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June 8th, 2010Creating True Wealth Entrepreneurship Instructor’s Course
November 2nd, 2009Based in Chicago, IL, Entrenuity’s purpose is to “turn students into business leaders with character.” On December 8-11, 2009, Entrenuity will offer a
Creating True Wealth Entrepreneurship Instructor’s Course
This course is targeted for Instructors Teaching Entrepreneurship to Youth Aged 12 to 18. Instructors will learn a new approach to teaching entrepreneurship skills and spiritual development to youth that uses a fun, experiential and team based training methodology.
Here is a overview of the
Course Agenda:
- Assessing the goals and objectives of combining Entrepreneurship Education and Character Development and how to meet them.
- How instructors can role model entrepreneurial behavior and godliness in the marketplace with teens.
- How to develop a creative learning environment to maximize students’ confidence and skill development.
- Effective facilitation skills and how to teach through facilitation.
- How to use the Creating True Wealth and Business Ventures curriculum and integrate them into different youth programs.
- Ways to integrate practical, theoretical and simulated business and spiritual teaching.
What You Will Receive from the Training:
- 32 hours of hands-on, interactive and high level training
- Youth Entrepreneurship Training Manual
- Ideas and resources on how to establish or expand a youth entrepreneurship program, develop business plan competitions and establish a mentoring program
- Youth Entrepreneurship Instructor Certificate of Achievement
- In-depth knowledge of the Creating True Wealth Business Ventures youth entrepreneurship curriculum, available in different levels for youth aged 12 to 25, which includes:
- Preplanned lesson plans
- Up to 40 hours of instruction for your grade level
- Instructor’s Facilitation Manual
- Business simulation games and Business theory
- Practical business start-up guides
Registration Information:
$395.00 per person before November 30, 2009 (limited to first 10 persons)
$495.00 per person after December 1, 2009
Group Rates Available for groups of 5 or more…
Use Discount Code: DC1209 when registering for training discount.
Click here to register.
Raise More Money with Your Website: What Nonprofits Need to Know
October 21st, 2009Progressive Business Conferences presents a one hour webinar on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 1:00 pm ET
You can find full details and register here.
Below is an overview of the Conference Agenda:
Building Effective Content – Attract the Attention of Prospects & Donors
** Tips to write content that attracts interest & promotes your cause
** How to effectively use video and images on your website
** Strategies to use blogs to generate donor involvement
Increasing Site Traffic – Success Secrets Nonprofits Need to Know
** Search Engine Optimization techniques to increase your site traffic
** Keys to establishing performance measures for your website
** Online activities that promote donor involvement
** Other effective techniques to boost website traffic & increase donations
Maximizing Your Donations with the Power of the Web
** 20 tips to drive more traffic to your site
** 7 components of a highly effective website that gets results
** 3 important changes to make to your site to increase donations
Live question and answer session – Have your specific nonprofit questions answered
Towel & Basin’s Nashville office auto – a Collector Car – is for sale
December 31st, 2008Towel & Basin has owned and operated a 1979 Mercury Cougar XR7 for a number of years but no longer has need for it in our Nashville office.
The car has been well maintained and used lightly, mostly in the Nashville vicinity. But the auto is road worthy and has been driven throughout Tennessee and made a couple of trips to Towel & Basin’s Center for Urban Strategy in New York City.
The 1979 Mercury Cougar XR7 is not considered a classic auto yet, but it does have collector car potential. For more details and photos, go to Mercury Cougar XR7
Resource for Networking & Fundraising
August 8th, 2008The 2008 New York Nonprofit Conference sponsored by the Direct Marketing Association Federation will be held in New York City on August 14-15. For more information, visit: http://www.the-dma.org/conferences/dmanonprofitny/
TGIF . . . No, TGIGF
March 21st, 2008On this day each week in some circles, it s common to hear people say “TGIF” (Thank God It’s Friday) — signaling the end of the traditional work week. Today, we might say TGIGF. “Thank God it’s Good Friday. The day in the year when Christians commemorate the suffering and crucifixion of Jesus and his declaration, “It is finished.”
On a Friday when it seems evil defeats good; love looses to fear, political and religious leaders collude with each other and common folk to make self-serving decisions — this Friday Christians came to call “Good.” How can such a day of humiliation, violence and unjustified suffering be considered good? Because as the gospel preacher reminded his congregation, “It’s Friday . . . but Sunday’s coming!” Come Sunday, good triumphs over evil, love transforms violence, life defeats death.
In the light of that triumphant Sunday, Charles Wesley reflected on the suffering, violence and death of the previous Friday:
“And can it be that I should gain an int’rest in the Savior’s blood?
Died He for me, who caused his pain? For me who Him to death pursued?
Amazing love! How can it be that Thou my God, shouldst die for me?”
And so those who claim to follow this Savior pray to him today:
“Lord Jesus Christ, you stretched out your arms of love on the hard wood of the cross that everyone might come within the reach of your saving embrace: So clothe us in your Spirit that we, reaching forth our hands in love, may bring those who do not know you to the knowledge and love of you; for the honor of your Name. Amen.”
(Book of Common Prayer)
A New Commandment
March 20th, 2008For those who follow the calendar of the Western wing of the Christian Church, today is Holy Thursday, or Maundy Thursday.
“Maundy” is from the word mandatum, the first word in the Latin version of Jesus’s statement: “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you…”
This imperative of Jesus is the conclusion, or his call for response to the “lesson” he had just given the disciples. This “living lesson” is recorded in John 13:3-5. “Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things unto his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God, rose from supper, laid aside his garments, and girded himself with a towel. Then he began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded.”
It is from these actions of Jesus that the founders of Towel & Basin choose its name. We seek to “serve . . . so you may serve others.” (How we can serve you? How you are serving others?)
Now, for many this commandment of Jesus is no longer new, yet the call today is to re-new our response — to make it “new” again in our daily habits and choices.
So this day let us commit again to “walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God.”
Twelve Days of Christmas??
December 26th, 2007Did you wish anyone “Merry Christmas” today? Â
Many might respond to this question with another one: “What?” or if of a certain age, “Duh” — since in the Western calendar, Christmas Day is December 25 and today is the 26th. (“Duh”)
But for Christians in the so-called “liturgical tradition,” the Twelve Days of Christmas is more than the song with the same name that is so familiar to most everyone.
Yet even for those whose church tradition emphasizes the Twelve Days in the Season of Christmas, it is often celebrated differently. As Professor Dennis Bratcher observes: “The origin and counting of the Twelve Days is complicated, and is related to differences in calendars, church traditions, and ways to observe this holy day in various cultures .” To read Professor Batcher’s full article go to: http://www.crivoice.org/cy12days.html. You can also find a devotional for each of these twelve days on the same page just below his article.Â
Why not consider expanding your celebration of Christmas to Christmastide — from the Day to the Season of Christmas —  through this ancient means of observing the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany. In that spirit, we at Towel & Basin Ministries wish you Merry Christmas (tide).