From Linda Alepin: Global Women’s Leadership Network – May Special Edition
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From: —— —Linda Alepin <lalepin@scu.edu>
May SPECIAL EDITION
Welcome to the May SPECIAL EDITION.— Here are several wonderful announcements from GWLN and our affiliates:
- May 17 – Reminder:— A GWLN Global Innovation Dialogue with Ruth DeGolia of Mercado Global
- May 8 — OpEd Project seminar
- May 15 — High School girls and engineering event from SWE
- May 24 – Sheryl WuDunn (Half the Sky) and Kavita Ramdas in conversation
- May 24 – The Beauty Bias with Deborah Rhode
- The HIP Investor – a new book about a model for sustainability
- Bringing Information to Schools, a replicable model
Learn and grow!
Linda Alepin
Using Fashion to Fight Poverty: Innovation in Social Enterprise
May 17, California Mission Room, Santa Clara University
Registration 4:30, program 5:00 to 7:00 PM
Click here to REGISTER
As Mercado Global’s Co-Founder and Executive Director, Ruth DeGolia has overseen Mercado Global’s growth from a small non-profit working with a dozen artisans in Guatemala’s highlands to its recognition as an innovator in social enterprise, partnering with hundreds of artisans and a number of major U.S. specialty retail chains and catalogs in the U.S.
Ruth has been recognized for her role in founding and supporting a variety of programs and organizations related to international development and poverty alleviation. She has also received honors for her academic work on the impact of globalization on political and economic development in Latin America, including the William H. Orrick prize at Yale University. In May 2004, she was named among the “World’s Best Emerging Social Entrepreneurs” by the Echoing Green Foundation. In July 2006 she was selected as one of the “15 People Who Make America Great” by Newsweek Magazine and was featured on the magazine’s cover along with Brad Pitt and Soledad O’Brien of CNN.
Learn about Mercado Global’s (www.mercadoglobal.org) innovative social enterprise model as a 501c3 non-profit fair trade organization that links economically-disadvantaged artisan cooperatives in rural communities to sales opportunities in the U.S. and provides both fair wages and investments in local educational projects. Mercado Global is connecting the American consumer with a fashion forward alternative in stylish, eco-friendly and sustainable personal and home accessories, filling a void in the market for socially responsible fashion forward handmade products and feeding the appetite of the consumer who wants to “look good and feel good–making a difference”. Mercado Global received the “Innovation in Social Enterprise” Award in April 2005 from the Social Enterprise Alliance, and is uniquely qualified to deliver a social impact that will transform the economic landscape of impoverished rural communities in Latin America.
Its staff in Guatemala is composed of indigenous women who grew up and have extensive experience working in rural communities, many with a background in microfinance. In the U.S., Mercado Global’s experienced sales team has developed sales partnerships with major retailers such as Levi Strauss, Bloomingdale’s, Hallmark, and has just launched a new Summer collection with Nordstrom’s.
Click here to REGISTER.
To volunteer or for more information, contact Bonita Banducci: banducci@genderwork.com or (650) 529-9336.
Faculty, staff, and students are free. Please RSVP to Linda Alepin, lalepin@scu.edu.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Increase Your Reach and Influence
The OpEd Project invites you to participate in an innovative program to expand public debate and increase the voice and power of women thought leaders in our nation’s top online and print commentary forums.
Date:—————————— Saturday, May 8th
Time:————————— 10am to 5pm
Cost:——————————— $395.00
Use Code OEPBRANT for 10% discount
See our “pay in words” scholarship policy
Location:——— ACLU | 39 Drumm Street | San Francisco
WOW! That’s Engineering
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara Valley Society of Women Engineers will be hosting an event for high school girls called “WOW! That’s Engineering”. WOW will focus on exposing young girls to careers in engineering through various hands-on workshops, speaker panels, and mentoring sessions. Girls will have the chance to learn about engineering with other girls their age and speak to real engineers in different disciplines.
Cost is $6 per person. We ask that students and parents interested in attending register on the EVENT BRITE page.
If you have any additional questions, check out the organization’s website at http://swe-goldenwest.org/scvs//index.php?page=WOW/index.html.
Community Conversations:— Exploring Issues of Civic Responsibility
Featuring Sheryl WuDunn in Conversation with Kavita Ramdas
Monday, May 24th 6:30 – 8:00 PM, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco
Presented by Facing History and Ourselves and The Allstate Foundation
Sheryl WuDunn is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who has reported from inside some of the toughest regimes in the world, from Myanmar to North Korea.— Kavita Ramdas is the CEO of the Global Fund for Women.— WuDunn’s latest book, co-authored with her husband Nicholas Kristof, is described as “electrifying” by the— Washington Post— and is on the New York Times bestseller list.— Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide addresses maltreatment, marginalization, and brutality toward women, and draws a compelling picture of the trials and triumphs of women struggling for opportunity and equality. By sharing powerful stories of resilience and participation from around the world, WuDunn becomes a model for Facing History teachers, students, and community members in her call for all of us to fight injustice.
