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Many of you will remember Judi Klein who attended
our conference in Hamilton – an amazing young woman. Below
is a transcript of her email she sent to BPW on her return from
the Global Young Leader’s Conference and attached is a copy
of her full report – with pictures (attached
is her email as a word document and her report as a PDF).
Information for New Members
Our founder Lena Madison Phillips said:
What a member must do
"Individuals who are without office, chairmanship,
or other special responsibility usually underestimate their importance
to the club's programme network. Too often each considers her
part done by the payment of dues and a single appearance upon
the programme. She feels free to attend meetings or to stay at
home, to come late and leave early, to complain, criticize and
behave generally like a disinterested onlooker. Such an attitude
reveals a dangerous misconception. The members of any club are
the most important and should be the most vital part. To express
their will, to do their bidding, all else exists. Without their
interest, comprehension, forceful activity, the organisation is
but an empty shell."
http://www.bpwintl.com/pdf/2005-01-welcome-eng.pdf
Angela Mcleod, BPWNZ 1st Vice President attended
a celebratory breakfast for the Quality Flexile Work Legislation,
held in Wellington on a cold and frosty morning on 1 July 2008.
Click here to display Angela’s speech
(PDF file 4.4kb)
Click here to display
the Quality Flexible Work Speech (PDF file 31kb)
Click here to display
the Media Release 6th November 2006 (PDF file 13kb)
BPW International News
Power to make a Difference
Power to make a
difference advocacy (PDF file 80kb)
Power to make a
difference leadership (PDF file 80kb)
Power to make a difference
action (PDF file 80kb)
For Power to Make a Difference through Advocacy:
I remember that in Valencia, many BPW members were
talking about success stories in advocating on women issues to
increase % of women in parliaments, in increasing women at executives
level, in increasing women participation in politics and other
things like Gender Pay Gap, etc. I also learn about so many other
advocacy work to improve women right, women health, etc. I was
very impress. So I would like you to submit nomination for the
work of your club / federation so that the world would recognize
such contribution.
For Power to Make a Difference through Leadership:
I'm certain that there are BPW member who made a
difference that you can nominate for Business category, Professional
Category and/or for Young Leader categories. The profiles of these
women leaders would be considered not just for this award. If
there are worthy awards outstanding women (such as Global Summit
of Women, Leading Women Entrepreneur of World, some UN agencies,
etc), BPW International can further nominate people from this
database collection for those awards in the future.
For Power to Make a Difference through Action:
We are welcome both newer projects as well as projects
that were past winners of "Beyond 2000: Helping Women Help
Themselves awards" -given that you update the activities
and contribution of these projects in the last 3 years (2005-2007).
This way we can update the total number of women that the projects
of your federation or associate club did help to date. Twinning
projects that help women to sustain themselves economically are
also eligible.
Nominations for the BPW Power to Make a Difference
awards are now closed.
The winners will be informed at least 10 weeks prior
to the XXVI BPW International Congress, Mexico City in October
2008 so they can prepare to come to the award ceremony and speak
at the Congress.
The winners must come to receive the award at XXVI
BPW International Congress in Mexico City. If the winner declines
to come accept the award in person, the award will go to the next
runner up.
All submitted projects and activities that have
qualified will be posted on BPW International's website www.bpw-international.org.
Warm regards,
Chonchanok Viravan (Nok)
BPW International President
2005-2008
BPW Workshop on Corporate Social
Responsibilities at the United Nations Headquarter, New York,
25 Feb 2008
The BPW Workshop at the 52nd session of UN Commission
on Status of Women on 25 February 2008 was a great success. We
had speakers from AMERICAN EXPRESS, BOVESPA (Brazil), Kiatnakin
Bank (Thailand) and United Nations Global Compact. The workshop
was held inside the UN Headquarter and it was attended by almost
200 people.
BPW received a lot of compliments for this workshop.
It was great to learn about initiatives like American Express's
"Make Mine a Million" (which so far foster the development
of 23 businesses to pass 1 million USD mark in income so far),
BOVESPA's "Women in Action", Kiatnakin Bank's variety
of projects for women and children, and UN Global Compact's effort
in promoting Corporate Social Responsibility projects among private
sectors world-wide.
To download the presentation and see the profiles
of the speakers, please visit www.bpw-international.org/un-connections/CSR-workshop-2008.htm
Mary Scott, member of BPW International PR Committee,
told us that video clippings for this workshop will also be available
for viewing on the web site very soon. Stay tuned!
Warm regards,
Chonchanok Viravan
BPW International President
Annarosa Colangelo
1st Vice President and Chair of UN Status of Women Committee
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