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JANUARY
NEWSLETTER
Please
check out below
for what's going on in MWM!
Hope you had a wonderful holiday and
HAPPY NEW YEAR
from all of us at MWM!
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2019 Leaders to Learn From Series
As Million Women Mentors embarks on our
fifth
year in operation, we are excited to build on the progress we have made and share authentic insight into the world of mentoring through our
#BeyondtheBuzzword
campaign. Part of this work is showcasing the leaders who have paved the way for women across industries and set a true example for girls and women across the globe. We know that leadership comes in many forms and that there are many avenues to success. The
2019 Million Women Mentors Leaders to Learn From
series showcases the career paths of STEM leaders who have followed unique pathways to attain their current status. Every month we will celebrate the story of a new trailblazer who beat the odds and define what it means to be a role model. These profiles will celebrate individuals who persevere against convention and remind young people and seasoned veterans alike that there is no longer a "traditional" means to career success.
We will kick of the 2019 Leaders to Learn from Series with a profile of a truly authentic leader in STEM.
Umran Beba
, SVP, Chief Diversity and Engagement Officer of
PepsiCo
, demonstrates what it means to have integrity, perseverance, and real insight to leadership. Feel free to share this profile with your networks to show women across the globe that there is no longer a 'traditional' model of a successful career. To download the profile
please click here or the image below.
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Twitter Chat to Take Place January 17, 2019
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January is National Mentoring Month
National Mentoring Month is held each January to promote youth mentoring; if you plan on participating please tag us
@MillionWMentors
so we can see all of your great mentoring activities!
January will also continue our 2019 theme of going
#BeyondTheBuzzword
to show what mentoring in the real world looks like.
Here are some posting tips to help us amplify the message:
- Jump on social media and include any or all of the following hash-tags in your posts: #MWMentorIRL, #BeyondTheBuzzword, #MentorIRL
- Help put a face to mentoring by sharing pictures of you and your mentor/mentee and recording video responses and then share them!
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Million Women Mentors Entrepreneurship Initiative Mentor Program's goal is to strengthen women-owned businesses or Women Business Enterprises (WBE) whose organizations provide goods or services related to science, technology, engineering or mathematics. Wells Fargo sponsors this effort. As part of the MWM-Ei program, Million Women Mentors will match 10 WBEs to a respective larger company to act as their mentor for a year assisting the mentee company in ways to achieve growth and long term success. If you are interested, please click the image to the left or
here to apply
! The application deadline is
Friday, January 18
. For any additional questions please email
kimgrimes@livingabundantlyinc.com
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MWM is Happy to Announce a Discounted Registration for MENTOR:The National Mentoring Partnership's Annual National Mentoring Summit
If you’re interested in continuing the conversation about corporate mentoring programs and recommended practices, Million Women Mentor’s nonprofit partner MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership, is hosting their annual National Mentoring Summit featuring a curated Philanthropic Partnership Track this
January 30 -February 1
in Washington DC. MENTOR is offering a
$25 discount
on registration for all Million Women Mentor and STEM Connector corporate partners!
Click here to register
and enter code:
PPTPartnerDiscount
. The Summit is a great opportunity for corporate representatives of CSR, HR, D&I, marketing, etc. to engage in peer to peer networking and learn alongside hundreds of mentoring practitioners, philanthropists, policy makers, researchers, and community leaders.
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MWM Recognizes MEMIC's Advocacy
On
December 4, 2018
in Washington D.C. MWM recognized The MEMIC Group, a workers' compensation insurance specialty company with its Corporate State Advocacy Award. Catherine Lamson,
Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer
at The MEMIC Group, who championed the MWM formation in Maine, accepted the award on behalf of the company. For more information
please click here,
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Mentorship as a Movement
An article written by one of our leaders of the
MWM Women in Insurance Initiative
Margaret Resce Milkint
was published in
Insurance Business America
on December 4th, 2018. In the article Milkint describes the hardships she has faced in her career as well as the importance of mentoring as the key to raising future female leaders to create workplace equality and reimagine the C-suite. For more information and to read the article
please click here
, way to go Margaret!
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Texas Girls Collaborative Project Announces 2018 Million Women Mentors- Texas "Stand Up for STEM" Award Winners
The awards recognize individuals and organizations in Texas advancing women and girls in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. The awards were given to: PepsiCo, Inc., Dawn Hunter, Senior Outreach Program Coordinator math the Texas Advance Computing Center, The Frontiers of Flight Museum (shown below), and Amy Jackson, Found & Director at Starry Sky Austin. For more information about the award recipients and the great work they have been doing
please click here.
