and Congressional Action Day! - Washington, DC
The National Council of Women's Organizations and the Younger Women's Task force are proud to announce the Women's Equality Summit and Congressional Action Day, March 26th and 27th, 2007. Women leaders and their allies will gather in the nation's capital for two days of briefings, training sessions and face-to-face meetings with Members of Congress and national women leaders.
April 2-5
Becoming A Second Chance Society Again - Charlotte, NC
The 3rd Annual National Offender Workforce Development Conference will be held April 2- April 5, 2007 at the Westin Hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina. The theme for this year's conference is "Becoming A Second Chance Society Again".
April 22-25
A Woman's Work is Still Never Done– Arlington, VA
Mark your calendar now for the 2007 Women Work! National Conference. At the conference you will network with colleagues from across the country, meet with your legislators and develop new professional skills!
May 5
Women in Trades Career Fair - Portland, OR
The general public is invited to the Women in Trades Career Fair on Saturday, May 5, 2007, from 9:00am to 4:00pm to discover high-paying, high-skilled careers in the construction-related trades. Try out tools, meet successful tradeswomen role models including electricians, carpenters, heavy equipment operators, and more, and participate in hands-on workshops. No advance registration required. Free parking, free childcare, free admission, and free shuttle provided from Gateway Transit Center.
in the News
A Marriage of Hearts and Minds… and Fortunes, Too. Like many married couples, Alex Smith and Cindy Hsu have a lot in common. They're both 32 years old. They both like Chinese food, show tunes and American Idol. And they're both doctors.
Optioning In: Women use flexible work arrangements for career success. Women are not “opting out” of leadership and abandoning their careers, as the popular press likes to report. Instead, the Simmons School of Management survey, “Optioning In versus ‘Opting Out': Women Using Flexible Work Arrangements for Career Success,” found that most of them are using flexible work options to remain in the workplace while managing complex lives.
IBM-er wins tech's version of Nobel, but few women keep her company. Today, IBM's Fran Allen becomes the first woman to win the most prestigious prize in computing, the A.M. Turing Award. And tomorrow? Well, Thursday is officially Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day. Together, these items add up to a pretty sad statement: Technology companies have failed colossally at making women a bigger part of the industry's amazing expansion.
Women are first for this group. Women often are taught to take care of others before themselves -- even in the workplace. But there's a group of Michigan business leaders trying to change that.
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