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JUNE
MWM NEWSLETTER
Please
check out below
for what's going on in MWM!
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Join Million Women Mentors for their Leadership Circle Webinar on
June 6th
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M
WM
inspires the confidence and interest in young women and girls to pursue STEM careers and leadership opportunities through the power of mentoring. With over 2.3 million commitments to mentor, and over 1 million completed mentoring relationships since 2014, the movement reaches mentees across the United States. Part of this extensive network is a
series of specialized councils
working to increase opportunities for women and girls within a particular sector or initiative including:
- Commitment to Entrepreneurship
- Global Awareness & Activation
- Women in Insurance
- Corporate Mentor Best Practices
- States Outreach & Programming
- Technology & Impact
Hear from our
Leadership Circle
how each one of these initiatives impacts the movement and the case for mentoring programs. This
one-hour webinar
will be a chance to celebrate and build on progress within each council, while providing concrete calls to action for attendees. It will start at
11AM ET
on
Wednesday, June 6th
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Resources Available to Our Members Through Our Partnership with MENTOR
Twice a month MENTOR hosts two styles of free webinars available through their website, the Philanthropic IMPACT Webinar Series and the Collaborative Mentoring Webinar Series.
MENTOR established the
Philanthropic IMPACT Webinar Series
in February 2017 to explore how philanthropic partners are accelerating the mentoring movement through Investments, Measurement, Partnerships, Activation, Collaboration and Training (IMPACT). This webinar series is designed for corporations, foundations and individual donors that are currently engaged in or interested in supporting the youth mentoring field. Webinars are free and online. To get more information
please click here.
The
Collaborative Mentoring Webinar Series
focuses on strengthening mentoring practice, sharing new resources, and helping the field put research into practice.
Webinars for this series are held monthly on the 3rd Thursday at:
- 10:00AM-11:15AM Pacific
- 11:00AM-12:15PM Mountain
- 12:00PM-1:15PM Central
- 1:00PM-2:15PM Eastern
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The PepsiCo Foundation Commits $4 Million to the Robin Hood Foundation to Support Education and Job Training for 20,000 Young Women and Girls in the Bronx
The
PepsiCo Foundation
today announced a $4 million grant to the
Robin Hood Foundation
– New York City's largest poverty-fighting organization – to support high-quality education and workforce training programs for young women and girls in the Bronx. The grant will fund initiatives to help 20,000 females ages 13-24 in the Bronx increase their earning potential, addressing an acute need in New York City's poorest borough in which 1 in 3 women – more than 220,000 women – are living in poverty."
At
PepsiCo
, we believe that every person deserves a fair shot to succeed in life, no matter what we look like or where we live," said Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo. "That's why we're so excited about the opportunity to join forces with the Robin Hood Foundation to help unlock the potential of thousands of young women in the Bronx, and
why we're committed to lifting up women in communities all over the world, from the Middle East to Latin America to right here in the United States – because half the world is women, and when we unlock their potential, we'll all be stronger for it.
" For more information please
click here
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South Carolina Hosts Second Annual State Symposium to Encourage Mentoring for Girls and Women in STEM
MWM-SC
hosted its second STEM Symposium on
Friday, May 11
at IT-ology in Columbia, SC. The event featured WIS news anchor, Judi Gatson as the emcee; speakers included U.S. House of Representative Sylleste Davis, former Education Program Manager of NASA Dr. Shelley Canright, Vice President of Analytical Services and Product Development at Nephron Pharmaceuticals Ashley Daugherty, Executive Director of the South Carolina Coalition for Mathematics and Science Dr. Thomas Peters, Senior Director at Volvo Lena Vennstrom, IT Service Process Manager at Boeing Lindsay de Jong, and Boeing Women in Leadership South Carolina President Betsy Young. For more information about this event and how to do something like this for your state, please contact
MWM-SC
State Chair Chris Wolfe
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Technovation
offers girls around the world the opportunity to learn the necessary skills to become technology entrepreneurs. Groups of girls find a problem in their community and create a mobile app to address the problem. They then learn how to communicate their business plan and their product. This year, Houston hosted its first Technovation Live Pitch on
Friday, May 4,
2018 at HISD’s Young Women’s College Prep Academy. Teams from the Houston area could present their mobile app to a panel of judges live in the first round of judging, instead of by video. By having an opportunity to present their pitch live, the groups also learned how to respond effectively to questions.
MWM-TX
participated as judges at this event.
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The Women’s Foundation of Arkansas hosted its
Million Women Mentors Relaunch Summit
in Magnolia, Arkansas on
April 20, 2018
. The summit took place on the beautiful campus of Southern Arkansas University at the Alumni Center. The speakers included Tina Fletcher, M.Ed with Fletcher Educational Solutions and Lt. Governor Tim Griffin, who also serves as the Million Women Mentors-AR State Chair.
