Chattanooga History
This chapter assisted with having EWI Chattanooga chartered.
What is EWI Nashville?
What does LCAM stand for?
What is LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE & ANNUAL MEETING?
Who is our founding member of Executive Women International?
What is Lucille Johnson Perkins?
EWI was founded in San Francisco in 1938 by Lucille Johnson Perkins.
This Scholarship Program helps provide financial support to adult students in a variety of transitional situations. EWI believes that the program will positively impact the personal life, employment, family, and community of the applicant.
What is the Adult Students in Scholastic Transition (ASIST) Scholarship Program?
How many member firms did EWI Chattanooga have at our chartering event?
What is 34 member firms?
What is LCAM?
EWI's Leadership Conference and Annual Meeting (LCAM) is an annual professional development conference where members from our Chapters gather to connect, network and grow professionally.
What was the original name of our organization when it was founded in 1938?
What is Executive Secretaries, Inc?
This an annual, competition-based program which awards college scholarship money each year to qualifying high school seniors. Judges select winning students based on their scholastic achievement, leadership qualities, good citizenship, and extra-curricular activities.
What is Executive Women International Scholarship Program - EWISP?
What was the date of the EWI chartering event?
What is May 13, 1987?
Delegates representing each Chapter meet to approve the budget, elect the slate of officers and conduct the business of the organization this event.
What is the annual meeting?
When was the name changed to Executive Women International?
What is May 1977?
During the 30th Annual Meeting of the corporation (May 1977), the organization’s name was changed to Executive Women International. This change reflects the international expansion of the organization and recognizes the changing roles of women in business and the diverse careers held by our representatives.
EWI is committed to the international promotion of literacy, which has been the focus of EWI's
philanthropy projects since 1992. EWI members dedicate their time and talents to a variety of
philanthropy projects to increase literacy awareness among both children and adults through these events.
What are Reading Rallies?
Where was the chartering event for EWI Chattanooga located?
What is the Silver Ballroom at the Read House?
This program is open to all members, offering exciting opportunities for growth.
What is Academy of Leadership (AOL)?
What are our three core tenets?
What is Connections, Community and Careers?
EWI of Chattanooga partners with its higher education member firms to identify potential ASIST candidates through endowments. Which local colleges have endowments formed by EWI Chattanooga?
What is University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga State Community College and Southern Adventist College?
Who was the member representative from the EWI Chapter that helped organize and create EWI Chattanooga?
What is Ann Chapman?
From 1984 until we chartered, Ann Chapman traveled to Chattanooga on a regular basis to conduct coffees, wine and cheese parties, and other informal meetings trying to get enough members to charter a chapter.
What are the benefits of attending LCAM?
Keynote speakers, workshops, seminars, group discussions, and more offer diverse learning opportunities. Social gatherings provide networking and establish new connections. Reading Rally events and other philanthropic activities reach the local community and help the Chapters learn how to implement programming in their communities. Our annual Celebration Gala allows recognition of our members and the many successes of our Chapters.
What are our values?
What is Integrity, Excellence, Collaboration and Respect?
EWI Chattanooga partners with this member firm each year to volunteer and support the school readiness goal of focusing on literacy and placing books in the homes of all children, having parents more engaged in the education of their own child by reading with their children at home, increasing the educational level of parents by helping with GED, high school or college and increasing the educational level of all teachers who work directly with the children.
What is Chattanooga Head Start?