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March 2009
NAWBO's mission is to strengthen the wealth-creating capacity of its members and promote economic development; to create innovative and effective change in the business culture; to build strategic alliances, coalitions and affiliations; and to transform public policy and influence opinion makers worldwide.
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Look Ahead
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - NAWBO Board Meeting - 8:00 - 9:30am
Office Environment Company - 1136 W Market Street
Thursday, March 12, 2009 - Women Business Owner of the Year VIP Reception
6 - 8pm - The Olmsted - 3701 Frankfort Avenue
Friday, March 20, 2009 - Women Business Owner of the Year - 11:30am - 1:00pmDowntown Marriott - Silent Auction begins at 10:30am Members/Corporate Sponsors Register Now
Thursday, March 26, 2009 - Member Open House - 5:00 - 7:00pm
Martini's Italian Bistro - 4021 Summit Plaza Drive - Summit Mall Complimentary Appetizers
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - April Meeting - 11:30am - 1:00pm
Captain's Quarters - 5700 Captain's Quarters Road Speaker: Wendy Darling - Thumbprints International | |
Woman Business Owner of the Year VIP Reception - 6 - 8pm
Location: The Olmsted - 3701 Frankfort Avenue
NAWBO will honor the distinguished finalists for the 15th Annual Woman Business Owner of the Year Award.
The 2009 Finalists are:
Henrietta Pepper - The Pepper Group
Rose Walton - ETA Daycare Center LLC
TO RSVP for the VIP Reception, click here or call 502.625.0248.
Sponsored by:
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On March 20th, 2009 at the Downtown Marriott, women from all over our community will gather to celebrate the accomplishments of outstanding women business owners in our region. Our message, "Women Mean Business" especially rings true when you consider that the estimated 93,233 privately held, majority women owned firms in Kentucky generate $9.3 billion in sales and employ 71,566 people.
The 15th Annual 2009 Woman Business Owner of The Year Luncheon (WBOY) will bring together a diverse audience from the business community representing sole proprietorships to large corporations with hundreds of employees. It is by celebrating the economic development successes of women owned businesses that our entire city succeeds.
2009 WBOY Sponsors
VIP Reception Sponsor - GLI
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Gallopalooza Event
Gallopalooza 2009 is kicking off with a 3 day public preview event held at Churchill Downs April 9, 10 and 11. These are all-day events and are open to the public. This will be the only time the horses will be altogether before being placed around the city for the summer, so it's a great time to see them and take pictures.
On Thursday evening, April 9th from 5:00-8:00pm, local area business and professional associations are invited to join us for a special networking event. Admission price is $5.00 and a cash bar and concessions will be available. Entrance to the event is through Gate 10 and there will be ample free parking. |
Create Your Own NAWBO Sponsorship Package
NAWBO depends heavily on our partnerships with corporate sponsors. Without them we would not be able to support the programs we offer our members and the business community. In return, our sponsors enjoy visibility among women business owners
and community leaders. In addition to the WBOY sponsorships and chapter sponsorships
at the levels of Visionary ($15,000), Leadership ($10,000), Champion ($5,000) and Supporting ($3,000), our chapter recently created a sponsorship program called Create Your Own Package. Any business can take advantage of the visibility offered by these options.
Create Your Own Package Sponsorships:
$1,500 Meeting and educational seminar sponsor
$1,500 Presenting sponsor of WBOY silent auction, includes booth
$1,000 E-newsletter sponsor, with linked ad and two company articles for 1 year.
$1,000 Printed newsletter sponsor, with ½-page ad and article in each issue for one year/ 6
issues
$ 500 Educational material sponsor
$ 500 Company logo on website with link
$ 500 Postage sponsor
$ 500 Food & beverage sponsor for event, with visibility on promotional materials
$ 280 Table at annual signature event
$ 250 Half a corporate table (4 seats) at WBOY luncheon and awards ceremony
$ 250 Featured article in E-newsletter or printed newsletter
$ 200 One-year participation in Buy NAWBO 1st Program
$ 200 Promotional or information material at a NAWBO meeting
$ 150 Ad in E-newsletter
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| Texas Hold'em Event
NAWBO member Alonna Bailey, in conjunction with the Associated Builders & Contractors is hosting a Texas Hold'em event on March 6th at her husband's business Bailey Tools to benefit the ABC Day of Caring.
Click here to download the flyer, fill out and fax to Alonna at 502.451.1700.