The summit had over 25 attendees from various girl serving organizations, higher education institutions, government agencies, corporations, Magnolia Chamber of Commerce and others.
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On
April 2
, Verizon along with
MWM-CA
, hosted an Innovative Learning Lab for a group of Sacramento middle school students that took them around the world and back without ever leaving their seats. The lab helped kick off TechNet’s California Diversity in Tech and STEM Week 2018 and gave the students hands-on experience with virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR).
In the experience kids traveled around the world without leaving their seats. Even better? Each kid also
created their own 360° experience
AND all participants got to take home their very own VR headset device so they can continue to explore the world of virtual reality at home!
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Help Students Explore the Unknown!
At the Kentucky Girls STEM Collaborative’s 11th annual conference for parents, STEM educators and mentors on
June 11
will learn about alternative and nontraditional career pathways within STEM and how these careers are viable in the future.
Keynote speaker, Dr. Lori Wilson director of the Forensic Science Program at EKU, will kick-off a full day of networking, panel discussions, and maker activities from the The Explorium of Lexington, Kentucky Science Center and Newton’s Attic. STEM mentors and representatives from local industry and higher education will be on hand to share resources and insights into navigating the full network of STEM career paths and development. Participation in this year’s conference will earn you five hours of Professional Development credit and give you the tools you need to help the next generation navigate STEM careers of the future. For more information please
click here.
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Extending Capabilities for Canada!
We have enhanced the website to allow the proper entry of Canadian addresses, including provinces and postal codes. As we grow the list of Canadian partners, we will be able to identify mentoring opportunities by postal code in Canada. If you know of organizations in Canada that would like to be listed, please direct them to the "
Get Started Now
" section of the homepage on our website.
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WHAT'S GOING ON WITH MWM?
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2018 Annual MWM Gala & Summit
Please
save the date
on your calendar, we will be providing more information as we get closer but our Annual Gala will take place
October 25
in Washington DC and the Summit will occur the following day,
October 26
, also in Washington DC.
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Women In Insurance Initiative Moves Full Steam Ahead!
MWM Women in Insurance (WII) Initiative is in full swing. Insurance leaders see this as perfect timing to share profiles and commitments: what companies are doing to advance women to support the recruitment and retention in the insurance industry system and communicate and showcase achievement as a group and with the individual company leaders. The goal is to take many informal programs and formalize initiatives, data and results from mentorship and share what it means with the collective industry. Members are elevating women’s leadership and reviewing the data on insurance overall with the release of an updated white paper which portrays great pay disparity upward into the “C Suite.”
The updated issue of Women In Insurance released in June and will be distributed to 3000 leaders, These include distribution to IICF Women in Insurance Conferences, ACORD (insurance organizational leader and partner) and other partners who will share in their networks. Prudential and QBE and the other insurance companies are distributing and using internally and externally. The Women In Insurance Initiative (WII) Leadership will convene in New York City
June 26th
hosted by Indeed to discuss and strategize the path ahead.
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Meena Krishnan, CEO of Inoventures, Received the Tech Award at the Women in Technology (WIT) Awards in Virginia
The Leadership Awards recognize and honor women professionals who have exemplified leadership while promoting the WIT mission of Advancing Women in Technology from the Classroom to the Boardroom. Typically nominees for the Leadership Awards work in a technology role or for a technology company where they accelerate at leadership and innovation. In addition they stimulate professional growth of those they manage or mentor through their actions and encouragement. Nomination categories offer many opportunities to highlight the outstanding capabilities and accomplishments of women from large and small public and private organization, demonstrating social impact, being a stellar contributor to WIT and others.
Meena is part of the MWM-EI national program
with mentor Sheila Boyington, CEO Thinking Media and National States Chair for MWM.
MWM
congrats her on this accomplishment.
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MWM-EI is unique in its mentorship support of growing STEM Women Business Enterprises (WBE) entrepreneurs as an effort of the Million Women Mentors(MWM) Movement, matching women mentees with women mentors, The MWM-EI is sponsored by Wells Fargo, and the
MWM Entrepreneurship committee
is chaired by Wells Fargo’s SVP, Regina Heyward.
Why focus on Women and Minority Women STEM Entrepreneurs or STEMpreneurs?
STEM women and women of color are some of the fastest growth area of our economy. The WBEs that are part of MWM-EI include technology-based companies in the government and private sectors. The 2017 program shows that the selection of talented WBE owners matched with committed mentees demonstrated success can be achieved. Critical is the matching of mentees with mentors, careful review of business plans and providing of monthly input and reports is proving to have impact.
"This content first appeared in Vol. 19, No. 1 of Enterprising Women magazine and is being reprinted with permission from the publisher. All rights reserved."
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