Live Web Broadcast - Navigating Organizations through the Web of Online Promotion

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Navigating Organizations through the web of online promotion

Philadelphia, PA, August 2, 2008--- Promoting an organization's agenda in the 21st century takes an internet presence. But, how does an organization on a shoestring budget get its information on the internet? With the ongoing Internet evolution, organizations have more tools at their fingertips than ever before to accomplish this required self-promotion.

On Monday, August 25, 2008, The Coalition will host a class called, "Using Blogs to Promote Your Organization" to teach organizations how to use the internet as an excellent resource for hunting, gathering of resources and promoting their agendas.

This workshop is an excellent opportunity for grass roots organization to learn more about a wide range of e-topics, including some fantastic how-to content for social networks and other tools.

During this 2 hour hands-on workshop, participants will learn: What is a blog? Why do I/my organization need one? How can I build and maintain a blog for free? How can I promote my blog? How can I use a blog to generate revenue?

You will also have the ability to participate from the comfort of your own home via the live webcast for this event. See our Taking Tech to the Streets page for more information.

Pre-requisites: Proficiency in using Microsoft Word and internet navigation savvy.

Event details
Date: Monday, August 25, 2008
Time: 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Location: Northwest Regional Library, 68 West Chelten Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19144-2795
(Greene St. & Chelten Ave.)
Meter parking available in the rear

Cost: Free
Participants must RSVP before August 13, 2008 via phone: 215.387.2734 or email: the.pa.coalition@gmail.com Space is limited.

This class will be facilitated by JC Lamkin, CNA, PMP, President of Gypsy Lane Technologies. Ms. Lamkin was the Spotlight Speaker at the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Governor's Advisory Commission on African American Affairs Business Exchange Breakfast; the 2007 Technology Council Gala Nominee for Educator of the Year; recipient of the Business Award from the Philadelphia Women's Opportunity Resource Center and voted Philadelphia's Most influential Young Socialite by readers of the Philly B-Spot

About The Coalition, Inc.

The Coalition, Inc. is a collective of organizations and persons who have already demonstrated their individual commitment to finding and implementing solutions to the ills that plague our communities. The Coalition was born out of a core group of organizations that joined forces to put on a youth basketball tournament in July 2004 sponsored by Stop The Madness/Stop The Violence. These annual tournaments have evolved into 'A Week of Peace' and grown exponentially and now include the annual C&C Art and Talent Show every March. The Coalition was also instrumental in launching the effort to rename Diamond St. in honor of esteemed ancestor Fr. Paul M. Washington.


About Gypsy Lane Technologies

Gypsy Lane Technologies (GLT), is a professional Internet solutions company based in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. We specialize in best-in-class online marketing, Flash multimedia, corporate identity and search engine optimization. GLT features an integrated team of web consultants, creative designers, writers, coders and marketing professionals that know how to get online results. Our business-driven approach separates us from typical web design companies. Gypsy Lane Technologies (GLT) sponsors the innovative community development radio show, Technically Speaking Radio on 1540 AM, WNWR on Saturdays at 2:00 p.m., Fabulous & Techfilled.com



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Using Technology to resolve Poverty - Annual Adversity/ Resilience Week

Join us for this event as we execute plans to solve poverty through use of technology at the Achieving Independence Center at 1118 Market Street, 2nd Floor.

The hope is to encourage attendance of all foster care youth as well as their volunteer mentors.

Event info
Date: August 29, 2008
Time: 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Location: Achieving Independence Center, 1118 Market Street, 2nd Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19107

To RSVP
Stephanie Sylvain
Mentoring Supervisor
Achieving Independence Center
1118 Market Street, 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Office: 215-574-9194 extension 229
Fax: 215-574-9196
ssylvain@aicenter.us

Agenda

First Annual Adversity/ Resilience Event

“Overcoming the Odds takes Insight, Independence, Relationships, Initiative, Humor, Creativity and Morality. It takes Resilience!”

Week of August 25, 2008

Sessions from 4-6 PM

Monday, August 25, 2008

Overcoming Foster Care

Panel: Mary Pitts-Devine, B.S., Poet, Author, Mentor & Barbara Francois, B.S., Mentor

Layout:

• Staff
• Introduction (4pm)
• Completion of the Damage Inventory (4:10pm)
• Panel
• Discussion of the Damage Inventory Score—Expectations and Reactions (4:20pm)
• Meaning of Damage—Definition, Impacts and Scenarios/ Correlations (4:30pm)
• Panel & Participants
• Practical Tools for Overcoming Adversity utilizing the Seven Traits (5:15pm)
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Overcoming Poverty

National “Poverty Day”

Panel: Sheryl Brown Bryant, Mentor, Michael Robinson, PHEAA and Dave Clark, Assistant Director Philabundance

Layout:

• Staff
• Introduction (4pm)
• Panel
• Define Poverty—Mindset, Bank Account, Money Management, Etc. (4:10pm)
• How do state and/or government define poverty as well as play into poverty’s grasp/ existence? (4:30pm)
• Provide personal accounts of and/or with poverty. (5pm)
• Panel & Participants
• Practical Tools for Overcoming Adversity utilizing the Seven Traits (5:30pm)
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Moving Barriers

Panel: Mentoring Staff Only

Layout:

• Staff
• Introduction (4pm)
• Name Reception (4:10pm)
• “Exposure” Activity
• Name Utterance (4:35pm)
• “Exposure” Activity
• Practical Tools for Overcoming Adversity utilizing the Seven Traits (5pm)
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Thursday, August 28, 2008
Overcoming Diseases

Panel: Kim Abrams, B.S., Risk-N-Choice Coordinator, Action AIDS and Dr. William King, Pediatrician, Mentor; Dr. Michelle Klaus, General Physician, Mentor, Kimberly Sylvain, B.S., Nursing Candidate, Mentor and Shadhae Holland, Family Planning are tentative.

