NAMING OPPORTUNITIES FOR DONORS

The Kopenhaver Center is the nation’s premier hub for training the next generation of exceptional women leaders empowered by research, knowledge, innovation, and creativity so that they may be better represented at the table during the decision-making process.

The programs of the Kopenhaver Center are designed to empower and prepare women to rise to the challenges of both today and tomorrow and make a difference in their communities and their professions.

Fems In Tech Lab

• Naming Opportunity: $1Million

The future for women lies in the field of technology. The Kopenhaver Center continually strives to engage in innovative programming to ensure that women’s voices are heard both in South Florida and on a national level. The FemsInTech Lab will embrace training in the field of communication and technology to foster women’s entry into the digital world and the metaverse so they may meet today’s challenges, solve problems, and design new ideas for an innovative future.

This lab will focus on the disrupters emerging in the profession, and train participants how to master storytelling, knowledge delivery, and curate information via complex technological information delivery systems and platforms (i.e., audience demographics, geographic information systems, artificial intelligence, and the metaverse).

The FemsInTech Lab will train both students and early-career women to prepare them for advanced and competitive workforce entry. Program modalities for the lab are designed by the Kopenhaver Center’s leadership team, scholars, and industry experts in the fields of communication, engineering, and social science, among others. The FemsInTech Lab’s mission is to be a state-of-the-art hub for integrating communication pedagogy and academic training where participants will be trained to enter the workforce with an advanced understanding of strategic communications via digital and technological systems.

Leadership Training Institute

Naming Opportunity: $500K

The Leadership Training Institute is a series of workshops designed to help women position themselves professionally to embrace change and to what the future will bring. Topics could be tailored to those of most benefit to women who desire to climb the ladder to leadership in the communications and other industries. Topics can include but are not limited to the following:

• Budget and Fiscal Management
• Writing for Leaders
• Digital Communication
• Entrepreneurship
• Technology and Innovation
• Leadership For a Changing World

The “Future is Female” Innovation Hive

Naming Opportunity: $500K

The center’s Future is Female Innovation Hive is an intensive multiple-day workshop for women innovators with the theme of “Leading and Communicating in the Age of Advanced Technology.” A selective group of students, faculty, and community stakeholders will gather together to address the challenges of a technological and digital environment. The Future is Female Innovation Hive will be led by a group of interdisciplinary experts who will facilitate an immersive and project-based program for participants to work on and create innovations in conjunction with local community stakeholders, media outlets, non-profits, and businesses.

Leadership Fellows Program

Naming Opportunity: $250K

The center’s Leadership Fellows Program matches women with five or fewer years of experience working in communications with mentors with more than 10 years of experience. Over a period of six months, participants attend workshops in leadership, entrepreneurialism, and technological innovation and regularly meet mentors for career and other counseling and networking.

Leadership Boot Camp for Graduating Seniors

Naming Opportunity: $100K

The center’s Leadership Boot Camp is designed to train and empower the next generation of female leaders. Through a series of online training workshops, graduating seniors will receive preparation for their first jobs, preparation that goes beyond the classroom. During the boot camp, participants will learn key leadership competencies: Leadership, Business and Entrepreneurship, Writing and Communicating for Leaders, and Technology and Innovation.

Annual Sponsorships

Kopenhaver Center National Conference

Giving levels from $1,000 to $25K

The Kopenhaver Center annually sponsors a national conference that brings together outstanding women in all communication fields to discuss the conference topic and share their expertise with those attending. Funding for this program will support students interested in participating in training and networking with leaders presenting in the national conference. Nearly 1,000 have attended at this point, and we reached several thousand through our Livestream service.

Women Faculty Moving Forward Program

                                                                                                          Giving levels from $1,000 to $10K

The center sponsors the Women Faculty Moving Forward Program for newly minted Ph.D. faculty who want to succeed and lead in the academy. More than 350 Kopenhaver Center Fellows have completed the program, representing nearly 200 colleges and universities nationally and internationally. Funding for this program will support female faculty interested in participating in training and networking with academy leaders and attending the Women Faculty Moving Forward annual workshop. This program is co-sponsored in conjunction with the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), and the one-day intensive workshop is held at their annual national conference held at a different location every year.