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The Mayor’s Office of Minority and Women-Owned Business Development will host the 2^nd Annual Women’s Business Forum on Monday, July 28, 2008. The forum will be held at the Holiday Inn Inner Harbor Hotel, 301 W. Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Purpose:  This is an opportunity for business women to network with other business women in and around the City of Baltimore and various city agencies representatives.

Please RVSP your attendance to the Mayor’s Office of Minority and Women-Owned Business Development at 410-396-3818 or email to mombd@baltimorecity.gov by Friday, July 25^th.   We look forward to seeing you at the forum.

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Don’t miss this - We’ll be there - you should be too!

A portion of the proceeds will benefit The Family Tree, whose mission is to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Ticket Packages

Friend: $75 in advance; $90 at the door (1 ticket)

• Includes food, open bar and entertainment

• Buy 10 Friend tickets and get $75 off your ticket price! Discount will be applied at checkout.

VIP Package: $125 in advance; limited availability (1 ticket)

• Includes exclusive access to VIP Pre-party from 5:30-6pm

• Access to VIP Lounge with private DJ, bar and restroom

• Front-of-the-line entrance to party

• Food, open bar and entertainment

• VIP gift bag

• Buy 10 VIP tickets and get $50 off your ticket price! Discount will be applied at checkout.Attire

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Parking

Party guests will receive complimentary parking in M&T Bank Stadium Lots B & C. Lots B & C can be accessed using the Hamburg St. entrance on the North side of the stadium.

Transportation

Light Rail

The light rail stops at Hamburg St. and the MARC train stops at Camden Yards.

Baltimore Taxi Service

Checker & Yellow Cab 410-955-6359

Yellow Cab 410-752-1096

Raven Cab 410-945-2212

MIKULSKI ANNOUNCES INCREASED FUNDING FOR NATIONAL HEALTH, NURSING, SENIORS PROGRAMS IN SPENDING BILL

Secures $2.3 million for Maryland initiatives

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced the 2009 fiscal year Labor, Health and Human Services and Education spending bill includes $2.3 million for Maryland health and social service initiatives. The bill provides federal funding in nurse training facilities, women’s health initiatives and seniors programs, as well as critical investments for the National Institutes of Health ($30.26 billion), the National Institute on Aging ($1 billion) and the National Cancer Institute ($4.96 billion).

Senator Mikulski has a long history of fighting for adequate NIH funding, including spearheading the bipartisan effort to double the agency’s budget from $13.6 billion in fiscal year 1998 to $27 billion in fiscal year 2003. This year’s funding for NIH is a $1 billion increase over the President’s request.

“NIH is a jewel in the nation’s crown – saving lives and making new discoveries every day. I have fought, and will continue to fight, to make sure NIH has the funding it needs to meet its mission,” said Senator Mikulski. “Increased funding for NIH means more money to fund research and clinical trials so we can continue to make discoveries that will save lives today and tomorrow, one million at a time.”

This year’s spending bill provides $2.3 million in funding for Maryland initiatives:

• $1.25 million for Health Care for the Homeless. This funding will support the construction of a new health care facility in Baltimore City, allowing Health Care for the Homeless to expand medical care, mental health services, social services and addiction treatment for homeless individuals and families. Last year, Health Care for the Homeless provided comprehensive services to 6,000 homeless individuals in Baltimore.

• $750,000 for construction of Dr. Bob’s Place, a hospice care facility for terminally ill children, in downtown Baltimore. Dr. Bob’s Place will serve 75-100 children in the end-stages of their life, easing their pain and suffering, and providing counseling and support services to their families. Currently, there are about 700 Maryland children in need of hospice care annually. Dr. Bob’s Place will be the first venue in central Maryland to provide this care.

• $300,000 for Roberta’s House which will offer free counseling services to more than 500 urban children and families who have recently lost a loved one. Roberta’s house will also educate communities on how to help individuals cope with loss.

