85broads
The "founding members" of 85 Broads were women who worked for Goldman Sachs at 85 Broad Street, the investment banking firm’s New York City address. Over the past decade, they have expanded their global membership to include women who are students and alumnae of the world’s leading colleges, universities, and graduate schools and women who have demonstrated their vision, entrepreneurship or simply their passion for collaborating with other talented women globally.

85 Broads is now a multi-cultural, multi-generational network of over 25,000 trailblazing, visionary women who leverage their talent and leadership savvy to earn a higher return on their intellect. In these difficult times, it has proven a great tool for women to navigate the current environment, providing its members with free high-quality trainings, networking and advertising opportunities: as a result, it has gained great visibility after the New York Times released an article about the opportunities offered by the network recently. www.85broads.com

85 Broads as part of its international expansion, especially in emerging markets, opened a branch in South Africa in 2009. Colleen Larsen, CEO of WIF heads this organisation in southern Africa.

Committee of 200 (C200)
The Committee of 200 (C200) is an invitation only membership organization of the world’s most successful women business leaders. The age range of its membership, which is life‐long, is from 35 to 90. C200’s more than 400 members represent over 100 industries in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America.

The C200 membership is an extraordinary group of women whose vision and influence make them opinion leaders and role models across industry, culture, business discipline and geographic boundaries.

C200 members generate more than $200 billion in annual revenues

56% of C200 members who are active in business are entrepreneurs; 44% are corporate executives.

C200 members collectively employ more that 2.5 million people.

50% of active C200 members run businesses with revenues in excess of $100 million.

22% of active members represent businesses with revenues in excess of $500 million.

1st woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange

1st woman to achieve partner status in a venture capital firm

1st female network television president

1st woman to achieve the rank of Executive Vice President at Kraft Foods

Founder of the 1st skin care line for African American women

CEO of the 1st national magazine to launch a presence on the Internet

1st woman to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate

1st woman to lead DuPont

1st woman to chair the America Red Cross

Founders of some of the world’s best known products including The Pampered Chef, Carolee, Claire’s Boutique, Kay Unger, Natori, Build‐A‐Bear and more

C200 members sit on the boards of prestigious companies including The Coca‐Cola Company, Xerox Corporation, General Electric, Avon Products, Merck & Co, Nordstrom, Harry Winston, Intuit, Visa, Pfizer and Yahoo!

In 1987, The Committee of 200 started a Foundation to support women’s business leadership. Today their members contribute their time, talent and treasure to inspire thousands of young women each year to pursue a business leadership career path.

MOWEA
The ILO has appointed WIF as the custodians of the website www.mowea.net, funded by the ILO to capture all the events hosted in the countries in Africa celebrating their individual women’s month.

New Faces New Voices (NFNV)
The New Faces New Voices Network (NFVN) is an association of African women leaders in business and finance across the continent. Under the leadership of Mrs. Graça Machel, the Network is committed to vigorously engaging relevant institutions to bring women in Africa to centre stage to contribute to the decisions that shape the African continent and a new global financial system. A conference was held in Kenya 19-20 March 2010 sponsored by African Development Bank, Standard Bank and ABSA “Investing in Women Differently”.

South African – German Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Spice 4 Life
www.spice4life.co.za

The United Businesswomen of South Africa
The United Businesswomen of South Africa is an association that has been formed to provide a collaborative support structure to organisations (whether for profit or not) involved in women empowerment and to leverage the untapped potential of women. The inaugural meeting took place in November 2005.