Texas BPW Foundation

12/01/2025

Texas Business & Professional Women's Foundation is a proud sponsor of the LBJ Campaign School. Congratulations to Cohort 6!

01/08/2025

🖱️ The Texas Legislature Website Is Your New Best Friend.
Need to find your lawmaker? Read a bill? Watch a hearing? Visit capitol.texas.gov for all things Texas Legislature! Of course, we’ll be covering the session at City Cast Austin, but we can’t cover it all.

🗣️ You Can Testify at Most Hearings.
If you have something to say about a bill, you can register to testify at hearings, or submit your opinion, online or at the capitol building. Look for a touch-screen kiosk in the Texas Capitol Extension or register online while inside the building.

📃 A Refresher on How Bills Become Laws:
• First, a lawmaker will file a bill. Thousands of bills have been filed since November, and lawmakers can continue through the first 60 days of the session.
• Next, a bill is assigned to a committee in its respective chamber (the Texas House or the Texas Senate).
• A committee may hold a hearing on the bill, and potentially vote the bill out to the full chamber, where it may be debated and voted upon.
• If the bill is approved by the House or the Senate, it will then move to the opposite chamber.
• Once both chambers approve the bill, a committee with members from both chambers will meet to hash out any differences in the legislation.
• Finally, the governor has 10 days to sign a bill into law, veto it, or allow it to become a law without a signature within 10 days of the bill being enrolled. If the governor vetoes the bill while the Legislature is still in session, it gets kicked back to the chamber where it originated.

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07/09/2024

LBJ Women's Campaign School reached the five-year mark with Cohort 5 going off into their political futures!

This year we reached our five-year milestone when Cohort 5 made their way to the Texas State Capitol for three days of intensive campaign training. This group of future candidates, campaign managers, and political appointees have officially joined the 300+ community of LBJWCS alumni, and we are thri...

05/27/2024

04/14/2024

TBW State Conference; June 7-8, 2024 in Irving. Great speaker lineup. Don't miss this one!

Join us for events hosted by the Texas Business Women - Networking, professional development, and fun!

03/12/2024

Women working full time, year-round earn 84 cents for every dollar men make, inching up from 83.7 cents last year, according to the latest numbers from the Census Bureau.

Women working full-time, year-round jobs earn 84 cents for every dollar men make, and part-timers make even less. Women have to work well into March before they earn what men made the year before.

02/05/2024

The U.S. Mint is ever so slightly adjusting the gender balance this year with new quarters depicting American women.

The U.S. Mint is rolling out five new quarters featuring the faces of impactful American women.

01/02/2024

Happy New Year! Here's an opportunity for small-business owners:

Women-owned businesses can apply for a $10,000 grant

This grant, sponsored by sustainable paper towel brand Papaya Reusables, is offering its own grant in support of Women’s History month. Women-owned small businesses can apply for the grant until March 31, 2024.

Applicants will need to talk about their company’s greater mission and how they would use the grant. Applicants are also asked to send in a short video message.

12/19/2023

"There is no more important work than deepening young people's engagement in our nation." ---Sandra Day O'Connor

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, whose funeral is Tuesday, is being remembered as a Supreme Court trailblazer. After retiring from the bench in 2006, she worked to expand civics education in schools.

12/01/2023

The first woman to serve on the Supreme Court was also a BPW member.

A key figure in landmark Supreme Court cases, Justice O’Connor retired in 2006 and announced in 2018 that she had been diagnosed with dementia.

11/16/2023

Past National President Gerry Eidson was an inspiration and role model.

View Geraldine Eidson's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.