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MEMBER NEWS
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The North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA) Board of Directors approved the adoption of the 2012 annual Minority/Women-Owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) industry-specific goals on December 21, 2011, in contracts for construction services and professional services.
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WBENC NATIONAL CONFERENCE
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National Conference
will be in Orlando Florida June 19-21
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BUNDLING WEBINARS
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WBCS is offering another series of webinars to WBEs and Sustaining Members to learn about the advantages of bundling and saving $$ on membership dues while supporting WBCS programming.
WBEs .. learn how to get the Early Bird pricing for exhibiting at businessWORKS! ... the Council's largest business trade show!
Sustaining Members ... budget planning is made simpler by bundling your WBCS financial support.
Friday, January 27, 2012
WBE Webinar
10:00 a.m.
Facilitated by Susan Ward of Texas Moving Co., Inc.
WBE Member and Member of the Sponsorship Team
Friday, January 27, 2012
Sustaining Member Webinar
2:00 p.m.
Facilitated by Grace Hastings of Oncor
Sustaining Member and 2012 Gala Co-Chair
To sign up for a webinar, please contact Alma Garcia
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GALA SPONSORSHIP
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Join the following members who are supporting
the 2012 Parade of Stars Awards Gala.
You will get event signage, sponsor slideshow and insert in Gala program. Register now before the January 12 deadline!
Title Sponsor
BNSF Railway
Ad-A-Staff
AGE Industries, Ltd.
Airport Bridge Systems, LLC
Alcatel-Lucent
Alltex Coring & Sawing
American Airlines
Anderson Asphalt & Concrete Paving, LLC
Argent Associates
ASAP Solutions Group, LLC
BIZPHYX
BKM Total Office of Texas
Brinker International
Building Team Solutions
Business Interiors
CCCi
CESCO, Inc.
CFj Manufacturing
Consumer and Market Insights (CMI)
CRC Group
Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD)
Dell
DFW International Airport
DFW Movers & Erectors, Inc
Energy Future Holdings
etc group
Event Source Professionals
ExxonMobil
FedEx Office
Fit to Print
Fluor
Frito-Lay
Guardian Packaging Industries
ICON Information Consultants, LP
Imap Global Logistics
J MAR & Associates
JCPenney Company
Joy Promotions
Lefran World Products
Lockheed Martin
Marfield Corporate Stationery
MDI Group
Native Nations Procurement Systems, Inc.
Oncor
PCPC Direct, Ltd.
Peak Promotions
Peck Training Group, LLC
Prestige Maintenance USA
ProSys Information Systems
Purdy-McGuire
Sanmina-SCI Corporation
Southwest Bank
Techni-Tool, Inc.
Technology Media Group
Texas Instruments
The Transcend Group
The TransSynergy Group
Warrior Group, Inc.
Think Energy
Trans-Expedite, Inc.
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CORRECTION
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In our previous issue, the link to one of our Gala Diamond sponsors was incorrect. Please note, the correct link for Techni-Tool. We apologize for this error. |
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PRESIDENT'S LETTER
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 Happy New Year from the entire staff at WBCS! We are all looking forward to the year ahead and are fully focused on bringing great procurement, education, and networking opportunities to our members. As I'm sure is true for each of you, we are outlining our goals for 2012. Our entire purpose is to be a valuable resource in helping you grow your business. This is your Council and I hope that you will identify specific ways that you will utilize your membership this year to do just that - grow your business. With over 80 Sustaining Corporate Members and 1,000 WBE members, there are many avenues for business connections through the WBCS. I challenge each of you to identify just one new way that you will utilize your membership this year to benefit your business. All of us at the Council are available to help you explore the opportunities. We are kicking off the year, as we do every year, with our Parade of Stars Awards Gala. This year it will be held at the fabulous new Omni Hotel in Dallas on January 19th and promises to be a fun evening with over 500 corporate decision-makers and WBE executives in attendance. We will be recognizing the "best of the best" as we bestow awards on the Corporation and WBE of the Year, Advocate and Buyer of the Year, Rising Stars, and more. If you have attended in the past, you know what a great networking event this is. If you haven't attended, this might just be the "new thing" you do this year at the Council. It's a hopeful time, a time for believing in all that we can accomplish, and a time for building and strengthening the relationships that will help us get there. Here's to the prosperity we can achieve together!
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2012 GALA
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Don't miss the most fabulous event of the year honoring YOU!
Online registration for the 2012 Parade of Stars Awards Gala ends January 12, 2012.
Register now!
Event Schedule
5:00 - 5:30 p.m. Registration Check-In
5:30 - 6:15 p.m. Cocktail Reception
6:15 - 7:15 p.m. Plated Meal & Live Auction
7:15 - 7:30 p.m. Jewelry Presentation
7:30 - 8:30 p.m. Awards Program
8:30 p.m. VIP Party
Note: One free drink ticket will be given to each guest (upon check-in) to be used during the cocktail reception.
Complimentary beer and wine (only) available during the Live Auction and Awards Gala; cash bar for all other drinks.
Jewelry Raffle
Diamonds are a girl's best friend!
Buy a $5 raffle ticket at Gala for a chance to win a beautiful art deco white gold necklace and earring set with over 30 cut diamonds in it.
