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August 2009 Newsletter

August 2009

NAWBO is a national organization of women business owners with local chapters in every state. NAWBO fosters education for the woman business owner.

NAWBO VENTURA COUNTY is committed to education and encouragement for the growth of women business owners and creating an awareness of our presence through a single voice in our community.

NAWBO Ventura County -
Our new year and
our new Board of Directors

Dear Sandy,

Many of you attended the recent Board Installation at the Four Seasons Hotel on July 23, 2009. Those of you who could not attend missed a very nice evening.

I am honored, and very excited, to have the new Board of Directors for 2009 - 2010. As announced at the installation they are...

President Elect Robin Martino
Secretary Joy Sakata
Treasurer Jerri Hemsworth
Immediate Past President Sonia Cohen
Chairs of
Membership - Neil Palache
Corporate Partners - Debbi Reed / Debbie Gregory
Programs - Elaine Hollifield
Public Policy - Colleen King
Publicity - Heidi Lundgren

Following are the goals we have established for this new year...

Increase membership / corporate partners by -

Adding value for members and corporate partners
Creating an atmosphere where members and corporate partners strongly feel that it is a privilege to be associated with NAWBO VC.

We're off to a good start.....we announced two new Corporate Partners in the past few months. We are now pleased to announce Anthem Blue Cross and Union Bank as Corporate Partners. What a coup that is for NAWBO VC. And, folks, we have just begun. We're asking you to share with us the names of any corporations that you believe would be great partners with us.

Increase education and benefits for members and corporate partners by...

Welcoming and supporting our new members
Scheduling a new member event 3 - 4 times a year
Communicating with each member personally to determine what they need to help grow their business
Determining education needs
Offering special work shops
Creating a Mentor Program
Determining feasibility of Master Mind Group
Providing opportunities for members to speak at our events (see article about application)

We want to support our Corporate Partners to the best of our ability. And, we want to take advantage of the offerings they provide to us.

Have fun!

Last, but certainly not least, we all want to have fun!

Effective immediately we will have a Member of the Month. That person will be recognized in that month's newsletter and on the web site. The Member of the Month will also be given an allotted time to speak at the next month's meeting, telling us about themselves and their business. We will draw monthly to see who the MotM is. We'll be providing the guidelines for this program.

We're going green this year. Instead of having feedback sheets on the tables at the dinners and other functions we are going to send out on line surveys asking what you thought. Please remember that if you don't take the time to provide feedback we must assume we're doing a great job and that nothing needs to be fixed.

We're sending out business opportunities notifications when we hear about them. If the opportunity is not something you do, but it's something your friend or neighbor does, share it. We want to help everyone we can.

We are working on updating the web site and on line registration application to make things easier and more efficient. You will need to watch for updates on that. Once we get things changed you will have a member log in and we'll be able to share information that's useful to the members and not open to the general public.

I mentioned new educational opportunities. We'll also want to strengthen our knowledge of each member's business and confidence in each member so that we can make great referrals when we hear of business opportunities.

If you listen to the news (which I try very hard not to), we are all facing some challenging times. If we stick together as a chapter, and if we can accomplish the things I have already talked about, we will have fun! We're going to continue our networking mixers and we're going to think of other great opportunities whereby we can really get to know each other and determine how we can help each other be successful. We'll be including other groups in some of our activities so that we can join forces.

As we strengthen our knowledge of each others' businesses, as we gain trust and confidence in each other and as we partner to make things happen we can't help but far exceed our mission. But again, we will be only as strong as our membership. Each member must be involved for our success as it will, in turn, help in your success.

Thank you! We're off and running. Be sure and jump on the band wagon!

Sandy Allan,
President
NAWBO VC

WELCOME OUR NEW MEMBERS....

Danya Smith - Office Manager
State Farm - Office of Dennis M Predmore LUTCF
2659 Townsgate Rd, Suite 212
Westlake Village, CA. 91361-2757
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Bus: (805) 495-5228
Fax: (805) 371-4593

STANDING RESERVATION FORM

Do you have trouble remembering to register for the monthly dinner meetings and end up paying the higher price because you didn't get registered in time to take advantage of the Early Bird Registration?

Would you like to know that your reservation is made and that you need to worry about contacting us only when you won't be able to attend a dinner?

You can do that! Just ask one of the board members for a "Standing Reservation" form. it will soon be available on the nawbovc web site.

Issue: 200908

Corporate Partners

Amgen

Metropolitan Water District

Union Bank

Technology & Operational Solutions, Inc.

Site Server Hosting

Pacific Coast Business Times

Hueneme Pilot

Anthem Blue Cross

The chapter appreciates the support of our Corporate Partners.

Member Sponsors

Balance Your Books

Thank you for being a Member Sponsor!

Speaking Opportunities

Do you have valuable information to share with our members? Would you like to opportunity to be considered to be a speaker at one of our events?

Great news....we now have a Speaker Application. Any member or non member can complete the application and submit it for consideration. The application will soon be available on the web site. Until then just contact a board member to obtain a copy of the Speaker Application.

August 27, 2009
Monthly Dinner Meeting

Enjoy the beautiful surroundings of the Palm Garden while you meet and mix with members of NAWBO-VC, new members and other business professionals.

You'll get to connect with everyone through a unique business networking game.

You might win a gift in our Opportunity Drawing.

If you bring a prize worth $25 or more, you'll get a chance to speak about your business.

Don't miss this opportunity to make connections and let others know what a great business you have.

Join us for a fun-filled, summer evening.

Visit www.nawbovc.org to register.

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION
thru Friday,

August 21

Members $40
Non-members $50

AFTER August 21 and at the door: $55 for all.

Palm Garden Hotel 495 N Ventu Park Road

Thousand Oaks 91320
p. 888.816.0002
p. 805.716.4200

NAWBO Ventura County
877.629.2682
www.nawbovc.org
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