THE WORLD OF TIAW

Fact Sheet

Vision
TIAW is all about working together to make a positive difference in the world.

Mission
TIAW serves as a global umbrella organization that unites, supports and promotes professional women and their networks to work together, share resources and leverage ideas.

Purpose
TIAW is devoted to improving the economic status of all women around the world: from senior level executive and professional women, to career women just beginning their careers, to women in transition and young girls planning for their careers, to the most needy of all: impoverished women in developing nations.

Our purpose is to encourage, develop, fund and implement programs that foster economic empowerment and advancement for women around the world. Contributions to TIAW are tax deductible to the full extent permitted under United States law.

History
Founded in 1980, TIAW is a non-profit, non-partisan organization serving women and their associations. Our members come together to share a world of opportunity, adding to their personal and professional growth. Today the in-reach to our members has evolved and is balanced with a greater focus on outreach to a much larger global community of women. This universal focus – without regard to culture, politics, race or religion – is economic. Positive change comes with economic empowerment and advancement. Connected through TIAW, our members turn positive change into making a positive difference in the world.

Goals
• To become the global voice of women who want to connect to make a difference.
• To provide quality programs and initiatives that support TIAW’s vision, mission and purpose.
• To strengthen TIAW’s organizational structure to better serve TIAW members and programs

Strategies
• Through a variety of innovative programs and initiatives, TIAW’s members come together to foster  economic empowerment and advancement for women around the world.

• Through TIAW’s state-of-the-art Web site, electronic publications and communiqués, the provision of editorial content, networking and events, members are able to leverage their membership to pursue individual economic empowerment and advancement.Events
• Annual conference • Annual International Meeting • Regional Networking Meetings • Donor Trips to Developing Countries.

Services
• Electronic Member Directory • Electronic Newsletters and Communiqués • Web Site • Discussion ForumPrograms.

• TIAW Microenterprise Development Program:
Leverages financial and leadership resources to fund micro lending for impoverished women in developing countries to start or expand micro businesses and achieve self-sufficiency.

• TIAW Women on Boards Initiative:
Motivates demand for qualified women to serve on for-profit and non-profit boards: educates members on issues of directors’ responsibilities and liabilities, board governance, operations and trends: and works with member associations on educational and placement activities.

• TIAW Entrepreneurs' Program:
Enhance the lives of TIAW’s entrepreneurs by reducing their sense of isolation, improving their abilities, and increasing their business opportunities. The goal of the Entrepreneurship program is to assist TIAW members to outperform their competition and exceed their prior growth rate.

• TIAW Daughters:
Prepares girls (ages 10-16) for financial independence through a proprietary mentoring program including one-on-one sessions, seminars, workshops and special events.


Membership Categories
There are two categories of TIAW membership: Individual and Association.

• Individual membership is open to individuals supporting the purpose of TIAW

• Professional Association/Network membership is open to organizations that support the purpose of TIAW and fall into one of the four general not-for-profit categories: multi-industry professional association: professional trade association; professional networking group; an organization that promotes the advancement of women and/or girls.

Current membership
Located primarily in the Americas, Asia and Europe, membership includes both individuals and 40 associations representing more than 50,000 members worldwide. TIAW members are leaders in their respective communities: executives, professionals and entrepreneurs, hailing from a variety of business, academia, government, and non-profit organizations.

• Skills Development for Self Reliance, Nairobi, Kenya

ASIA

• Filipino Chinese federation of Business & Professional Women, Manila, Philippines 

• National Association of Women Entrepreneurs of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• National Council of Women of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines

• PrimeTime Business & Professional Women’s Association, Singapore

• Women’s Business Connection, Singapore

• Maori Women of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand

EUROPE

• Association of Business Women and Top Managers in Brasov, Romania

• City Women’s Network, London, UK

• European Women’s Management Development International Network, Brussels, Belgium

• European Professional Women’s Network, Paris, France

• International Association of Professional Business Women of Bulgaria, Sofia, Bulgaria

• Kosovo Women’s Business Associations, Gjakove, Kosovo

• The Committee of 20, Moscow, Russia 

• Women in Banking and Finance, Kent, United Kingdom

• Canadian Association of Women Executives and Entrepreneurs, Toronto, Canada

• Canadian Women in Communication, Toronto, Canada

• Asociación de Empresarias y Professionales de Panamá, Panama City, Republic of  Panamá

• Women Leaders Association, Coquimbo, Chile

United States

• Athena Society, Tampa, Florida

• Atlanta Women in Transaction Services, Atlanta, Georgia

• Board of Directors Network, Atlanta, Georgia

• Capital Area Network, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

• Colorado Alliance of Professional Women, Denver, Colorado

• Executive Women of Goizueta, Atlanta, Georgia

• Executive Women in Government, Washington, DC

• Financial Women’s Association of New York, New York, NY

• Georgia Executive Women’s Network, Atlanta, Georgia

• National Association of Women Business Owners, McLean, Virginia

• Network of Executive Women, Tampa, Florida

• New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners, Hamilton, New Jersey

• Pensacola Women’s Alliance, Pensacola, Florida

• Professional Women’s Network of Louisiana, Alexandria, Louisiana

• Women Business Owners of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida

• Women International Leaders of Greater Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Women Leaders Forum of Coachella Valley, Indian Wells, California

• Women’s Commerce Club, Atlanta, Georgia

• Women Presidents' Organization, New York, New York

Individual Members. Located in Africa, Canada, Caribbean, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Republic of Georgia, Singapore, United Kingdom, Ukraine, and United States.

For more information, please contact TIAW’s Executive Director or visit TIAW’s Web site.

Executive Director
Maxine Westaway
mwestaway@TIAW.org
www.TIAW.org

World Headquarters
The International Alliance for Women
48 Coledale Road
Markham, Ontario, Canada, L3R 7W9
Tel:  (905) 948-1994
Toll: (866) 533-TIAW (8429)
Fax: (905) 305-1548

Corporate Head Office
The International Alliance for Women
Suite 500, 1760 Old Meadow Rd
McLean, VA. 22102 USA
Tel:  (703) 506-3284
Toll: (866) 533-TIAW (8429)
Fax: (905) 305-1548