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The Links, Incorporated, a nonprofit corporation, [1] was founded in 1946 in Philadelphia by seven prominent black women. [2]: 102 [3] Sarah Strickland Scott and Margaret Roselle Hawkins [3] [4] recruited Frances Atkinson, Katie Green, Marion Minton, Lillian Stanford, Myrtle Manigault Stratton, Lillian Wall and Dorothy Wright.
Through this program, Reynolds Brown has honored hundreds of successful business and professional women, working mothers, and Philadelphia's "Next Generation of Female Leaders: Rising Stars". [39] In 2010, Reynolds Brown filmed an It Gets Better video as part of a national campaign to combat bullying-related suicide by LGBT youth. [40]
The National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs was founded on July 16, 1919, at a meeting led by Lena Madesin Phillips of Kentucky. In the 1930s, it became a charter member of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women. BPW/USA became the first organization created to focus on the issues of working women.
The club founders included professional women and women who had been active in women's rights and the abolition movement. [2] One of the founders was Sarah Catherine Fraley Hallowell, a journalist with the Philadelphia Ledger, was the club's first president.
Ellevate Network (officially 85 Broads Unlimited, LLC dba Ellevate Network) is a Global Community of women committed to fostering and promoting gender equality in the workplace. The organization provides women and allies with a community to lean on and learn from through community, online and offline education, inspiration, and opportunity.
Women's Way gained publicity in 1980 after a clash with fellow nonprofit United Way.Women's Way applied for United Way membership, but United Way denied the application because, according to their rejection letter, some of Women's Way's member agencies supported abortion and birth control, which violated an agreement United Way had with the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
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The International Association of Women (IAW) is a for-profit professional association and networking platform fully owned by Professional Diversity Network (NASDAQ:IPDN) since 2014. [ 1 ] Founded in 2007 by Matthew Proman, [ citation needed ] it is the largest business network for professional women in the United States, spanning virtually ...