Women Helping Women Lead, Grow, and Succeed

Female business leaders of today are helping the female leaders of tomorrow. Research from Catalyst, McKinsey, Gallup, and Credit Suisse demonstrates gender equity isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s the profitable thing to do. Simply put, companies embracing gender equity outperform the competition. For eight years, Women Accelerators have promoted and helped increased gender equity in the workplace. Now, with the business community at large coming to understand the importance of gender equity it’s time for everyone to help this important cause.

We help promote the advancement of women!

By partnering with Greater Lowell Community Foundation, as our fiscal sponsor, Women Accelerators is a 501(c)(3) organization. Years ago, we recognized glaring gender biases such as wage gender disparity, representation inequity, and under-representation of senior-level women in the boardroom. We set out to build a platform capable of reaching and shattering the glass ceiling holding us back.

Women Accelerators provides an active network and community where women can access resources tailored to their career goals. Through our educational programs, networking events, and mentoring efforts, we help women navigate work opportunities and nurture female leadership. Together, we’re building a community of goal-driven, high-achieving women who help each other thrive and succeed in the workplace.

We’re active.

• Every month with the exception of June-August, we offer educational and career-oriented events featuring discussions and Q&A sessions from nationally-recognized women leaders.
• Our mentoring program offers a five-month experience matching selected mentees to experienced mentors volunteering their time to help tomorrow’s women leaders. Mentees receive career guidance, salary negotiation suggestions, tips regarding communications with peers and supervisors, and advice on how to balance their work and personal lives.
• In 2020, we received a grant from Women Working Wonders to launch a pilot six-month Leadership Coaching program which attracted over our goal of 50 participants.

With the amazing support of ambitious women in our community, as attendees, speakers, or volunteers, we have been fortunate to have gained great momentum over the years.

Over the past ten years, Women Accelerators has supported over 500 women across more than 50 organizations. Currently, we receive most of our funding through a modest fee charged to participants for events and mentoring programs. Since COVID, we have not been able to charge for our events. We would like to expand our programming to include scholarship funds for career enhancement programs and networking events. With our current funding model, we are far from achieving this goal. Our initial goal is to raise $5,000 to start a scholarship for the Leadership Coaching Program in 2022.

Support Women Accelerators

Here are some ways you can help:

1. Individual donation: consider making a personal donation and asking your employer to match.
2. Introduce WA to a potential sponsor organization: identify or introduce us to someone in your current company/organization, or any organization that is focused on helping women advance their careers.

Your generous donation will help our mission to Engage, Empower and Elevate the remarkable and talented women in our community by donating to our cause!

Our sponsorship programs: Engage, Empower and Elevate!

Be our supporter and Contact us today or send us an email at [email protected]. Thank you!