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Metro Women Connect
Engaging companies to collaborate on advancing women’s leadership and development in the Des Moines metro area.
Mission Statement
Metro Women Connect is a community of organizational leaders dedicated to improving women’s leadership competencies by engaging. women in the Des Moines metro area through sharing best practices, connecting people and providing professional development opportunities.
MWC Member Company Expectations
- Member companies will appoint a primary and alternate member to participate in MWC meetings.
- Meetings are held monthly.
- Member companies are expected to be represented by at least one of their members who will attend 80% of the monthly meetings.
- The primary member will vote on behalf of the member company when votes are required. The alternate member has proxy if the primary member is not in attendance at the MWC meeting.
- If a company is not represented at a MWC meeting, as long as a simple majority is present, the group may vote without the absent company’s representation. All votes are documented in meeting minutes.
- Member companies will contribute $3,000 annually which provides 10 seats at no additional cost to cover paid admission to three (3) professional development events offered by MWC throughout the calendar year.
- Member non-profit organizations will contribute $1,500 annually which provides 5 seats at no additional cost to cover paid admission to three (3) professional development events offered by MWC throughout the calendar year.
- MWC will provide its members one (1) no-cost event annually for member-company employees only.
- MWC members (primary and alternates) will be actively engaged in meetings, special projects and/or one or more of the subcommittees that plan and execute MWC events.
- Members are encouraged to consider how to leverage member company’s resources (i.e. speakers, meeting space, IT, printing, marketing) to the benefit of MWC.
Members
American Enterprise Group
American Equity
ARAG Legal Insurance
ARTISAN
Athene USA
Bank of America
Bank Iowa
Bankers Trust
BH Management
BrownWinick Law Firm
Community State Bank
DART
Deloitte
Delta Dental of Iowa
Dentons Davis Brown
Corteva/DuPont Pioneer
EMC Insurance
Employee & Family Resources
Ernst & Young LLP
Estes Construction
F&G Life
Fareway Stores, Inc.
Farm Bureau Financial Services
Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines
Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa
Grinnell Mutual
GuideOne Insurance
Hy-Vee, Inc.
IMT Insurance
Iowa State University College of Business
John Deere Financial
Lincoln Savings Bank
MidAmerican Energy
Nationwide
NCMIC
NMW Consulting Group
Northwestern Mutual
Pigott
Principal Financial
Renewable Energy Group, Inc.
Sammons Financial Group
United Way of Central Iowa
Wells Fargo
West Des Moines Chamber
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