Thanks to the following partners who have provided funding to support Joining Forces Mentoring Plus™


Women Joining Forces

Joining Forces Mentoring Plus™ provides resources, including mentors, subject matter experts (SMEs), and online connections to women veterans and military and veteran spouses to assist them in obtaining meaningful employment and a successful career of interest to them. This mentoring model is based on career and workforce development goals.


Two Joining Forces Mentoring Plus™ mentees, Dawn Smith and Carolyn Allen, along with mentor Sandra Smith were featured on the NBC Nightly News discussing the importance of the Business and Professional Women’s Foundation’s mentoring program in helping women veterans transition to successful civilian careers. Join us NOW in supporting our women veterans.

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Women Joining Forces

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Joining Forces Mentoring Plus™ gives working women – both veterans and civilians – the opportunity to tap their own experiences in the workplace, to help women veterans and military spouses successfully enter the workforce and advance in in their careers. It provides women veterans and military and veteran spouses the tools and support necessary to assist them obtain meaningful employment in a career of interest to them.

Everybody Wins

Research shows that mentoring benefits all participants - mentors, mentees and subject matter experts. Mentoring relationships provide not only personal rewards; shared experiences; and growth, education and insights, but a feeling of pride when you help someone achieve her goals after she has served on our behalf.

Show Your Support

With your support, Business and Professional Women’s (BPW) Foundation’s Joining Forces Mentoring Plus™, provides the tools, outreach, and capacity to engage women mentors and assist women veterans and military and veteran spouses find meaningful jobs and advance in their current careers.

Make a difference in the life of a woman veteran or military spouse by donating now and partnering with us. Your contribution directly supports these women.


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Why BPW Foundation? BPW was the first foundation to focus on working women – including, women in non-traditional occupations. In 2005 BPW Foundation recognized the surge of women veterans returning home from two wars and. wanted to know how workplaces were receiving these new and uniquely skilled workers and what resources were available to help them move from the military to the civilian workforce. The Women Joining Forces Closing Ranks Opening Doors Advisory Council and Mentoring Advisory Council (MAC) were created to provide the expertise and experience needed to support military-connected women in finding quality employment.

We welcome company and organizational support of this important effort. Please join us as we work to serve and support women veterans and military wives in their reintegration and ongoing employment and career success. Thank you in advance for your consideration of joining us in this vital effort!

Through your generosity, help a woman veteran or military spouse benefit from a mentoring relationship to help her with her job search, starting a business and on her path to a successful career. Monthly giving allows us to have a dependable base of support for ongoing mentoring relationships that directly impact the lives of women veterans and military spouses.

All donations are appreciated and will be used to support Joining Forces Mentoring Plus™. Click below to donate with PayPal or Donate by mail: BPW Foundation, P.O. Box 759189 Baltimore, MD 21275-7189.




The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) convenes leaders to turn ideas into action. CGI Commitments to Action represent bold new ways that CGI members address global challenges—implemented through new methods of partnership and designed to maximize impact. Commitments can be small or large, global or local. No matter the size or scope, commitments help CGI members translate practical goals into meaningful and measurable results. Learn more about BPW Foundation's Commitment to women veterans and military spouses.

Thanks to the following partners who have provided funding to support Joining Forces Mentoring Plus™

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