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January 2009

Home Past Newsletters January 2009

In this issue: Call for Artists, WEV Partners with Maria Shriver, WEV Client Spotlight, Women’s EXPO Ventura County, Upcoming SET classes, 2009 WEV Got Business membership, SBA Financial Assistance for Fire Victims, Announcements 

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January 2009  
In this newsletter
:: Call for Artists
:: WEV Partners with Maria Shriver
:: WEV Client Spotlight
:: Women’s EXPO Ventura County
:: Upcoming SET Classes
:: 2009 WEV Got Business membership
:: SBA Financial Assistance for Fire Victims
:: Announcements

Calling WEV Artists! 

 
Happy New Year! WEV’s Client Art Gallery needs art for 2009! If you are an artist and would like to showcase your work in the Santa Barbara WEV office, please contact Leah Gonzales at lgonzales@wevonline.org or (805) 965-6073 x106. Artists display their work for 2-month periods, and brighten the office walls for staff, orientation attendees, and SET clients!

Women’s Economic Ventures Partners with Maria Shriver

WEV Receives $50,000 from WE Invest 

Women's Conference 2008

From left to right:  Zdena Jiroutova, Z Folio Gallery; Tea Silvestre, Social Good Marketing; Judy Hawkins, Executive Director, Women’s Economic Ventures;  Cara O’Callaghan, Preggers n’ Proud and Adorably Local; Randie Hilliard, Rand Hill Naturals; Angel Cottrell, Client Services Director, Women’s Economic Ventures; Allyson Purcell, Stanley Handbags.  
 
Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties, CA, November XX, 2008 -As part of her endeavor to create a powerful, unified community of women helping women, California First Lady Maria Shriver, in partnership with The Women’s Conference, has recently launched WE Invest, a new statewide women’s economic empowerment initiative. Designed to promote financial security and unleash the entrepreneurial spirit of women across California, the WE Invest program is partnering with Women’s Economic Ventures (WEV) and two other non-profit organizations in California to launch this initiative which will help women move forward together on a path toward personal and economic well being.
 
“WE Invest will help all women have a seat at the economic table. Only when women and their families are financially secure, and their creativity, ideas and spirit unleashed, will California be able to achieve its full potential,” said Maria Shriver, California’s First Lady.
 
As part of the partnership between WE Invest and Women’s Economic Ventures, WEV was invited to participate in the 2008 Women’s Conference, the largest and most dynamic gathering of women in the nation.  With more than 60 internationally acclaimed leaders and visionaries and 14,000 women in one arena, the Women’s Conference has grown from a small government initiative for working professionals into a far-reaching organization, a life-changing experience, and an international network of women from all walks of life, backgrounds and perspectives.
 
Five WEV Self-Employment Training graduates (pictured above) with successful businesses of their own were invited to showcase their businesses at the 2008 Women’s Conference in Long Beach on October 22nd.  Three of the WEV graduate businesswomen had the opportunity to talk about their businesses and products with well-known leaders like California’s First Lady, Maria Shriver, news journalist and social entrepreneur, Leeza Gibbons, celebrity chef Rachel Ray and actor Rita Wilson, as well as the thousands of women who attended the conference.   
 
WEV received $50k through this partnership in 2008 and anticipates that this wonderful relationship will help link aspiring businesswomen with WEV’s Self-Employment Training Program, the comprehensive 14-week, 56-hour training program for women who are starting or growing their own business. WEV clients also have access to business consulting, facilitated peer groups, personal development entrepreneurial coaching, financial literacy training, mentoring and start-up and expansion microloans. 

WEV Client Spotlight

 

Spring 2006 Self-Employment Training graduate Susan Levine has successfully launched her website, www.50somethinginfo.com,

a one stop comprehensive source of prescreened information dedicated to the 50 something lifestyle. The site covers medical, health and wellness, caregiving, insurance, lifestyle, law, money, end of life, house and home, and environment. Take advantage of this great resource, where “information wanted by 50somethings (is) sorted and culled by a real-life reliable librarian!”

Celebrating the Power of WE!

Women’s EXPO Ventura County

is about celebrating every woman you are…

 

Women’s EXPO Ventura County is about being ALL that life inspires you to be…

 

Women’s EXPO Ventura County means celebrating the power of WE!

 

Women’s EXPO Ventura County – March 13-15, 2009 – Seaside Park – Ventura – CA

 

Now accepting Exhibitor Applications!   

www.womensexpovc.net

Upcoming Self-Employment Training Classes

 Thousand Oaks Graduates Fall 2008
Fall 2008 Thousand Oaks Graduates

 

Congratulations to WEV’s 72 Self-Employment Training (SET) graduates from Fall 2008!

 

If you have friends, family, colleagues or clients that are contemplating self-employment in 2009, perhaps WEV can help! WEV’s 14-week SET course begins the second week in February and is offered in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. Learn further details at one of WEV’s free, 1-hour orientations offered throughout January – click here to sign up TODAY! 

Become a 2009 WEV Got Business Member

Join WEV Got Business for $100 in 2009 and receive the following benefits:
  • Online business directory listing (not available for non-members)
  • Free 1-hour session of business consulting
  • 3 hours business consulting for $120 ($150 for non-members)
  • Loan consulting
  • 10 free sessions of entrepreneurial coaching (not available for non-members)
  • $120 registration for Think BIG conference ($149-$189 for non-members)

Click here to join today!

Assistance for CA Fire Victims with Small Businesses/Asistencia para víctimas de fuegos en California

 
Whether you rent or own your home, own your business, or own a small agricultural cooperative located in a declared disaster area, and are the victim of a disaster, you may be eligible for financial assistance from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). 

 
Application Filing Deadline for Economic Injury: August 18, 2009
 
Application Filing Deadlines:
Physical Damage: January 21, 2009
Economic Injury: August 18, 2009

Getting Disaster Assistance: What You Need to Know

Si usted alquila/renta o es dueño de su propio hogar, dueño de negocios, o posee una pequeña cooperativa agrícola, en un área declarada desastre, y es víctima de desastre, usted puede ser elegible para asistencia financiera por la Administración Federal de Pequeños Negocios (SBA, por sus siglas en ingles).
 
Fecha limite para solicitar para daños económicos: 18 de Agosto, 2009
 
Fechas Límites Para Solicitar Préstamos:
Daños Físicos: 21 de Enero, 2009 Daños Económicos: 18 de Agosto, 2009
 

Announcements

–SCORE Seminar: Secrets Of Survival For Small Business in a Down Economy. January 22nd, 6-9pm at Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara. Small businesses will have the opportunity to learn business-saving secrets from a panel of SCORE experts. These successful business people will share their expertise and answer questions on the important issues facing small business in today’s fragile economy. Paul Orfalea, founder of Kinko’s, will speak and introduce the panel. Admission is FREE, but reservations by phone or email are strongly recommended: (805) 563-0084, www.santabarbarascore.org

 

-FREE Tax Help: The Internal Revenue Service and the Housing Authority of the City of Santa
Barbara are proud to offer the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, beginning in February. Additionally, stay tuned for details on free Schedule C filing preparation for small business owners!

-Are you interested in displaying your products at the Santa Barbara WEV office? Contact Eva at ewong@wevonline.org.  
-If you have an announcement for inclusion in the next WEV newsletter, contact news@wevonline.org or 965-6073 x106 by the 28th of the month.

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