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Women Entrepreneurs GROW Global (www.womenentrepreneursGROWglobal.org) is honored to be featured among the “100 Best Blogs for Women in Business” under the International category. We are in such good company! This is our first recognition for WEGG. Congratulations to everyone who made the list and let’s hope this is the beginning of many more “best” listings to come.
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An international event is being organized by Mireille Goyer (pictured) — who got her pilot licence in 1991 — to mark and celebrate 100 years of women aviators. The goal is to encourage other female pilots to introduce women to flying by taking them for a short flight, between March 6 to 12, and registering online at:
As Goyer says: “We’re still in a minority … a tiny little minority.”
The global rundown:
Over 100 women from 13 countries had signed up to take part as of last week, she noted. Goyer, a native of France, plans to fly in Paris and Los Angeles for the event. She’ll be recognized at the Museum of Air and Space in Le Bourget, France.
“I’m so excited about that, especially since I’m from France originally. It’s pretty emotional for me.”
Read more here.
Additional related resources:
Women in Aviation and Space History
Photo credit here.
Posted by: Laurel Delaney
Diane Sawyer (pictured) joins “World News” as the anchor. Read all about it here and here.
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Now is your chance to make your global mark. Today is the start of Global Entrepreneurship Week (November 16-22) and is an initiative to inspire young people (that includes YOU!) around the world to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity.
(From Washington, D.C.) — More than 1,000 partners – including top universities, non-profit organizations, successful entrepreneurs, government agencies and corporate sponsors – have currently signed up to support and initiate activities for Global Entrepreneurship Week/USA 2009, Nov. 16 – 22. The Week will engage young people in 87 countries around the world and encourage them to pursue entrepreneurial ideas through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators.
Got an idea? Unleash it here at Unleashing Ideas where you can also find out what’s happening around the world right now.
Posted by: Laurel Delaney
Kendal Martel, a photographer, is taking up a fight for people who struggle to survive. She is doing it her own way, one click or shutter speed at a time.
After seeing first hand the poverty and squalor faced by the people who live in the slums of Africa and their desire to rise above it all, Kendal decided to showcase her photography in an exhibit, “Until the Last Seed Grows,” which features the people of Kibera, Africa, with alternately haunting and joyful images that underscore the complexities of these resilient people.
While in Africa, Martel, a graduate of Diboll High School and student at Stephen F. Austin State University, spent time in Kibera, the largest slum in East Africa, which holds close to a million people in an area three-quarters the size of Central Park. There she met members of the Haki Self-Help Group, a grassroots organization dedicated to addressing some of the most pressing problems faced by the people of Kibera: poverty, HIV/AIDS awareness, at-risk children (including the approximately 100,000 children orphaned by parents who died of AIDS) and the unequal treatment of women.
To learn more about the exhibit (that already took place) and to inquire about hosting the exhibit elsewhere, go here (which includes Kendal’s email address).
Photo credit: “Goddess” by Kendal Martel
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Happy Birthday No. 1 for Women Entrepreneurs GROW Global (WEGG)! It was one year ago today that we launched WEGG with the intent that we would grow it into the ultimate global hot spot destination for women entrepreneurs interested in global growth for their business. Here’s our first post November 7, 2008:
Welcome to Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global (WEGG), a social enterprise dedicated to revolutionizing how women entrepreneurs take their businesses global.
Expect over the course of the next decade that WEGG will help transition tens of millions of women business owners from local to global.
What’s the first thing you should do to prepare yourself and your business for international expansion? Develop the right mindset. Sure it takes guts, fortitude and all sorts of other special qualities to expand a business internationally but more important than anything else, you must start thinking about how you are going to build a global empire before you actually do it.
Let’s start the journey now … together … are you ready?
Thanks to you and your readership, we are still going strong. We appreciate your interest and especially like it when you comment from time to time because without you, our work would not be nearly as interesting or as much fun.
And to our Contributors, we thank you too for helping us build WEGG into the best little digital resource on the planet for women entrepreneurs who aspire to take their business global.
