Become a corporate sponsor
The United States is experiencing a severe workforce shortage crisis. Today there are not enough skilled technical workers to meet the demands of our changing economy. The shortage of skilled workers is particularly problematic when you examine the low numbers of skilled women in certain science and math fields.
Women make up 50% of the population, but they are not well represented in jobs requiring high level math and science skills. By supporting the Expanding Your Horizons Network, your company helps ensure a diverse, and technically competent workforce. You can help increase the number of women in underrepresented science and math careers and help ensure that our workforce is ready to meet 21 century challenges.
A commitment to EYH will lead to a big future payoff for your corporation. Your company can be a leader and help support our on-going efforts. With your generous financial support we can:
- Expand our program from a one-day event to a multi-session program. We are already trying this in targeted cities and the response by the students has been overwhelming. The young women are interested in and want to attend more female focused events. Won't you help us, help them?
- Hold more conferences in more places. Currently some sites have many conferences, while others have none. You can help us change this.
There is no minimum contribution to the Network to become a corporate sponsor. However, we are actively recruiting sponsors who wish to give donations of $5,000 and above.
We also accept in-kind equipment donations. We are also looking to increase our corporate volunteer pool. We need volunteers to lead and develop hands-on activities for our conferences and volunteer at our events.
Act now!
Please contact Stacey Roberts-Ohr Executive Director, or contact the EYH Network office at (510) 430-2222 for more information.
About our current sponsors:
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Seagate Partnership Program
Seagate delivers advanced digital storage solutions to meet the needs of today's consumers and tomorrow's applications. The EYH Network is involved in a special partnership with this amazing corporation. Our partnership with Seagate is now in its third year and started when Bill Watkins, Seagate's CEO, challenged his senior management team to cultivate their leadership and vision by building a meaningful, ongoing partnership with a non-profit organization addressing an important community issue. After intensive interviewing, the Network was one of 4 agencies selected. Further supporting the commitment made by each executive to each organization, Seagate made a financial contribution ranging from $25,000 - $300,000 to each organization.
The Network was assigned Dave Wickersham, Seagate President and Chief Operating Officer. Wickersham states, since its inception in 1976.gWomen continue to be underrepresented in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math, and getting young girls involved in the sciences earlier enables them to gain the confidence and enthusiasm to explore future career opportunities. Expanding Your Horizons conferences provide an excellent entry into the world of science and allow young women the opportunity to engage in these fascinating fields.h
Seagate 2007 Partnership Highlights
- Increased support of EYH conferences in California and
Colorado through sponsorship funds and employee volunteers.
- Continued support of an EYH extension program in California\an Ambassador Program which places female mentors in the classroom.
- Planned new international conferences in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and China
- Planned new EYH conferences in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- Employee volunteers assisted with EYH technology infrastructure and registration database, helping the organization better capture key data about EYH participants.
- Will host a team of EYH girls for a fieldtrip to their Milpitas facility in May of 2008
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Google Partnership Program
Google is another large supporter of the Expanding Your Horizons Network and is also passionate about trying to encourage more young women to pursue science , technology, engineering and mathematics careers.
Google's 2007 Partnership Highlights
- Hosted 225 guests at their corporate headquarters for a fundraising dinner to raise money for our program and services.
- Provided EYH with a monetary grant to bring EYH conferences to international locations throughout Europe.
- Complete redesign of the EYH web site involving a team of 10 Google employees.
- Will host a team of EYH girls for a fieldtrip in May of 2008
Current and past sponsors include:
Adaptec
ALZA
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
American Institute of Mathematics
Amgen Foundation
Applied Materials
American President Companies Foundation
Association of Computing Machinery's Committee on Women in Computing (ACM-W)
AT&T
BankAmerica Foundation
Bayer Pharmaceuticals
Boeing
Carnegie Corporation
The Charles Schwab Corporation Foundation
Chevron
Clorox
The Coleman Foundations
Compaq
Digital Equipment Corporation
Dow Chemical
Exxon
Ford Foundation
Garnett Foundation
Genentech
Google Inc.
Hewlett Packard Company
Hexcel Foundation
HOME Campaign-Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
IBM
Intel
The J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation
Lam Research
Lockheed Martin
LSI Logic
Lucent Technologies Foundation
Maria Mitchell Association
Mobil
Motorola Foundation
NASA - Ames Research Center
National Science Foundation
NEC Foundation of America
Office Depot
Pacific Gas and Electric
The Peninsula Community Foundation
PE Biosystems
Puget Sound Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology
The San Francisco Foundation
San Francisco Math Teachers Association
Solectron
Seagate Technology
Silicon Graphics
Space Systems/Loral
Toyota Motor Sales
Tyco Electronics
Underwriter Laboratories
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Women's Bureau - U.S. Department of Labor
Women's Education Equity Act Program
Xerox
Zellerbach Family Fund
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