Bozeman BPW

Bozeman Business and Professional Women's Organization does not endorse any organization listed except for BPW Foundation, Montana State BPW and Montana BPW Foundation. This is a list of potentially useful resources only.

BPW Foundation - www.bpwfoundation.org
Business and Professional Women’s (BPW) Foundation is creating successful workplaces by focusing on issues that impact women, families and employers. Successful Workplaces are those that embrace and practice diversity, equity and work life balance. Through its groundbreaking research and unique role as a neutral convener of employers and employees, BPW Foundation strives to redefine today’s workplace. The BPW Foundation was formed in 1956 and since July 2009 is a combination of the Business & Professional Women’s Organization (BPW/USA), which formed in 1919 ( for more information go to http://www.bpwfoundation.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3678), and the Foundation. In September, Montana BPW members voted to affiliate with the BPW Foundation and $40 of your dues go to the BPW Foundation to support its national work on women’s issues. For more information on the BPW Foundation go to http://www.bpwfoundation.org/files/public/BPWFoundationFactSheet.pdf

Montana State BPW - www.montanabpw.org
Judy Peasley, President
P. O. Box 504
Seeley Lake, MT 59868
406-240-4626
jpeasley@peasleylawofficepc.com
Montana Business & Professional Women (Montana BPW) is an affiliation of 5 local BPW organization groups in the state: Bozeman BPW, Flathead BPW, Great Falls Jeannette Rankin BPW, Livingston BPW and Missoula BPW. The leadership team assists the local organizations in their missions and is a liaison with the BPW Foundation on our behalf. It was formed in 1921 and $15 of your dues goes to support the Montana BPW.

Montana BPW Foundation - www.montanabpw.org
Penny Huntsberger
P. O. Box 303
Great Falls, MT 59403
406-587-8321
penny.huntsberger@rainhail.com
The Montana Business and Professional Women’s Foundation, Inc., founded in 1995, was formed to create a source of financial and individual support to Montana women to assist them in developing their potential. This is a separate non-profit corporation and its’ board of directors are BPW members from around the State. The Foundation established a $30,000 endowment base before any funds were distributed. The funds came from individual BPW members, local BPW organizations, fundraisers and other contributions. Bozeman BPW contributes $2 per member of your dues toward the Montana BPW Foundation. Their current program awards financial assistance to Montana women for education and personal advancement toward self-sufficiency, professional development, personal fulfillment, leadership, and acquisition of skills. Financial assistance and professional resources are available for education, work training, business development, personal projects, and programs which educate and empower participants. Funds may be used for the support of educational and professional pursuits, and for the support of those pursuits, for such things as books for school, child care expenses during school, registration fees, or buying equipment for small business development. For more information and the application form requesting funding go to http://www.montanabpw.org/files/index.php?id=15.

Gladys Hardin and Joan Hurdle, Co-Presidents
1923 East Broadway
Missoula, MT 59802
406-549-4120
lwvmt@bresnan.net

Montana Women's Lobby - www.bozemanbpw.org/mtwlobby.html
Barbara Brown and Stacey Scott, Co-Chairs
P.O. Box 11558
Bozeman, MT 59719-1558
The Montana Women’s Lobby (MWL) is a partnership of American Association of University Women (AAUW) and Montana Business & Professional Women (BPW). This non-profit corporation is organized to “develop, promote, aid, and maintain legislation of interest to women, specifically in the areas of: (a) economics, (b) health and reproductive rights, (c) education, and (d) violence and legal rights.” The board of directors is made of up members from each of the two organizations. The organization formed back in the 1980’s and has had a presence in every Montana Legislative Session since then, advocating for important women’s issues in Montana and protecting those rights that we have earned. Our most well-known issue that we won and have protected over the years is Non Gender Insurance. We have a Legislative Day in Helena each February where members of BPW and AAUW go to Helena, learn more about the current issues and lobby our Legislators. Bozeman BPW’s budget pays $100 in dues to the organization each year to pay for our Lobbyist. In the past few years we lobbied Minimum Wage, Jessica’s Law, and Indian Education Act for All. For more information, go to http://www.bozemanbpw.org/mtwlobby.html.

Judy Smith and Alysha Goheen-Jannotta Co-Chairs
2525 Palmer Street, Suite 1
Missoula, MT 59808
406-543-3550
E-mail: info@montanawomenvote.org

Margie Kidder and Traci Isaly, Co-Chairs
P. O. Box 2196
Livingston, MT 59047
info@montanawomenfor.org

Jodi Medlar, Program Director
P. O. Box 1145
Helena, MT 59624
406-443-8313
jodimedlar@mtcf.org

Darla Joyner, Director
P. O. Box 145, 91 West Southview
Belgrade, MT 59714-0145
Phone:406-388-6701
E-mail: ct@careertransitions.com

HAVEN, formerly The Network Against Sexual & Domestic Abuse -
www.thenetworkmt.org

Bozeman BPW is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization devoted to achieving equity for all women in the workplace through advocacy, education and information.

Bozeman BPW
P.O. Box 644
Bozeman, MT 59771

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