What
can a B.P.W membership do for you? It can include:
- associating with
members of other BPW Clubs - locally, provincially, nationally,
and internationally;
- forming friendships and
networks with women in the community who are experienced and
knowledgeable in a broad range of occupations and interests;
- participation in the
organization's business, attending workshops, hearing speakers on
relevant topics, developing friendships and networking with other
working women at club and regional/district events;
- developing leadership
capabilities, pursuing career opportunities and change, networking
and career advancement;
- putting forth ideas
which can be recognized and enforced by a large body of support at
four levels - international, national, provincial and local club;
- keeping current on
women's issues;
- working toward
improving the status of working women throughout the world;
- participating in the
process of change.
Business and Professional
Women's Clubs open a door to knowledge, achievement, fulfillment and
friendship. Club events seek to provide a stimulating environment in
which members work together for common causes, with each benefiting
from discussions and activities that inform, encourage the use of
talent, imagination and ingenuity, broaden the individual's outlook
and cement friendships.
The good club provides its
members with opportunities to:
- familiarize herself
with BPW purposes, projects, programmes, and publications;
- join in concerted
action in promoting these and other beneficial aims or causes;
- advance her own ideas
of the policies to be adopted;
- share her thoughts,
experiences and knowledge with women in various occupations;
- extend her knowledge of
community, municipal, provincial, national, and international
public questions,
- help focus public
attention on the opinions of informed, capable women;
- develop her own
qualities of friendliness, co - operation, and leadership;
- improve her talent for
self - expression and public speaking, for organizing functions
and conducting public meetings;
- enjoy friendship,
sisterhood and networking:
- in her community
with members of her club at meetings and festivities;
- throughout her
province with members from other clubs at regional/district
meetings, conferences and seminars;
- across Canada with
women from all provinces at Biennial Conventions;
- around the world
with club members in other national federations and associated
clubs or the International Federation of Business and
Professional Women, at IFBPW Congress and seminars.
The member is the keystone
of the structure of the BPW organization. Success depends upon the
member's understanding of, dedication to, and involvement in
furthering specific objectives. In return, the Organization offers the
member an opportunity for personal growth, to increase knowledge,
engage in networking, develop friendships and to experience the
sisterhood of women engaged in a variety of occupations. The club
member is the driving force for all BPW activities. The good member
builds a good club by:
- attending club meetings
and taking an interest in and speaking her mind in club
discussions;
- participating readily
in club activities;
- replying promptly to
call for information, service, fees;
- co - operating with
officers and chairs of committees in planning and implementing
programes and projects;
- familiarizing herself
with the purposes, programes and projects of the Canadian
Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, and with
the by - laws of her club;
- reading the club
bulletin or local newsletter and other B.P.W periodicals and
reference material;
- attending, as a
delegate or observer, regional/district meetings, provincial
conferences, national conventions, and international congress;
- making herself
available as a candidate for office in the club, provincial
organization, C.F.B.P.W.C. and, I.F.B.P.W.C;
- supporting the officers
and chairs of each committee;
- encouraging other women
to join B.P.W and assisting to retain existing members to
strengthen the organization;
- supporting and
enforcing the aims and objectives of the organization.
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