Like all residents of the Charleston area, we here at the library have been stunned and saddened by the loss of nine area firefighters this past Monday night. Like many people, I have felt a sense of wanting to do more to help. As people who go to work at a business every day, one [...]
Archive for June, 2007
Fire Safety In the Workplace
Posted in OSHA, West Ashley, emergency preparedness, workplace safety on June 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Foundation Center Workshop–Correction!
Posted in foundation center, grants, program on June 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Would you like the good news or the bad news first? Since I’m writing this by myself at my desk, I suppose that I get to make the choice this time. Good news: How would you like to find out more about the Foundation Center–for free? Good! I thought you might! [...]
Foundation Center Workshop
Posted in foundation center, grants, nonprofits on June 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
[Edit: Please see my next post for a correction. This seminar has been cancelled, but the Library will host a workshop this week on the Foundation Center materials. ~LL, 6/19, 2:36 P.M.]
Our library system is a depository library for the Foundation Center collection, which includes materials from the nonprofit organization to help other nonprofits find [...]
Upcoming FastTrac® Class Dates
Posted in entrepreneurs, fast trac on June 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Have you heard about FastTrac® yet? If not, it’s time you did! FastTrac® offers entrepreneurial education programs in almost every state and is supported by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and (locally) by the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce’s ThinkTEC. The 10-week long classes are taught by experienced business people and give entrepreneurs a lot [...]
Small Business Loan Options
Posted in SCORE, entrepreneurs, loans, small business resource seminar on June 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One of my managers, Misty, came back from a Women A Work! meeting this afternoon with some interesting information. (Perhaps I should say that she swam back from the meeting, since she was driving/floating down East Bay Street during that downpour early this afternoon!) She spoke with Liza Cluney, a Financial Advisor with First Command [...]
SC Business Week: Opportunity for Teens!
Posted in program, teens on June 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When I was in high school, a friend in Chemistry class encouraged me to apply to the SC Governor’s School for the Arts, which back then was a 5-week long summer program held at Furman University meant to expose talented teens to intensive study of the art form of their choice. I was thrilled to [...]
Forget 11–Hoover’s 100 Now Goes Up to 1000!
Posted in business resources on June 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hoover’s recently replaced their old Hoover’s 100 with the new Hoover’s Index. It lists the top one thousand companies that are being closely scrutinized by the business professionals searching Hoover’s information. In addition to the Hoover’s Index, the free section of their site offers other useful financial and business research information. (And a shiny gold [...]
Flickr Link Added to Blog
Posted in just for fun on June 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve added my new Flickr account to the Links section of the sidebar. It will have any library-related photos that I take. Some of the photos cover my previous position at a branch, some will be photos from business events here at the Main Library, and some might simply be things that I found interesting [...]