This is a free event. Click HERE for an electronic invitation.
RSVP at:— www.facinghistory.org/communityconversations.
Beauty Bias
Book Event Featuring Professor Deborah Rhode
Monday, May 24, 12:00 PM, Cypress Room, Tresidder Union, Stanford campus
Free event
Co-sponsored by the Clayman Institute and the Faculty Women’s Forum
Deborah L. Rhode is the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law and the
Director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Stanford University. She is the author or coauthor of twenty books, including In the Interests of Justice (OUP 2003), Access to Justice (OUP 2004), and Ethics in Practice (OUP 2003), and over 200 articles, and is the nation’s most cited scholar on professional responsibility.
“It hurts to be beautiful” has been a clich√© for centuries. What has been far less appreciated is how much it hurts not to be beautiful. “The Beauty Bias” explores our cultural preoccupation with attractiveness, the costs it imposes, and the responses it demands. The book explores the social, biological, market, and media forces that have contributed to appearance-related problems, as well as feminism’s difficulties in confronting them. Appearance-related bias infringes fundamental rights, compromises merit principles, reinforces debilitating stereotypes, and compounds the disadvantages of race, class, and gender.
Bring your own lunch, drinks provided.
The HIP Investor
Mr. Herman founded HIP Investor Inc. in 2006 to pioneer a new trend in sustainable investment that seeks Human Impact + Profit (HIP).— The innovative HIP 100 Index, which re-weights S&P100 companies for sustainability, has outperformed the benchmark index by 4% annually.
In addition, HIP Investor has consulted leading companies like NIKE and Walmart, with the goal of driving positive transformation of business practices and incorporating sustainability as a major driver of the top and bottom lines.— The HIP Investor serves as a blueprint to increased profitability for investors and businesses seeking both profit and positive human impact. It contains detailed examples and case studies throughout, and a comprehensive breakdown of the HIP methodology, including how to equate human, environmental and social impacts to profit and valuation.
The book will be released by Wiley on April 27, 2010. You can buy it on Amazon.
Bringing Information to Schools
A Replicable Model
In Nov 2007, Shannon Frediani helped to deliver used laptops as well as a hard drive loaded with 12 million educational documents to a school in Nigeria.— The used laptops acted as access terminals to the hard-drive that gives students educational material, similar to browsing the web only it is a closed educational system without advertisements or distracting inappropriate material. This closed system is simple enough that one generator can run the laptops and hard-drive in case of electrical outages.
This computer lab has been a monumental success and this school now has over 500 students due to demand.— Shannon asked GWLN to publicize this model in the hopes that such a simple model could be duplicated.
Others could collect used laptops and purchase an eGranary (the hard-drive now loaded with 15 million educational documents prepared by WiderNet at Iowa University). You can watch a video about the work at Voices of Angels- Nigeria Project.You can contact Shannon at shannon@thevoicesofangels.org.
International Women’s Day from the WIP
Visit The WIP Media Channel to hear Linda Tarr-Whelan, author of Women Lead the Way, share the 30% Solution; MIIS Provost Dr. Amy Sands’ personal experiences working in the field of Non-Proliferation as a woman; President and CEO of the Women’s Funding Network Chris Grumm’s straight talk on money; and connect with Linda Alepin’scolleagues around the world from the Global Women’s Leadership Network.
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International Women’s Day from the WIP
Visit The WIP Media Channel to hear Linda Tarr-Whelan, author of Women Lead the Way, share the 30% Solution; MIIS Provost Dr. Amy Sands’ personal experiences working in the field of Non-Proliferation as a woman; President and CEO of the Women’s Funding Network Chris Grumm’s straight talk on money; and connect with Linda Alepin’scolleagues around the world from the Global Women’s Leadership Network.
Featured Organizations
Cardea Consortium of Nonprofits
South-Bay non-profit organizations, as well as those planning to move to South-Bay, are invited to join the organization. Help with securing an office space and training are provided at below market prices.
Send e-mail to info@cardeacenterforwomen.org to find out if your group could be a good match for this consortium.
World Pulse Magazine
World Pulse is a media enterprise covering global issues through the eyes of women and is dedicated to broadcasting the unheard voices and innovative solutions of women worldwide. We produce World Pulse Magazine and PulseWire, an interactive community newswire where women can speak for themselves to the world and connect to solve global problems.
