Archive for October, 2009

December’s meeting will be held Thursday December 17th at 5:30p.m. at the Red Lion Hotel in Sacramento.

Meet your business peers at NAWBO’s holiday dinner gathering. In the holiday spirit of giving, our meeting will be focused on our chapter’s “community giving” recipient for this year, Women’s Empowerment.

Special Guest Speaker: Amber K. Stott, Director of Community Partnerships for Women’s Empowerment

Women’s Empowerment’s mission is to educate and empower women who are homeless with the skills and confidence necessary to get a job, maintain a healthy lifestyle, and regain a home for themselves and their children.

Ms. Stott will speak about their organization’s history, impact and place in the Sacramento Community.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

AMBER K. STOTT – Director of Commnity Partnerships for Women’s Empowerment

Amber joined Women’s Empowerment in 2008. She brings with her eight years’ experience in nonprofit fundraising, communications, and marketing, and importantly, a deep commitment to women’s rights. She previously put her enthusiasm to work raising money and awareness for nonprofits WEAVE and Freedom from Hunger.

Amber is a member and past Board Member of the Sacramento Public Relations Association, and a member and Board Member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, serving on its marketing committee.

She has earned five public relations awards for nonprofit marketing. Amber has a Master’s degree from the University of Illinois in African Studies and Women’s Studies, traveling to South Africa on a Fulbright-Hayes to study Zulu. Amber speaks Danish (from her days as a Rotary exchange student) and elementary-level Zulu.

There is only one thing Amber is as passionate about as empowering women: food. She loves to grow it, bake it, eat it, and even read about it. She writes a food blog called Awake at the Whisk and writes about gardening, arts, and the environment as GreenBeet on the Sacramento news site SacRag.com.

November’s  meeting will be held Thursday November 19th at 5:30p.m. at the Hilton Sacramento Arden West in Sacramento. (Note that this is the same location that the October’s OWL Awards were held)

Special Guest Speaker: Susan Peters, Sacramento County Supervisor District 3 and current Chair of the Board of Supervisors

Ms. Peters will speak to us and answer questions about how she came to be a leader in our community. She will also give us advice about how to go about picking and choosing boards or commissions as a way to give back or volunteer in the community.

Be in the know and find out what to expect in the next several months in the Sacramento region.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

SUSAN PETERS – Supervisor, Third District

Susan Peters is serving her second term on the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors representing the Third District after having been first elected in 2004 and re-elected in 2008.

This year she is serving as Chair of both the Board of Supervisors and the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency.  In addition, she serves on a number of boards including the Sacramento Area Council of Governments where she chairs the Transportation Committee and the Sacramento Transportation Authority where she served as chair during 2006.

Since entering office, she has been a strong advocate for economic development and smart business growth to generate investment opportunities and good jobs for Sacramento County. 

Her career started in banking and she later was Treasurer beside her late husband Peter McCuen at McCuen Properties.  While serving as Board Chair of the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, she was a forceful voice for business and private enterprise in the region.  At the chamber she worked to locate Raley Field in West Sacramento and was the founding Chair of the Chamber’s “Perspectives” program, an annual conference hosting national and world leaders speaking on topical subjects.   She currently serves as Board Chair of the Leland Stanford Mansion Foundation which restored the historic home of California’s eighth governor.

SAVE THE DATE!

On October 21, 2010 the Sacramento Valley Chapter of NAWBO will celebrate its 13^th annual Outstanding Women Leaders(OWL) Awards Banquet at 6p.m.   This is our signature event of the year and we would like you to join us in support of this event which will honor not only women business owners but also women who are leaders in the business community in the Sacramento region.

For information about award categories, nomination forms, sponsorship opportunities and highlights from past events, see our OWL Awards page.

Highlights from past Events

2009 OWL Awards Recap
2008 OWL Awards Recipients

Celebrating Outstanding Women Leaders

The Outstanding Women Leaders Awards was implemented in 1997 to support and acknowledge women who start their own businesses or excel in the business community.  The event gives tribute to top achievers among women entrepreneurs and corporate leaders who have advanced the status of entrepreneurial excellence and community leadership.

Thanks to all members & guests who attended this year’s awards gala.  A portion of this year’s proceeds will be donated to Women’s Empowerment.  Next year’s nominations open in July and the 13th annual event is scheduled for Thursday, October 21, 2010.  Save the date!

Congratulations to all our Outstanding Women Leaders nominees and recipients (bolded)!   Read More

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You’ve read them all before: the how-to books and magazine articles telling you that staying afloat in the current marketplace takes tremendous effort. That it takes visibility and connections. How do you do that when your budget is limited? Or nonexistent?

Take Kim Silvers, for example.

Silvers worked in the corporate human resources world for more than 20 years before she decided to go into business for herself. Tired of office politics, long meetings and stuffy clothes, she cashed out her stock options and went on a self-described sabbatical for a year, working on building her new home in the meantime.

Risky as it was, and especially is during tough economic times, she wouldn’t trade it for anything. “There are only two things I missed about being in the corporate world when I first left: my group health insurance and the IT department,” she confesses. “I love the energy that comes with working for yourself. I still work long hours, but now there’s a direct relationship between the number of hours I work and how successful I am.” Read More