Title: Employment Options Records
Inclusive Dates: 1979-2000

Creator:

• Employment Options (Madison, Wisconsin)

Call Number: M2000-105; Audio 1913A

Quantity: 4.4 cubic feet (4 records center cartons and 1 archives box), 7 tape recordings, 86 photographs, 10 negatives, 151 transparencies, 8 videorecordings, and 2 film reels (16 mm)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records of Employment Options in Madison, Wisconsin, a self-help career development service for low-income women with little or no technical or vocational training, originally founded in 1975 under the name Skilled Jobs for Women. The records document its role as the first agency in the Midwest to help women secure and retain non-traditional employment and the first in Wisconsin to offer programming for displaced homemakers.

Language: English

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The materials include administrative files, correspondence, financial records, Board of Directors and committee minutes and materials, grant files, pamphlets, publications, outreach materials, files on the agency’s program entitled Wisconsin Women Work (formerly Wisconsin Displaced Homemakers Network), photographs, training films and public service announcements, and recordings of meetings and speeches.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Skilled Jobs for Women Inc. via Jim Danky; and Sally J. Drew, Madison, Wisconsin. Accession Number: M2000-105

M2000-105	Series: Administrative Records
Box   1 Folder   1	Articles of incorporation
Box   1 Folder   2	Incorporation correspondence
Box   1 Folder   3	By-laws, mission statement
Box   1 Folder   4	Annual reports, 1980-1996 [incomplete]
Box   1 Folder   5	Job categories, descriptions, and evaluations
Box   1 Folder   6	Personnel policies
Box   1 Folder   7	Basic criteria for counseling
Box   1 Folder   8	Fiscal policies
Box   1 Folder   9	Fiscal procedures
Box   1 Folder   10	Affirmative action policy
Box   1 Folder   11	Government employer guidelines and reporting rules
Box   1 Folder   12	Speakers fees
Box   1 Folder   13	Disability insurance
Box   1 Folder   14	Board of directors' liability
Box   1 Folder   15	Board of directors' recruitment materials
Box   1 Folder   16	Insurance and lease registers
Box   1 Folder   17	Inventory
Box   1 Folder   18	Orientation packet
Box   1 Folder   19	Licensing information, placement/employment
Box   1 Folder   20	Office of the assessor
Box   1 Folder   21	Taxpayer identification number and certificate
Box   1 Folder   22	Memberships
Box   1 Folder   23	Salary goals, 1988
Box   1 Folder   24	Agreement with Over 55 Employment Service, Inc., 1985
Box   1 Folder   25	Consultant contract, 1987
Box   1 Folder   26	Layoffs, 1993
Box   1 Folder   27	Miscellaneous personnel
Box   1 Folder   28	Team management meetings, 1986-1987
Box   1 Folder   29	Staff meetings, memos, 1981, 1989-1991, 1996
Box   1 Folder   30	Judy Groth, executive director--file, 1990-1991
Box   1 Folder   31	General correspondence, 1989-1992
Box   1 Folder   32	Miscellany
Box   1 Folder   33	Dissolution, December 20, 1994
	Series: Financial Records	⇧
Box   1 Folder   34	IRS Form 990 [organizations exempt from income tax], 1986-1996
Box   1 Folder   35	Census of Service Industries [US], 1982, 1987
Box   1 Folder   36	Wisconsin payroll tax reports
Box   1 Folder   37	Wisconsin Form 308 [charitable organization report], 1986-1994
Box   1 Folder   38	Wisconsin Nonstock Corporation annual report, 1987-1989
Box   1 Folder   39-42	Audit information, 1987-1985, 1987-1988, 1992, 1994-1996
Box   1 Folder   43	Budgets, 1989, 1990, 1992
Box   1 Folder   44-46	Financial statements, 1986-1997
	Series: Board of Directors and Committees	⇧
	Board of directors
	Meetings
Box   1 Folder   47-73	1980-1983, 1989-1995
Box   2 Folder   1-2	1996-1999
Box   2 Folder   3	Correspondence
Box   2 Folder   4	Memos
Box   2 Folder   5	Lists of board members
Box   2 Folder   6-16	Executive committee, December 1980-1984 Note: Sometimes joint meeting with finance committee
Box   2 Folder   17	Executive director evaluation committee, 1982
Box   2 Folder   18	Fee for Service committee
Box   2 Folder   19-28	Finance committee, 1981-1982 Note: See also executive committee
Box   2 Folder   29-36	Fund raising committee, 1981, 1983, 1985-1986, 1993
Box   2 Folder   37-40	Personnel committee, 1981-1982
Box   2 Folder   41-42	Planning and programs development committee, 1981-1982
	Series: Wisconsin Women Work [formerly Wisconsin Displaced Homemakers Network]	⇧
Box   2 Folder   43-51	Grants, 1987-1996
Box   2 Folder   52	Annual meeting, 1990
Box   2 Folder   53-54	Board meetings and teleconference calls, 1990-1992
