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Service Corps INFO SESSION 2010!

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On February 2nd, come learn more about upcoming pro bono consulting projects — to apply by February 7th!

Learn how you chart the strategic path for a Bay Area non-profit:

  • Meet representatives from the non-profits we will be consulting in the coming months
  • Hear about the accomplishments of past Service Corps team members
  • Get to know your fellow Net Impact members

Info Session and Projects Open to ALL Bay Area Net Impact members!

When? Tuesday, February 2nd, 6:30 – 8pm
Where? Cafe International, 508 Haight St.
(5 minute walk north of Church & Market MUNI – www.511.org)

RSVP below or at http://servicecorpsfebruary.eventbrite.com

The Projects — Resume and Letter of Interest Due Feb. 7:

Spring 2010 Project Summaries (for more details, please see www.netimpactsf.org/service-corps/2010-projects)

Springworks: Springworks helps provide access to capital for women and minority entrepreneurs. The SpringWorks planning committee is interested in developing a fundraising strategy that will secure the ongoing financial health of Springworks. (Fundraising expertise required)
Application Deadline: End of January
Project Duration: Beginning of February – end of April

Rising Sun Energy Center: Runs the Community Youth Energy Services (CYES), a summer youth employment and community efficiency retrofit program in the Bay Area. CYES hires young people (15-22 years of age) and trains them to become Energy Specialists, serving their communities with a FREE ‘Green House Call’. This project will involve scaling this program nationally.
Application deadline: February 7th at 11:59pm
Project duration: February 22nd, 2010 – end of August (6 months)

One Percent Foundation: A non-profit organization dedicated to creating a new generation of philanthropists by engaging young adults in sustained and thoughtful giving. OPF’s core program is the One Percent Giving Circle, through which young adults pool a portion of their giving and make grants to non-profit organizations. The goal of this project is to modify the One Percent Giving Circle to package and sell to for-profit companies looking to develop corporate giving programs that engage their employees in philanthropy.
Application deadline: February 7th at 11:59pm
Project duration: February 22 – May 31, 2010 (3 months)

* NEW * Project addition: Strategic Financing Plan for Business Council on Climate Change (Please see Service Corps tab – 2010 Projects)

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Net Impact SF Meet & Greet

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Net Impact

Learn about Net Impact San Francisco!

Come to the Net Impact San Francisco Meet & Greet on Thursday, January 28th. (You don’t have to be a member). Net Impact San Francisco, a regional non-profit leader, provides pro-bono consulting to non-profits and resources to working professionals.We will talk about opportunities available to members and talk over drinks afterwards.

Whether you are looking to get involved with Net Impact or would like to meet new members, this will be a great event to learn about the organization and explore new opportunities.

Membership registration and kits will be available.

Location: Cafe International, 508 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA?
Date: Thursday, January 28th 2010

Schedule:
6:30-6:45pm Informal Networking
6:45-7:00pm Introduction by Leadership team
7:00-7:45pm Programs/Benefits of Net Impact
7:45pm+ Informal Networking

Event is open to the public.


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City Connections Happy Hour – Friday, February 12th, 2010

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Fall in Love in with SF!

Love is in the air and it’s the time to socialize with your city. Commonwealth Club’s INFORUM, in partnership with ArtPoint, Net Impact, SPUR, the World Affairs Council, and Young Women Social Entrepreneurs, invites you to come fall in love with other like-minded SF organizations this Valentine’s Day. We’ll get together at the Press Club to party, to make new friends and find out how to engage in SF’s leading networks. So, if you have a passion for SF or are looking for a new passion, let’s get together and make some connections.

Where: Press Club, 20 Yerba Buena Lane, San Francisco 94103
When: Friday, February 12th, 6 – 8pm
Pricing: Free (pre-registration recommended)
Note: Includes membership raffles and happy hour wine and food specials. It’s free to attend (no-host bar).
For more information and to register: http://bit.ly/ConxHpyHr

Service Corps Project with Springworks: Access to Capital for Women & Minority Entrepreneurs

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A great opportunity for professional learning and development!

Date: Early January 2010 (Kickoff date T.B.D.)
Time: T.B.D.
Place: San Francisco, CA
RSVP: By 12/21/09 – E-mail jsideus[at]gmail.com and volunteer[at]springworks.org – Subject=Springworks SC project

As you are likely aware, there are a disproportionately low number of women and minorities in leading or supporting roles within venture investment sized start-ups. Historically, companies owned by women and minorities have received less than 5% of total venture capital investments over the past 40 years and minorities have only accounted for 3.7% of entrepreneurs in venture scale start-ups. Springworks is working to change these numbers.

Our planning committee is interested in developing a fundraising strategy that will secure the ongoing financial health of Springworks.

More information on the project and how to apply in this PDF.