We expect the future to bring even more surprises, tips, tools, announcements and relevant information to your station, wherever you are based, so stay tuned and get ready for year two that will swing open your door to opportunity in the world of business!
Posted by: Laurel Delaney
The Nobel Prize has been awarded to women 36 times between 1901 and 2008. Only one woman, Marie Curie, has been honoured twice, with the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics and the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. This means that 35 women in total have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2008. This year, that number changes.
We have two more American women (and a gentleman) to add to the list in 2009 for winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. They are:
Elizabeth H. Blackburn (1/3 of the prize) — University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Carol W. Greider (1/3 of the prize) — John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Jack W. Szostak (1/3 of the prize) — Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Read more about it here. And we are confident more women Nobel Laureates will be announced in 2009 and for many years to come.
Our heartfelt congratulations to all three for overcoming obstacles and persevering until they achieved their desired outcomes. What a wonderful accomplishment that will help all of us worldwide because as we understand it, their work has set the stage for research suggesting that cancer cells use telomerase to sustain their uncontrolled growth. Scientists are studying whether drugs that block the enzyme can fight the disease.
Illustration: A conceptual diagram showing the protein component of telomerase (hTERT) in grey and the RNA component (hTR) in yellow.
Photo credits: here.
Added October 13, 2009: First woman — Elinor Ostrom — wins Nobel Prize for economics!
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The Thunderbird School of Global Management is participating in “Strengthening Women Entrepreneurship in Peru.”
The global program, which will help more than 100,000 women launch and grow their small or micro enterprises in Peru, is being funded with grants from the Multilateral Investment Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank; Peru’s leading microfinance institution Mibanco S.A.; the Australian government; and Goldman Sachs Group.
The project, which seeks to address the lack of educational training tailored to the needs of women entrepreneurs, will have two tracks: one for women micro entrepreneurs and another for women small business owners. The program will be part of Thunderbird’s philanthropic arm, Thunderbird for Good, which specializes in customized business training for women entrepreneurs in developing countries.
Read more here.
Related links:
Inter-American Development Bank
Australia Supports Business Training for Women in Peru
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Coming soon … leaders from four institutions will present the second of three modules to 30 undergraduate women from Saudi Arabia.
The Center for Women’s Leadership at Babson and The Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College have partnered with two renowned global organizations — Dar Al Hekma College, Saudi Arabia, and ICF International – to deliver The U.S.-Saudi Women’s Forum on Social Entrepreneurship July 13-24, 2009 at Babson College.
Leaders from all four institutions will present the second of three modules to 30 undergraduate women from Saudi Arabia. Module I launched earlier this year in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Faculty from the partnering institutions will work with students to refine the skills they need to create real plans for entrepreneurial ventures, including how to navigate the challenges of designing and delivering social entrepreneurship programs, enhancing leadership skills, and cultivating the creative processes necessary for success.
In addition, several successful female entrepreneurs with ventures in corporate social responsibility, traditional not-for-profits, and social entrepreneurship, will share their experiences during the program’s speaker series component. Module III will be held at Dar Al Hekma College, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in December 2009/January 2010.
Read more here.
Additional resources:
U.S.-Saudi Women’s Forum on Social Entrepreneurship
U.S.-Saudi Women’s Forum on Social Entrepreneurship Blog
Babson College blog post 7/28/09
Posted by: Laurel Delaney
The highest flying young women in business forge ahead — despite the tough economic climate. These are extreme achievers under the age of 35 that have been picked by Management Today (U.K.) as the first generation to go through a recession.
Our 2009 heroines (don’t see any entrepreneurs!) have succeeded in every kind of business: advertising, management consultancy, cosmetics, the law, banking, retail, engineering, property, PR, IT, broadcasting, the arts and the public sector.
Read more here.
Pictured: Back row left to right: Laura Stevenson, Ruth Amos, Jade Tong, Kate Hampton; Front row left to right: Savannah Miller, Samantha Mangwana
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