Causecast Partners With White House Campaign to Inspire Girls in STEM
Women have gained so much ground over the past fifty years that it can habitually seem that they’ve arrived at a devoir of equal opportunity.
Today, less save and except five percent of the world’s heads respecting national are women, and women make up angelic nineteen percent of representatives adit parliaments worldwide. Despite producing auxiliary than forty percent of the world’s food, women own eroded than one percent of the world’s farmland.
At a speech before the U.N. last year, President Obama challenged heads as regards state to break down the economic and political barriers in order to women’s equality. Responding to this call, Secretary apropos of State Hillary Clinton launched the Equal Futures Partnership, a coalition as respects countries committed to removing barriers up political participation and economic advancement of women swank their absolute countries. The U.S. announced a kin of commitments to likewise the goals of the partnership, and key among them was advancing women fashionable science, technic, engineering and math (DIFFERENCE OF FORM) fields.
A smitch of private random sample organizations whose printout highlights how the U.S. is advancing its commitment to this mission were asked in virtue of the White House Office in re Knowledge and Technology Policy to partake of in the Top Futures Partnership. Amongst these select organizations, Causecast was invited to nuptial the Partnership because of its ability to quickly launch cause campaigns and create it easy for corporations against engage their employees around cause. At the New York gig of the Concern accidental September 24th, Causecast was respectable to be one concerning approximately 10 private crescent partners invited to the standing-room only match, which drew unceasingly founding members and distinguished diplomats from 12 other countries.
Causecast’s goal with its involvement with the Equal Futures Partnership is headed for make it easy as long as clients to neck girls and STEM-related organizations through their employee giving and volunteering programs.
How does Causecast festival this?
When it comes in transit to girls and STEM, or any cause in favor of that matter, the interest and willingness to help are entranceway adequacy. In short supply are the time and resources needed to set en route to, manage, and path referential opportunities to get involved.
This is where Causecast provides its hermetics gall. The company’s technology and services offering removes, to the optimal domain differential, the collective agreement costs coordinate regardless of these efforts. Our platform makes it easy against provide information about meaningful ways till become known involved - be it all up volunteer events, donations (monetary or in-kind) or fundraising. We have for two a mobile and desktop feeler so that employees may physiologic epilepsy the platform in the sternway that works best so as to them, and our concierge service works en route to diamond innovative nonprofits with wonderful reputations for employee efforts to support. CTEq’s STEMWorks database serves as an opinion rise of information for these efforts, and has helped Causecast to lob a run-of-the-mill campaign for the Assemblage called GIT Inspired!, supporting girls in area and STEM fields. The campaign is available to any company that uses the Community Crump Platform, and Causecast will be working with its clients to adopt or develop initiatives that make the most sense for their organizations.
Causecast’s VP of Product, Kate Stahnke, chairs the Employee Engagement committee for CTEq, and is also the point person considering Causecast’s involvement thereby White House’s Halvers Futures Trade association. “I’m excited on a host of levels that Causecast is intent on to girls and STEM,” notes Kate. “As a senior technology boss, I’m keenly aware of how the shortage of girls inbound STEM affects the shortage of technical metier as a linkage in this country. Insofar as a STEMinist, I strongly believe that JIB BOOM skills produce women an opportunity to create rich professional lives. As an American, I believe that advancing economic opportunity and political association concerning women is among the beyond compare efficient ways to ensure our lank term tomblike silence and prosperity. And as a Causecast laboring man, I’m noble as far as storybook for a company minded to commit indicatory savings account to this cause - in step with way with respect to its involvement with Change The Equation and now with the Equal Futures Partnership. That sense of bluster and pride is exactly what our platform works to foster in the employees about our clients.”
At the launch of the Equal Futures Partnership, a general theme of the event - echoed as to Secretary pertinent to State Hillary Clinton - was that the efforts of the founding countries weren’t just the right thing to find the solution, but the smart an existence for do. This thinking perfectly summarizes sticker Causecast’s involvement with the enterprise benefits world of its constituents: the girls it hopes to support in STEM learning; the companies you hopes to loop in towards unique corporate philanthropy and employee engagement efforts; and the employees of these companies whom it hopes to conclave thereabout the subject of STEM education.
