new and noteworthy
New Team
Member
CWV welcomes Alysia Johnson Fullen and Carlos Vazquez, as senior
consultants. Alysia will co-lead the Newark Collaborative, working with
six nonprofit organizations to develop and launch business ventures over
the next 10 months. Carlos will lead projects for CWV’s Venture
Consulting Practice. Click here to read Alysia’s
and Carlos’ bios.
Client
Highlight
CWV is working with the American Pharmacists Association Foundation to
develop a sales forecasting tool, oversee a potential partnership, and
guide the creation of an advisory committee.
United Cerebral Palsy of Central Arizona has hired CWV–both the venture
consulting and the SFV teams–to identify and research the feasibility of
several earned income opportunities based on its assets, which include a
new state-of-the-art facility designed for indoor and outdoor physical
therapy activities, case management expertise, and experience working
with consumers from birth to the elderly.
CWV is conducting a six-part workshop series for nonprofit executives in
Tyler, Texas. The CWV team will guide local innovative nonprofits in
identifying assets, developing a venture, and creating a business plan.
New SFV Clients
Social Franchise Ventures is working with the Washington, DC, office of
Living Classrooms, based in Baltimore, to determine the franchise
concepts that Living Classrooms could own and/or operate in conjunction
with the new baseball stadium and the waterfront development. The Living
Classrooms Foundation provides job training for at-risk youths,
The Central Middlesex Association for Retarded Citizens (CMARC), in
Woburn, Mass., part of the national ARC organization, has hired Social
Franchise Ventures to determine franchise opportunities that can
generate jobs for people with disabilities and can create unrestricted
income for the organization.
Recent & Upcoming Conferences and Presentations
November
November 3, Washington, DC
Social Franchise, Inter-National Association of Business, Industry and
Rehabilitation Annual Conference
Presenter: Joshua Tripp
November 7, Arlington, VA
Nonprofit Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting Conference
Presenter: Amy Celep
November 10, Baltimore
Funding, Financing, and Franchising, Social Enterprise:
A Paradigm Shift in Baltimore
Presenter: Joshua Tripp
November 20, Somerville, MA
Workshop on Community Wealth, Youth Build
Presenters: Alfred Wise, Billy Shore, and Heather Peeler
December
December 5, 2006, New York
Social Franchise Venture Workshop, New York University
Presenter: Doug Sudell
February
Cleveland, OH
Community Wealth Workshop Series
Presenters: Heather Peeler and Joshua Tripp
March
Cleveland, OH
Community Wealth Workshop Series
Presenters: Heather Peeler and Joshua Tripp
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