International Women's Day-in-a-Box : Raising Awareness, Igniting Change

• Where is your organization looking for IT leadership and innovation?
  
• Are women playing a key role in shaping your company's future?
  
• Is your company making the most of diversity?
  
• Are you building on and benefiting from diverse perspectives?

Companies striving to answer these questions now have an all-in-one resource at their disposal: International Women's Day-in-a-Box: Raising Awareness, Igniting Change. International Women's Day-in-a-Box is designed to help IT companies and departments celebrate successes and address barriers to women's full participation in IT, and capitalize on women's innovative thinking and leadership potential. If your organization is eager to promote diversity in order to become globally competitive, then International Women's Day-in-a-Box is for you. Use this resource to plan company activities and events, and to establish a culture and expectation for broader diversity of thought in IT.

Does your institution already promote women in IT on International Women's Day? Use International Women's Day-in-a-Box to complement your current efforts and give you tools to make them even more effective.

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Join the Celebration
Join NCWIT and a network of companies that are using International Women's Day (March 8) as on opportunity for publicizing, promoting, and improving women's participation in IT. Observe International Women's Day this year and use International Women's Day-in-a-Box to acknowledge the financial and workplace benefits from supporting diversity in IT, honor and reward the accomplishments that women have made to IT, publicize promising practices that have improved conditions for women in IT, and identify and change aspects of the corporate environment. Visit our International Women's Day webpage.

What's in the Box?
International Women's Day-in-a-Box includes:

Background and FAQ: International Women's Day and IT
Women in IT Fact Sheet
Background and advice you need to celebrate progress and address issues in association with International Women's Day.

Practical Guide
A guide that describes logistical tips for planning events and avoiding potential pitfalls. Use this guide to ensure that events go smoothly and have their intended consequences.

Activities Guide
A menu of activities and event ideas, as well as advice for planning, promoting, and executing your activities.

Templates
A selection of sample press releases, awards-planning guides, and other tools to help you prepare for and promote International Women's Day events and activities.

Join NCWIT in Marketing IWD
Information on how to connect your activities to NCWIT's global celebration, and how to market your activities within your company.

Resources Index
A composite list of important resources referenced throughout this box.

Assess Your Efforts
NCWIT is interested in your feedback. After examining or using International Women's Day-in-a-Box, please respond to a survey about its quality and usefulness. You will find the link to the survey on the IWD website.

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