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Kiva - Loans that change lives.
Business and Professional Women's Club Saskatoon Inc also supports entrepreneurial women in developing countries though www.kiva.org. The microloans provided assist the entrepreneurs in developing their business and their economic independence.
Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world.
Read the latest Kiva newsletter: April 2010
Workplace Harassment and Bullying Experience Panel Presentation
On April 22, 2008, BPW Saskatoon Club Inc. hosted an evening of information, panel presentations, and roundtable discussion on workplace harassment and bullying experience. Due to the success and high degree of interest in this past event, the written materials from it have been made available below:
Psychological Harassment and Bullying in the Workplace - This document presents an informative overview of workplace bullying, and how it plays out in the workplace, complete with costs to employers. These are the speaker's notes.
Links on bullying - These are links for access to further information on workplace bullying, some of which provided source material for the overview document above.
Workplace Harassment and Bullying Experience Workshop Notes - As part of the process, we ended our evening with some brainstorming in small groups around the areas of action, prevention and advocacy.
Workplace Harassment and Violence Report - This is an extensive report written out of Ontario. It's goal was to identify the range of workplace harassment, to examine the effects of these experiences, to make recommendations for reducing the risk of harassment, and to outline the support and legal remedies available to women if they are harassed.
6th International Conference on Workplace Bullying – Sharing our Knowledge – The 2008 conference in Montreal seeks to provide a leading edge overview of our current knowledge of bullying in the workplace. Registration information is at www.bullying2008.uqam.ca. The conference will be simultaneously translated, English to French and French to English.
Intensive Remedial Identity Work: Responses to Workplace Bullying Trauma and Stigmatization – This study, by Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik, investigates the phenomenon of intensive remedial identity work by exploring responses to the trauma and stigma of adult bullying at work.
Bullied Workers Fighting Back – This is Bronwyn Eyre’s article, originally appearing in the Wednesday, April 30, 2008 edition of the Saskatoon StarPhoenix.
The Anatomy of an Academic Mobbing – This is an on-line video of a lecture delivered this past spring at University of Waterloo. It describes a university mobbing, the current state of research on workplace mobbing, and presents examples of how this can be addressed. The video is in 5 sections so it can easily be listened to as have time.
International Projects
Business and Professional Women's Club Saskatoon Inc. supports the work of Nashi.ca. Nashi is a Saskatoon group working to prevent children in the Ukraine from being sex trade victims. They are doing this through education, creation of trade schools, and by establishing a safe house for those threatened by sex trade recruiters. To learn more about their work, please see www.nashi.ca.
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