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Governor Northam and Virginia Council on Women announce STEM Essay Contest
Governor Ralph Northam and the Virginia Council on Women have announced the 8th Annual STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Essay Contest for women in their junior and senior years of high school. At least five $5,000 scholarships will be awarded to high school junior and senior women pursuing a STEM career at a higher education institution. One scholarship will be awarded in each of five geographic locations in Virginia.“It is critical that we prepare all Virginia students to succeed in fields like science, technology, engineering, and math, and this annual contest is a great way to encourage more young women to explore their passions and pursue careers in these industries,” said Governor Northam. “The scholarships awarded by the Council will help Virginia women achieve their academic and professional goals in high-demand sectors that are charting the path of our global economy today and into the future.” To be eligible, the students must be a female or identify as a female, reside in Virginia, be a junior or senior in high school and have a GPA of 2.5. All entries must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. on
Feb. 22, 2019
. Winners will be notified by
March 21, 2019
. The scholarship awards ceremony will be held at the Executive Mansion in Richmond in April 2019. Application and guidelines can
be found here.
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'STEM in Academia' Conference Held at Rowan University
On Saturday
December 1st 2018
, the Governor’s STEM Scholars Program (GSS) held its second conference of the 2018-2019 academic year, “STEM in Academia” at Rowan University. The
conference began with a panel discussion highlighting academic career opportunities available in STEM with a goal of erasing the barriers between students and professors. The panelists spoke frankly about their own professional journeys, revealed why they chose a career in academia, and discussed both the opportunities and challenges in working at a research university. The 2018-2019 class of 80 students representing 18 of the 21 counties in New Jersey were selected from hundreds of applicants by an advisory council with decades of cross-sector experience in STEM. The scholars were chosen for demonstrating exceptional performance in STEM and showing a deep interest in becoming New Jersey’s next thought leaders. For more information about this New Jersey program
please click here.
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MWM-NV led by Caesars Entertainment Executive Vice President of Public Policy & Corporate Responsibility
Jan Jones Blackhurst
will be having a launch event this week. This event will include Nevada's new
Lt. Governor Kate Marshall
, and occur
Tuesday, January 8th
during the Consumer Electronics Convention (known as CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Lt. Governor will join a group of talented STEM women from Caesars for a VIP Tour of CES and following the tour, Jan will host a luncheon at Caesars Palace to discuss some of the best ways to support girls and women in STEM in Nevada.
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WHAT'S GOING ON WITH MWM?
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It is Time to Get Your Numbers in For ‘Be Counted!’ 2019
As we begin 2019, it is important you start thinking about our
Million Women Mentors ‘Be Counted!’ Campaign
, an effort to record all of the mentoring of girls and women in STEM that is happening already for 2019! We know companies, organizations, and individuals are working to move the needle for girls in STEM currently, and now we just need to count it!
Now you can easily record the mentoring you are doing just by clicking on the Be Counted! link from the
homepage
. From there you can sign in or sign up and create your account. Finally, just fill out the information about the mentoring you have done, and voila! You will be counted!
Please help spread the word about this campaign and get all of the mentoring counted!
If you would like the Be Counted! Campaign Cheat Sheet
click here
.
As well, the link to share out for our google form can be accessed by
clicking here.
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Whether you are starting a corporate community mentoring program from scratch, looking to expand or augment an existing program, or just thinking about new ways to engage employees in volunteering, knowing what kind of resources are available to support that work and how to evaluate them can be advantageous. The Million Women Mentors Mentoring Resources Index will provide members with the information they need to find and secure the right partners, research, training, and other resources to meet their programmatic goals. In the Activation Guide you will find help to get your program started, the evaluation rubric by which we measure resources and partners, and a database of organizations and resources that have been Million Women Mentors Certified. To be included in the Million Women Mentoring Mentoring Resources Index, a resource or organization has to meet our baseline criteria including: ability to provide testimonials to the resources's effectiveness, impact metrics proving success meeting the mission, and ongoing sustainability.
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MWM State of the States 2018-2019 Released at Annual Summit
At our annual Summit on
October 26th
, we released this year's State of the States report. The report provides an overview of the movement and features a page on each state involved. The state pages detail events and initiatives within that state over the past year, commitments and pledges to mentor, and plans for the coming year, and provides information on that state's leadership structure and partner organizations. It's a chance to celebrate progress, share best-practices and scalable models of success, and dive deeper into the daily workings of this vast volunteer movement.
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