Advancing Women

(www.advancingwomen.com)

Advancing Women helps women break through the "glass ceiling," providing career strategy, tools, resources, products and services to support women's career, business and leadership goals, and work-life balance issues. The organization also has a featured job board for employers seeking highly qualified candidates for executive careers.

American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants

(www.aalnc.org)

The American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants promotes the professional advancement of registered nurses consulting within the legal arena by providing a forum for education and exchange of information.

American Business Women's Association

(www.richmondabwa.org)

The ABWA's mission is to bring together businesswomen of diverse occupations and to provide opportunities for them to help themselves and others grow personally and professionally through leadership, education, networking support and national recognition.

American Society of Women Accountants

(www.aswa.org)

ASWA was formed to increase the opportunities for women in all fields of accounting and finance. Members include partners in national, regional, and local CPA firms, financial officers, controllers, academicians, financial analysts and data processing consultants, recent college graduates and women returning to the workforce. The mission of the organization is to enable women in all accounting and related fields to achieve their full personal, professional and economic potential and to contribute to the future development of their profession.

Commercial Real Estate Women

(www.crewrichmond.org)

CREW-Richmond is an organization of experienced commercial and real estate professionals from diverse fields established to enhance and promote members' achievement of their full personal, professional, and leadership potential as a result of the opportunities for interaction and communication provided on both local and national levels.

Society of Women Engineers

(www.swe.org)

The SWE is a not-for-profit educational and service organization. It is the driving force that establishes engineering as a highly desirable career goal for women. The organization empowers women to succeed and advance in their goals and be recognized for their contributions and achievements as engineers.

VCU - The Institute for Women's Health

(www.womenshealth.vcu.edu)

The mission of the Institute for Women's Health is to improve the health of women through education, research, clinical care, outreach and leadership development. Likewise, it is to bring these diverse activities under a single umbrella, create synergy within VCU, and to foster coordinated alliances with the greater community. The Center for Excellence in Women's Health provides for the special needs of women integrating leadership positions for women in academic medicine.

9000 Stony Point Parkway

Richmond, VA

(804) 827-1200

Women Entrepreneurs, Inc.

(www.we-inc.org)

Welnc.com helps women entrepreneurs to succeed through networking, educational programs and advocacy.

Women of Value in Every Nation (WOVEN)

(www.wovenonline.org)

Through in-country liaisons, WOVEN-Richmond provides a primary service of education. When other services are needed, WOVEN partners with other world-class relief organizations to offer these services as well. WOVEN attempts to meet educational needs in all areas of the lives of women and their children.

P.O. Box 29253

Richmond, VA

(804) 747-7567