Layout:

• Staff
• Introduction (4pm)
• Panel
• Statistics on various diseases i.e. sexual transmitted infections, Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, etc. (4:10pm)
• Provide Prevention and/or Intervention Techniques for Disease. (4:25pm)
• Provide personal accounts of and/or with specific diseases. (4:50pm)
• Panel & Participants
• Practical Tools for Overcoming Adversity utilizing the Seven Traits (5:30pm)
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Friday, August 29, 2008
Overcoming “ME”

Panel: Joan Haldeman, M.S.W., Certified Trainer, Vice President of Residential Services, PathWaysPA, JC Lamkin, CNA, PMP, Candice Matthews, B.S., M.Ed Candidate, Mentor and Guest TBA.

Layout:

• Staff
• Introduction (4pm)
• Panel
• Who am I? Whose am I? (4:10pm)
• Whom or what brought personal damage and/or destruction? (4:35 pm)
• How did you overcome? (5pm)
• Panel, Staff & Participants
• “Reflection” Activity (5:25pm)
• Staff
• Memoir Challenge (5:45pm)

TSR in the Streets

The TSR team is supporting the Strawberry Mansion Community board members' fundraising event this Saturday, May 3, 2008. Join us and meet the award-winning host of TSR, JC Lamkin.

First Annual Adversity/ Resilience Week by the AI Center Mentoring Project

First Annual Adversity/ Resilience Week by the AI Center Mentoring Project

In April, staff came across a book entitled “The Resilient Self: How Survivors of Troubled Families Rise Above Adversity”. Authors Steven J. Wolin, M.D. and Sybil Wolin, Ph.D wrote about the impact damage or adversity has on the human psyche. Damage can occur physically, psychologically and/or socially during childhood, adolescence, and/or adulthood (p. 300). Building resilience increases empowerment, specifically the organic view of empowerment. This view defines empowerment as risk, growth, trust, and teamwork (Quinn, p. 222-223).

Resilience relates to the building of developmental assets deemed crucial for reframing a victim’s view of damage to survival and success (Wolin and Wolin, p. 12-21). To enhance self, especially with the challenge of the troubled family, you must exhibit the following resiliency traits:

1. Insight

2. Independence

3. Relationships

4. Initiative

5. Creativity

6. Humor

7. Morality (p. 3-204).

A week of sessions to address damage and the resiliency traits which could combat them was created.

During the week of August 25, 2008 the following topics will be addressed respectively:

1. Foster Care: According to the AFCARS Report (Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System Report), there were approximately 542,000 children in the U. S. in foster care on September 30, 2001. All of our youth have been involved in the foster care system at one time in their lives. Some of our volunteer mentors have experienced the system directly or indirectly as well. This session will address the various issues that connect with foster care (abandonment, abuse, isolation, separation, instability).
2. Poverty: Poverty is an insidious plight which affects many of the youth we serve. According to the US Census Bureau, 35.9 million people live below the poverty line in America, including 12.9 million children. This is despite the abundance of food resources. There are many factors to poverty including, but not limited to education (academic, money management) and housing. This session will expose the root causes of factors enabling poverty to exist.
3. Moving Barriers: This is a workshop where methods to overcoming adversity and barriers will be discussed using interactive games and activities. Participants will complete a damage inventory amongst other forms.
4. Diseases: Among the chlamydia diagnoses reported in 2006, the male to female ratio was 253,236 to 777,675. For gonorrhea, the male to female ratio was 170,902 to 187,464. As these data demonstrate, the gender divide in chlamydia statistics is much greater than that in gonorrhea statistics. This is partly because more women than men are screened for chlamydia. Of the three main STDs reported, syphilis is the only one that has more male than female cases. To a large extent this can be attributed to syphilis outbreaks among men who have sex with men (www.healthypeople2000.com). It is important to address these statistics along with sharing of those who have overcome cancer and other diseases.
5. “ME”: Awareness seems to be lacking despite the various resources available to young people. Identity can be a crisis when indivdiuals are separated from family. The adolescent years can be more tumultous with the existence of peer pressure, substance abuse, family violence, etc. By addressing topics of race, technology, and culture we hope to develop a better sense of self. Their experiences with foster care, exposure to poverty, ability to move barriers, and health are integral parts of this development.

Each session will occur from 4-6 PM. Panel speakers will be provided 1.5 hours to provide information, share personal expriences and answer questions for every session excluding the “Moving Barriers” session. Following the discussion, members will enjoy refreshments.

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August 30, 2008, Webcast - Navigating Organizations Through the Web of Online Promotion The Coalition, Inc organized a free computer workshop for the community on Monday, August 25th, at the Philadelphia Free Library in the Germantown Section of Philadelphia, PA. For more info see:

The trailer for the workshop

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August 2, 2008, Live Stream - Liberation Fellowship Festival

Liberation Fellowship CDC is sponsoring a Community Festival broadcasting LIVE on Saturday, August 2nd, at Hebron Tabernacle, 6630 Germantown Avenue in the Mt. Airy Section of Philadelphia, PA. For more info see:

Destination Philadelphia B-Spot

Join the Technically Speaking Crew on August 2, 2008 from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. ET as we take technology to the streets! History's first ever live radio & web broadcast of a festival of this kind.

This live webcast featuring a QVC-style flea market is a Philly First. You can interact with flea market vendors, view their products and purchase their goods ONLINE or via phone. Extending the reach of Philly's businesses to the world.

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