Each program addresses a specific moment in a woman's professional life — entry, acceleration, leadership, founding, advocacy, and pipeline. Together they form an integrated infrastructure for sustained advancement.
Program 01
"The person in your corner who sees what's missing — and steps in."
Most mentorship programs fail because they pair people on superficial similarity and then disappear. We've built ours differently. Each pairing is curated for stretch — a mentor whose career arc represents where the mentee wants to grow, with sufficient overlap to make the conversation productive but sufficient distance to expand the mentee's frame of reference.
Structured 6-month cycles include a kickoff session, monthly 1:1s with shared agendas, mid-cycle check-in with the program team, and a close-out conversation that documents outcomes and decides whether the pairing continues.
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Program 02
"The room where women founders build companies — and the rooms that fund them."
A founder-only community for women building venture-backed and bootstrapped companies. Designed around the specific friction women founders encounter: investor access, peer support during fundraising lows, the operational complexity of building from zero, and the loneliness that compounds when male-dominated founder networks aren't a fit.
Programming is built around founder-stage relevance — early-stage founders get distinct programming from growth-stage and post-exit founders. Cross-stage events surface the lessons that only become useful when you can't see them coming.
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Program 03
"Practical tools for the next promotion, the next raise, the next move."
A self-paced career intensive for women navigating the specific friction of career advancement: salary negotiation, executive presence, performance review preparation, LinkedIn positioning, and the political navigation of corporate-ladder transitions.
Designed for women who want practical tools — not abstract leadership philosophy. Every module ships with scripts, frameworks, and worked examples. We update content quarterly based on member feedback and emerging workplace dynamics.
Module overview
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Program 04
"A 12-month cohort intensive for women stepping into executive leadership."
The flagship leadership program. A 12-month cohort experience for women preparing for or recently moved into executive leadership roles. Designed in collaboration with senior executive coaches and former Fortune 500 leaders who have made the transition themselves.
Cohort sizes are intentionally small (20-24 women per cohort) to enable deep relationships across the year. Programming combines monthly group sessions, individual executive-coaching engagements, and quarterly in-person intensives in NYC and DC.
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Program 05
"The pipeline program. Free. Designed to set the next generation up."
A free leadership-development program for women under 25 — designed to provide the structural support that the existing systems (university career services, early-career networking) routinely fail to deliver, particularly for women without family or institutional networks in their target industries.
The 8-month cohort experience combines virtual workshops, in-person convenings (when possible), 1:1 mentorship with an early-career sponsor, and structural support for first-job navigation. Funded entirely by member dues and foundation partnerships — never charged to participants.
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Program 06
"The convening space for women's-rights practitioners and policy advocates."
A policy convening program connecting advocates, legal experts, policy researchers, and elected representatives on women's-rights legislation and coalition-building. The Rights Forum doesn't lobby directly — it creates the cross-coalition conversations that produce effective lobbying by aligned organizations.
Twice-yearly convenings in DC bring together 40-60 participants for two days of structured working sessions on specific legislative priorities. Outputs include published coalition statements, draft legislation language, and coordinated advocacy plans for the following six months.
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All programs are available to Feminist Club members. Apply to the founding cohort or join as an Associate to start.
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