THE NEXT BIG DINNER MEETING IS . . .
MONTHLY DINNER MEETINGS - 2nd Thursday of the month
Wedgewood Banquet Center at Buenaventura Golf Course
Where: 5880 Olivas Park Drive, Ventura
When: 5:30 – 6:30 Networking, 6:30 – 8:30 Dinner and Speaker (to become a meeting sponsor, contact Sheila Lowe).
August 12 will be a special Networking meeting. Everyone gets 30 seconds to introduce themselves, with prizes given to the best commercials. Here's your chance to be funny, be witty, be clever. Start practicing now!
September 9 - Speaker Lexie Welanetz: Undoing the Do-aholic
(and the Spirit of Networking Award will be presented)
October 14 - VCPWN will reprise its highly successful Business Expo. Stay tuned for details.
November 11 - Special Veteran's Day speaker (and Silent Auction)
December is dark--see you January 13, 2011
January 13, 2011 -- Dr. Priscilla Partridge de Garcia -- 10 Hints for Bettering your Mental Health.
“Clean Out Your Desk and Help A School”
You know that old adage about it’s better to give than to receive? What if you could do both at the same time? And it won’t cost any money!!
Shirley Jones, The Artful Organizer has partnered with Support for the Kids to organize a “Clean Out Your Desk and Help A School” event.
Sponsor a Meeting
Want to get your business information on every chair and dinner table? You can - as a meeting sponsor. For the low sum of $100 (for members) you can pepper your materials AND have five minutes on the platform to promote your business.
The August 12 meeting is our semi-annual all networking meeting - wouldn't you like to have your materials be the focal point of the meeting? August is available....
In September the Wind Beneath My Wings Award is given. We'll have a speaker and YOU as the sponsor. Contact me or any leadership team member.
Do you judge a book by its cover?
I just guest-blogged on this question at http://bit.ly/91cmcg
My next book in the Forensic Handwriting Mystery series will be released July 6, and I'm having a party to celebrate. If you are a lover of mysteries and would like to attend, RSVP to me at sheila@sheilalowe.com You don't have to be a VCPWN member, just someone who enjoys reading.
Sheila Lowe
Coming soon: a new benefit for members
VCPWN and Staples office supply are working together to create a consortium that will give our members discounts on supplies they use every day. Details at the June meeting. Just one more reason to join our great organization.
Be a Dolphin NOT a Shark!
Learn to NETWORK with the Dolphins and Win out over the Sharks!
VCPWN 2010 Annual Report
2010 President’s Annual Report, presented at the May 13, 2010 general meeting
What this leadership team has accomplished over the past year:
• A highly successful Business Expo
• President’s tea party – navigators and board members met to brainstorm
• Executive board members and Committee chairs were rewarded with a free membership for the year (co-chairs split)
• Began community outreach in small ways by giving our share of the 50/50 drawing to a charity of the meeting sponsors’ choice, and we voted to plus make up the donation to $100
Help Carol Leish raise money for a great cause!
Carol Leish will be on the Radio on May 19 between 11:30 and 12:00 on KKZZ 1400 AM with Susan Burrell on "Living Your Inspired Life."
She'a also raising money for a good cause...
On Wednesday, June 16th, I'm going behind bars for a great cause - the Muscular Dystrophy Association's Ventura Lock Up. I'm a jailbird for Jerry's Kids! The local chapter of the MDA has challenged me to raise $1,600 in bail money to support local families living with a neuromuscular disease.
Honor our Sisters this week!
Thurs evening, May 12, we will be presenting our Spirit of Networking award. This is a very, very special honor earned by one of our members for truly embodying what it is to be a "Networking Queen" in the highest interpretation of those words. Please join us as we honor previous honorees, but especially to help us present this award to someone very, very special to our organization.
I'm looking forward to seeing you there.
Sue Gary
