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/ 12.04.20 /
EvolveMe features W4W founder in How She Did It
Each month at EvolveMe we feature inspirational women who’ve made it to the other side of career change. Learn how they did it and take away usable tips from their career journeys! This month, we’re proud to feature Beth Bengtson, Founder and CEO of Working for Women.
Working for Women helps for-profit businesses invest resources in social initiatives that benefit women, while the businesses stay focused on their core enterprise and bottom line. Each company’s financial resources and business acumen—their greatest assets—are matched with women-oriented nonprofits and the right initiatives to accelerate social change and yield the greatest impact to elevate more women to economic independence.
What inspired you to launch your current career/launch Working for Women?
A series of experiences conspired to bring me where I am today. But there has been some consistent themes throughout my journey – believing that business can be a force for social good and helping women achieve their full potential.
My time serving as VP of corporate social responsibility for a marketing agency, led me to build in the commitment to give back 1% of revenue to women’s causes when I created my own business. At the same time, I started mentoring underserved women through community volunteering. In one experience, I met a group of women in the sex trade who were working to achieve to economic independence for their families. I was stuck by their incredible business skills and thought what if they had access to other opportunities to use those skills.
These experiences added up to my taking a leap of faith and launching Working for Women to help elevate underserved women achieve economic independence by involving businesses as forces for social good.
