Welcome to the IWITTS frequently asked questions (FAQs) page. You'll find answers to our visitors' most frequently asked questions in the following areas:
How do I recruit women and girls to my technology program?
We are a small national organization, so we use online resources and our training programs to provide information about how to recruit women and girls to technology programs. For more information:
Visit our Web site at www.iwitts.com for free fact sheets.
You can find statistics regarding women in technology on our website, www.iwitts.com and via the US Department of Labor, Women's Bureau, http://www.dol.gov/wb/welcome.html.
If you are looking for women in technology for your seminar you could try our WomenTechWorld career link site, http://www.womentechworld.org/links.htm. We provide links to women in technology organizations where you can look for a speaker through online networking. Also see our WomenTech Talk Listserv to communicate with other women in technology careers.
If you are an employer with a job to post online, please visit our E-Jobs web page at http://www.womentechstore.com/empad028.html. You'll find the information you need to post your job, including rate sheets, job categories, order forms, and a list of E-job features. While you're there, take a look at our helpful recruitment tips for online job postings.
We are not a foundation and do not provide funding or scholarships to individuals for higher education. We suggest you investigate the following sources for funding.
The financial aid office of your local two-year community college.
The Foundation Center has some listings for individuals. Donna Milgram, the Executive Director, received funding for her graduate education by applying for a grant she found in their individual scholarship files. The Foundation Center is online at http:// www.foundationcenter.org.
We appreciate your interest in our workshops and wish we had the resources to provide financial assistance. However, we receive no grant funding for our workshops, and are not able to provide scholarships.
We are a nonprofit organization not a foundation, and our organization does not offer funding or grants. The Foundation Center is a great place to research grants, and has field offices in several cities. It is also available online at http://www.foundationcenter.org.
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Thank you for your interest in employment opportunities at IWITTS. Due to the small size of our organization, and the large number of applicants we receive for positions, we cannot always follow up with each applicant. We suggest you send a read receipt with your resume.
Our expertise is in assisting institutions, not individuals, in recruiting and retaining women in technology and law enforcement fields. We aren't a membership organization. We recommend you connect with a membership organization for assistance on the individual level. See our WomenTechWorld.org career links at http://www.womentechworld.org/links.htm for a list of these.
IWITTS works with employers and schools, not individuals, to prevent discrimination. You may want to try the 9 to 5 National Association of Working Women (http://www.9to5.org). They have an effective sexual harassment assistance center.
IWITTS mission is to provide training, e-strategies, publications and technical assistance nationally to the education system and employers to integrate women into technology and law enforcement careers in which they are underrepresented. Careers range from automotive technician to pilot, computer networking technician, telecommunications engineer, electrician and law enforcement officer, to name just a few.
To accomplish its mission, IWITTS uses the following strategies to assist its clients and partners:
Trainings and technical assistance for educators, law enforcement agencies and employers (both in person and online)
Multimedia resource publications for educators and employers
Web site development, online community building, online training and other technical solutions
We have several sources for information on recruiting women into policing, starting with our own website, http://www.iwitts.com. Information regarding best practice recruitment strategies, products, and upcoming events can be found here, along with an article by our Executive Director, Donna Milgram, in Police Chief Magazine.
Other resources for recruiting women into policing include:
To recruit and hire women candidates into policing, you can place an ad on our E-jobs website, http://www.womentechstore.com/empad028.html. We have a special law enforcement section and you can include a photo of women in your department. The site also has information how to post an ad, our rate sheet, and our E-job ad features.
We hope these resources help you with recruiting women into law enforcement.
Yes, IWITTS offers a wide range of publications for law enforcement officers in our WomenTech World e-Store. Our Law Enforcement Environmental Assessment Tools (LEEAT) provide, for the first-time, off-the-shelf tools that are police-specific and field-tested for recruitment and retention of women officers.
WomenTechWorld e-Store publications are not available for preview; however, the Table of Contents and sample pages from each of our publications are listed in the More Information section on the page describing the publication. You will also find anonymous evaluations of the video and publications from workshop participants, as well as attributed quotes describing the materials. We hope this will help with your decision making. If you have any specific questions about our publications, please feel free to email us and we will do our best to answer them.
All of National IWITTS's publication orders are fulfilled and shipped within five days of payment. Prepayment is required by credit card, check or purchase order. Most publications are shipped UPS ground, which takes up to five business days depending on your location. Thus, you can expect to receive your publications within two weeks, although many of our customers receive their publications in less time.
