Thank you for considering sponsorship of the Women’s Global Network! It is supportive individuals and companies like yours that allow us to fulfill our mission of creating a global network of business women who appreciate that doing business these days requires a clear understanding of both the local business environment and their ability to navigate the multinational market.  To that end, WGN has created programs that educate our members and stimulate their business growth, actively link them to other members in a number of other branches, mentor the young professional women coming into the market and assist women in underdeveloped and impoverished countries to start their own businesses through micro-credit. 

What is the Women’s Global Network?

The Women’s Global Network (WGN) is a community of business women who support, network, and hope to make life-long connections with each other and to advance positive change in our communities. The vision of WGN is to develop a worldwide presence and to provide members access to a solid global network of dynamic women. WGN is currently active in California, Texas and Shanghai, China.  Each branch meets monthly and events include dinners and content-rich panels, Young Professionals Group mixers, cruises, golf and other unique and fun events.

WGN members are mostly C-level employees and business owners, 25-55 years in age, college educated, middle to upper income.  A large number of WGN members are actively involved in service organizations and philanthropic activities, and many members hold key leadership positions as board members, advisers or mentors.   The WGN Global Business Partners Program offers the members the opportunity to assist and partner with women in WGN sister cities through local micro-finance institutions.  Through this program, many women in impoverished cities have received financing to start their own businesses from WGN members.

Why Should You Become A WGN Sponsor?

Every organization prioritizes its reasoning for investing its sponsorship dollars.  A few compelling reasons to consider WGN are:

• WGN members support businesses that support WGN. Corporate sponsorship opportunities offer companies access to a growing, loyal, and financially successful market.
• To tell local women business owners and decision makers about your services and products
• To increase your brand awareness via the WGN e-newsletter and other member communications
• To have your logo placed on the WGN website or have an interview of you or your business featured on the website about your work with women
• To receive verbal recognition and reinforcement at WGN events
• To exhibit goodwill in the community by becoming a WGN Global Business Partner

Why Should You Care About Women in Business or Women Entering the Business World?

• Currently there are over 10.6 million women-owned businesses employing 19.1 million people and generating $2.5 trillion in sales.
• Women owned companies are growing faster than the economy at large with women starting businesses at twice the rate of men.
• By 2010 women will have the majority of wealth in America
• Women are the premier decision-makers for almost all purchases
• The vast majority (83%) of women business owners are personally involved in selecting and purchasing technology for their businesses.
• More than two-thirds (67%) of women business owners choose financial products and services based on their relationship and experience with a lender.
• Females consumers in their twenties spend more than their male counterparts
• Interviews with HR supervisors at Fortune 500 Companies show that women starting out their business careers are as talented and technically proficient as their male counterparts, but they often lack the skills necessary to put them on track for speedier success.  This is your chance to help sponsor a Young Professional or a Global Business Partner

Why Should you Care About Micro-Financing and its Impact on Women Around the World?

Quick Facts About Global Poverty and Microfinance:

• 2.8 billion people worldwide live in poverty, defined as living on less than $2 a day
• Poverty directly contributes to a myriad of other global problems:  chronic malnutrition,     overpopulation, illiteracy, crime, the spread of HIV/AIDS, child abuse, environmental  degradation, illegal immigration and terrorism
• 41.6 million of the world’s poorest families are presently reached by microfinance
• Women make up 79% of the 41.6 million microfinance borrowers
• Nearly 30% of microfinance borrowers will leave poverty after three years
• The United Nations, an ardent supporter of microfinance made its number one Millennium Goal to halve poverty by 2015

Through member donations, WGN members and WGN sponsors invest in microfinance programs that make small loans to women-owned businesses in underdeveloped countries.  It has been observed that giving women the control and the responsibility of small loans raises their socio-economic status, which is seen as a positive change to many of the current relationships of gender and class. Loans to women tend to more often benefit the whole family as they allow mothers to feed, clothe and educate their children.  WGN has researched some excellent organizations and its Branches have chosen to partner with sister cities through a number of different microfinance organizations on the ground working with villages all around the globe.  Part of your sponsorship fees will go directly to this program.

WGN Sponsorship Opportunities

MONTHLY EVENT SPONSOR: $1,500.

• Your business name and URL listed on press releases about the WGN event you are sponsoring
• Your logo with external link placed on the WGN website calendar of the city whose event you are sponsoring as a sponsor of the month for that branch.
• Your business name and URL reflected in all communications to prospects and members regarding the event
• Event fee waived for one company representative
• Recognition including your logo and external link in the monthly WGN e-newsletter whose circulation is both domestic and international
• Your business introduced during our “sponsor gratitude” announcements at the event and the chance to offer one free raffle prize
• The opportunity to display your promotional materials at the sponsored WGN event
• You or a woman at your business nominated and reflected on the WGN Global Business Partners webpage as a GBP because a portion of your sponsorship fees is exclusively dedicated to this WGN program and a woman in need or
• Your name reflected as a Mentor and Sponsor on our Young Professionals Group webpage with a like amount donated to the YPG scholarship program

PREMIUM EVENT SPONSOR: $2,000.

• All the benefits of a Monthly Event Sponsor but in addition:Your logo will be also be featured on the WGN consolidated calendar on the month you sponsor an event
• And, you will be featured on the WGN Sponsorship webpage for one year with an interview or article about your company’s activities and initiatives with women in the business world, service work you are engaged in, programs you have to help young professional women or other topics of interest to the WGN membership and audience or anyone visiting the WGN website.

Click here to email us about current sponsorship opportunities.  Please indicate whether you are interested in a Premium Event Sponsorship or Monthly Event Sponsorship for a specific WGN Branch.