May 2008 - E-CONNECTIONS Newsletter
What's Inside The Westchester Globe Member Announcements Expert's Corner E-CONNECTIONS Testimonial Quick Links WCA in the News Events Calendar Welcome New Members Take Our Poll About CONNECTIONS Business Links World Trade Council Member Spotlight Read More... Sign-up now to receive this newsletter. Name E-mail Address    Grand and Platinum Members To link to our Corporate Members, Click the Banner Below		Welcome Welcome to the May 2008 issue of E-CONNECTIONS, our bi-monthly electronic newsletter. Our E-CONNECTIONS newsletter has been a great success because it's all about our members. With an open rate of 40+% we know you are getting great information from our Subject Matter Experts Corner and hope you enjoy reading about the successes of our member firms in the Member Announcement Section. To learn how you can feature your business in the Member Spotlight or to provide content for the Expert's Corner and Member Announcement sections, contact Dorothy Forcina via e-mail, dforcina@westchester.org. or by phone (914) 948-5689. The Westchester Globe Click here for international news and information from the World Trade Council of Westchester. Read More... Member Announcements The Board of Trustees of Berkeley College has named Dario A. Cortes, PhD, as President effective July 7, 2008. Currently President and Executive Director of The American School Foundation in Mexico City, Dr. Cortes will assume responsibilities as President of Berkeley College following the close of the academic year. Read More... ALSO Berkeley College, located in the heart of downtown White Plains, has summer student intern housing available. These units are modern, clean and accessible to public transportation and all the amenities that the City has to offer. The building is located at 6 Cottage Place and the rooms include private bathrooms, air conditioning and cooking facilities. Read More... Bookkeeping Brilliance, Inc. Toys for Tots Award Recipient On March 20, 2008, Lucian Caldera, coordinator for the Putnam/Westchester U.S. Marines Corps Company T4T Toys for Tots Program, presented awards to two local businesses in Westchester/Putnam in appreciation for their corporate support of the 2007 Toys for Tots campaign, one to Bookkeeping Brilliance, Inc. Pleasantville, NY. The award was accepted by K. Marie Longo-Garry, President. The Bookkeeping Brilliance, Inc. staff was also in attendance. Read More... DOMINICAN SISTERS FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE NAMED AMONG NATION'S TOP PROVIDERS Once again, HomeCare Elite named DOMINICAN SISTERS FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE (DSFHS), a multi-county, certified, home health agency, one of the most successful Medicare-certified home care providers in the US, including more than 30 facilities in New Jersey and New York. A compilation of the most successful providers identified were those agencies whose performance measures in quality outcomes, quality improvement and financial performance are within the top 25% of all home care agencies nationwide. Read More... ALSO Dominican Sisters Family Health Service Westchester Cordsmen Chorus Benefit Concert. Read More... The Westchester County Association is proud to co-sponsor a FREE Seminar for Business Owners & Vice Presidents, outside sales professionals, Vice Presidents & Business Owners, Sales Managers looking to move their sales team to the next level, Sales professionals who deal with prospects not ready to commit or Sales Professional with High Achievement Goals. Read More... Purchase College Jazz Studies Students are Finalists in Jazz Competition The two jazz bands selected as finalists in the inaugural Generations International Competition for Emerging Combos feature students and alumni of the Jazz Studies program at the Purchase College School of the Arts, Conservatory of Music. The competition is sponsored by the International Center for the Arts (ICA) at San Francisco State University. Read More... Westchester / Rockland Revolving Loan Fund Program The Westchester / Rockland Revolving Loan Fund Program was established to promote small business growth and economic development in Westchester and Rockland Counties. The essential feature of the program is to provide financial assistance to companies that neither qualify for conventional financing nor meet a bank's credit guidelines. The program is administered by the Rockland Economic Development Corporation, and is funded via a grant provided by Empire State Development Corporation. A loan committee which includes representatives of lending institutions in Rockland and Westchester Counties, reviews and decides upon loan applications. Read More... POMCO Introduces New Health Benefit Plan Option for Westchester's Small Businesses. POMCO introduced a Flex Funding benefit plan for businesses with at least 50 employees to help reduce their premiums, while maintaining benefit levels. Read More... CPAs to Discuss Strategies to Pay for College The Westchester chapter of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA), in conjunction with Mercy College, is offering the session, "College Selection and Paying the Bill," on Saturday, May 10th, 2008 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon at Mercy College's Dobby Ferry Campus (555 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry) in the lecture hall of the Main Hall building. The cost to attend is $25 per family. Register in advance by calling 800-537-3635 (sign up for course code number 45110807). Space permitting, attendees can also register at the door. For further information about the session, call Howard Klein, treasurer of the Westchester chapter NYSSPCA, at 914-428-7733. Read More... MTA Metro-North Railroad Sets Record for Ridership in 2007 Carries More Than 80 Million Customers MTA Metro-North Railroad ridership exceeded 80 million customers in 2007 for the first time in the railroad's 