Welcome to the BPW Foundation Press Room. Interested in scheduling an interview or need a comment or quote? Email to ablandford@bpwfoundation.org. Workplace News Subscribe to our newsfeed. BPW Foundation Factsheet Upcoming Events Veterans' Resiliency Model (VRM) Training June 25- 27, 2010 Philadelphia Veterans Multi-Service & Employment Center, Phila., PA Learn How To Support & Help Heal Women Veterans. Elaine Miller-Karas, MSW and Laurie Leitch, PhD will lead this intensive 3-day training. VRM training is designed to teach skills that stabilize the nervous system and reduce and prevent the symptoms of traumatic stress, particularly dealing with combat-zone trauma. Attendees will include social workers, clinicians, college counselors, VA hospital staff and those who impact the lives of women veterans. Business and Professional Women’s (BPW) Foundation Young Careerist (YC) Research Project BPW Foundation asks Gen Y women about their views of the workplace and shares knowledge with employers looking to recruit and retain young women, as well as improve their bottom line. Check us out on The Huffington Post. Interested in particpating in or hosting a Gen Y focus group? We are looking for both employers and Gen Y women. Contact us at kbarrett@bpwfoundation.org. Past Events Equal Pay Day April 20, 2010 Equal Pay Day is held annually in April to signify the point into a year that a woman must work to earn what a man made the previous year. Press release. Learn more. BPW Foundation Testifies at Paycheck Fairness Act Senate Hearing March 11, Dirksen 430 The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions held a hearing on the Paycheck Fairness Act (S.182). Read our testimony. Policy & Action Day March 2, 2010 AARP Brickfield Center, Washington, DC Advocates joined BPW Foundation to lobby for changes that improve today's workplace for working women and families. Learn the issues and e-lobby. The Need for Paid Parental Leave for the Federal Workforce November 23, 2009, 10:30am Capitol Visitors Center, rm. SVC 201/200, Washington, DC Join us for this Congressional Briefing co-hosted by BPW Foundation. New research from Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) will be presented on the Need for Paid Parental Leave. Veterans Day Breakfast Briefing October 29, 2009 2168 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC Business and Professional Women's Foundation is co-sponsoring a breakfast briefing, Domestic Violence in the Military, hosted by Women's Policy, Inc.. The event is also sponsored by WREI and DAV, in cooperation with Reps. Susan Davis and Mary Fallin co-chairs, Women in the Military/Veterans Task Force. BPW Foundation Funds Four Community Green Job Initiatives October 2009 Business and Professional Women’s (BPW) Foundation's “Moving from Red to Green: Working Women in the Green Economy” initiative, connects women to the emerging green economy by providing green job training. With generous support from the Walmart Foundation, BPW Foundation has awarded $60,000 grants to four organizations to expand their capacity to train women for green jobs. Press release. National Business Women's Week® October 19-23, 2009 Since 1928 Business and Professional Women has sponsored National Business Women’s Week® (NBWW). Each year during October, working women across the country take the opportunity to celebrate and acknowledge the important role women play in the nation’s economy, past and present.

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