#StartWithaSmile at smile.amazon.com/ch/47-3513297 and Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to Foundation for Filipina Women's Network whenever you shop on AmazonSmile all year long.
Level Up, Bay Area Pinays! AT&T Hiring Retail Sales Consultants
AT&T RETAIL continues to hire for part-time and full-time Retail Sales Consultants in the SF Bay Area. Bilingual English/Spanish, English/Mandarin, English/Cantonese, English/Russian, English/Korean, English/Vietnamese, and English/Hindi speakers are needed!
For more information and to be considered for this AWESOME career, please go to www.att.jobs/retail.
WooHoo! Cris Comerford (U.S. FWN100™ '12, Global FWN100™ '14) Installed to the National Women's History Museum (NWHM)
Born in the Philippines, Cris Comerford (U.S. FWN100™ '12, Global FWN100™ '14) attended the food-technology program at the University of the Philippines and began her career as a “salad girl” in Chicago hotels. In 2005 she beat over 450 applicants vying for the Executive White House Chef position during the Bush administration.
MORE Victories for Filipino-American Candidates: Election 2016 RoundUp
MORE Victories for FilAm Candidates! Here are the 2016 election results for Fil-Am candidates throughout the U.S.
Congratulations awardees Kymberly Marcos Pine (U.S. FWN100™ '07) who was re-elected to Honolulu City Council, District I, Juslyn Manalo (Global FWN100™ '15) who won City Council for Daly City, California and Rozzana Verder Aliga (U.S. FWN100™ '09) who got elected to City Council, Vallejo, California!
COUNTDOWN to November 29: #GivingTuesday: Give Back. Give Well. Give Filipina.
At FWN, we thrive because of our organizational purpose and meaning. We exist to amplify Filipina women's voices worldwide. Every program at FWN has purpose and meaning. Your support benefits the Filipina women of the diaspora.
Learn more about FWN programs and support FWN for #GivingTuesday, the Global Day of Giving (Nov. 29): www.filipinawomensnetwork.org/givingtuesday
Filipina Women in Tech: Gamechanger Tracey Young Disrupts Construction Industry with PlanGrid
"In 2011, Tracey Young's company PlanGrid was accepted into the prestigious start-up incubator Y Combinator, and with Young as CEO, it has since been used on 400,000 projects in 195 countries. Its benefits—logistical and economic—are so apparent that one project manager recently told Young that learning about it felt like being taught to use fire for the first time. Top venture firm Sequoia Capital sees the same magic; they've invested $30 million. "I joke that I used to work for one superintendent," Young says. "Now I work for hundreds of thousands." News story from Elle.com
December 7 in San Francisco: 75th Anniversary of Bombing of Pearl Harbor and the Philippines
Bataan Legacy Historical Society has organized the Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the Bombing of Pearl Harbor and the Philippines at the War Memorial Veterans Building in San Francisco with Keynote Speaker Phil Gioia, Vietnam War Veteran and Director of the WWII Memorial Foundation in Washington, D.C.