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Senator Mikulski, who also serves on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, also fought for increased funding for nursing, women’s health and seniors programs in this year’s spending bill:

STRENGTHENING NURSING PROGRAMS

The bill provides $168 million for nursing programs, $58.1 million above the President’s request. The additional funding will go the Advanced Nursing Education Program, the Nurse Loan Repayment and Scholarship Program and the Nurse Faculty Loan Program, all dedicated to addressing the nationwide nursing and nurse faculty shortage.

“America is facing a nursing shortage, and it is only getting worse. The shortage affects every state, every city, every town – and it affects our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq who rely on the care of our military nurses,” said Senator Mikulski, a long-time champion of nursing programs. “Increasing our nursing workforce is essential for our hospitals and for our patients. I will continue to fight to make nursing a priority in the federal law book and the federal checkbook.”

STANDING UP FOR WOMEN’S HEALTH

The spending bill invests $31 million in the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Women’s Health, a $2.6 million increase above the President’s request. The bill also provides $300 million for the Title X Family Planning Program, which funds low-cost, confidential family planning services that would otherwise be out of reach for many low-income women.

“I will not stop my fight to ensure that research and standards are developed to further discoveries for women’s health. I will continue to stand sentry to make sure women are taken care of across the country,” said Senator Mikulski. “We must make sure women have the information they need, that doctors have the best tools and the best training, and that low-income, uninsured women have access to health care.”

SENIORS PROGRAMS

As Chairwoman of the HELP Committee’s Retirement Security and Aging Subcommittee, Senator Mikulski has worked for greater investments in critical programs to help those aging in place, as well as initiatives to support caregivers. The Senator led the effort to pass the Older Americans Act (OAA), which authorized several of the programs funding in this spending bill.

“Seniors today are living longer, healthier lives. We must do what we can to help them be as independent and active as possible, and provide the resources necessary to meet new challenges,” said Senator Mikulski. “I believe ‘Honor thy mother and father’ is not only a good commandment to live by, it’s also a good policy to govern by. That’s why I will continue to work to provide federal investments in these vital programs.”

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The OAA is essential for the delivery of social support, nutritional and caregiving services for America’s seniors, including the information and referral services that are the backbone of OAA programs, senior nutrition programs, and elder abuse programs. This year’s spending bill provides a total $1.48 billion for OAA initiatives, including:

• $571.9 million for the Senior Community Service Employment Program, $350 million above the President’s request. This program helps seniors gain employment in community service settings such as Meals on Wheels programs, senior centers and public libraries.

• $205 million for Meals on Wheels, $11 million above the President’s request. As a result of this program, 2.75 million people receive meals at senior centers or in their homes each year, including more than 42,000 in Maryland.

• $155 million for the National Family Caregiver Support Program, which helps provide family caregivers with information, resources and respite care.

• $28 million for the Choices for Independence Program, which aims to get seniors out of institutions and cared for in the community.

The spending bill also provides $1 million for the Alzheimer’s 24/7 Call Center, which provides information, support and assistance to caregivers and seniors suffering from Alzheimer’s-related memory loss, and $11.46 million for the Alzheimer’s Demonstration Grant Program. The President requested zero funding for the Alzheimer’s Demonstration Grant Program.

In the next step of the appropriations process, the bill will move to the Senate floor for a vote, which has not yet been scheduled.  For information on Senator Mikulski’s efforts to fund workforce training and education initiatives in this spending bill, go to: http://mikulski.senate.gov/Newsroom/PressReleases.

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The Spirited Woman awards were created to recognize everyday women who are making extraordinary contributions to their community and those around them.

Awardees will be honored at a Power Luncheon at Morton’s The Steakhouse on Thursday, August 14, 2008.

The event’s profits will benefit the American Red Cross of Central Maryland.

To download a nomination form - click here.

Thursday, August 14, 2008
11:30am-1:30pm
Morton’s The Steakhouse
300 S. Charles St.

