Daily recaps, stories of impact and perspectives on mentoring
November 14, 2014
María Gabriela Hoch,a longtime Vital Voices network member and head of the Vital Voices Argentina Chapter, participated in the Global Ambassadors Program…
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November 14, 2014
When Sarika Bhattacharyya came to the Global Ambassadors Program in India, her biggest challenge was balancing her career as a human resources consultant with her passion for women’s empowerment.
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November 14, 2014
One of the benefits of participating in the Global Ambassadors Program is access to a broad international network of businesswomen. This is particularly useful for our mentees who are looking…
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November 14, 2014
When Karla Borges Furlaneto participated in the Global Ambassadors Program in Sâo Paulo in June 2013, her mentorship goals included wanting to contribute to a better society. Her…
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November 13, 2014
Mentoring costs nothing, apart from time. It is one of the most powerful gifts that one person can give to another and there is a place for mentorship in…
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November 13, 2014
Mari Sawai, a native of Japan, is a social entrepreneur in Thailand. Her organization, Wedu, invests in young university-bound women in Asia,…
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September 17, 2014
Today we kick off our ninth Global Ambassadors Program mentoring forum in Warsaw, Poland, a week-long program designed to provide women business leaders and social entrepreneurs from Central and Eastern…
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Above: Galina Melnikova of Russia and her mentee, Tatiana Semikop of Ukraine, find a quiet moment to begin their mentorship. Breakthrough change was the emergent theme after five packed days…
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September 8, 2014
We’re two days in to the program and the Global Ambassadors and mentees are settling in to intensive working sessions and mapping out new ideas for their businesses and organizations.
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September 8, 2014
Today we kick off our ninth Global Ambassadors Program mentoring forum in Warsaw, Poland, a week-long program designed to provide women business leaders and social entrepreneurs from Central and…
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May 20, 2014
Xiomara and her mentor Karen Fang at the Global Ambassadors Program in Mexico City. What Vital Voices and Bank of America enabled last March in Mexico City, through the Global Ambassadors Program,…
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May 16, 2014
The Global Ambassadors Program mentoring forum in Belfast concluded Friday, May 16, with workshops on organizational management and fundraising, a last round of group mentoring dialogues, reflections on the week’s…
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May 16, 2014
Thursday brought glorious sun to Belfast and a chance for Global Ambassadors and mentees to get outside and connect with local women professionals and business owners for a networking walk…
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May 14, 2014
Global Ambassador Samar Haj Hasan is founder and director of Mahara, the first consultancy in Jordan to provide services in the field of social and human development. She is mentoring…
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May 14, 2014
Today we handed over the blog to our participants for their perspectives on how mentoring could help build their businesses. Read below thoughts from mentees Nisreen, Rosette and Gaella.
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May 12, 2014
This is my fifth Global Ambassadors Program mentoring forum and each time we bring together a new cohort of Global Ambassadors and mentees, we know that it will be a…
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I am thrilled to announce that next week on May 12, the Global Ambassadors Program heads to Belfast, Northern Ireland, for the start of a week-long mentoring forum pairing extraordinary women…
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March 8, 2014
The week concluded on March 8 at Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus, Mexico City, for a Mentoring Walk organized by Vital Voices network leader Luz María de la Mora. More than…
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March 6, 2014
Global Ambassadors and their mentees continued mentoring one-on-one in the morning followed by a site visit to ProEmpleo, a local employment and microenterprise training organization run by mentee Yemy Zonana. The…
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March 4, 2014
The first official day of mentoring began today with presentations from each mentee on her business overview and short- and long-term challenges she’s hoping to solve. Grace, our MIT engineer…
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