Events
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Economic Sufficiency
Smart Start Business Education
For nearly 10 years, WWBIC has offered Start Smart, a 16-session comprehensive business planning class. We have designed this series to fit the needs of many entrepreneurs. Start Smart participants range from future entrepreneurs testing out the viability of a business idea to established business owners preparing a business plan for the first time.
Fall Courses, 2008
Through Start Smart, WWBIC teaches the basics of business ownership, market research, marketing strategies, record keeping, cash flow projections, financing, and human resources management. Weekly guest speakers include business professionals and successful entrepreneurs. Each participant is encouraged to complete a draft business plan through completion of weekly worksheets and exercises.
Register for Business Planning — intro and business start-up workshops near you.
Other specialized classes include:
Financing/Money Management
Management/Operations
Technology/Internet
Please see each individual class for details regarding fees, scholarship opportunities, and language offering.
Health, Safety & Well-Being
YWCA’s Thoughtful Thursdays Discussions
The YWCA is sponsoring a series of discussions called Thoughtful Thursdays. Join us for dialogues on race in Milwaukee! Listen to individual speakers or a panel discuss the role of race to uncover racism’s impact on our community, and be part of a community dialogue to discuss action steps to address racism.
Thursdays 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Aug 21, Sept 25, Oct 16, Nov 13, Dec 4
YWCA, Milwaukee
All events will be held at the YWCA in Milwaukee, located on 1915 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. There is no fee, but a $5 donation is suggested. Click here for more details and a list of discussion topics.
The Opportunity Agenda Communications Workshop
The Opportunity Agenda — in association with Breakthrough and WITNESS — is organizing and hosting four two-day communications workshops in the Fall of 2008. With support from The Overbrook Foundation, The Libra Foundation, and the US Human Rights Fund, the event will bring together leading human rights organizations. The nearest workshop will be held:
September 12–13, 2008
Chicago, IL
We ask that all participants make a commitment for the full two-day workshop, and places are available for forty participants in each city. There is no fee. For more information, or to hold your spot, please contact Tony Stephens, Communications Associate for The Opportunity Agenda, at tstephens@opportunityagenda.org.
2–1−1@IMPACT presents Realizing Milwaukee’s Potential
2–1−1 @ IMPACT works together with community organizations to help the most disadvantaged residents of our community access the family, health and social service resources they may not have realized were even available.
Realizing Milwaukee’s Potential will provide insight to the community’s stakeholders, policy-makers, philanthropists, and business leaders about how 2–1−1 @ IMPACT and our network of service providers are changing lives for good through valuable community partnerships.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
11:30 am - 1 pm
Harley-Davidson MuseumTM
Event attendees will receive a comprehensive report which analyzes approximately 500,000 2–1−1 @ IMPACT calls received from 2002 through 2007. Admission to the Museum is also included with each luncheon reservation.
Read more about the event, or contact Vickie Boneck at (414) 256–4810 for more information, including sponsorship opportunities.
Educational Achievement
2008 WWHEL State Conference
Wisconsin Women in Higher Education Leadership hosts a state-wide conference in Milwaukee. This year’s conference, themed “Women Moving Forward: Navigating Change,” is a great opportunity to hear a dynamic speaker, network with women leaders, and develop a professional career map!
October 23 & 24, 2008
Alverno College
Keynote Speaker: Nancy Archer-Martin, Founder of Educational Management Network
Registration will open mid-August. See www.wwhel.org for further details.
Leadership & Political Participation
YWCA’s Unlearning Racism Workshops
Eliminating racism is an ongoing process that involves a willingness to learn about and begin undoing the hurts of injustice in our personal and community lives. We invite you to join us in this important dialogue and be an active part of the solution.
Fall 2008
It is not expected that one will reverse a lifetime of experiences surrounding racism. Rather, this series encourages individuals to incorporate knowledge and understanding into their own personal journeys as they relate to racial injustice. You are invited to attend all six workshops, or as many as interest you. Each session will last four hours.
Click here for details, or read more online. Registration deadline is August 8.
Berkana Women’s Retreat in Greece
The Berkana Institute invites you to a Women’s Learning Retreat at Axladitsa-Avatakia in Greece. The country is an amazing backdrop for exploring women’s leadership. We’ll journey back to stories and frames of leadership from pre-Helenic times, look at the Archetypes from this period and their expressions of leadership. We’ll explore the historical impact on women and feminine culture with the arrival of patriarchal cultures and how this has shaped our world today.
September 20–28, 2008
During this retreat, we will learn together, witness each other’s work, and share experiences common to us as women. We will also cook together, make music, work on the land, stretch, move, play and rest. From these deep personal exchanges and joyful engagement with our bodies, minds and spirit, we know that your imagination and resolve will be rekindled. Read more on the website of The Berkana Institute.
Immaculee Iligabiza Fall Forum
Immaculee Iligabiza, survivor of Rwandan genocide and author of Left to Tell, will inspire this year’s attendees of the annual Geneva B. Johnson Lecture Series.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Mount Mary College, Alumnae Auditorium
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
8:00 A.M. - 9:00 A.M. Registration
9:00 A.M. - 10:30 A.M. Keynote
10:30 A.M. - 11:30 A.M. Q&A
11:30 A.M. - 12:15 P.M. Book Signing
12:15 P.M. - 1:15 P.M. Lunch
With her miraculous will to survive all odds and ability to teach forgiveness by example, she speaks about “Summoning the Strength and Courage to Lead in the Darkest of Times.”
Click here to read more.
