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Dear Nancy,
Welcome to the BPW/Raleigh
electronic newsletter! Here you can read about upcoming BPW
dinner meetings and events, member news, and how-to articles.
As the leading advocate for working women, BPW promotes the
professional and personal growth of our members by empowering
them through networking opportunities and educational
development programming. Please feel free to forward the BPW/
Raleigh eNewsletter to someone you think may be interested in
our organization.
I would love to have articles and input from all members. Please
email me if you have anything you'd like to see in future
newsletters.
Theresa Carter
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A Message from our President |
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For those of
you who were involved in preparing a child to go back to
school this fall, you may have noticed that some things
just don’t change. The agency that I direct provides
school supplies for homeless children, and our stock
room shelves are loaded with reassuringly familiar
items: No. 2 yellow pencils (with virgin erasers),
wide-rule notebook paper, Elmer’s glue (granted, now in
stick form rather than the fragrant paste or messy
liquid of my early years), composition notebooks with
black and white mottled covers, and to me, the essential
symbol of hope and promise: a new box of Crayola
crayons.
For BPW, now
in its 87th year in Raleigh, some things have stayed
remarkably steady and predictable, like the yellow and
green of the Crayola box. We are and will always be a
group organized for the empowerment, advocacy, and
support of working women. The way we accomplish our
mission, however, and the vocabulary we use to talk
about who we are and what we do has moved with the
times.
This month,
we will learn about key shifts in our working
environment. Who better to reflect on changing
perspectives in the Triangle than Ruth Sheehan, feature
columnist and award winning journalist for The News and
Observer (www.newsandobserver.com). Ms. Sheehan has
honed to perfection the art of putting a small frame on
one portion of a huge canvas, painting with carefully
chosen words, so that we can see an important issue in a
new way.
And who
better to illustrate the paradigm shift of how we work
than Kella Hatcher, J.D. and Maryanne Perrin, MBA,
entrepreneurs (and moms) who started a new staffing firm
called Balancing Professionals (www.balancingprofessionals.com),
which links degreed professionals with alternative work
arrangements such as flex time or job sharing for the
mutual benefit of a company’s bottom line and a working
woman’s need for balance and choice.
For a closer
look at the changing trends for Americans, look at the
national website, www.bpwusa.org, and review “101 Facts
on the Status of Workingwomen.” Then join us on
September 27 to listen, share and learn as we “Stay
Current in a Rapidly Changing World.”
Oh, and
don’t forget your No. 2 pencil. We’ll provide the
crayons!
Laura Benson
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September Meeting |
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A panel
speaking on the topic of Business Trends in a
Rapidly Changing World will be the featured
presentation at BPW/Raleigh’s dinner meeting on
Tuesday, September 27. Panelists include:
Ruth Sheehan, Columnist, Raleigh N&O, Maryanne
Perrin and Kella Hatcher;
Balancing Professionals.
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Meeting Details |
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Meeting Location:
Embassy Suites Hotel, Raleigh-Crabtree (4700
Creedmoor Rd.)
Dinner prices are $20 for members and $35 for
guests/visitors.
Reservation Required: You can make your
reservation
on line, or call 899-5043. Your checks
should be received by the Friday before the
meeting. Reservation Deadline: NOON on the
Friday prior to the meeting. Make checks payable
to BPW/Raleigh and mail to P.O. Box 1851, Cary,
NC 27512-1851
Please note: Members who have a "standing
reservation" and fail to attend (without
canceling) two successive meetings will be
removed from the "standing reservation" list.
5:30
- Open Networking
6:15 - Welcome and Dinner
6:50 - Dessert & Coffee, Introduction of Guests,
New Member Update
7:00 - Program
7:30 - Business
8:00 - Birthday Bonus, Adjournment
Map to Meeting
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Member News |
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BPW's President-elect, Lea-Ann Berst, will
launch a new business later this month -- an
online entertainment and recreation Web site
http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=d8oxeobab.0.jeo6xobab.agi9ikbab.53&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thesociallight.com.
The
Web site will launch on September 22 with a
Launch Party featuring Soul Kitchen and The Bull
City Horns! Date: Tuesday September 22, 2005, 9p
Location: Michael Dean’s
Details: Doors open at 9p on the patio and
lounge. Appetizer specials in the lounge and
lots of free giveaways throughout the night.
Soul Kitchen will be performing at 10p.
What’s so Special?
The
joint will be jumping! And there are lots of
giveaways -- $250 gas cards! Jewelry! Hurricane
hockey tickets! A weekend at the Beach! Personal
Trainer time! and much, much more.
To
submit "Member News" email
Theresa Carter
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News from the Board |
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 The
BPW/Raleigh business meeting will have a
temporary location change. The Oct. 4 (Tuesday),
Nov. 1 (Tuesday), and Dec. 6 (Tuesday) meetings
will be moved to the offices of
Web Design Studio, 3131 RDU Center Drive,
Suite 275, Morrisville. RDU Center Drive is
located off Aviation Parkway, immediately north
of I-40.
All
BPW/Raleigh members are encouraged to attend our
monthly business meetings. These meetings are a
great chance for you to get involved with our
organization! During our business meetings we
work to meet our goals for the year, establish
programming and events initiatives, and
check-point with committee chairs. Please join
us to help us make a difference: first Tuesday
of every month, 6:30 - 8pm.
Communications Committee: The first draft of our
Communications Plan is under review by the
Board. Still time to join this committee!
Treasurer: Did you know you can renew your
membership on line? Just go to the BPW website!
Just
a quick reminder about Standing Reservations. If
you would like to be added or removed from the
list, please let
Eri n Campbell know. If you know that you
will not be able to attend a meeting, make sure
you let her know by either emailing her directly
or by emailing through the BPW email or by
calling 899-5043 by the Friday before the
Tuesday night meeting.
Contact Current
Board Members
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Birthday Girl! |
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Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating
birthdays in September!
Ladies, don't forget your $10-15 gift for
this month's Birthday Bonus! For our newer
members, we have the Birthday Bonus at each
meeting to raise funds for our Scholarship
Fund. Each member brings a gift during the
month of their birthday and chances are sold
to win these gifts with all proceeds going
to our Scholarship Fund.
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