Business and Professional Women's Foundation (Associate Member)
Member Fund
210
Washington, DC 20006
United States
As a neutral convener and independent research and education institution, BPW Foundation collaborates with employers, workingwomen and policymakers to provide programming and research that creates successful workplaces for workingwomen and employers.
BPW Foundation plays a critical role in identifying opportunities for constructive change and in building solutions to challenges. Through research, education, policy and knowledge development, BPW Foundation achieves its mission: to empower workingwomen to achieve their full potential and to partner with employers to build successful workplaces.
Business and Professional Women's Foundation (BPW Foundation) empowers workingwomen to achieve their full potential and partners with employers to build successful workplaces.
BPW Foundation partnerships build successful workplaces by strengthening the capacity of organizations and businesses to recognize and create work environments in which the skills and contributions of workingwomen are recognized and advanced. Successful workplaces, as defined by BPW Foundation, model worklife effectiveness, workplace equity and diversity.
Our strategic focus areas include:
- Education: Programs developed by BPW Foundation are implemented through strategically identified networks and partnerships to enable workingwomen and employers to exchange ideas, develop and improve career skills and cultivate leadership skills that aid in both work and civic life.
- Research: In 1956, BPW Foundation became the first foundation dedicated to conducting research and providing information solely about workingwomen. BPW Foundation continues this tradition with primary research including reports, issue papers, surveys and focus groups.
- Knowledge: Information and activities sponsored by BPW Foundation provide the latest data on issues impacting workingwomen, employers and policymakers, offering outlets for discussion, goal-setting and planning.
- Policy: BPW Foundation research provides insight, data and analysis to workingwomen, employers and policymakers to inform and shape public policy.
Successful Workplaces
This overarching initiative combines research, online tools, professional development opportunities and promising practices in order to create the systemic changes needed to build supportive and successful workplaces and to break down the final barriers to women’s full participation in the workplace. Creating systemic, sustainable change requires simultaneous efforts involving public policy and voluntary practices.
BPW Foundation focuses on cutting-edge research that leads to action in the workplace and community. Our employer summits, audio and web events, issue papers and online clearinghouse also provide sought after peer- to-peer knowledge sharing among business and public leaders interested in increasing work-life effectiveness, workplace diversity and equity for workingwomen and men.
Women in Transition
BPW Foundation understands that support for workingwomen at crucial points in their lives enables them to help themselves and has created several opportunities to promote career advancement. BPW Foundation sponsors professional development opportunities for workingwomen at all stages of their careers and leadership level. Women leaders interested in helping their employers make effective use of public policy to build flexible and equitable workplaces can participate in policy workshops, summits and focus groups.
Research is also being conducted to obtain snapshots of the career transition issues of key groups of workingwomen. This research will be used by BPW Foundation and its partners to develop resources to support the needs of workingwomen throughout all stages of their careers.
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