It is a pleasure to work with Beth and working for women and support the incredible non-profits in their network. Volunteering through Working for Women provides incredible growth and networking opportunities for professionals. I am pleased to continue my partnership with Beth and the team at W4W and support organizations in the Philadelphia area.
The leadership and team supporting Working for Women are amazing, impact-oriented and insightful. Tackling one of the most intransigent challenges of our times, equality for women, and focusing on economic inequality is a daunting challenge and Working for Women has created a robust network of business and nonprofit partners while also addressing intersectoral issues such as women's health. I have had the privilege of helping with W4W the impact story and look forward to being involved with this organization as a supporter into the future. I applaud the vision and tenacity of Working for Women as they expand and grow.
Working for Women is an incredible organization to partner with. For 4+ years, Beth and her amazing team have connected us with local nonprofits to deliver pro bono projects that drive impact in local communities. We can't wait for all that is to come from this partnership.
The Working For Women / Paramount mentorship program was a positive, learning experience for me. Not only did I get to explore a career path that I hadn't been exposed to before, I received very helpful advice from my mentor as I continue to work towards career goals. In addition, the W4W staff were wonderful - from checking-in on a consistent basis to arranging for all the mentees and mentors to connect and learn from each other, I'm grateful I was selected for this program.
Working for Women has an innovative model for helping more women reach financial independence. They connect corporations and aligned nonprofits for training and "skill-unteering". It's a relatively new organization and they've created a lot of momentum in a short time.
Amazing organization doing impactful work to empower women leaders and beyond. Their intentional programming support women's development to reach financial freedom and realizing their full potential.
I am more than grateful to W4W for supporting me, as a new immigrant woman from Ukraine, in my journey to find my place here in New York. Over the past year, I’ve attended free workshops on negotiation, received a full scholarship provided by W4W in collaboration with Career Circle, Google, and Coursera, and earned a professional certification in Data Analytics.
Through this experience, I’ve connected with other women who, like me, are eager to learn, grow, and pursue their careers in the U.S.
Thank you for your support and kindness! It means so much not to feel alone on this journey.
As the Strategic Partnerships Lead for Community Partnerships at CareerCircle, I have the pleasure of working with Working for Women on their mission to help women achieve financial independence. They do this by connecting women to meaningful job opportunities, investing in education and training, and addressing the barriers they face in the workplace. Their commitment to serving communities is evident in all they do. I've had the privilege of connecting directly with candidates, attending partnership events, and witnessing firsthand their dedication to changing lives and empowering women. I'm delighted to continue to do work alongside them as they have been an incredible partner in this space.
I have had the absolute pleasure of working with Working for Women's participants and meeting with their team biweekly to collaborate on various initiatives and projects between our organizations. What stands out the most about their team is their passion and commitment to their mission of helping women reach financial independence. They are dedicated to deeply understanding the adversities and obstacles women encounter across different communities and circumstances, and they strive to create the most significant impact possible. We are proud to partner with Working for Women, and we look forward to our continued success in achieving our shared mission!
From the moment I began my journey with Working for Women, I was deeply moved by the unwavering commitment of leadership to engage businesses in helping women from marginalized communities reach economic independence. Their holistic approach to tackling complex societal challenges isn't just innovative, it's revolutionary. They're not just changing lives, they're reshaping the business world to be more inclusive and just.
Working alongside the team, I've witnessed firsthand their ability to mobilize resources, foster collaboration, and drive real, tangible change. Every campaign, every project, and every initiative is undertaken with a laser-focused objective: to provide women the resources they need to reach their fullest potential.
But beyond their noble mission and impressive results, what truly sets Working for Women apart is their organizational culture. They cultivate an environment where every voice is valued, and where diversity of thinking is celebrated. This has allowed me, to deliver my best work and to continuously learn and grow.
In the world of nonprofits, where the mission is often overshadowed by administrative challenges or limited resources, Working for Women is a shining beacon. Their passion is contagious, their strategy is sound, and their impact is undeniable.