Application Process:

  1. Submit resume and paragraph on what our mission means to you (volunteer[at]springworks.org)
    • To gauge interest in the project and help select a venue for our early – January meeting, please indicate your interest by 12/21/09.
  2. Follow-up 30-minute phone conversation
    • likely to occur in late December or early January, depending on your schedule.
  3. In person meeting
    • location & date TBD

Project Managers:

Jorge Calderon, founder – Springworks
Jeremy Ideus, Service Corps Leader, Net Impact-SF

Digging Deeper Design Competition: Urban Agriculture Solutions for San Francisco

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DD09

The SF Chapter of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), the American Institute of Graphic Artists (AIGA) and the Interaction Designers Association (IxDA) would like to introduce you to this year’s Digging Deeper, Building Blocks for Sustainable Design – A multi-disciplinary design competition addressing real urban needs. The competition focuses on urban agriculture solutions for San Francisco and is being held in cooperation with the SF Mayor’s Office.

Competition Website: http://diggingdeepersf.ning.com/

Competition Details
Entry Information

The deadline for applications is January 31, 2010!

Feed Your Noggin’: Wisdom from the 2009 Net Impact Conference (& Egg Nog!)

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Thursday, December 3rd 2009
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: RSVP for location

RSVP below or at http://feedyournoggin.eventbrite.com/

Join your fellow Net Impact San Francisco Professional Chapter members for an informal, fireside discussion about this year’s Net Impact Conference. If you attended the conference, come share what you learned. If you didn’t attend, come discover the lessons our members took away. Members who DIDN’T travel to Ithaca are encouraged! Delicious homemade egg nog (with and without the rum!) and nibblers included.

January Monthly Gathering: Urban Agriculture

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Date: Wednesday, January 13th 2010.
Time:
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location:
Poleng Lounge; 1751 Fulton Ave; SF
RSVP
:  Form below or at http://urbanag.eventbrite.com/

In January, our Net Impact SF gathering will be focused on Urban Agriculture. With Gavin Newsom announcing some pretty bold initiatives in San Francisco and the FAO getting together in Rome to discuss food security, agriculture is becoming top of mind for world leaders. During this event, we’ll discuss a wide range of topics from innovative business models to the role of government to promote agriculture in urban areas.

Confirmed guests are:

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Join Net Impact SF for a bike ride to Marin!

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Saturday, November 7th, 10am-3pm
We’ll meet at Crissy Field, bike over the Golden Gate Bridge, through Sausalito and Corte Madera to Larkspur.  We’ll have lunch at the Marin Brewing Company and then catch the ferry back to San Francisco.
Sound fun?  Join us!  Please note, though, that the ride is not for beginners; it is about 14 miles and will be approximately 2 hours of biking.

Monthly Gathering: Health Care Today- Innovation, Access & Reform

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DOWNLOAD or listen to a raw .mp3 audio file of the event. (1 hour long, 25 MB)

Date: Wednesday, October 21st
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Schroeder’s Cafe, 240 Front St (@ Sacramento St), San Francisco

RSVP below or at http://nisfoctober.eventbrite.com/

At this month’s Net Impact SF gathering, we are pleased to announce we will be discussing business innovation in the health care industry, access to healthcare and the possible impacts of upcoming reform.

Our speakers will include:

Kirsten Snow Spalding, is a consultant working on state and local health care policy, environmental initiatives and workforce development projects. From 2004-2006, Kirsten Ms. Spalding was in the California State Treasurer’s Office. Ms. Spalding was Executive Director of the California Pollution Control Financing Authority, and the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority. Ms. Spalding began her professional career as a California lawyer specializing in the representation of unions and employee benefit plans.

Allison Kelly, is the Director of Employee OnRamp Initiatives at Pacific Community Ventures, a 501C(c)(3) that develops and invests in businesses providing economic gains to low/moderate income (LMI) communities in California. Allison leads PCVs innovative health care product, VidaCard Prepaid MasterCard©, which is a market-based solution that helps small and medium-sized businesses and their workers by offering convenient and affordable access to basic health care products and services. Additionally, Allison leads PCVs health care policy work. Funded by The California Endowment, PCVs health policy work is centered around elevating the voices of small business in the health care debate and helping to educate small business owners on health care policy legislation.

Jonathan Hare, is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive. He is a member of the Health IT Standards Panel’s Security and Privacy Technical Committee and the Markle Foundation Personal Health Technology Council. He is considered a leading voice in health care privacy issues and is listed on healthspottr’s “Future of Health 100”. He is CEO of Resilient Network Solutions, which is a new class of internet infrastructure that shifts control of data access from organizations and software applications to the owners of the data. By solving the problem of security and privacy for distributed personal information, the Resilient Trust Network enables the creation of new business models for health care.

Jenevieve Graner, is a Regional Program Manager for Operation Access, a non-profit organization that mobilizes a network of medical volunteers, hospitals, and referring community clinics to provide low-income uninsured people access to donated outpatient surgeries and specialty care that improves their health, ability to work, and quality of life. Before her move to the Bay Area, she was Project Associate with the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center and Administrator with the Bolivian Consulate in Boston.

Kevin McCormack, is the Media Relations Manager with California Pacific Medical Center, where he coordinates all of the media coverage. Before this, he was a journalist and worked at KRON-TV for more than 20 years, as a news show producer, as well as a writer. For his last ten years at KRON he was the health and medical producer, responsible for reporting on all the latest in health news. In 2000, he won an Emmy for a series he produced on the crisis in health care.

