Sticking it to The Man!

by Jennifer Gleeson Blue, Founder of Get There From Here

I’ve worked hard all year. Really hard.

I’ve been creative, helpful, thoughtful, productive. In addition to tending to my own business, I’ve launched a joint venture with a colleague, taken on a vice-presidency for an executive board and dealt with some significant medical issues.

So why is that when I find myself sitting in my home office at 3:00pm on a workday in the middle of December, in my bathrobe with a guitar across my lap, searching for the chords to one of my favorite songs by The New Pornographers, I feel guilty?

Green Your Theme

by Jessie Upp, Founder of GreenYourTheme.com

In the past, I've involved myself deeply in facilitating leadership, personal and professional development in both home and corporate environments. As a Registered Counselor, I developed a curriculum to prevent unnecessary conflict in personal or professional relationships. As I started to train-the-trainers (mediators and therapists) last year, I began to see how powerful the curriculum applied to our physical environments as well.

GreenYourTheme.com is a tool to prevent unnecessary conflict between event producer and earth. It is just one more manifestation of creating harmony within our environment and this has helped me declare my vision here.

New Venture 101 – Choosing the Right Partners and Creating Loyalty (second of two part series).

by Gia Machlin, Founder of EcoPlum

Back in July, I wrote about how one defines success in business New Venture 101 – Defining Success. That seems like a lifetime ago – things have certainly taken quite an interesting turn since then, haven’t they?

In this economic environment, starting a new business can be quite challenging. Funding sources have dried up and many entrepreneurs are looking to build partnerships and alliances to help get off the ground without a large capital outlay. Choosing the right partners can mean the difference between success and failure.

Incubator Program Overview

Note: All positions have been filled for January 2009.  If you would like to contribute to the program in any way, please feel free to send your resume and ideas to [email protected].

 

The purpose of the incubator is to enable budding women entrepreneurs to bring to life their social enterprises by providing support and structure from leading experts in the social entrepreneurship field, peer support, and team support.  As a result of this incubator program, six women will be empowered to breakthrough and bring their ventures to a critical stage of development.  What makes this incubator unique is its focus on women, social enterprise, and its team approach, in addition to the traditional incubator components of training and access to networks and information resources.