Spend $20 for five tickets and increase your chances! Someone is going home with this beautiful jewelry set.
It just might be YOU!
Don't forget!
Check out the great items we have up for auction!
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BUNDLE AND $AVE
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WBCS Members
Bundle and $ave for 2012!
Happy New Year from the
WBCS Red Button Sponsorship Team!
We hope that one of your 2012 Goals for your company or business is to be more active in the WBCS and use your membership to its fullest potential.
The BEST way to achieve that is to become a sponsor for one or more of the WBCS major events.
Sponsorship details are attached but you must HURRY! Deadline to be a bundler or to get the EARLY BIRD pricing for businessWorks! is February 1st.
For questions on bundling contact:
Susan Ward, Lee Ann Packard or Sou Lam
For questions on invoicing contact Flo Cox
HURRY!! Don't delay! Get your company name in print at the major events for the WBCS in 2012.
After January 31, 2012,
the cost to exhibit goes up.
Corporate (Sustaining) Members bundle and saveJoin those who have already bundled for 2012 A+ Student Staffing Ad-A-Staff ADP-LLC AGE Industries Alcatel-Lucent Alltex Coring & Sawing American Airlines Anderson Asphalt & Concrete Aztec Promotional Group Bank of America / Merrill Lynch BIZPHYX BKM Total Office of Texas BNSF Railway Brinker International CCCi CFj Manufacturing Consumer & Market Insights CRC Group DFW International Airport Energy Future Holdings ExxonMobil Flour Frito-Lay Guardian Packaging ICON Information Consultants IES Imap Global Logistics Jackson Walker JCPenney Company Marfield Corporate Stationery Oncor Peak Promotions Peck Training Group Prestige Maintenance USA Purdy-McGuire Red Giant Oil Ricochet Fuel Distributors Sanmina-SCI Corporation Sue Abrams Productions Techni-Tool Technology Media Group Telecopy Texas Instruments Texas Moving Co Think Energy Trans-Expedite The TransSynergy Group UPS Verizon Warrior Group WE Texas Windstream Communications
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ALL ABOUT AUSTIN
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The Austin Council Connection will meet at Book People January 31st at 11:30 am. This month Marny Lifshen will be the speaker. "Promote the BEST You!" In this engaging, interactive presentation, Marny will teach us how to build the the two key components of successful promotion in our careers: a strong personal brand and a diverse, powerful network. She will help us to understand what personal brands are and how we can build one that helps us achieve our goals as business owners and executives. She will cover the key elements of personal brands and give us specific steps for evaluating and redefining our own brands. Marny will also discuss networking -- in what is bound to be a new light for many of us. She will help us to embrace the true power of networking, teach us how to network "up," as well as showing us the common mistakes many professional women make.
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SUMMIT & SALUTE
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Building relationships with a potential customer is easier said than done. The challenge to shorten the sales cycle for most business owners continues to be the pinnacle that we strive to reach sooner rather than later.
These two challenges are at the core of what it takes to make a business thrive and survive in this extremely tight economy.
If you are interested in an event that can help you realize these goals then you will want to consider adding WBENC's Summit and Salute to your business development plan.
The Summit and Salute is WBENC's annual event in the spring that brings together a large number of C-level executives to participate in the "Top Corporation" ceremony that names the top corporations in America for women business owners, as well as every Council's WBE Star.
Yes, our local WBCS will recognize its WBE Business Star at this event.
This prestigious awards ceremony brings together top procurement and corporate executives, supplier diversity professionals, as well as other certified WBE's.
The event this year will be held March 21-22, 2012 at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront in Baltimore, MD and the major sponsors are Ernst & Young and Accenture.
The sessions during the day are dedicated to helping WBEs identify areas of new business opportunity, meet and network with other WBEs as well as Corporate Members. The Summit workshops are filled with "how-to" seminars that will help you target government and corporate business opportunities.
Don't miss the opportunity to shorten your sales cycle by networking among corporate and procurement professionals who are ready to talk business opportunities.
Early bird Registration is open until January 31st.
Written by
Patricia Rodriguez-Christian
WBE, WBENC Ambassador
President CRC Group and Bent Tree Florist
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NEW MEMBER ORIENTATION
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WBCS Orientation will be available in two formats throughout 2012 on the 4th Monday of the month from February thru November.
Our "face-to-face" orientation will alternate with a "webinar" on-line based presentation, so we can accommodate our regional members.
When you receive your "invitation" any member can register themselves or staff members for $5.00 (covers administrative costs).
This session is not just for new members but also gives all members a refresher on the "why and how" to use their membership as well as network with other members in attendance.
Face to face orientations will be held at the WBCS office
2201 N. Collins
Suite #158
Arlington, TX 76048
On-line orientation will require computer access.
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TABLE TOPIC LUNCHES
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Due to the remodeling project at Clampitt Paper in the Spring of 2012, members will notice a new location for Table Topic lunches at Brinker's Headquarters in Dallas.
David Robinson was his usual helpful self in securing the first Tuesday of the month dates through June.
We will be alternating lunches supplied by Big Barn Barbecue and Brinker's stable of great food sites.
Members, please make note of the "new" Table Topic location when you register starting in January.
Don't drive on autopilot to the Clampitt Creative Center....you will be all alone for lunch!
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