About The Nevada International Women's Forum

Founder's Award

The Founder's Award was established November 9, 2010.  The Award was established to honor the legacy of leadership of our Nevada Forum Founder, Carolyn M. Sparks. The first recipient was awarded in 2011.  One of the goals of the International Women’s Forum is to establish and foster a mentor culture among women.  The members of the Nevada Forum wished to create a vehicle to provide mentoring for women on the rise in our state.  The membership chose to establish an award to annually sponsor two  professional young women to IWF’s World Leadership Conference. The World Leadership Conferences, conducted annually by the International Women’s Forum, draw women from more than 50 countries who are the world’s leading architects, advocates, catalysts, and pioneers of change – the women who are re-drawing the map for how we’ll live, work, produce, and maintain healthy communities in the coming years. As our global economies restructure and reshape business, politics, environments, access and opportunity, IWF’s cutting–edge conferences harness those must-have conversations in order to educate, inform and inspire our women leaders and our partners to be out ahead of the change that is needed.

The Nevada International Women’s Forum (NVIWF) seeks to select professional or businesswomen of high potential who have established themselves in their sphere of interest to sponsor their attendance at the World Leadership Conference. The two categories of applicants are either an entrepreneur or from a small business or non-profit and one candidate comes from a government or public entity or large corporate entity.

The award includes registration costs for the World Leadership Conference, which includes meals at the event, transportation, and hotel room.  A member of NVIWF will accompany them to the conference to ensure they maximize the leadership development opportunities available.