5 Steps for Wardrobe Control

1.  Take everything out of your closet
2.  Try everything on in front of a full-length mirror
3.  Evaluate each and all items -
* DOES IT LOOK GOOD ON YOU?
*Is it in EXCELLENT repair?
*Do YOU feel confident, secure, and feminine in it?
4.  Sort all clothes, shoes, accessories into 3 piles:
Keepers - Only what fits and flatters YOU
Sleepers - Could the item be altered or updated or accessorized to make it
work?
Losers - Things you haven’t worn in a year or more or can no longer wear.
LOOK at this pile and analyze why they are losers.  LEARN from these
items.  Separate the losers into piles for donations to friends, to charity or to
the dumpster.  Bag up the items, label and put in your car so they don’t
creep back into your closet!
5.  As you put the Keepers back in your closet  ORGANIZE them.  Hang everything on decent hangers, put them in order of the type of clothes, all shirts together, all trousers, jackets, etc.  You might want to also sort by color within a category.
Thought for the week,

“If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.” …
Have a great week,

Fondly,
Salli Ward
410-654-2459
www.SalliWard-Doncaster.com

News From

U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski

Democrat from Maryland

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS) Appropriations Subcommittee Chairwoman Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) today announced the fiscal year 2009 CJS spending bill includes $415 million for the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Violence Against Women Office, a $135 million increase above President Bush’s request. This funding will support programs authorized through the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which Senator Mikulski helped pass into law. The spending bill provides a total of $25.8 billion for the DOJ, a $2.7 billion increase above the President’s budget request.

“When we fought for the Violence Against Women Act, it was not an unfunded mandate. I led the fight to put these programs in the federal law books, and I will continue to fight to put the funding they need in the federal checkbook,” said Chairwoman Mikulski. “I have absolutely no tolerance for domestic violence. That’s why I strongly support legislation and grant programs that help protect women and their families from continued violence and abuse.”

Domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking are crimes of epidemic proportions, exacting terrible costs on individual lives and our communities. Nearly 25 percent of U.S. women report that they have been physically assaulted by an intimate partner during their lifetimes, 1 in 6 have been the victims of attempted or completed rape, and the cost of intimate partner violence exceeds $5.8 billion each year.

The CJS spending bill funds multiple competitive grant programs that support: training for police officers and prosecutors, state domestic violence and sexual assault coalition grants, rape prevention programs, national domestic violence hotlines, grants for battered women’s shelters, victims of child abuse grants and funding for counselors of rape victims during trials.

President Bush’s budget request not only decreased funding, but it also proposed eliminating the congressionally authorized grant programs, leaving all discretion instead to the U.S. Attorney General. Chairwoman Mikulski rejected this change, as she did when the tactic was proposed last year.

“Congress clearly intended for the DOJ to allocate specific monies for specific grant programs for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. The President’s proposal flies in the face of the 2005 VAWA reauthorization that clarified this process,” said Chairwoman Mikulski. “President Bush talks about creating a better life for Americans, but his budget fails to deliver on his words.”

The spending bill passed the full Appropriations Committee this afternoon. In the next step of the appropriations process, the bill will move to the Senate floor for a vote, which has not yet been scheduled. For more information on the CJS spending bill, go to: http://mikulski.senate.gov/Newsroom/PressReleases.

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locally-owned businesses, small businesses, women / minority / veteran-owned businesses.
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• Anne Arundel County of Central Services, www.aacounty.org

– Seeking appointments with minority-owned and women-owned businesses

– Seeking appointments with Companies in Printing, Tires, Auto Repairs, Chemicals, Incontinent Supplies, Computer Training

• Department of Homeland Security, Immigration U Custom Enforcement (DHS), www.dhs.gov

– Small business goal – 30% (at 42.44% as of 6/13/0

– 8(a) / SDB goal – 8% (at 15.59% as of 6/13/0

– Women-owned goal – 5% (at 8.43% as of 6/13/0

– Service-disabled Veteran=owned goal – 3% (3.00% as of 6/13/0

– HUBZone-certified goal – 3% (1.92% as of 6/13/0

– Seeking security guard services; law enforcement services, administrative support services, management organizational / business improvement services, interpreter services.

