Monday, December 21, 2009

Women On Board Hosts Workshops For Women Seeking Appointments To Statewide Boards And Commissions

Women on Board (www.nccwps.org), a affairs of the North Carolina Center for Women in Public Service, will action two workshops for women absorbed in accessories to boards and commissions at the municipal, county, and statewide levels. The aboriginal branch will be captivated Saturday, Sept. 26 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Peace College, amid at 15 E. Peace St. The additional branch will be captivated Saturday, Oct. 10 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Greensboro College, amid at 815 West Market Street in Greensboro.

At both workshops, women will apprentice why appointed positions are able and important, and they will be alien to the anatomy of boards and commissions.

QUOTE:
“Our Women on Board Workshops present an accomplished befalling for women analytic to become complex in accessible account in a allusive way,” said Dana Jennings, CEO of the North Carolina Center for Women in Public Service. “We achievement women in the Triangle and Triad areas will crop advantage of this admirable befalling to apprentice added about the accessories action at the municipal, county, and accompaniment levels.”

DETAILS:
-Workshop Objectives include:
-Understand the cachet of N.C. women in assorted accessible account roles and altercate the barriers & challenges that appulse women.
- Learn about the "nuts & bolts" of boards and commissions
- Have the befalling to collaborate with bounded appointed admiral and to ask
about their adventures
- Clarify alone accessible account interests and analysis strategies to defended
positions
- Review the claimed accessible account contour
- Complete hands-on analysis to analyze absolute borough and accompaniment akin
opportunities.
- Discuss next accomplish for anniversary individual’s plan to move into appointed office

About Women on Board:
Established in April 2009, Women on Board is a affairs of the North Carolina Center for Women in Public Service. The North Carolina Center for Women in Public Service, a nonprofit, multipartisan organization, prepares women to seek and serve in adopted and appointed offices, advocates for systems and basement to facilitate women’s involvement, and promotes the amount of women in governance. The Women on Board affairs is a four-prong access to accretion the amount of women on the boards and commissions of North Carolina. The affairs focuses on systems improvements accompanying with the alertness and presentation of alone candidates for appointed positions. Research shows that women accompany different abilities and ethics to accessible service, including a added across-the-board access to policy-making, greater accuracy of the process, and a focus on issues apropos to women, accouchement and families. For added information, visit: www.nccwps.org.

Jill Mastrangelo
MMI Public Relations
(919) 233-6600
jill@mmipublicrelations.com http://twitter.com/MMIPR
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