Since 1877, The Fresh Air Fund, a not-for-profit agency, has provided free summer vacations in the country to more than 1.7 million New York City children from low-income neighborhoods. Each year, nearly 10,000 children visit volunteer host families in 13 states and Canada through the Friendly Town Program or attend Fresh Air Fund camps.
The Fresh Air Fund’s annual Fall benefit will be a Black Tie event with dinner, dancing, a silent auction, and an open bar.
Please join inMotion at an exclusive party with a group of young lawyers and professionals who are committed to helping inMotion provide free legal and social services to New York City’s under-served and abused women.
Private cocktail reception and chocolate tasting at Jacques Torres Chocolate.
Delicious chocolate, savory hors d’oeuvres, and cocktails will be served, and Jacques Torres Chocolate will donate 5% of all in-store sales from the night to inMotion.
To purchase tickets and find out more info, click on; https://secure2.ersvp.com/register/flow/flow5/splash.htm?eventid=6144&nextMessage=splash
100 Women in Hedge Funds will have their 6th Annual Anniversary Gala and Benefit dinner. This year’s benefit will be for the iMentor program.
iMentor is an organization founded in 1999 by John Griffin of Blue Ridge Capital. It serves to cultivate relationships between young people and volunteer adult mentors.
To make a Reservation, donation, or for corporate sponsorship opportunities, click on https://www.100womeninhedgefunds.org/pages/gala_2007.php
Tracy Gary will be hosting a book signing breakfast about helping women and girls through charitiable giving. The event is for Financial Women’s Associaition members, reservations are required. Attendee’s will recieve a free copy of Ms. Gary’s book Inspired Philanthropy along with their continental breakfast. More information can be found here.
Third Annual PINK Conference Series
In 2007, PINK will host its 3rd annual conference series featuring six high-impact events in cities across the US. These powerful events bring together a few select influential business leaders – who just happen to be women. Attendees can bring friends, clients, mentors or employees to enjoy an inspiring two-hour lunch with America’s most influential women and:
• DISCOVER Life/Balance Solutions
• BUILD Career Success Strategies
• LEARN Valuable Business Lessons
For more specific details on the PINK conference series visit www.pinkmagazine.com
Click here to register: https://www.signup4.net/public/ap.aspx?EID=DCCO10E&OID=130
Global warming and the pollution of the planet are creating a fundamental challenge to the achievement of sustainable development for the majority of the world’s inhabitants. In response to this challenge, politicians are developing and implementing policies to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and to foster environmentally safe business solutions. Fascinating new investment opportunities are being created as a result of these efforts. Participants will discuss the opportunities as well as risks, of investing in this rapidly evolving space.
Registration begins at 5:15 pm.
Begins promptly at 6:00 pm.
Networking and cocktails before and after the panel.
Admission is free, but there is a $25 charge if you register and do not attend, even if you cancel in advance. No-show proceeds are donated to this year’s philanthropy beneficiary, iMentor. www.imentor.org.
To RSVP: https://www.100womeninhedgefunds.org/pages/event_registration.php
The Duke Alumni Association and Duke Club of New York will partner with Women@Work, LLC, to sponsor a seminar especially for women. Branding Strategies for Returning Professionals will address the question of women returning to the work force, and the repackaging of their skills and experiences in such a way that employers see “that they have continued to develop their business skills through significant volunteer endeavors, part-time positions, or occasional project work.”
To register online, click here:
https://www.womenatworknetwork.com/events_collegealumnaesminars.asp#upcomingseminars
These days, it’s easy to watch the news and get depressed. War, natural disasters, and human rights abuses abound every time you turn on the TV, and its easy to just tune out all of the suffering going on around you, head to an air-conditioned office and surround yourself with comfortingly well-dressed people whose biggest problem is having too much money and not enough time to spend it.
But still, there is that nagging feeling. “Maybe I could be doing more to get involved in my community, or use my skills to help people.” When you are so busy at work, it’s hard to identify the steps necessary to get involved with a cause you believe in. But doing so can help you add meaning to your life, gain valuable experience in a sector other than the one you work in, and develop a sense of much needed perspective in the world of finance.
One of the causes I have been involved with over the years is the trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation and forced labor. When I lived and worked in Nepal, I helped design anti-trafficking programs for women and girls at risk of sexual exploitation, and implemented rehabilitation and reintegration programs for trafficked girls who had been rescued. Though I have been back in the US for five years, I have tried to stay involved in this cause by attending events, volunteering for pro bono projects, joining fundraising committees and keeping in touch with activists.
Though women have made great strides in the workplace in recent decades, there is still a disturbingly significant gap between the earnings of men and women in the same jobs. In both the US and the UK, independent juducial bodies have been created to address claims of pay disparity. However, the pay gap issue is so significant that these organizations run the risk of being overwhelmed.
In Britain, the large numbers of women taking employers to equal pay tribunals has left the system under such strain that the head of the Equal Opportunities Commission says that a moratorium on claims is urgently needed.
Jenny Watson, outgoing Chairman of the Commission, stated that the 155% increase in the number of claims from 2005 to 2006 has left the system overburdened and in danger of collapse.
The November 2007 issue of Entrepreneur magazine published a list of the top 50 fastest growing female-led companies in North America.
The study, co-sponsored by the Women Presidents Organization and Entrepreneur magazine, solicited applications from women-led businesses in North America that met the following criteria:
Companies were ranked according to a sales growth formula and the top 50 were selected.
Executive coaching, leadership development coaching and career navigation coaching for women looking to develop, advance and lead in top roles.