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BPW/USA
Foundation
Business
and Professional Women’s Foundation (BPW Foundation)
empowers working women to achieve their full potential and
partners with employers to build successful workplaces
through education, research, knowledge, and policy.
BPW/USA
Foundation Information and Officers
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Business
and Professional
Women's Foundation USA
1718 M Street
NW, Suite 148
Washington, D.C. 20036
Phone: 202-293-1100
http://www.bpwfoundation.org
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Chair:
Roslyn Ridgeway
CEO:
Deborah L. Frett
Vice Chair:
Barbara Henton
Secretary:
Venita Garvin Valdez
Treasurer:
Tina Garner
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Research
Established
in 1956, Business and Professional Women’s (BPW)
Foundation became the first foundation dedicated to
conducting research and providing information solely about
working women.
Business
and Professional Women’s (BPW) Foundation is transforming
workplaces with women and employers. Through its
groundbreaking research and unique role as a convener of
employers and employees, BPW Foundation strives to redefine
today’s workplace. BPW Foundation encourages partnership
to create successful workplaces. Successful Workplaces
are those that embrace and practice diversity, equity and
work-life balance.
Rawalt
Online Resource Center
An
online clearinghouse and the hub of BPW Foundation’s
knowledge-sharing activities. Entering into the 21st
Century, BPW Foundation knows that information is not
enough…it is knowledge that drives change. BPW Foundation
has expanded the scope of the resource center to meet the
need for on-demand knowledge. Users can access a growing
archive of current and historical documents and articles on
issues affecting workingwomen and their employers including
dissertations, issue papers, bibliographies, conference
presentations and recordings of the foundation’s audio
conference series.
Women
Veterans in Transition Research Project
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This primary research
provides information and resources about women
veterans transitioning from the military into the
civilian workplace. This project shines light on
ways to support the unique needs of women veterans.
WVIT results and recommendations can be applied to
other workforce groups including non-veteran women
and male veterans.
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Also, this past year, Vietnam Veterans joined forces with BPW Foundation to support careers of women veterans and military/veteran spouses. Read more about this important service.
Issues
Business
and Professional Women’s Foundation is transforming the
workplace with women and employers. Our role is to convene
employees and employers to create solutions that improve the
workplace for today’s workforce. The work of BPW
Foundation focuses on two issues: Successful Workplaces and
Empowered Workforce.
Successful
Workplaces
BPW
Foundation began the Successful Workplaces Movement to
collaborate with employers to transform and redefine
today’s workplace. It combines research, policy, resources
and programming in order to create systemic change. Such
change is necessary to build supportive and successful
workplaces; and to break down the final barriers to the full
participation of women in the workplace. Creating systemic,
sustainable change requires the collaboration of employees,
employers and policy makers.
Empowered
Workforce
In
order to create Successful Workplaces, the U.S. workforce
must be productive, strong and skilled. To that end, the
work of BPW Foundation supports workforce development.
Specifically, BPW Foundation conducts research and produces
programming that empowers the workforce.
BPW
Foundation’s research provides insight to employers and
policy makers on the needs and challenges of key groups of
working women with a variety of skills and educational
attainment. BPW Foundation also provides programming to
employers and employees in order to encourage discussion,
improve productivity and create solutions, such as events,
publications and online resources.
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