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FEBRUARY
NEWSLETTER
Please
check out below
for what's going on in 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 kicked 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.
We are happy to announce this month's leader
Halleemah Nash
,
Chief Partnerships Officer
, The Academy Group.
Halleemah's incredible journey from Compton, CA to authentic and passionate leader supporting diverse communities shows young people that they do not have to be defined by stereotypes that surround them, and that they can use their individuality as a competitive advantage on the road to success.
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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Making a Difference as a STEM Mentor
After the October 2018 MWM 'Becoming the Difference' Summit, one of our
State Leaders,
Jenny Kopach of Illinois
, wrote a blog post about '
The Power of One: How You Can Make a Difference During STEM Mentoring Month.
' The article was published on our partner
MENTOR
's website and we encourage all of you to read it. It combines great insight and ties together all that our movement is about.
To read it please click here.
If you are published anywhere for anything related to Million Women Mentors please send it our way,
we would love to feature you in the newsletter!
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Mark your calendars for our International Women's Day Webinar!
This year's IWD theme is
"Better with Balance";
we will be hearing from an international cross-sector of leaders on why gender balance is important to their industry and the economy as a whole, as well as a bit about what efforts are seeing the most impact. Speakers will be announced in the coming weeks. The webinar will take place on
March 8th, 2019
(International Women's Day) at
11 am EST,
please register today
by clicking here.
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Million Women Mentors Participated at MENTOR's National Mentoring Summit
On Friday,
February 1st
in Washington DC
STEMconnector's Senior Director of Communications & Partnerships
Ashley Szofer
,
BP's Executive Director of the BP Global Foundation
Kathleen Martinez
,
Genentech's Associate Director of Corporate Citizenship & Engagement
Ragnar von Schiber
and
Cisco's Head of Global Community Relations
Kirsten Weeks
hosted a Corporate Activation Panel. This session provided an opportunity for participants to learn more about the benefits of corporate mentoring volunteer programs, as well as lessons for how to operationalize such a program for the greatest impact. Corporations looking to expand their community impact through local mentoring, either to form a new program or tighten or expand an existing one, walked away with scalable models and resources to bring back to their organizations. If you are interested in any of the information that was discussed please contact
Alexa.Gitler@stemconnector.com
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Society of Women Engineers Hosts 'Tomorrow's Engineers Today' Saturday February 23
Every year they host a one day event for middle and high school girls to learn and get excited about a career in STEM. This event includes: fun experiments, laboratory tours & demos, presentations on various engineering majors, and insight for parents about the field of engineering & the University of Tennessee Tickle College of Engineering. Come join UTK SWE for this fun day!
To get more information and purchase tickets please click here.
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Middle-school girls learn about leadership and self-esteem at third annual Young Women’s Empowerment Conference
On
January 26th
at a day-long event, hosted by Congressman Alan Lowenthal, D-Long Beach, 200 seventh and eighth-graders participated in the third annual
Young Women’s Empowerment Conference
at Browning High School. Throughout the day the girls were given career advice, support and guidance from women in a range of careers.The girls also participated in “career cafe” stations where they chatted with women in the areas of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), the arts and entrepreneurship. For more information about the event
please click here.
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Bridging the Divide Between Classrooms and Corporations:
Our Solution to Narrowing the Gender Gap in STEM
Written and published in
Connected Science Learning
, a publication of NSTA and ASTC, by two of our wonderful
MWM-MN State Leaders,
Amanda Svedarsky
and
Jennifer Granner
,
they describe their experience and what is going on in Minnesota with STEM.
Two years ago, Minnesota STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) leaders from across the corporate, education, and government sectors came together to discuss our individual and organizational experiences related to the gender gap in the STEM fields. Although everyone’s circumstances were very different, the trends and themes of our stories were all connected, and we decided to ignite a movement to bring intentional focus to narrowing the STEM career gender gap within our state. Before we launched into action, we knew we first had to ground ourselves in the data of the current state of the gender gap in STEM careers in Minnesota and the needs of our target populations. It was important for us to consider a wide variety of voices from within the communities where we live and work. Our desire was to truly understand the why behind the gender gap prior to defining how to approach a solution.
To read the rest of the article please click here.
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On
January 7th,
u
nder the direction of newly minted
Lt. Gov.
Kate Marshall
and
Executive Vice President of Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility
at
Caesars Entertainment Jan Jones Blackhurst
, the nationwide Million Women Mentors movement arrived in Nevada with a kick-off event at CES. “We will grow Nevada’s economy from the bottom up, with us and with our children,” Marshall said at the launch event, where she met with Caesars employees who will serve as part of the steering committee. Jones Blackhurst said she expected the initiative to launch within the first four months of the year, adding that "while mentors would be appropriate for women of all ages, the younger the women are, the larger the possibilities."
Please s
ave the date
for the
MWM-NV State Webinar
on
Thursday Feb. 21 at 3 pm PST
. For more info please contact
states@millionwomenmentors.com
.
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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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Tracking Mentoring Matches on the MWM Portal
As you may know, the MWM website has allowed you to search through thousands of mentoring opportunities across the country. Businesses, organizations and individuals have also been able to tell us about any other mentoring you may already be doing using the “Be Counted” button at the top of your account’s Mentoring Relationships page.
At the request of several users, we have now added a new feature to allow you to better track when a mentor has been accepted by a mentoring opportunity found in our listings and the mentor and mentee relationship has been achieved!
Those with MWM accounts can select a mentoring opportunity in our listings by clicking on the “
Volunteer Here
” button. This adds the mentoring relationship to your “Current Mentoring” list. MWM has now added the ability to mark the relationship as “
Matched
” when the mentor and mentoring organization have contact each other and assigned the mentor a task.
- Beginning this week, the mentoring relationships will show a “Matching Status” of either “Matched” or “Unmatched.”
- The relationship may be marked as “Matched”by either the mentor or the mentoring organization by clicking on the “Mark as Matched” link in each listing. The date it was marked will be shown.
- Past “Be Counted” relationships will automatically be marked as “Matched.”
- The status will be reflected in the mentoring reports.
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Using this new feature, companies and mentoring organizations will be able to easily track which mentors have been placed into productive mentoring relationships.
Remember we are always available to do a webinar for organizations as desired. Please send an email to
info@millionwomenmentors.com
to request this.
We hope that this will help you to make your mentoring programs more effective!
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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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