– Immigration & Custom Enforcement is currently meeting all every socioeconomic goal except HUBZone and SDVO small businesses, so if you fall into either of those categories, you should plan to talk meet with them during this fair.

• Department of Veterans Affairs, www.va.gov/osdbu

– Spending goals: 28.7% with small businesses; 5% with minority-owned / small disadvantaged businesses; 10% with Veteran-owned businesses; 7% with Service-disabled Veteran-owned businesses; 3% with HUBZone-certified businesses

– Seeking appointments with Companies in Construction, Medical Supplies / Equipment / Services, Office Supplies / Equipment, Ground Maintenance, IT Services

• Imerys, www.imerys.com

– Seeking providers in the areas of temp employment agencies, cleaning products and services, lubrication

– Generally would like to learn more about other suppliers who offer diverse options to what might already be known to us.

• Kane Office Movers, www.kanecompany.com

– Seeking appointments with minority-owned / certified, women-owned / certified and Veteran-owned / certified businesses

• M&T Bank – Corporate Purchasing, www.mtb.com

– Would like to meet with all types of companies interested in participating directly in competitive bids or serving as supplier through the M&T Tier 1 vendor network.

• Maryland Procurement Technical Assistance Program, www.mdptap.umd.edu

– Would like to talk to businesses about their specific marketing materials, capability statements, teaming agreements and prime & sub contracting opportunities.

• McCormick & Company, Inc., www.mccormick.com

– Would like to meet with suppliers of printing and temporary labor services.

– Would like to meet with ingredient suppliers.

– Would like to meet with providers of facilities services.

• Skanska USA, www.skanska.com, Preconstruction Director

• Skanska USA, www.skanska.com, Compliance Officer

• Skanska USA, www.skanska.com, Contracts Administrator

– All the above Skanska reps are especially interested in meeting with construction industry contractors, such as providers of sitework, concrete, masonry, metals, wood / plastics, roofing / thermal / moisture protection, doors & windows, finishes, equipment, furnishings, conveying systems, mechanical, plumbing, electrical, special construction, specialty trades.

• Social Security Administration, www.ssa.gov/oag/osdbu

– Spending goals: 36% with small businesses; 5% with women-owned businesses; 3% with HUBZone-certified businesses

• Tompkins Builders, Inc., http://www.tbius.com/

– Would like to speak to all trades used in commercial construction.

– Due to government projects, they have spending goals in all small and diversity business categories. % participation varies by government project.

• Towson University, www.towson.edu

– Goal to do 10% of spending with businesses that are part of the State of Maryland Small Business Reserve Program

– Goal to do 25% of spending with MBE/WBE/VET businesses, as mandated by the State of Maryland

• U.S. Small Business Administration – Baltimore District, www.sba.gov

– Looking to discuss the SBA Patriot Express Loan Program and SBA’s certification programs

• Wells Fargo Business Credit, www.wellsfargo.com/wfbcfactoring

– Wants to meet with government contractors seeking working capital financing.

• BGE (verbal confirmation)

• MD DBED, Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development (e-mail confirmation)

• MTA, Maryland Transit Administration (e-mail confirmation)

• IWCF, Insured Workers’ Compensation Fund (verbal confirmation)

• KCI Technologies (verbal confirmation)

• INVITED:

•

AAI Corporation

Baltimore County Office of Purchasing (likely)

• The Centech Group

• Clark and Banks Construction 

• Clark Construction 

• Computer Sciences Corporation

• DOD 

• DHHS/CMS (doubtful)

• Department of Navy 

• Fannie Mae 

• Forest City Science & Technology Group 

• GSA 

• Hensel-Phelps 

• L3 Communications 

• MD DLLR, Maryland Department of Labor Licensing and Regulation (doubtful)

• MD DHCH, Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (doubtful)

• Microsoft 

• Morgan State University (verbal confirmation)

• National Security Agency (NSA)

• Nextel 

• Smithsonian 

• U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) (likely)

• WMATA 

• sent invitation to many other Federal Agencies, OSDBU offices and Maryland Prime Contractors.