{"id":667,"date":"2008-03-07T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=667"},"modified":"2008-03-07T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T16:30:00","slug":"10000-women-a-goldman-sachs-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/03\/07\/10000-women-a-goldman-sachs-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"10,000 Women: A Goldman Sachs Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R9NljbMqJ4I\/AAAAAAAABG4\/L8kEdtaQwHo\/s1600-h\/images-1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R9NljbMqJ4I\/AAAAAAAABG4\/L8kEdtaQwHo\/s200\/images-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Incredibly exciting news this week from Goldman Sachs, via <a href=\"http:\/\/pursepundit.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/10000-women-goldman-sachs-initiative.html\">Purse Pundit<\/a>, who was summoned to a press conference last week and told only that the announcement would make her proud.  She writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, took center stage to tell us why we had been summoned. Goldman Sachs was announcing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.10000women.org\/\">a brand new initiative<\/a> that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153will provide 10,000 under-served women, predominantly in developing and emerging markets, with a business and management education.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Why? Because he, they, Goldman Sachs, the firm that gave me my start in the business, the firm I worked with for fourteen years and gave me the honor of being a partner, had come to believe that the way to change the world for the better was to economically empower women. Here they were making a considerable and creative commitment to do just that. Damn right that was &#8220;right up by alley.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I was floored.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also check out Purse Pundit&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/pursepundit.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/goldman-meet-chris-grumm.html\">call to Goldman<\/a> to hook up with key experts within the women&#8217;s movement to help provide direction.  And a joint post she and I wrote for HuffPo about it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/deborah-siegel-and-jacki-zehner\/goldman-leads-with-1000_b_90448.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incredibly exciting news this week from Goldman Sachs, via Purse Pundit, who was summoned to a press conference last week and told only that the announcement would make her proud. She writes: Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, took center stage to tell us why we had been summoned. Goldman Sachs was announcing a brand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21924],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-womens-economic-empowerment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}