Leadership Development

Show Me the Money: Women Still Need a Seat at the Table

03/04/2010

Financial Planning: A Chinese proverb says that “women hold up half the sky,” and if that is true what does it mean that women make up only 16% of executive and board positions in the financial services industry and less than 10% in fund management?

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Where Were the Women at the Health-Care Summit?

03/02/2010

The Daily Beast: If there were more women in Congress, might our politics be less rancorous and might our elected officials get more accomplished? Dan Rather speaks with the Institute for Inclusive Security.

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Women, Start Your Campaigns

01/28/2010

The Boston Globe, Opinion: Amb. Swanee Hunt, president of Hunt Alternatives Fund, says a critical mass of women in politics is necessary in the U.S., despite a few recent high-profile national and state-level losses.

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Women's Legacy Fund

The Women’s Legacy Fund (WLF) was established in 2007 by the Southwest Florida Community Foundation to enable women in Southwest Florida to direct their giving in focused, strategic ways.

Through an active membership and our annual grant program, we

Where Are The Other Women Leaders?

11/13/2009

Forbes: A new study by the White House Project shows 89% of Americans are comfortable with women leaders, but women currently account for only 18% of the nation's top leaders and are still only making 78.7 cents to every dollar earned by a man.

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The White House Project

When you add women, you change everything. You get new voices, new ideas, new results. You get richly diverse, genuinely representative democracy. You get a nation that responds to challenges by drawing on the strength and wisdom of all its people, women and men. You get leadership in every sphere—political and social, cultural and economic—that is fully responsive.

Herramientas Para El Liderazgo II: Resolución de Conflictos y Negociación

Fecha de Inicio: 13 de Octubre 2009 y finalización: 3 de noviembre

Objetivo: Reflexionar sobre los conflictos que enfrentamos en diferentes grupos laborales y analizar el proceso de la negociación como vía para la solución de conflictos.

Temas:

News Round Up: July 9, 2009

Wal-Mart and green jobs for women | Will abortion sink U.S. health care reform? | Boycott Berlusconi! | Women in the News Roundup: July 9, 2009

Interesting views all around today on philanthropy, the economy, health and single motherhood. Happy reading!

Health:

A TIME Magazine article looks at whether abortion coverage could sink a health care reform plan:
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1909178,00.html

Amnesty International released a report yesterday calling Peru’s maternal morbidity rate ‘scandalous’ (CNN):
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/09/peru.pregnant.mortality/

News Round Up: July 7, 2009

Truth Commission: Bar Johnson-Sirleaf From Office | Campaign Tells G8 to Make Mom Proud | America's Uphill Budget Battle | Women and the News Roundup: July 7, 2009

A very light day today for women in the news (at least in terms of what is being reported). Happy reading!

Top News:

Uighur women are mounting protests of their own over the disappearance of men during mounting violence in western China (Belfast Telegraph):
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/world/asia/uighur-women-...

A Summary of the 'What, How and Why' of Leadership Training for Emerging Leaders

The purpose of the paper is to provide an executive summary on various topics in leadership in the broad sense as well as within the non‐profit and women’s funding arena – a scan of the potential of pursuing leadership initiatives for the Women’s Funding Network.

As the Women’s Funding Network brings together its resources to scale‐up and optimize its network of member funds, the support of emerging leaders, utilization of cross cultural and generational conversations and effective leadership development program are all at the forefront.

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