Women in Power - Winter 2016

Message from the Founder, President and CEO
June L. Beland
As a not-for-profit organization, the Women’s Chamber is devoted to empowering and
improving the quality of life for women in the state of Nevada by providing the resources,
education, counseling and coaching, access to capital, and an active network of women to
help achieve business and professional success.
Women’s Chamber of Commerce of Nevada® established May 8, 2002 and today it
promotes more than 500+ members, but we needs to reach out to the other 37,600
women entrepreneurs, 9,700 women in executive/management positions to Register with
the Women’s Chamber so we can build a strong coalition to get the help women need
and get laws passed to help women succeed. Women residents in Nevada make up 57%
of the population and 90% of the buying power and decision making. We already made
history in (2014) as the only Women’s State Chamber to ever be established in the 151
year history, now that is a major accomplishment for the Women’s Chamber.
Mission & Vision
As a State Women’s Chamber within the Union of the United States of America, we have
a big role to play in supporting all levels of young girls to women i.e., high school students,
interns, college students, employees, women in top positions, small-to-large businesses,
corporate executives, government employees, women in Entertainment and Media plus all
women in the workforce. Our efforts are on creating an economic community for women
through entrepreneurship, empowerment, education, training, mentoring, leadership
programs, business networking, financial, grants, scholarships, business, loans, job
opportunities, women certification, community partnerships and alliances. We continue to
promote growth, diversity an economic development of women and minority women, and
to achieve the integration of women into leadership roles. We also make sure all our voices
are heard in Nevada and Washington, D.C. on many issues facing women in in the 21st
Century and beyond through our Government Affairs and Community Relations efforts.
Diversity
Building diversity is imperative, we want to increase awareness and strengthen
through cultural diversity within the Women’s Chamber and our membership reflects
just that, we now have women from twenty six different countries and a wide level of
minority women within its membership base. WCCNV continues to build alliances
through Minority Chambers which are very important to the state of Nevada (Asian,
Hawaiian, India, Indian, Japanese, Latin, Philippine and Urban to date). We will
continue to advise companies to offer more opportunities for women to integrate
into higher-level positions and to hire minority-owned businesses for their products
or services in the state of Nevada. WCCNV will also continue our efforts to build
International relationships right here in Nevada.
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