Program areas at Foundation for Filipina Womens Network
The Filipina leadership global summit is an educational event to raise awareness of the economic barriers Filipina women face in the workplace, how to overcome hurdles, learn best career practices for advancement, learn latest legislation and strategies that impact career and business opportunities, provide resources to assist domestic violence and trafficking survivors.
Femtormatch is ffwn's strategy for developing next generation of Filipina leaders through local and global partnerships between female mentors, femtors, and female mentees, femtees. Femtormatch provides structured one-on-one mentoring that harnesses the power of the internet to broaden and deepen the reach of traditional mentoring. Thus, both femtors and femtees can reside anywhere in the world. Based on established leadership competencies, femtormatch can provide femtees the skill sets and networks they need to succeed as professionals, managers and leaders anywhere in the world. Competencies are defined as knowledge, skills, abilities, behaviors, accomplishments, traits, characteristics and success factors.
Publication of books, magazines and website updates to promote Filipina women'Womens's capacities to lead, manage and achieve gender parity in all economic sectors. Distributed to schools, libraries, corporate diversity programs, meetings and conventions. This program helps companies achieve greater gender and racial equality and build more productive workplaces by utilizing Filipina women talent. In the last 10 years, ffwn has published 4 leadership books: 1 disrupt. Filipina women: proud. Loud. Leading without a doubt. 2014. 35 authors from 9 countries. 582 pages on identity, consanguinity, affinity, migration, gender, and leadership on public policy, advocacy, diplomacy, entrepreneurship 2 disrupt 2.0. Filipina women: daring to lead 2016. 35 authors from 5 countries. 497 pages. Key themes on life and workplace disruptions, leadership competencies developed for oneself, for leading others, for leading organizations and legacy building for next generation leaders 3 disrupt 3.0. Filipina women rising. 2018. 38 authors from 9 countries. 624 pages. Leadership stories about leaning in, daring greatly, channeling grit, fueling fire, disrupting tradition and rising boldly ahead whilst embracing Filipina women?Womens?s relational virtues with family, heeding the call for service, and leading lives of commitment. Disrupt 4.0 Filipina women: being. 2022. 37 authors from 9 countries. 650n pages. The leadership stories center around three themes: 1) liberation - learning the right to live life as they've always wanted but couldn't because of the debilitating pressures of culture and outside forces; 2) transformation - discovering the internal shifts that aligned with author's highest potential; 3) change - experiencing new and exciting things that impacted how she related to the workplace and finding her place in it. With the rise of anti-asian hate, this book's authors provide a deep understanding of their struggles in bridging filipino and global cultures in the workplace.