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WHEREAS, the International Women's Forum is a global organization of preeminent women of significant and diverse achievement who come together to share knowledge and ideas, enrich each other's lives, provide a network of support, exert influence and help prepare future generations of women leaders; and ,
WHEREAS, the International Women's Forum, founded in 1982 in the United States by Eleanor Guggenheimer and Eleanor Holmes Norton to provide a networking organization for top women leaders, has grown across five continents and 60 affiliated forum locations with 4,200 women leader-members; and
WHEREAS, this year, the International Women's Forum will present its Pittsburgh World Leadership Conference, chaired by Urban League President and CEO Esther Bush and Western PA Hospital Foundation President B.J. Leber, on October 15- 17, 2008, to present to its membership how a city at the core of American industry transformed itself to seize the competitive advantage in a modernized environment and to show how investment, strategy, a commitment to health, the environment, culture and the engagement of committed philanthropists can put intellectual, financial, creative and communal capital to work to produce positive and powerful urban change; and,
WHEREAS, the IWF's World Leadership Conference , called Sustainable Futures- Building our Masterpiece, will offer plenaries and programs featuring internationally renowned speakers and presenters and will serve to put Pittsburgh in an extraordinary spotlight while using the city itself as a model for change; and,
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NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby recognize the International Women's Forum and its Pittsburgh leadership for its singular standing in the world in providing a global stage upon which women leaders can meet, confer, resolve and develop opportunities that expand prospects for women and girls throughout the world; and ,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby declare October 15-17, 2008, to be “INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM DAYS” in the City of Pittsburgh.