Employment With Complex Issues
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Women for the Millennium
These articles were published in U.S. 1 Newspaper on April 28,
1999. All rights reserved.
Two Princeton-area entrepreneurs, Katherine Kish
and Marcia Guberman, will offer workshops at the annual
conference of the New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners Inc
(NJAWBO) from Thursday to Saturday, April 29 to May 1, at Trump
Plaza/World’s Fair Atlantic City. The conference focusing on “A
New Attitude for the New Millennium” will feature two keynote
addresses, more than 25 workshops, a golf clinic and outing, and a
member mall. Package
registration for the whole conference is $475. Registration for April
29 only is $200; $325 for April 30. For more information, visit
“No One Knows What You Want Unless You Ask For It” byKish, founder of Market Entry Inc., a strategic marketing and salesconsulting firm, will help you find out how to ask the right questionsof the right people in the right places.Guberman, owner of Business Builders and M.D.S. Cleaning, speakson “When to Expand Your Staff and How to Do It.” She offersadvice to employers for determining the job description needed, thetype of employee to add, and how to go about interviewing andselectingthat person (U.S. 1, April 21). Guberman has been named Business Womanof the Year by the Mercer Chapter of the NJAWBO.Dayna Waitley, national speaker and author of “ThePsychology of Winning for Women,” will be the keynote speakeron Thursday, April 29. This motivational program will exploretime-testedideas and new breakthroughs in the behavioral sciences for women whoseek to realize their full potential.Aldonna Ambler, CMC, CSP, a business strategist and growthmanagement consultant, will give the keynote “Reach for It”on Friday, April 30. Using three sets of athletes as comparativeexamples,Ambler applies the key points of their training process to businesspeople who are questioning the growth of their companies.Entrepreneurscan learn how to tap into their hidden growth potential and how torecognize the signs of when it is time to take their business to thenext level.Workshops on Thursday, April 29, include “TurningYour Web Site Into a Profit Center” by Maybelle Cowan, aformer English teacher, and co-founder and president of M.L. BurkeInternet Services. Cowan will discuss how you can plan a site thatcan be used for aggressive marketing or one that can increase yourprofits by streamlining your business.Participants will hear advice on how to identify and implement basicorganizing skills into the day-to-day administration of business,which will increase productivity, save time, and reduce stress atthe workshop “Get Organized to Maximize Your Time, Money, andProductivity” by Patty Gallagher, owner/president of PRGConsulting and Management Services.Sandy Musson, owner of By The Hour Inc., and SusanAnanian,a certified massage therapist, will present “Using Your Woman’sIntuition in Your Business.” You will learn simple techniquesto help you tune into your inner voice and hear clear examples ofhow listening to that inner voice has brought both business andpersonalsuccess.Workshops on Friday, April 30 include:”Energy for the Entrepreneur, Feeling Fit and Fabulous,”by Susan E. Davis, a licensed physical therapist and co-ownerof Marlboro Physical Therapy. You will learn simple exercises youcan do at your desk, on lunch break, or after work. Build your selfesteem, improve energy and metabolic level, help focus andconcentration,and learn to sail past that afternoon slump.”To Scream or Not to Scream” by Karen Bennett,owner of Karen Bennett & Associates, will help you identify stressorsand develop mechanisms in order to cope and plan more effectively.Lathea V. Morris, former assistant secretary of stateof New Jersey, principal of The Credit Alternative, and co-producerof “Your Credit Rating,” will present “Have Credit CardsTaken a Bite Out of Your Bottom Line?” You will learn to developa strategic plan to make credit cards work for you and avoid theperils.”Find it on the Internet: Lost at Sea” by BarbaraZaccone , a web design and marketing communications professionaland president of Barbara Zaccone Associates, will help you find outwhat search engines are the best and discover some sites that willincrease productivity.In “Keep Business Booming Through Smart MediaRelations,”Pat Nunno Rouque, owner of Business Boomers, a company thatfocuses on landing heavyweight results for healthcare,telecommunications,and luxury living clients, will share the secrets that have helpedher land nearly one million dollars in free publicity for herselfand her clients.Top Of PageEmployment With Complex IssuesB>Richard Dodds, director of technology fromCommunityOptions Inc., and Connie Britt, a leader in supported employmentfrom the University of Indiana, will be speaking at the two-dayworkshop”Employment for Persons with Complex Situations” on Thursdayand Friday, April 29 and 30, at 9 a.m. at the Daily Plan It,Morristown.Call 973-644-4750.The workshop will provide an in-depth discussion of how persons withsignificant disabilities can be employed in real jobs and revisitkey concepts from the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). A panelof employers will discuss the types of positions available in