A fun evening for a great cause. |
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NAWBO Louisville RFP's
NAWBO Louisville has issued RFP's for venues and food and
beverage service for our monthly meetings. The RFP information is
available on the web site under the Programs category NAWBO RFP Forms which you can link to here:
Food & Beverage RFP
Venue RFP
For information, contact Kerry Stevenson, Programming Chair at programming@nawbolouisville.org.
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Member Perks - Buy NAWBO 1st Program
In the Member's Area of the web site is the Buy NAWBO 1st program where NAWBO Members, Sponsors and Partners can offer discounts on goods and services to NAWBO Members. You can access it under Membership and Programs, but you must be logged in to see the discounts offered. There are already quite a few great deals available. To see information on this new program, visit the Buy NAWBO 1st page on the NAWBO Louisville web site.
Current offers include:
- Corporate Sponsor Louisville Magazine offers these discounts to NAWBO members:
- 10% discount on advertising and 50% discount on subscriptions
- Regular one-year subscription price is $22. NAWBO members pay $11. Two-year is $36, $18 for NAWBO members.
- Royal Fine Jewelers offers NAWBO members a 25% discount off of jewelry repair and appraisals
- Corporate Sponsor Underwired Magazine offers a 10% discount on advertising to NAWBO members
- Corporate Sponsor Kentuckiana Healthy Woman Magazine offers a 20% discount on advertising
- Corporate Sponsor Today's Woman offers a 10% discount off rate card for ads placed in Today's Woman, Today's Transitions and Today's Family magazines
- Corporate Sponsor Xstreme Media, LLC offers a 10% discount off any of their services
- Corporate Sponsor Davis Jewelers offers a NAWBO Discount card good for a 15% discount off of your purchase
- Moss Hill offers a 15% discount off all products
- Bikinis and Bifocals offers a 10% advertising discount for ads placed on their web site
- Evanston Publishing offers a Free book consultation and a Free Guidebook "Selling Your Book"
- J Vary & Associates offers a 1 hour free session with Joe Vary
- Signarama Downtown offers a 10% discount off services
- TKT & Associates offers NAWBO members a $200 discount off of their Fast Track Growth Venture program
- Utterly Organized offers your 1st hour of organizing Free
- Kentuckiana Business Forum offers a 10% discount off of advertising in the magazine
- Home Cuisine offers a 10% discount off of meal plan prices
- Sunny Daize Boutique is offering members a 10% discount off their purchase
- ProMoter, Inc. offers a complimentary communications audit and a10% discount on follow-up services
- Blooms in LaGrange and Betsye's Blooms in Simpsonville are offering a 15% discount to NAWBO members and sponsors on all products.
- Event Photographers, Inc. is offering a 10% discount off any professional service, either in-house or on-location. - NEW
To see additional details, LOG IN to the NAWBO Louisville web site and select Buy NAWBO 1st under Membership.
If you have special offers for NAWBO members and are interested in participating in the Buy NAWBO 1st program, send the details to Lesa Seibert, Xstreme Media, LLC at lesa@xstrememedia.com.
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| Persimmon Ridge Offers Special to NAWBO Members and Sponsors
Persimmon Ridge would like to extend to all NAWBO members and sponsors the opportunity to 'put players on the course'. In 2009, as a NAWBO member and/or sponsor, you will have the ability to call Persimmon Ridge Golf Shop and make a tee time for your employees, clients and friends. This courtesy is being extended as a win/win proposition for your business and Persimmon Ridge, allowing non-members access to the course in off-times for
Persimmon Ridge.
To take advantage of this offer, simply call the golf shop at 241-0819 up to one week in advance to schedule the desired tee time. This offer is for tee times after 1 p.m. Tuesdays thru Thursdays, and after 2 p.m. Fridays thru Sundays. The golf shop will have a list of
NAWBO members and sponsors. You must be the one to reserve the time, and must guarantee payment with your credit card. Your guests can then pay at registration if you prefer. The standard member's guest rate will apply--$52/weekday; $61 Fridays thru
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Legislative News
By, Lisa Cates, Public Policy Chair
State Bills
House Bill 26 (Create new small business tax credit)
· Introduced by Rep. Tanya Pullin (D) on January 6, 2009, to allow the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority to create and administer a non-refundable small business tax credit awarded based on the creation of new jobs and purchase of certain equipment.
Referred to the House Appropriations and Revenue Committee on January 7, 2009.