Box   2 Folder   55-58	Record files, 1990-1994
Box   2 Folder   59	Region V Advising Council
Box   2 Folder   60	Illinois Displaced Homemakers Network
Box   2 Folder   61	Indiana Displaced Homemakers Network
Box   2 Folder   62	Michigan Displaced Homemakers Network
Box   2 Folder   63	Minnesota Displaced Homemakers Network
Box   2 Folder   64	Ohio Displaced Homemakers Network
	Series: Grants and Programs	⇧
Box   2 Folder   65	Alliance for Employee Growth and Development, Inc., 1988
Box   2 Folder   66	Dane County Everybody Works Program, 1992
	Dane County Private Industry Council
Box   2 Folder   67-70	1987-1990
Box   3 Folder   1-7	1990-1994, 1996-1997
Box   3 Folder   8	Dane County Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Program [JOBS], 1993
Box   3 Folder   9	First Call for Help, 1988
Box   3 Folder   10-30	Forward View, A Program of Services for Displaced Homemakers, 1982-1999
Box   3 Folder   31	Highway Apprenticeship Program, 1981-1983
Box   3 Folder   32	Job Network, 1989-1992
	Job Training Partnership Act
Box   3 Folder   33-39	1990, 1993-1995
Box   4 Folder   1-5	1995-1999
Box   4 Folder   6	Madison Community Foundation, Management Matters Initiative, 1991
Box   4 Folder   7-8	Non-traditional careers, 1990
Box   4 Folder   9-19	Tools for Tomorrow: Women Training for Nontraditional Occupations, 1990-1998
Box   4 Folder   20	TOW Outreach report, 1995
Box   4 Folder   21-39	United Way, 1987-1992, 1995-2000
Box   4 Folder   40	Wisconsin Department of Labor and Human Relations, Division of Apprenticeship and Training, agreement, 1984
Box   4 Folder   41-42	Wisconsin Department of Labor and Human Relations, Division of Employment and Training Policy, 1986, 1991
Box   4 Folder   43-44	Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations, 1994-1998
	Series: Publications, Manuals and Outreach	⇧
Box   4 Folder   45	Brochures
Box   4 Folder   46	Displaced Homemaker - Fiction or Fact? , 1979
Box   4 Folder   47-49	Newsletter, 1991-1999
Box   4 Folder   50	Nontraditional Occupations, 1987, 1995
Box   4 Folder   51-52	Public relations
Box   5 Folder   1	Rainbow Packet (mimeographs), 1991-1996
Box   5 Folder   2	Skilled Trade exploration, 1988
Box   5 Folder   3	Tools for Change-tradeswomen support group, 1990-1998
Box   5 Folder   4-7	Tools of the Trade: A blueprint for moving young women into nontraditional careers, 1980 [a book accompanying the slideshow]
Box   5 Folder   8	Women in trades and technology calendar, 1996-1998
Box   5 Folder   9	Workshop: Women and the art of home repair, March 1994
Box   5 Folder   10	Workshops and classes, 1989-1992, 1998
	Series: Photographs	⇧
Box   6	Staff and office building Physical Description: Black and white
Box   6	TAC training, April 1995 Physical Description: Black and white prints and negatives
Box   6	Highlights, 1993-1998 Physical Description: Color
Box   6	Slide-tape show, Skilled Jobs for Women, 1980 Physical Description: Color slides
Box   6	Staff, class settings, title slides Physical Description: Color slides
Box   6	Women in non-traditional professions Physical Description: Color slides
Box   6	United Neighborhood Council Physical Description: Color slides
Audio 1913A	Series: Audio Recordings Physical Description: Cassette tapes	⇧
1913A/1	“Legal workshop,” 1979 January 24
1913A/2	“Education workshop,” 1979 February 7
1913A/3	“The Tools of the Trade Companion Herstories,” Skilled Jobs for Women, 1980
1913A/4	“The Tools of the Trade for Career Exploration,” Skilled Jobs for Women,” 1980 Note: Tapes for slide-tape program.
1913A/5	“Madison Police Department Security,” Ray Wausepka / Jackie Thilmany, 1987 February 12
1913A/6	“Kim/job development,” undated
1913A/7	“Speak out/Keynote speaker, opening meeting,” undated
Film Archive	Series: Moving Images	⇧
	Video cassettes
	New Options Panel, Employment Options Panel: Women in Nontraditional Jobs, 1987 June
	“Pulling Together for a Better Industry,” International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 139 Wisconsin Operating Engineers, undated
	Project New Ventures Career Challenge Institute, Girls Inc. Ropes Course, Venderheide Hall, 1992 September 14-18
	“Wisconsin's Best Kept Secret!” Wisconsin Laborers' Training Center Almond, Wisconsin Physical Description: 12 minutes
	“Trade Secrets,” Women Make Movies Inc., Physical Description: 23 minutes; color
	Employment Options public service announcement, Janice Gile 1x30, WKOW-TV, Madison
	Unlabeled Physical Description: 2 video cassettes
	16 mm film reels
	“To Build a Future,” Associated General Contractors of America Physical Description: 19 minutes
	“Twelve Like You,” A Robert Drucker Production Physical Description: 22 minutes