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PRESS RELEASE
ANNOUNCEMENT
For immediate release:
Contact:
July 28, 2003
Women’s Sports Services: (714) 848-1201
Black Women In Sports
Foundation: (215)
877-1925, ext.320
Women’s Sports
Services becomes Official Career Partner
for the Black Women In Sport
Foundation
HUNTINGTON
BEACH, CA. (July 28, 2003).
Women’s Sports Services, LLC, a career development and
recruitment solutions company that operates the online career center
WomenSportJobs.com, has announced a partnership with the Black Women In
Sport Foundation. The partnership will focus on diversity hiring needs
in the sports industry. Both
organizations plan to work closely on supporting and promoting women of
color in sports related career fields.
The
Black Women In Sport Foundation was founded in 1992 as a non-profit
organization dedicated
to women of color in the sports industry.
“This
collaboration with Women’s Sports Services is truly
a blessing. Jointly, we can
provide thousands of women of color access to sports jobs and
career
training. If employed, women of color will add a dynamic and unique
reality to the sports industry”,
said Tina Sloane Green, president and co-founder of the Black Women In
Sport Foundation.
The
timely alliance will provide WSS’s employer partners direct access to
a diverse and talented
pool of candidates. “By
working with the Black Women In Sport Foundation, we will ensure that
our corporate partners have continuous and growing access to the many
qualified women and minorities available for hire,” said Mary Lou
Youngblood, Chief Operating Officer, Women’s Sports Services.
Through
the partnership, members of the Black Women In Sports Foundation will
have access to
a comprehensive online career center including job listings, resume
support, career development seminars and networking events.
"The BWSF is excited about the increased employment
opportunities that this partnership will provide our membership.
There are so many capable and
talented women of color that are looking for opportunities to advance in
their chosen sports
careers and having access to Women's Sports Services and
WomenSportsJobs.com will benefit
both our members and potential employers", said Nikki Franke, BWSF
Secretary.
“We are proud to
support the Black Women In Sport Foundation and we look forward to
working
together to ensure diversity hiring in sports,” said Becky Heidesch,
CEO, Women’s Sports Services, LLC.
Women’s Sports Services, founded in 1995, has done a variety
of work in the women’s sports
market in the areas of event marketing and career development. In
2002, the company decided
to concentrate its efforts solely on career development and recruiting.
Overview
of WomenSportsJobs.com
WomenSportsJobs.com was launched in 2000 as a spin-off from the
Women’Sports Wire
Employment Edition. The
Women’Sports Job Wire was originally launched in 1996 and
provided
job listings for women interested in sports related careers.
With the popularity of the internet,
the company ceased the print publication and developed a comprehensive
online career center
offering job listings, career services and employer recruiting services.
The career site
hosts a nationwide job database and resume bank for women and minorities
interested
in sports related career fields.
Employers who utilize the site for recruiting needs include companies
such as the NBA/WNBA, Adidas, American Golf Corporation, ESPN, Gart Sports, Burton Snowboards,
REI, Lifetime Fitness, Bally
Fitness, Champs Sports, Golf Channel, Palace Sports & Entertainment,
Major League Baseball
Teams, Human Kinetics Publishers, NCAA Colleges, High Schools and more.
For more
information log on to www.WomenSportsJobs.com
or call (714) 848-1201.
Overview
of BWSF
The Black Women In Sport
Foundation was founded in 1992 by Tina
Sloan Green, Nikki Franke,
Alpha Alexander, and Linda Greene.
The
Foundation is dedicated to facilitating the involvement of
Black women in every aspect of sport in the United States and around the
world, through the
"hands-on" development and management of grass roots programs.
For more information log on to
www.blackwomeninsport.org
or call
(215)
877-1925, ext.320.
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