If you need your publications more quickly, let us know and we can arrange to expedite shipping at an additional cost by emailing us.
We do not have a printed catalog, but all of our products are described in detail on our online WomenTech World e-Store, http://www.womentechstore.com/.
Our product line includes:
Tools for educators to prepare women for technology careers
You'll find comprehensive descriptions, photos and customer evaluations for each product. And, you can order quickly through our secure ordering system. Come take a look!
Yes, IWITTS offers a wide range of publications for law enforcement officers in our WomenTech World e-Store. Our Law Enforcement Environmental Assessment Tools (LEEAT) provide, for the first-time, off-the-shelf tools that are police-specific and field-tested for recruitment and retention of women officers.
Our fulfillment company in San Diego, California, handles National IWITTS's publications fulfillment. Customers who include an email address on their order form will receive email notification with a tracking number when their order has been shipped. This will enable customers to go directly to the UPS Web site to check on their order's shipping status.
Or email us. All order inquiries will receive a response within 24 hours during the business week.
The body of your e-mail should contain the following information:
Invoice Number
Date of Order
Name of Your Company as it appears on the Invoice
Contact Name and Phone Number
If you do not have e-mail or you prefer to call, please contact IWITTS at 510-749-0200.
Most frequent shipment problem:
Ninety percent of our order status inquiries are the result of someone in our customers' shipping department signing for an order but not transferring the publications to the intended recipient. Please check with your shipping and receiving department before calling us. If the problem is on our end we'll be happy to correct it and expedite your order.
WomenTechWorld e-Store will gladly accept returns of merchandise if shipped back within 7 calendar days of receipt. Returned merchandise should be in new condition and returned with all original material.
Return your package to: Institute for Women in Trades, Technology & Science 1150 Ballena Blvd, Suite 102 Alameda, CA 94501
If you have further questions regarding returns, please email us.
We are not a foundation and do not provide funding or scholarships to individuals for higher education. We suggest you try the following sources for possible funding.
The financial aid office of your local two-year community college.
The Foundation Center. They have some listings for individuals. Donna Milgram, the Executive Director, received some funding for her graduate education, through a search of their individual scholarship files. Their Web address is www.fdncenter.org.
Try networking with other women in IT careers through our WomenTechWorld website at www.womentechworld.org/links.htm. Check out the biographies and stories of our members and check out our Career Center for links to our E-Jobs site and other sites featuring women in IT.
Community colleges are the best places to find inexpensive Cisco Network Academy Program training. If you go to the training area of the Cisco web page at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/learning/ you can also conduct a search for training locations.
We work primarily with companies, schools, and organizations to increase the number of female employees and students. We do not usually work on an individual level. An excellent source for this type of information is http://www.work4women.org/ This website contains a searchable database for nontraditional job training programs.
We don't have a list of specialized four-year colleges but we provide links to a number of technology web sites and listservs that may be helpful on our WomenTechWorld Career Links site at http://www.womentechworld.org/links.htm#top.
If you are looking for women in IT for your seminar, try our WomenTechWorld career link site, www.womentechworld.org/links.htm#wtw. We provide links to women in technology organizations where you can look for a speaker through online networking. Also see our WomenTech Talk Listserv to communicate with other women in IT careers.
Thanks for your interest in our workshops. We wish we could provide financial assistance for our training workshops but they are funded on a fee-for-service basis. We receive no grant funding for them, so unfortunately we cannot provide scholarships.
Substitutions: Should you be unable to attend the workshop, substitutions may be made up to the day of the workshop. Please notify us of substitutions.
30 days or more: Cancellations received in writing no later than 30 days prior to the start of the workshop will receive a full refund of conference fees.
14 to 29 days: Cancellations received in writing no later than 14 to 29 days prior to the start of the workshop will receive a refund of 50% of the workshop fee, and materials for the workshop will be shipped to the company. A 50% cancellation fee will be deducted from all refunds issued less than 30 days but more than 13 days prior to the start of the workshop.
13 days or less: No refund is issued if cancellations are received 13 days or less prior to the start of the workshop. Materials for the workshop will be shipped to the company.
Fax written cancellations to 510-749-0500 and include National IWITTS's invoice number.
If, for any reason, National IWITTS cancels a workshop, we are not responsible for covering airfare, hotel, or other costs incurred by registrants. Please check with National IWITTS to ensure the workshop still has space available or has not been cancelled before making nonrefundable travel arrangements. We update the status of our workshops daily on our phone voicemail system at 510-749-0200.
