Party for "New Venture Seed Fund" awards.

BIG PARTY!  Thursday, October 18, 8-11PM at the Edge SF!

AC4A , the SF LGBT Community Center, and the Edge SF invite you to party with the winners of the 2007 "New Venture Seed Fund" awards.   These four, tremendous community leaders are poised to make the Castro more fun, more interesting, more diverse -- for years to come! (including Queer Open Mic)

More details to follow but, for now, please save the date.  Cheers!

Seed Fund lead sponsors:
And Castro for All
The San Francisco LGBT Community Center
The Edge SF

Seed Fund co-sponsors:
The Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club
The Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club
The San Francisco Entertainment Commission
The San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee
The Stop AIDS Project

Seed Fund selection committee* and advisors:
Geoff Benjamin
Billy Curtis*
Aimee Forster*
Kenny Gong
Page Hodel*
Jon Huggett
Jocelyn Kane*
Luke Klipp
Jennie Lake*
Myong Leigh
Mike Marshall*
John Newsome
Tim Roseborough
Ken Stram
Dave Wheeler
Lisa Williams

Background on the New Venture Seed Fund:

The New Venture Seed Fund seeks to encourage and support enterprising entrepreneurs to create new, social ventures whose formats are explicitly inclusive and affirming of women, people of color, youth, and/or other underserved LGBT sub-communities—and, at the same time, welcoming to all LGBT people.

Each 2007 Seed Fund recipient will receive nominal funding awards of between $500-$2000, as well as:

• Tailored training sessions through the SF Center's Economic Development program
• Entree into professional development programs at "partner" small business and entrepreneurship programs (e.g., the US Small Business Administration, the San Francisco Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center)
• One-on-one advising from experts in the field, and access to a broad network of business leaders
• Assistance with media outreach, marketing, and PR
• Assistance with venue identification, permitting, and zoning regulations
• Assistance with continued fund development, and access to additional funding through the Seed Fund
• And much more!
  

For more details about the Seed Fund, please contact ken at kens@sfcenter.org; aimee at aimee.forster@gmail.com; or john at jonnynunu@aol.com

Who loves coffee?

I just saw a most hilarious and insane video over at work. A guy attempts to hit all 171 starbucks in manhattan in 24hours. the rule is he has to buy something from every single one. i won't give away the ending - but omg - coffee insanity. its kinda the short attention span Fast Food Nation for coffee.

Security Strike ends for now as talks resume

CONTRACT TALKS RESUME, PROGRESS FOR SECURITY OFFICERS TODAY

San Francisco security officers terminate for now their unfair labor practice strike

SAN FRANCISCO – Contract negotiations for more than 4,000 Bay Area security officers resumed today with the security contractors committing to continue talks tomorrow and Friday. Security officers, on strike since Monday morning in protest of their employers’ use of intimidation, harassment, and other unfair labor practices, made the decision to terminate for now their strike as a gesture of good faith and a nod to the progress made today at the bargaining table.

Security officers’ decision to terminate for now their unfair labor practice strike against Securitas, Universal Protection Services and ABM means security officers from more than twenty commercial office buildings in and around the Financial District of San Francisco will return to their posts Thursday morning.

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