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WXN Foundation
The WXN Foundation supports the advancement and empowerment of women by creating mentoring, learning and networking opportunities for high-potential women across Canada and internationally.
It achieves this by providing funding for women to take advantage of existing WXN programs, through initiatives developed by the Foundation and in collaboration with partners, and through giving to charities with values and objectives aligned with our own. In three years, the WXN Foundation has given $107,000 to charitable and not-for-profit organizations supporting women and girls across Canada. Our main focus is providing bursaries for our WXNWisdom Top 100 Mentoring program, which matches high-performing women with mentors from our community of Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award Winners.
What's Happening In The Community
CASTING CALL FOR FAMILY BUSINESS EXPERTS!
A Canadian TV production company is looking for a dynamic and engaging host for their new TV series about family businesses in crisis. Are you an accomplished businesswoman who has grown or turned around a family business? Or are you a businesswoman who is an expert in helping family businesses do succession planning? If so, please contact Stacey Jenkins at Proper Television at 416-479-9672 xt. 479 or send an email to stacey@propertelevision.com
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Kids Now is a charitable organization empowering grade seven and eight students through free after-school group mentoring programs. Since 1999, Kids Now volunteers, many of whom are leading professionals, have helped more than 13,000 youth living primarily in priority neighbourhoods to believe in themselves and reach their full potential.
The Kids Now program consists on building social emotional skills that focus on:
· Building self-confidence
· Goal setting
· Conflict resolution & anti bullying
· Communication skills
· Stress management
Our fun and educator-endorsed curriculum develops skills that help kids navigate through adolescence, while laying the foundation for their future success. As WXN members, your innovation and pursuit of excellence can greatly impact our leaders of tomorrow. Be a source of inspiration, be a Kids Now mentor today. If you would like more information, please visit www.kidsnowcanada.org and sign-up today!
Contact us at info@kidsnowcanada.org
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WOMEN MAKE GREAT LEADERS.
Join Leaders For the Cure!
Leaders for the Cure is a peer-to-peer executive fundraising program that provides meaningful opportunities for Ontario’s corporate community to help the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation create a future without breast cancer.
Click below to find out more:
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WOULD YOU LIKE TO PARTICIPATE IN A PhD STUDY WITH QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY?
Dear WXN Community,
We would encourage you to participate in an important research initiative on women, work-life balance, and family dynamics.
Alyson Byrne, a PhD Candidate at the Queen’s School of Business, and her supervisor, Dr. Julian Barling, a Professor and Borden Chair of Leadership at the Queen’s School of Business, are conducting an online study addressing pressing issues for women in high job status positions and how this impacts their family dynamics. This aggregated information will be made available to the WXN Community and we will use this information to help further guide some of our future endeavors.
We would like to invite you to participate in this study, which is a survey that will ask you a variety of questions about your work experiences, your family dynamics and how those two aspects of your life crossover. As a component to this study, Alyson Byrne and Dr. Barling would also like to learn about your husband or spouse’s thoughts with regards to his work experiences, his family dynamics and the crossover of those domains. There is an option for your spouse to also participate.
As a token of appreciation, you will be entered into a draw to win one of a number of $50 Starbucks gift cards (spouses who participate will also be entered)!
Participation is completely voluntary and all answers will remain anonymous and confidential. The data will be used for research purposes, and will be reported in the form of group totals only.
To participate in this study, please click on the following link:
http://tinyurl.com/workfamilydynamics
If you have any questions about the study you may contact Alyson directly at:
Alyson Byrne
Queen’s University
Kingston, Ontario
abyrne@business.queensu.ca
613-883-2430
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An extraordinary event in a sublime setting:
Where else but at the McMichael?
The Moonlight Gala is a fundraising event being held in
support of the McMichael on Saturday, June 8, 2013.
Featuring Jazz Chanteuse Holly Cole, culinary delights created by
Chef Jamie Kennedy, wine and scotch bar by Via Allegro Ristorante,
and a truly outstanding array of silent auction items, plus so much more!
Feel the connection between art and nature as you wine and dine en plein air,
surrounded by the magnificent landscape so reminiscent of our northern
Canadian wilderness.
Join us on Saturday, June 8 for an enchanted evening under the stars!
We are happy to offer WXN Members a 10% discount on tickets!
To purchase tickets:
contact Kim Good at kgood@mcmichael.com or 905.893.112 ext. 2523
http://moonlightgala.mcmichael.com/
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