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"1st ANNUAL EMPOWERMENT LUNCHEON A GREAT SUCCESS!
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Thanks for Making the "1st Annual Empowerment Luncheon,
Mini-Tradeshow, & Youth Fundraiser" a Great Success! --Mack & Tekelia Kelly
See below for highlights of the event.
SIB's “1st Annual Empowerment Luncheon, Mini-Tradeshow, and Youth Fundraiser” for Girls Inc.’s GirlVENTURE Entrepreneurship Academy has been deemed a great success by all those who shared the experience. The event took place June 15, 2006 at Bessie Smith Hall with Keynote Speaker Sandi Brock of the SEWBC, Honorable Representatives Tommi Brown and JoAnne Favors, Girl’s Inc President and CEO Maxine Bailey with staff and academy girls, Jacqueline Strong-Moss, Ann Weeks, and honored guest Maelene Crutcher. Others included Chattanooga businesses, SIB clients and partners, tradeshow vendors, and friends from the community. The event was covered by WRCB-TV Channel 3 News, which aired that night, highlighting the entrepreneurship bridge between Sisters In Business and Girl's Inc. Chattanooga Times Free Press published an article the next day, generating sales leads, one vendor said, from someone seeing the article. Vendors also sold goods at the tradeshow. For more highlights of the event see online photos and program at sistersinbusiness.net
PHOTO GALLERY OF EVENT
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Click here to see Event Photos- Volume 2(Coming soon!)
COMMEMORATIVE PROGRAM BOOKLET
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NEWSLETTERS OF THE EVENT
SIB Quarterly (Print) Newsletter July-Sept 2006 Featuring the "1st Annual Empowerment Luncheon, Mini-Tradeshow , and Youth Fundraiser (.pdf)
SIB Online Newsletter July 4 2006 Featuring the "1st Annual Empowerment Luncheon, Mini-Tradeshow , and Youth Fundraiser (.pdf)
WRCB-TV CHANNEL 3 NEWS OF THE EVENT
Click here to see Channel 3 News Coverage of SIB Empowerment Luncheon
THANK YOU CHATTANOOGA & KNOXVILLE
...WE HAD A SELL OUT CROWD!
AND IT WAS A GREAT SUCCESS!
1st Annual Business Women’s Empowerment Luncheon,
Mini-Trade Showcase, & Youth Fundraiser
Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:30 AM
Bessie Smith Performance Hall . 200 East Martin Luther King Blvd.
Chattanooga, TN 37403
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT! ☺
1-DAY-BEFORE NOTES
Thank you so much Chattanooga (and Knoxville) for your dynamic response and support of this event. We have SOLD OUT of luncheon tickets and Vendor/Exhibitor Booths for the event. For those who have purchased your tickets and made reservations, remember to arrive early enough to participate in the Mini-Tradeshow where you will find an assembly of "FANTASTIC Business Vendors" waiting to exhibit and sell products and services. Offerings include clothes, fashion accessories, jewelry, gift baskets, floral designs, personalized candles, cosmetics, health and skin care products, art work, inspirations, and more!
AFTER EVENT NOTES:
This event took place on Thursday June 15, 2006 with Exhibitor Hall Opening at 10:30 AM and lunch starting promptly at 11:30 AM. The Exhibitor Hall reopened at 12:45 PM-2:00 PM. We made the television news that night at 5:30 PM on WRCB Channel 3!! The station covered the event so beautifully…with great spot coverage and time showing SIB business clients and their business exhibits. The Chattanooga Times Free Press also covered the event, and published a wonderful article the next day in its business section.
We left the event with women openly expressing how they felt empowered! They spoke about how they benefited from sharing and gathering resources and information from each other, and from seeing the harmonious flow of sisterhood. The comments and ratings on the event luncheon evaluations attest to the success of the event as well.
The presentation by Keynote Speaker Sandi Brock of the Southeast Women's Business Center was EXCELLENT! Hitting the target, it covered the statistics, the available business development resources, and the Network, Plan, Execute strategy for succeeding in business. This strategy so much correlates with the SIB NAME strategy which is to Network, Advertise, Market, and Empower through education, training, exchange of information with others, and engagement (true relationships).
This has been a BLAST! And we're already planning for next year's event...which will be EVEN BIGGER AND BETTER! Please see below for Program Participants, Dignitaries, Tradeshow Exhibitors, and the Event Program Booklet.
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Program Participants |
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Sandi Brock |
S. E. Women's Business Center |
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Maxine Bailey |
Girls, Inc |
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Ann Weeks |
Ivan Allen |
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Dignitaries |
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Rep. Tommie Brown |
(Honorable) |
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Rep. JoAnne Favors |
(Honorable) |
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Jacquelyn Strong-Moss |
Dir. Off. Of Multicultural Affairs |
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Mini-Tradeshow Exhibitors |
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Kimberly Thomas |
Singer/Songwriter |
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Janice Burse |
Avon Sales |
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Greta Long |
Tre-Chic Women’s Accessories |
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Latrice Edwards |
African Hut |
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Ferlencia Tuggle |
Ferlencia’s Floral Design |
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Mary Williams |
The Floral Gallery |
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Dorothea Johnetta Johnson |
Inner Glow Skin Care Services |
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Deborah Gunn |
MYTD Youth Training & Devel, |
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Marcella Moore |
Mary Kay Cosmetics |
Program Participants:
Sandi Brock S. E. Women's Business Center, Keynote Speaker
Maxine Bailey Girls, Inc, Girls Inc.-Entrepreneurship Academy
Ann Weeks Ivan Allen, Invocator
Tekelia C. Kelly, Founder and Owner of Sisters in Business
Dignitaries:
Rep. Tommie Brown (Honorable) Rep.
JoAnne Favors (Honorable)
Jacquelyn Strong-Moss Mayoral Representative, Dir. Off. Of Multicultural Affairs
Mini-Tradeshow Exhibitors:
Kimberly Thomas - Singer/Songwriter
Janice Burse - Avon Sales
Greta Long - Tre-Chic Women’s Accessories
Latrice Edwards - African Hut
Ferlencia Tuggle - Ferlencia’s Floral Design
Mary Williams - The Floral Gallery
Dorothea Johnetta Johnson - Inner Glow Skin Care Services
Deborah Gunn - MYTD Youth Training & Development
Marcella Moore - Mary Kay Cosmetics
Zeknovia Charles - ZUN-NO-Vee-Ya's Personalized Candles
(Earlier-Published Promotional Information)
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