The Goldman Sachs Foundation recently awarded The Asian University for Women Support Foundation (AUWSF) a $1.4 million grant to fund operations of the Asian University for Women’s Access Academy in Chittagong, Bangladesh. The Access Academy is a pre-collegiate bridge program to prepare talented young women from across Asia, and especially from socially and economically marginalized [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Goldman Sachs Foundation continues to invest in women
Posted in Uncategorized on August 27, 2008 | Comments Off
Filene’s ‘Running of the Brides’ finds new promotional partner
Posted in Uncategorized on August 27, 2008 | Comments Off
It’s shopping as a full-contact sport and this year’s ‘Running of the Brides’ at Filene’s Basement in Boston (August 22) had a little something extra for the brides-to-be. Filene’s teamed up with online wedding planning site WeddingWire.com to offer four lucky brides the chance to win a free wedding dress at the event. “WeddingWire is [...]
BlogHer brings national conference to local level
Posted in Uncategorized on August 27, 2008 | Comments Off
BlogHer has announced the launch of its Reach Out Tour to take place in October 2008, stopping in six U.S. cities for lively one-day conferences that will bring highlights of its popular sold-out annual conference to a more local stage. The success of the annual conferences prompted BlogHer to embark on a two-week tour to [...]
Report shows what motivates women at the poll
Posted in Uncategorized on August 25, 2008 | Comments Off
EMILY’s List has released the 2008 Women’s Monitor Study — “From 18 to 80: Women on Politics and Society.” This national study commissioned by EMILY’s List and executed by Garin-Hart-Yang Research, talked to more than 1,400 women voters in four distinct generational groups: Gen Y, Gen X, Boomers, and
Seniors. A fascinating look at the gaps [...]
Dove unveils second issue of Shine Magazine in Canada
Posted in Uncategorized on August 25, 2008 | Comments Off
Dove has unveiled the second issue of Shine Magazine, a publication featuring images of real and diverse Canadian women who have a love affair with their hair. Over 50 real Canadian women from coast to coast can find their photograph in Shine’s pages. Shine Magazine shows that how a woman feels about her hair when [...]
Building trust key to winning with women
Posted in Uncategorized on August 25, 2008 | Comments Off
It is no secret that today’s women are paying closer attention to their finances and represent an ever-growing segment with increased purchasing power. What is overlooked, however, is how purchasing power is related to the development of more sophisticated relationships and inherent levels of trust with the professionals who assist women with health, wealth and [...]
Women entrepreneurs could be key to becoming next president
Posted in Uncategorized on August 20, 2008 | Comments Off
As the battle for women voters heats up, one national survey has revealed that women business owners may hold the key. Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP), the nation’s largest bipartisan women’s business group, commissioned the 2008 “We Decide!” bipartisan survey of 400 women entrepreneurs. “Women will play a larger role than ever in this year’s [...]
Working women need help building stronger financial safety nets
Posted in Uncategorized on August 20, 2008 | Comments Off
Despite heightened financial concerns for their families’ futures, working women are less likely than men to have adequate life insurance coverage. The sixth annual MetLife Study of Employee Benefits Trends reveals that, in general, female employees who have life insurance own only two times their household income in coverage. Male employees with life insurance, however, [...]
Glam Media announces CEO of Glam Media Japan KK
Posted in Uncategorized on August 20, 2008 | Comments Off
Glam Media, Inc. has announced Yukihiro Yamamura has joined the company as CEO of its newly formed subsidiary Glam Media Japan KK, and as a vice president of Glam Media, Inc. Glam plans to officially launch its Japanese site and publisher network later this year. Yamamura joins Glam from DoubleClick Japan where he was CEO [...]
AlphaWomen.com responds to Meredith’s ‘Gamma Women’ study
Posted in Uncategorized on August 18, 2008 | Comments Off
AlphaWomen.com is taking great exceptions to the recent Meredith Corporation study regarding the emergence of Gamma Women (as reported in M2W® E-ssentials on July 28th). The study found that an estimated 55 million American women are “Gammas” and share and exchange information, ideas, opinions, contacts and recommendations with their wide-reaching network using multiple media and [...]