To anyone considering getting involved with Working for Women, whether as a donor, partner, board member or employee: take the plunge. Your efforts will not only change the lives of countless women, but they'll also forever change you.
Being closely involved with Working for Women has been - to say the very least - life-changing (and not just my life). It has caused me to look at my own employment practices differently, as well as generally increasing my own intuition and awareness of the benefits of investing in women in the workforce. Being a part of the organization has caused me to challenge every aspect of my decision-making process. Working for Women makes great use of donations and is a very grass-roots effort that has dramatic growth opportunities. The benefits are irrefutable, and the CEO's tenacity and drive are unparalleled.
Working for Women is changing the conversation around how businesses and companies play a role in expanding opportunities for women, especially women from marginalized communities. This is a forward-thinking organization that has had significant success since it was started five years ago. The W4W team and board continues to learn and grow in collaboration with its nonprofit partners and investors from the business community. The organization is lean and mighty, using resources (both money and skills) with great intentionality.
Each year Working for Women (W4W) is successfully expanding it's programming and nonprofit partnerships to reach more economically marginalized women and empower them with the skills and knowledge to break barriers to employment and build wealth. As of 2023, W4W has touched more than 1,000 women. As a women of color it is powerful to witness the impact of W4W's work firsthand. Through W4W's initiatives, women are becoming their own best advocates, reaping the reward of upskilling and mentorship to land their dream job, and take command of their own financial destiny. Using strategic investments from the business community, W4W is changing the conversation and landscape of support for an inclusive economy that closes the equity gap at the intersection of gender and race. Among W4W investors, W4W is also helping reshape the approach to ESG and deepening the commitment of businesses and even more so their employees to make social change. Ultimately, W4W is revealing the symbiotic relationship between businesses and communities. Women's economic growth fuels the economy and benefits society as a whole.
Working for Women’s innovative model helps more women enter and remain in the workforce. The nonprofit helps women who need economic security the most! My co-founder of EvolveMe and I have worked with Working for Women and are impressed by its leadership, mission and how it elevates women’s stories so that more people in the business community understand what a difference they can make. I have 20+ years in the non profit sector and I highly recommend Working for Women if you’re looking for a collaborative and impactful nonprofit to partner with!
Our partnership with Working for Women is by far the best partnership I have ever experienced during 30 years of social justice work. This is due to their process of thoughtfully and strategically building for-profit and nonprofit partnerships that deeply benefit everyone. Working for Women listens to what we need to deepen and widen our impact and then finds individuals with the expertise to effectively address our needs. They are a key player in building for-profit and nonprofit partnerships where all parties learn and grow, and lives are improved.
Working For Women (W4W) is fighting against the systemic obstacles women are facing when seeking employment and in the workplace. This year, I've had the honor of collaborating with W4W on skills training workshops, mentorship programs and a job training program, and I've seen first hand how these programs are empowering women to take a stand. I recently received a lovely message from a program participant where she wrote, "... thank you for your exceptional commitment to helping women like myself reach their full potential. Your work is making a real difference in the lives of many, and I am truly privileged to be a beneficiary of your invaluable efforts". W4W is changing the story through each woman it touches.
Working For Women is truly blazing the path forward, not only for women experiencing socioeconomic hardship in the US, but for the nonprofit sector at large. Working For Women's innovative collective investment model embodies the future of giving, and allows individuals and businesses to make a significant, lasting impact beyond what they could ever do on their own. This nonprofit is expertly run by passionate leadership with big hearts and sharp minds, who are dedicated to elevating more women out of poverty and into a sustained state of stability. The impact that this small and mighty organization has made for women just in its first few years is inspiring. Go, Working For Women, Go!
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Working 4 Women is revolutionizing the way socially responsible businesses support worthy nonprofits. In our increasingly digital and purpose-driven world, Working 4 Women builds a bridge between businesses and nonprofits, removing the most challenging aspects of the "give back" process for both organizations—and ultimately paving a path for more opportunity and independence for women. Beth and her team are thorough in their nonprofit and business vetting process, thoughtful in the partnerships and programs they help facilitate, and are deeply committed to building a world where more women can move from surviving to thriving. The world has never needed an organization like Working 4 Women more, and I'm so proud to be a small part of it.