HB 342 - Introduced by Rep. Tim Moore ( R )
AN ACT relating to employer tax credits and declaring an emergency. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to allow a job stimulus tax credit to employers hiring a qualifying employee certified as unemployed at least 30 days prior to employment on or after April 1, 2009, but before April 1, 2011; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the job stimulus credit; EMERGENCY
Feb 9-introduced in House
Feb 10-to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
FEDERAL
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
WASHINGTON - President Obama signed his first bill into law on approving equal-pay legislation that he said would "send a clear message that making our economy work means making sure it works for everybody."
Mr. Obama was surrounded by a group of beaming lawmakers, most but not all of them Democrats, in the East Room of the White House as he affixed his signature to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, a law named for an Alabama woman who at the end of a 19-year career as a supervisor in a tire factory complained that she had been paid less than men.
After a Supreme Court ruling against her, Congress approved the legislation that expands workers' rights to sue in this kind of case, relaxing the statute of limitations.
Now 70, Ms. Ledbetter discovered when she was nearing retirement that her male colleagues were earning much more than she was. A jury found her employer, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company plant in Gadsden, Ala., guilty of pay discrimination. But in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court threw out the case, ruling that she should have filed her suit within 180 days of the date that Goodyear first paid her less than her peers.
Congress tried to pass a law that would have effectively overturned the decision while President George W. Bush was still in office, but the White House opposed the bill; opponents contended it would encourage lawsuits and argued that employees could delay filing their claims in the hope of reaping bigger rewards. But the new Congress passed the bill, which restarts the six-month clock every time the worker receives a paycheck .
Ms. Ledbetter will not see any money as a result of the legislation Mr. Obama signed into law. But what she has gotten, aside from celebrity, is personal satisfaction, as she said in the State Dining Room after the signing ceremony.
"Goodyear will never have to pay me what it cheated me out of," she said. "In fact, I will never see a cent. But with the president's signature today I have an even richer reward."
An Excerpt from CNNMoney.com http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/17/smallbusiness/smallbiz_tax ...It appears that the new administration and the Democrat-controlled Congress are unlikely to raise taxes, at least in the short term. Doing so would be a disastrous move, given the deep recession and the need for economic stimulus, says tax expert Ken Goldstein, an economist with The Conference Board, a not-for-profit research firm in New York City. And President Obama has publicly supported small business tax breaks. Unfortunately, the tax picture isn't so pretty at the state level. Every state but Vermont has a balanced-budget requirement - meaning that, unlike the feds, state governments can't engage in deficit spending to goose the economy. "States are getting slammed, and they will have to make some ugly choices," says James Horney, a researcher at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington, D.C., think tank. Look for cash-starved states to try to land a big chunk of federal stimulus aid. But they're still bound to fall short of their fiscal requirements and will likely raise taxes and cut spending to make up the difference. In the longer term, the federal tax picture also looks bleak. Obama has prepared Americans for record trillion-dollar deficits in each of the next two years. But at some point somebody will have to pay for all that spending, and a few years hence, capital gains and other taxes will probably be hiked. With the future of taxes cloudy, small business owners have all the more reason to take advantage of all tax breaks that are available now. |
eNewsletter Promotional Items & Articles
In an effort to keep the eNewsletter fresh and informative, we are instituting new guidelines for copy submissions regarding members' business-promotion articles. Copy content should not exceed 250 words for these types of articles. By limiting the word count, we will be able to feature more members' information.
Keep those articles coming in, as the eNewsletter has been a great success thus far!
The deadline for the April issue is March 25. Send your articles about promotions, news coverage, accomplishments, grand openings, opportunities, etc. to director@nawbolouisville.org or lesa@xstrememedia.com.
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Ads In NAWBO Louisville Print Newsletter
Advertise in the NAWBO Louisville print newsletter and get your message out to the whole community. Issues are published in Feburary, April, June, August, October and December.
Ad Sizes & Rates:
Business Card Size: 3.5" x 2" vertical or horizontal, $75
¼-Page: 3.75" w x 5.25" h, - $100
½-Page: 7.5" w x 5.25" h, - $150
Full-Page: 7.5" w x 10.5" h, - $300
6 X Rates: You will receive a discount for ¼-, ½- and full-page ads if you commit to six consecutive issues.
All ads are to be submitted as high-res pdfs. To ask questions or reserve space, please contact
Denise Spalding at Allegra Print & Imaging East, 502-895-1530.
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NAWBO Louisville E-Newsletter Committee
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Contact Information
Helen Overfield, NAWBO Louisville Executive Director
email: director@nawbolouisville.org
phone: 502-625-0248
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