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Group: Breakthrough: Government Contracting

Region: National
Welcome to the Government Contracting Group within the Public Policy Network.  We encourage you to get active as we work together to advance government contracting opportunities for women-owned firms.
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Breakthrough: Fair Access to Federal Contracts for Women-Owned Small Businesses
Join the campaign to end the discrimination in federal contracting with women-owned firms. 

Year after year the federal government takes our tax dollars and spends our hard earned revenues without regard for the legal and moral obligation to award women-owned firms our fair share of federal contracts. Between FY 1995 - FY 2010, the total lost to women-owned firms due to the failure of the federal government to meet the 5% contracting goal is $89,926,788,994.

We're drawing the line in the sand today.  It's time to end the discrimination against women in federal contracting.  
  • Learn more here about this history making campaign.  And, get started outreaching to President Obama, Congress and the Small Business Administration.
  • Join the U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce - and be an active champion (complimentary registrations are available).  If you are already a member, just log-in (see log-in at the very top of this page) and proceed to the next step.
  • After you join (and log-in), click on "Join this Group" (above).  By joining this group, you become and active supporter of the campaign that will finally bring and end to more than 15 years of discrimination against women in business.  We'll post updates here and you can connect with other supporters.
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Girl Scout Research Institute Publishes: Having It All: Girls and Financial Literacy 6/16/2013

While lack of financial literacy is a growing concern for everyone today, relatively little research has been done on how young people think about and experience money and finances, with even fewer studies focusing on girls specifically. To address this gap, the Girl Scout R...
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What if Women Harnessed Their Purchasing Power? 6/16/2013

Lisa Wirthman, journalist for Dame Magazine, interviewed U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce CEO Margot Dorfman regarding the The Women Led Economy™ and the ability to harness women’s purchasing power to create a female f...
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U.S. Department of Education OSDBU Hosting HUB Zone Conference 5/30/2013

The U.S. Department of Education (Education) Office for Small and Disadvantage Business Utilization (OSDBU) is hosting a HUB Zone Conference. The HUB Zone Conference will provide training to contracting officer representatives (CORs), contracting officers, contract specialist on the admi...
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Politico Reports - Sequester is hitting small businesses the hardest 5/13/2013

It should come as no surprise that the sequester is hitting small businesses.

Politico reports --

“The small businesses are going to be the ones that feel the most immediate affects as these government budget cuts come down, because contrary to popular...
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Modern Parenthood: Roles of Moms and Dads Converge as They Balance Work and Family 5/13/2013

Pew Research has published a very interesting report on the changing rolls of mothers and fathers in family, work and income dynamics.

The changing/progressive role of women in our economy has brought about slow but sure change of women in the workplace and our views of what we want for our work lives.  These trends combined with the recent economic downturn and increased uncer...
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Retirement Planning and the Workplace 5/13/2013

We expect there to be a number of suggestions from Congress regarding workplace savings programs and general retirement planning.

There are several challenges putting pressure on retirement planning including lower incomes, less two-earner families, investment return shortfalls and the federal government's need to bring in more revenue (which can cause legislators to find ways to re...
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Defense Logistics Agency TKO Training - May 14-16, 2013 4/23/2013

Businesses are cordially invited to attend the DLA Land and Maritime Training, Knowledge and Opportunities (TKO) Seminar  and Workshop, May 14-16, in Columbus, Ohio. The first two days are introductory sessions on how to do business with the DLA. The third day is optional and will be an in-depth workshop ...
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DFARS Clause Problem Costs Contractor $288K 4/17/2013

A contractor’s failure to follow the requirements of  Learn More

Mentor-Protege Program Fraud: Contractor Agrees to $1.15 Million Settlement 4/17/2013

An Alabama-based construction company has agreed to pay more than a million dollars to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by fraudulently representing that it was mentoring a minority-owned ...
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DC Office on Aging Job Openings 4/13/2013

The DC Department of Human Resources has posted several positions within the DC Office on Aging. The positions that have posted are the Age-Friendly City Program Coordinator, ADRC Program Coordinator and five (5) Transition Care Specialist positions. If you know ...
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