Beth Bengtson and her team at Working for Women, W4W, are generating rich, thought-provoking conversations about how to improve the lives of women who are economically marginalized and why it’s important for all of us to pitch in.
I’ve known Beth for many years as a friend, colleague, and community member. We raised our boys together. I’ve had the opportunity to work with her on some amazing projects that have helped support women in difficult situations, including domestic violence. More recently, the women-owned firm I work for is getting on board as a regular doner and supporter of W4W and what they’re up to.
With each event we attend or meeting we have; I personally learn more about the impact this work has on all of us. It’s not just a conversation for women – it’s a conversation for everyone. I’m grateful to be a part of this movement to raise awareness of the power women have over every aspect of things that matter to us, including - what's not talked about enough - the economy and the environment.
Beth Bengston is a trailblazer of innovation and philanthropy in bringing women together across communities to raise the bar for good on so many levels. Her work with Unshattered is unprecedented.
Working for Women has been an invaluable experience to be part of not only for the insight it's provided me with, but also through the milestones achieved that I've witnessed. The progress that this organization has made and the lives it has positively impacted is something I'm proud to be part of and look forward to continuing to contribute to. The team is eager, passionate, open-minded, and welcoming and I'm excited to continue collaborating with this amazing group.
Working for Women’s skill-based volunteering approach and mission has completely changed how I think about volunteering and non-profits. It’s been a joy working with their purpose-driven leadership team and fulfilling to leverage my skills to help the socioeconomic empowerment of women. I’m honored that Wet Cement has been a proud sponsor for several years.
W4W is an extremely valued partner to our company. We host events together multiple times a year, and the impact they have on the members of their organization is significant. They so clearly value their organization's members, their stories, and commit to helping them make strides and find opportunities.
Working for Women has helped to build a bridge that allows our (for profit) organization to serve and drive the mission of local nonprofits in our community and allows those nonprofits to share information, resources and advocacy that, in return, makes our organization a more welcoming and supportive place for women - and for all!
Working for Women is an incredible organization that has facilitated great learning opportunities for women in the New York area. I have had the great pleasure of working with this team on Negotiation Workshops that my company puts on with them twice a year. The impact that Working for Women is able to make is long lasting and they are always looking for ways to continue growing.
I've been working alongside the W4W team through their partnership with ZS associates for several months now and continued to feel inspired on a daily basis! I feel lucky to be able to contribute to such an outstanding organization and leave my mark on women in my community.
In my second term as a Board member, I remain energized and inspired by Working for Women's mission, passion and dedication in engaging the business community to get more women into the workforce and towards economic independence. Working for Women is addressing a gap in the giving arena by pursuing collective giving from businesses of all sizes who realize that when more women contribute in the economy, everyone wins. Working for Women connects businesses to the growth of grassroots nonprofits serving different groups of marginalized women, and is showing there's a way to give back better. I'm staying involved as long as it takes to work with the founder, staff, and my Board colleagues to keep this effort growing.
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When I first met Working for Women founder Beth Bengston, I knew I wanted to be part of her team. Her passion to help under-served women get into the workforce and become economically independent by tapping the business community makes perfect sense. It's a unique approach that fills an important gap in the giving arena. By focusing on women who need a point of entry -- by working through existing organizations to deliver tangible skills and resources, we can build a future that is equitable, productive and prosperous for all. There's a need, there's room to achieve this, and there's now an organization helping businesses see their way forward to this purpose. The evidence in just the early years of Working for Women speaks to its potential. As a working Board Member, my time is well spent here. Everyone involved wins - and I mean everyone.
W4W has been extremely supportive of our unique needs and asks. They have provided endless resources and have built a community of women led organizations that learn and support each other. Their work is instrumental in supporting women and we are grateful for their dedication to the development of women.
