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Friday, September 27, 2013
Monday, September 23, 2013
Monday, September 16, 2013
Access to Capital from A to Z
event 1
http://www.chicagosmallbusinessexpo.com
http://www.chicagosmallbusinessexpo.com
event2
Access to Capital from A to Z
Access to Capital - A to Z
which includes free workshops, break out sessions and exhibitors.
@
Chicago Urban League
4510 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago
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September 20, 2013
9 - 11am
Doors open at 8:30, Breakfast will be served
Click here to register for Access To Capital- A to Z
Sponsored by:
Bronzeville Retail Alliance
The Chicago Urban League
Greater Southwest Development Corporation
Quad Communities Development Corporation
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Sunday, September 8, 2013
are you getting the best for your dollar?
So, I’ll bet you thought these trade dollars were just made up. Not at ITEX.
When a trade exchange starts, there is no currency in the system. Transactions begin when a credit line (a trade dollar loan) is extended to a member to purchase something from another member, initiating the first transaction or, the exchange loans trade dollars to itself in order to purchase inventory as collateral to the currency or for its own operating expenses. Either way, this is how the first trade dollars are issued and placed in circulation. As a member base grows, the trade currency begins to expand as more sellers are accepting and spending the currency
The exchange itself earns trade credits typically through monthly fees and interest charged on negative balances. These trade credit earnings can then be used again to make purchases within the exchange to increase the trade currency in the system. The key is to manage the currency and ensure that credit lines can be repaid. Exchanges can mismanage their monetary system in four ways: 1) the exchange spends more trade dollars than it earns, 2) the inventory it purchases devalues, 3) credit lines to members are not re-paid or 4) the exchange management sells trade dollars for a discounted cash payment (the worst case of mismanagement). None good for the long term health of the exchange or its members.
The best managed trade account would have trade credit revolving; you earn and spend. A positive balance can be maintained to take advantage of sales that are beneficial to one’s product or service availability. As well, a positive balance should be maintained to take advantage of trade opportunities as they arise. A significant balance should only be maintained in an exchange that is well managed, and proactively provides spending options for the member.
The ITEX Marketplace currency, ITEX dollars, has not run a negative trade credit balance for more than 10 years, ie: the company spends less ITEX dollars every year than it generates. ITEX also offsets any bad debts in the system by allocating 100% of interest on negative accounts and annual dues earned, directly to its bad debt fund, further securing your trading community. ITEX takes extensive measures to maintain the integrity of its role in the Marketplace economy, and to protect against the misuse or misappropriation of ITEX dollars. For example:
- ITEX does not sell or purchase ITEX dollars for USD and prohibits members from doing so as well.
- When considering an ITEX dollar credit line, ITEX assesses the financial stability of the member, the demand by others for the member’s product or service and runs a credit report.
- ITEX employees and senior management are prohibited from having trade accounts, removing conflicts of interest to best manage goods and services available for members to purchase.
Sound trade credit management and policies create stability of the transaction currency and is a key to the solidity of the exchange and the security of the trade credit in each member’s account.
The ITEX dollar is the most stable and secure currency in the exchange industry.
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women rising!
African Women's Development Fund USA: Saving Our Future Health Summit
The Institute is pleased to partner with AWDF USA for its Saving Our Future Health Summit. Featuring leading Pan-African women's health activists and researchers and the presentation of their New Global Citizen Leadership and Award and a Social Change Technology Seminar
Saving Our Future Health Summit
Saturday, September 14
10:30 AM - 4:30 PM
St. James Cathedral
65 E. Huron Street
Chicago
Tickets: $30
The summit includes:
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Fellows/Institute
News and Updates
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Institute Fellow/Goodman Theatre Fellow Nambi E. Kelley's play The First Woman
to be performed at theAlycone Festival September 6-28, 2013.
Nambi E. Kelley's play, The First Woman, will be performed as part of the Alycone Festival presented at the Halycon Theater in Chicago,September 6-28, 2013.
Focusing on Naki and Nana, a mother and daughter, and their struggles for peace; The First Woman is the journey of every man, woman, and child's search for inner and outer peace in a world where peace is the hardest of challenges.
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youth housing
New South Side Homeless Shelter for youth OPEN!!!
We are proud to announce that Ujima Village, the low threshold youth shelter for the South Side is now open! We serve older youth, ages 18 up to the 25th Birthday, all genders. We can accept youth with disabilities and youth who are wearing home monitoring devices (so long as the youth has allowed movement). We unfortunately cannot accept parenting youth who have their babies/children with them or minor youth.
We have 24 comfy cots, serve a hot dinner and a continental breakfast, and provide a 1-Ride CTA card to everyone who gets a bed the next morning. We have showers & laundry and a voluntary nightly activity. We are linked with the Teen Living Program Drop-in Center in Bronzeville that provides social services for homeless youth during the daytime.
We have a large shelter space with two floors and due to staff coverage of the space and wanting staff to concentrate upon the youth who are there, we simply can't handle a large volume of calls from youth who may or may not actually come to the shelter.This is why the phone number is not posted on the flyer. Also, the shelter is not staffed during the daytime hours when it is closed.
How to get a bed: Youth can get a bed by arriving at the front door of the shelter at 8pm nightly or by calling the 311/Catholic Charities Homeless hotline from a hospital emergency room. The youth, when calling the hotline, need to state that they are a youth and that they want to come to Ujima. Catholic Charities will call us to confirm bed availability, and then Catholic Charities will go get the youth from the hospital to transport the youth to Ujima. Catholic Charities will only pick up homeless persons from hospital emergency rooms or police stations.
Transit: The shelter is only a short two block walk West from the #29 CTA State Street Bus Stop at Lafayette Ave and 73rd Street.
We have a total of 24 beds and so far have only had a few youth. Please help us get the word out!
Thank you!
-A. Anne Holcomb
Supportive Services Supervisor
Unity Parenting & Counseling
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
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