Past IWEC Awardee, Dianna Raedle, CEO, Deer Isle Capital, Offers Free Capital-Raising Toolkit
The toolkit is designed to give capital seekers detailed articles/tips/guidelines/templates that give concrete information on the type of information a capital seeker needs to create in order to do an institutional capital raise. Letter from Dianna Dear IWEC Foundation Network: I would like to offer our free capital raising [...]
Lessons From the Immigrant Hustle: Sandi Webster
Sandi is an IWEC Past Awardee 2011 Ran a multi-million dollar company by Amine Rahal for Medium Feb 7, 2019 Dr. Sandi Webster is a second generation immigrant from Jamaica. She immigrated to Brooklyn, NY as a child in the ’70s., and continues to live in Canarsie, Brooklyn — “The best [...]
Bill & Melinda Gates Annual Newsletter 2019: We Didn’t See This Coming
How would you describe 2018? Was it what you expected? By Bill and Melinda Gates | February 12, 2019 photo: Elementary student, Solwezi Distict, Zambia "A healthy, educated, and empowered African youth boom that lifts girls instead of leaving them behind would be the best indicator of progress I can imagine." [...]
IWEC Foundation Announces Mar Santana Rollán Has Joined the IWEC Conference Steering Committee
Mar is Head of Foreign Trade & Treasury for CaixaBank Senior banking executive with 25 year experience IWEC Foundation welcomes Mar Santana Rollán, Head of Foreign Trade & Treasury, CaixaBank, to its Conference Steering Committee. Mar will be joining 14 other Steering Committee members who plan the annual conference [...]
Susan Choe On Fearlessly Going It Alone In Venture Capital
For nearly 25 years, Susan Choe has been making trailblazing strides forward in Silicon Valley’s technology scene. One of the most unique assets Choe brings to VC is that she’s going it alone by Deborah Sweeney Contributor Forbes Entrepreneurs Photo: Susan Choe by BEN COPE A former Yahoo! executive, Choe was [...]
Celebrate International Women’s Day March 8th by Showcasing Your Successes!
How will you celebrate International Women's Day? Join our efforts to be role models for young children On International Women’s Day, cities and countries all over the world celebrate International Women's Day on March 8th as a part of Women's History Month. Right now is a great and important [...]
IWEC Foundation Welcomes Claudia Mirza, CEO, Akorbi, As a US Global Ambassador
Claudia Mirza was an IWEC Awardee in 2018 She is enthusiastic about becoming an IWEC Global Ambassador IWEC Foundation Chairwoman, Ruth A. Davis, welcomes Claudia to our program. "We are thrilled that Claudia has become our latest Global Ambassador joining our ten other Ambassadors around the world," says Davis. [...]
Empower Girls With Education
"If you educate a woman, you educate a family, if you educate a girl, you educate the future." Queen Rania of Jordan is passionate about this topic. Time Magazine The right to education is still inexplicably and unjustly denied to millions of children who need it the most. In my [...]
Why Does South Asia Have the World Largest Mobile Phone Gender Gap?
Today in India, 67% of men own mobile phones, but only 33% percent of women do. Throughout the report, the researchers examined two broad, intersecting classes of barriers: economic and normative. By Wayan Vota on February 13, 2019 ICT Works South Asian countries in general are clear outliers among [...]
AWCCI Releases Figures On Women Entrepreneurs
New figures by Afghanistan Women’s Chamber of Commerce and Industries (AWCCI) show that 1,150 women entrepreneurs have invested in different businesses in the country over the past 18 years. The figures show that investments by women reach more than $77 million. Tolo News: According to the statistics, 300 women [...]