I love Working for Women's vision and mission for change! Their collective-giving model gives my small business an opportunity to leverage a modest contribution for big impact. I'm so glad I met the founder and became a member. --Michelle Hynes, Principal Consultant, MichelleHynes.com
I have had an amazing experience partnering with Beth and the entire Working for Women team. It has been great to build ongoing relationships with the non-profit organizations we are working with, drive meaningful impact in the community, and find opportunities to share my own expertise and skillset with amazing organizations.
W4W does a wonderful job at ensuring that the volunteering experience is beneficial to both the corporate employees and their partner organizations. Looking forward to a continued partnership with W4W!
Working for Women has a unique working model focused on creating strategic partnerships between for-profit businesses who want to give back to the community and non-profit organizations that support W4W's mission of helping to elevate more women to economic independence. My experience with the organization has been rewarding to myself and to
colleagues at my workplace through hands on pro bono consulting experiences and volunteer engagements. Thank you to W4W and its CEO/Founder (Beth Bengston) for continuing to find innovative and meaningful ways to invest dollars and skills from businesses into nonprofits supporting women.
See details on my experience in the an article published on Fairygodboss here:
https://fairygodboss.com/articles/take-the-leap-leveraging-pro-bono-consulting-and-business-skills-in-the-nonprofit-world
Amazing organization with a very unique take on the problem facing marginalized sections of the society. The impact as seen first hand has been very inspirational!
Working For Women made it very easy for my consulting firm to make an immediate impact with non-profits in our area, while at the same time providing our employees with opportunities to give back and learn new skills. I greatly appreciate the strategic and tactical guidance that W4W provides, they do a great job at ensuring that this experience is truly a win-win situation for both the corporate employees they engage with and the partner organizations that they serve! We are looking forward to continuing our engagements, and are working towards deepening and scaling them for the future!
Important and unique mission to help businesses more effectively and efficiently help women in achieving financial independence
ZS has had the privilege to work with W4W since 2018. The organization has been critical to helping us create engaging opportunities for our employees to participate in pro-bono consulting projects, workshops, and skill-based volunteering to help elevate underserved women in the workplace. Through W4W we also share content on important women’s issues and generate provocative discussions around issues of health equity, the impact of the pandemic and other topics.
The team makes the experience of collaborating simple and meaningful and we’re so grateful for the partnership.
Working for Women gives Bottomless Closet invaluable tools - a network of support, access to resources we wouldn't ordinarily have since we are a small organization with a limited budget and a sense of community with other like-minded organizations that support women. We are so grateful to have their support in every endeavor. Beth Bengston is a rock for so many of us who are striving to empower women.
It was so great working with Working for Women. It was my first time being involved in a virtual nonprofit initiative and W4W made it so seamless and yet fulfilling. We had a workshop on Negotiations with the Bottomless closet and there was so much learning all around - I learnt a few points about the content but also listening about just their life experiences from those amazing women we talked with was a great experience in itself. They were so eager to learn and appreciative which made the process very engaging.
I have been working with Working For Women in my Consulting role at ZS. We recently facilitated a "Negotiations Workshop" with a charity. Beth did an excellent job connecting us with the charity and helping us determine how to run the workshop, but also gave us good creative liberty to facilitate it as we wanted. We are looking forward to continuing to work with Beth and Working For Women in the future.
Working for Women made everything so easy for ZS. Beth and WFW had all sorts of things already in place so the ZS office in Evanston could easily step in and start working. Our first project together was a negotiation workshop with Bottomless Closet. Beth helped us with content, training, and any questions we had to make the workshop run smoothly. And not only did it run smoothly, it was a huge success-- both for the participants and the facilitators from ZS. It was incredibly valuable to me personally, because I got to share my expertise as someone who was recently in the position the women in the workshop are now. These women are just like me-- unsure of negotiation, unsure that they could do it, and unsure that it's appropriate to do for jobs like support staff or hourly work. It was so great to be able to share my stories and my experience and actually help someone. Further, at the end of the session-- everyone involved from the ZS side kept telling me how rewarding, inspiring, and valuable the session was to them. It got them out of their normal work and out of their normal boxes -- and they got to see new people with different experiences than their own. At ZS, we can get tunnel vision-- working on the same projects with the same people, day in and day out. This opened up their world-- and everyone expressed wanting to do it again. And a huge part of that is thanks to WFW and Beth for making the process so easy and exciting.