25-year history, based on preliminary analysis of December ticket sales. In fact, ridership has almost doubled from 41.3 million in 1983, the year Metro-North was created from the faltering Conrail passenger service. Read More... ALSO To get you to your final destination, MTA Metro-North Railroad has joined with Enterprise Rent-A-Car to offer car rental service at 23 select stations, including nine stations in Westchester County. Read More... The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, received a $10,000 grant from the AT&T Foundation to create six cell phone tours, three of which will be in both English and Spanish. Tours for exhibitions, as well as Hudson Riverama and Glenview, the historic home, will enrich visitors' access to the museum.. Read More... Hospitality Resource Group, Inc. of White Plains and New York, NY is proud to announce that Linda Ferone has joined the staff as Director of Sales. Ms. Ferone, formerly of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in White Plains, brings an extensive sales and events background as the property's former Director of Catering. Read More... News from Houlihan Lawrence February 2008 President Bush signed the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 into law. The act hailed by the National Association of Realtors should give a much needed boost to the housing market. The new act raises the loan limits guaranteed by Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and government sponsored enterprises (GSE) mortgage limits in 2008. Although the limits are now above the average price of a Westchester home, therefore many homebuyers and home owners will benefit from these raised limits. Here is how you can benefit. Read More... Digiscribe, a Westchester-based document management company, is launching Scan & Save to do its part in preserving the environment. The company will donate $20 to The Nature Conservancy for every 20,000 sheets of paper (the average contents of a four-drawer filing cabinet) it scans through the end of this year. Read More... BERLIN PRODUCTIONS WINS ITS FOURTH TELLY AWARD Berlin Productions (BP) has won its fourth Telly Award, this time for a sales video it produced for the organic clothing company My Earth Too. Developed in cooperation with the public relations agency Co-Communications, the video is being used to promote My Earth Too's brands of "green," eco- friendly organic apparel for men, women and children, as well as products currently in development, such as organic housewares and furnishings. Read More... College of Westchester offers BBA requested by Local Corporate Community. The College of Westchester (CW) announced that the New York State Board of Regents approved its Bachelor of Business Administration Degree (BBA), officially making CW a Bachelor Degree granting college Read More... Point and Click Learning Course Schedule for May and June. Read More... The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence/Westchester, Inc. cordially invites you to attend our Sixth Annual Luncheon Read More... Photo Bureau chosen as official photographers for the Pope's Visit! Read More... The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence/Westchester, Inc. cordially invites you to attend our Sixth Annual Luncheon Read More... Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers will host MARYKNOLL YOUTH DAY on September 20, 2008. Young people from the ages of 16-30 are invited to our Ossining campus to enjoy a day of live music, inspiring speakers, food, fun and colorful liturgies. Read More... Expert's Corner Recruiting Hispanic Professionals Opinion: Hispanic Professionals have become a rare commodity! by Tom Kadala At work or on the street, the racial spectrum of Americans is changing rapidly. If you follow the latest headlines, there seems to be a valid explanation. According to the US Census Bureau by 2050 one out of every four Americans will be of Hispanic decent. What is even more impressive; however, are the projected number of individuals. Currently at 44 million and growing, the Hispanic population is expected to more than double reaching 100 million in that same period of time. If the Hispanic population is booming, why then has it been so difficult for corporations to attract, hire, and retain Hispanic professionals? The problem of attracting Hispanic hires is more deeply rooted than meets the eye. With over 78 million baby boomers set to retire in the next two decades, the US Census Bureau estimates that their exodus from the workforce will generate approximately 35 million job openings. A large portion of these job openings will eventually be filled by the growing crop of minority candidates, among them Hispanics. Read More... E-CONNECTIONS Testimonial Adam Stark, President Stark Business Solutions This has been quite ayear for Adam Stark, starting in the spring when he decided to take his business, Stark Business Solutions to the next level by getting more involved in WCA activities. He joined the CONNECTIONS Advisory Committee and liked what he saw. "As my company deals mostly with small businesses, I was very impressed with The WCA's innovative new programs and services targeed to entrepreneurs and young professionals like me," he said. In the fall, he approached The WCA staff with the idea of his compahy sponsoring a new CONNECTIONS Breakfast Seminars to provide small subiness owners with guidance on a variety of topics. The early morning one-hour sessions - presented by Mr. Stark and the WCA- debuted in January 2008. Mr. Stark was one of the five WCA members honored at the Annual Fall Preeption for winning the inaugural Awards for Professional Excellence (APEX). Appropriately, he won the APEX Award for Young Professional. A graduate of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Mr. Stark resides in Pound Ridge with his wife Marisa and four children.

 

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