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Global Women’s Leadership Network is an organization dedicated to building the leadership capacity of women in all sectors of society around the globe. We are a part of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. For the past seven years, we have been training women leaders from all over the world to create and fulfill breakthrough projects. Our Women Leaders for the World leadership education program is held twice a year – in July and December. We have 139 graduates from 39 countries – mostly in the developing world. You can see more at www.gwln.org.

Leading Women in Technology (LWT) is a non-profit dedicated to the retention and advancement of women who advise technology businesses.  Our entire board is made up of volunteers who are passionate about our mission – empowering women to achieve the goals they identify as critical to their own, authentic success in the broad technology industry.  Through various calendar events and career development programs, Wilpower & Hipower, we connect similarly situated women in the Bay Area across business organizations and offer them an opportunity to develop their critical business skills through integrated multi-workshop programs, networking and mentorship. Our Board and participants are comprised of professionals from Industry, Legal, Accounting and Finance at various levels in their careers who focus on the technology sector. For more information, visit http://www.leadingwomenintechnology.org/.

Schmahl Science Workshops develops young scientists to participate in the next wave of scientific innovation. SSW:

• Inspires kids to develop a love of science and engineering
• Encourages Latinos, African Americans and young women to pursue science and engineering careers
• Provides hands-on science workshops to pre-school through 12th grade students
• Pre-school workshops link science and literature
• Elementary school workshops are based on meeting and exceeding state science standards
• Junior and high-school science teachers enhance their curriculum with the state-of-the-art BioMobileLab
• The Advanced Student Research Program enables young scientists to conduct actual research

• Delivers over 600 hands-on workshops across all STEM disciplines
• Promotes useful life skills, curiosity, collaboration, effort, responsibility, and respect
• Operates in Alameda and San Mateo Counties as well as the Silicon Valley
• Serves over 32,000 students yearly, an average of 26 times a year, for a total of 800,000 contact hours.
• Reaches 149 schools in 27 school districts
• Develops award-winning scientists: in 2011, 78 students received awards at the Synopsys Challenge
• Takes every opportunity to engage students in the classroom, after school, and with Corporate Family Science Nights and Bring-Your-Child-to-Work Days.

For more information, visit http://www.schmahlscience.org.

Women’s Initiative for Self Employment is the nation’s largest microenterprise and training organization.  For 24 years the organization has provided high-potential, low-income women with the training, funding and ongoing support to start their own business and become financially self sufficient.  The women who go through the 11-week business training course significantly increase their income and assets while launching successful businesses, stimulating the local economy and creating jobs. In 2011, recent graduates of the Women’s Initiative program created and retained more than 5,500 jobs! www.womensinitiative.org 

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