theworkforce. (For an article about Community Options, see page tk.)The Farber Road-based national nonprofit organization was foundedby Robert Stack in 1989, to develop housing and employmentopportunitiesfor people with disabilities. The philosophy of the agency is thatall people, regardless of their level of disability, can and shouldlive and work in the community.Top Of PageFederal Tax CreditsDevelopers applying for federal Low Income Housing TaxCredits (LIHTC) in the fall cycle for 1999 should do so by July 15.The New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency (HMFA) is currentlyreviewing the 44 applications representing $29 million in requestsfor the state’s $10.1 million allocation for the spring cycle. Theannouncement of awards for successful applicants is anticipated totake place on June 21.The LIHTC program provides federal tax incentives to encourage theprivate financing and production of rental housing for low-incomehouseholds. Tax credits are awarded to developers planning to buildnew rental apartments or rehabilitate existing units. HMFA is thedesignated housing credit agency for New Jersey, and allocates taxcredits to qualified applicants.”The federal housing tax credit program has spurred constructionof more than 13,000 rental units statewide since 1987,” saysDeborahDe Santis, HMFA executive director, “and is just one of themany financing programs HMFA offers to help developers completeessentialand worthy projects.”Project eligibility is determined by the 1999 LIHTC QualifiedAllocationPlan, which evaluates each development on a point system in a varietyof categories. The highest ranking projects fall in the urban,suburban,special needs, and Hope VI categories.Developers may obtain a complete application package from the HMFA.Training seminars and one-on-one counseling sessions for developersare also offered by the HMFA. The HMFA offices are located at 637South Clinton Avenue in Trenton. Call 609-273-7400.Top Of PageRealtor NewsThe Counselors of Real Estate (CRE) can supply speakerson real estate, financial, legal, and accounting matters, saysStephenM. Segal, 1999 chairman of the New Jersey chapter. Founded in 1953and based in Chicago, it awards the CRE designation to its memberswho are selected by invitation (https://www.cre.org). Forinformationon the speakers program call Segal at 609-882-3737.The New Jersey Apartment Association holds its 10th annualmulti-familyhousing conference and exhibition at the Tropicana in Atlantic Cityon May 11 to 13. Though a golf outing features prominently in theplans, two full days of workshops range from maintenance workshopsfor managers (everything from lead paint strategies to hot watersystems)to managing capital projects (hiring contractors) and “TheWorkplaceBattlefield” (sexual harassment, affirmative action, andterminationlawsuits. Celebrity speakers include Michael Fortino and DanThurman. One-day registration costs from $175 to $250 or $100 foremployees. Call 888-886-NJAA.Top Of PageFederal RentalAssistanceA landlord cannot refuse to rent to tenants who receivefederal rental assistance. The Supreme Court of New Jersey uphelda New Jersey statute which made it unlawful for a landlord to refuseto rent to a tenant because the tenant was a recipient of governmentalrental assistance through the federal Section 8 statute.The court noted that the act would protect tenants from “a severeshortage of rental housing in this state.” The anti-discriminationstatute will assist recent welfare reform efforts to assist peoplein the transition from welfare to work. The Congress had recentlyappropriated $238,000,000 for rental assistance to help eligiblefamiliesmake the transition from welfare to work. The court observed that”housing plays a major part in any effort at becomingself-sufficient.”Top Of PageCorporate AngelsB>The Forrestal was a major sponsor at Princeton’s”Taste of the Nation” anti-hunger fundraising event on March29 that generated over $45,000. American Express and Williams-Sonoma,national co-sponsors, covered organizing and promotional expenses.Other local sponsors included Drinker Biddle & Reath.Top Of PageDonations PleaseIt costs $10,000 to raise a dog to be of service asa “canine companion,” but those who need a dog pay only $125.Canine Companions for Independence has provided highly skilledassistancedogs for people with disabilities since 1975.Ken Longman, a marketing consultant with Longman MoranAnalytics,and his wife Mary Longman (president of Princeton CommunityHousing) are among the volunteers who raise the puppies. These”PuppyRaisers” keep the dogs eight weeks to 15 months of age and thenreturn them to the organization to receive eight months of advancedtraining. “Service dogs” help those in wheelchairs or withmobility limitations, and “signal dogs” alert the deaf orhearing impaired to important sounds. Among those in Princeton whouse the services of a canine companion is Barbara Martindale.Puppyraisers are invited to the dog’s “graduation” ceremonywhen the dog is presented to his human partner. To volunteer, call973-786-5656 or E-mail JRoseff@aol.com or send a checkto the New Jersey Champions, 33 Sleepy Hollow Road, Andover 07821.Previous StoryCorrections or additions?This page is published by PrincetonInfo.com— the web site for U.S. 1 Newspaper in Princeton, New Jersey.