Additional speakers TBC.

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We host a gathering for the Net Impact SF community on the second Wednesday of every month, featuring a different discussion topic each time. This offers the opportunity for informal interaction with the invited guests and with your fellow Net Impact members, with the discussion topic serving as a launching off point for engaging conversations.

Net Impact SF leadership team meeting immediately before the meeting, starting at 6pm.

Contact Us: sfprofessional@netimpact.org

Chapter Website: www.netimpactsf.org

Venue Website: www.schroederssf.com

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Shroeder’s is easily accessible via public transportation. It’s a short walk from the Embarcadero MUNI and Bart stops. Go to 511.org for more details. Looking to carpool? Check out zimride.com.

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By Sunday, Oct. 11: Apply to Service Corps Projects with USF Chapter!

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Looking to apply your business skills while gaining valuable experience critical for building your resume?  USF Net Impact is accepting applications from members interested in engaging in Service Corps consulting projects in the nonprofit organizations.  This opportunity is open to any San Francisco Bay Area Net Impact members to participate in the projects.  Give back to your community!  Apply Now!

About the projects:

Project A: Business Planning for the East Palo Alto Community Farmers’ Market
Project B: Emerge Loan Employer Survey and Interview Project for Rubicon National Social Innovations (RNSI)
See more details below.

Number of Volunteers
Each project needs 3 -4 volunteers. Please indicate in your application if you would like to be the team lead.

Eligibility
Volunteers must be Net Impact members (www.netimpact.org)

Time Commitment
Volunteers must be able to devote 4 to 5 hours per week of work in the duration of the projects.

How to apply

Please submit your resume with a brief statement of interest in the indicated project to usfservicecorps@gmail.com by Sunday, October 11th.

Contact Ling Huang @ usfservicecorps@gmail.com with any question about the projects

Project A

Business Planning for the East Palo Alto Community Farmers’ Market

The East Palo Alto Community Farmers’ Market is a community-based and youth-focused Certified Farmers’ Market.  Before its founding in June 2008, the Market engaged a group of students to create a two-year business plan.  Since then, a number of factors have changed, resulting in that business plan being obsolete. Our team of volunteers will develop a new business plan for the famers’ market working closely with Collective Roots, a nonprofit which provides financial and logistics supports to the East Palo Alto Community Farmers’ Market.

The mission of Collective Roots is to educate and engage youth and communities in food system change through sustainable programs that impact health, education, and the environment. Collective Roots achieves its mission through the innovative integration and implementation of two key program areas: garden-based education and food systems change.

Project Objectives: The goal is to develop a new business plan that will help the market to stabilize and continue to operate in East Palo Alto. The business plan will determine the number of   vendors, stall fees, customers and other variables required for a financially sustainable market (including some consistent yearly private funding).

Project Duration: 5 months starting from October 2009

Valuable Skills and Knowledge:

· Business planning
· Marketing
· Community programs
· Nonprofit Management

Project B

Emerge Loan Employer Survey and Interview Project for Rubicon National Social Innovations (RNSI)

The Emerge Loan product is a social innovation that Rubicon National created in response to predatory payday loans.  The Pay Day Loan industry in the United States has grown into a multi-billion dollar business, primarily at the expense of hard working lower income workers who are forced to pay what amounts to 400% interest rates to borrow money in emergencies. The Emerge Loan is marketed as employer benefit program through payroll service providers. Using a voluntary payroll deduction, loans can be originated and underwritten at reasonable interest rates and at faster speeds than payday advance alternatives. Borrowers also build credit through using this product. Emerge Loan will significantly replace predatory payday loans and solve the severe liquidity problem faced by borrowers of small dollar loans.

Our team of volunteers will work with Rubicon National to assess the feasibility of large employers offering the Emerge Loan product as an employee benefit. The team will create a survey tool and distribute it to a list of large Northern California employers that Rubicon National has compiled. The team would additionally interview employers to gain additional insight. Based on the results of the survey and interviews the team would make recommendations about adjustments that would make the Emerge Loan program more attractive to employers and form a marketing strategy to gain adoption by employers.

Rubicon National Social Innovations is a San Francisco-based non-profit organization that aims at creating nationally-scaled social enterprises that have the primary purpose of improving the economic well being of low income people and communities. These social businesses achieve its mission by creating jobs for the “hardest to employ”, and by creating businesses that provide better value and thus help low income people save money compared to current predatory business practices in low income communities. Rubicon National Social Innovations believes that for social enterprise to have a significant impact on poverty and jobs in America; it must be re-imagined on a much greater scale.

Project Objectives: The goal is to make recommendations that would make the Emerge Loan product appealing for large employer adoptions according to the results of the survey and interviews.

Project Duration: 4 months starting from October 2009

Valuable Skills and Knowledge:

· Survey Instruments
· Marketing
· Strategic Analysis
· Interpersonal skills

More information about the program: http://rubiconnational.org/our-projects/emerge-loan-program/