As a new founder, I wanted to build a business whose core values included helping women, but that's not as easy as it sounds. Doing something real, not just for PR or for a certification is difficult to execute while managing a young business with little funds and time spread around. Working for Women gave me a much earlier entry point then I ever thought possible by valuing skills as contributions. I am so proud that even thought my business is young - we are from the beginning able to help nonprofits that are helping women and as we grow, we are growing and learning ways to be more effective and successful together. Excellent idea and organization!
As a female small business owner, I’m thrilled at the level of engagement W4W has with both their partners and beneficiary organizations—real impact effected on behalf of members, donors.
As a corporate group, finding opportunities to make a meaningful impact on our communities and work with non-profit organizations can be challenging. We often reach out to non-profit organizations that would love support, but don’t have a clear way for us to get involved. Partnering with W4W has helped solve many of these challenges.
W4W finds meaningful ways to connect us with the non-profits, prioritizing creating value that is unique and mutually beneficial for both the non-profit and ZSers. By working with W4W, NY Office’s ZS Cares team has been able to engage a wider group of ZSers, create ongoing relationships with the organizations we are working with, mix in more skill-based volunteering/pro bono work with the service work we were doing, etc.—all while reducing some of the logistical / planning burden on our core team. One initiative, our workshop with NWNY, has been such a strong success that we have now repeated it 4 times and other offices have used the materials as templates for workshops with other local organizations.
The world is noisy. It's hard to find the signal. Who's truly focused, making a direct impact, bringing real results in a way that's making a significant change? The answer for us is Working for Women (W4W). W4W is a standout when it comes to an organization that fulfills its promise to provide real access, real tools, and real opportunities for women to achieve greater economic independence and empowerment. As a purpose-driven company, we at SCOUT took deliberate steps in our decision-making process to choose W4W as our social impact partner to invest 2%. It was not done lightly or quickly -- our reputation is tied to our choice so it's important to know we're aligned and proud of our shared values, ethics, and integrity. W4W was our number one pick. We've not looked back.
Young professionals place a premium on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and want to work at companies that have strong commitments to corporate citizenship. When companies partner with Working for Women, they’re able to quickly build their CSR culture, make a visible impact on the community and consequently, recruit top talent that will continue to foster the CSR culture and create more opportunities for positive community impact. Working for Women is the catalyst to a jumpstart a robust, sustainable path to corporate citizenship within businesses.
W4W is an amazing start up nonprofit organization designed to support underserved women gain economic independence and mobility while helping business deliver social good and develop their people at the same time. The organization is driven by a clear vision from our founder who works passionately and tirelessly to bring this vision to a broader audience. The response from both the women who benefit and the companies who partner has been overwhelmingly positive.
As a woman-owned business, I want to help lift up other women, I want to support those who need the most support, and I want to see more and more successful women. But I can't do all of that and also run my business. Working for Women is doing the heavy lifting and my dollars can help fund that effort -- it's the best of both worlds. Working for Women is building a powerful community, doing the work to identify and support the most impactful organizations, and ensuring that whatever money I can contribute is effective.
Working for Women and Beth Bengtson/CEO have been very supportive of my work as Director of Raising HOPE women's mentoring program. Beth has served as a model of strength, dignity, and drive and is a mentor in her own right to any woman who has a goal to create growth and positive momentum in her organization and in her life. WFW has also provided us with two fabulous volunteer guest speakers who inspired our program participants. We are honored to have been chosen as one of the five women's organizations WFW strives to support and champion. WFW is a nonprofit that lives it's mission of helping women who help women.
With Gratitude & HOPE, Amy Summers, Program Director
Raising HOPE women's mentoring program
https://www.ulsterunitedway.org/raising_hope-main/mentees/
Working for Women makes it so simple to support women in need! I love that they aggregate the dollars to provide greater help than just one donation could - and that they've already vetted the receiving organizations so you don't have to.