WFA Headquarters FAQs
The Wahine Freelance Alliance virtual headquarters (WFA HQ), a metaverse for productivity and innovation, will help to eliminate some of the barriers and challenges facing wāhine (women) freelancers, entrepreneurs, and creatives such as isolation, lack of support, and economic opportunities. Creating a space for mutual support, building social networks, and providing leadership development in the creative sector will rewrite and redefine the future of work for girls and women. Our headquarters will support wāhine in all stages and phases of their economic aspirations while at the same time grounding them in the collective experience and wisdom of our membership and alliance.
- September 15: Applications OPEN on our website
- September 24: Applications close
- October 7: Applicants notified via email
- October 14: WFA Fall HQ Launch
“The whole idea of co-working is to bring creative people together and let the ideas collide”
Who knows what will happen? We envision that WFA HQ will become your community where ideas, knowledge, information is shared freely & friendships are forged!
Yes! Our Application is OPEN! Applications are due on September 24 @ 5 PM.
Through the existence, support, and services provided by WFA HQ, some of the outputs we hope to see are:
- Increase in the number of individuals in each member’s professional network
- Increase in digital freelance knowledge expertise for each member
- Increase in digital freelance expertise for each member.
- Increase in the economic growth and well-being for each member
- Increase in the number self-employment or collaborative opportunities obtained by our members
WFA HQ will have one HQ manager (for Fall) who will be present in the space for 5 hours/week (total) to help answer questions, provide support & encouragement to our members. Our HQ manager will lead weekly scrum sessions (Mondays & Fridays), document headquarter activities, curate resources for our libraries, and help to build relationships and connections across the membership! We will be your best cheerleaders!
Since we don’t co-work IRL, we can’t offer hot coffee or keep homemade Kombucha on tap! However, as a WFA HQ member, you will have access to the following virtual amenties:
- Membership Network
- Weekly Scrum Session
- Support from WFA HQ Managers
- 1:1 Weekly Office Hours (30 minutes, reserved sessions)
- Monthly professional development workshops & training opportunities
- Curated Resources via our Tech & Resource libraries (in Gather
Yes, your participation and engagement in the space will be documented via Gather analytics, scrum sessions, and other data gathered through surveys.
WFA HQ has been thoughtfully created to help realize WFA’s mission and vision. With that said, we are asking members to commit to at least 2 hours/week working in the WFA HQ. Additionally, we expect members to attend at least 6 workshops and trainings offered by WFA.
WFA HQ will be open for members to use at anytime. Our Fall HQ manager will be available to members 5 hours/week and 1 hour week for 1:1 office hours.
The WFA HQ & supported activities is generously funded by the Atherton Foundation, Women’s Fund of Hawaiʻi and individual donors. This means that the virtual headquarters and the support to manage the space is fully scholarshipped for each member. WFA is actively engaged in seeking grants to support ongoing activities.
Gather. Town is a web-conferencing software like Zoom, but with the added component of seeing the virtual “room” you and others are occupying, and with the ability to move around and interact with other participants based on your locations in the room, just like real life.
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