As we know as unpleasant as it is that one day we are not going to be around forever, but what we leave behind to our loved ones is something that not only gives you a peace of mind but also give you the opportunity to establish a foundation for the future. As you also came to realize us as a resource for you to prepare yourself your family and generations to come.

Just think wouldn't things be different for our people if each one of us was able to leave behind something that would have helped us be better prepared financially for the challenges ahead? well this is what a will is for.

As Black people we need to not be afraid to get our house in order, as many of our people fear the hereafter and forget about the now. The Now is many times scarier then the hereafter. It is time to be realistic.

It is already difficult when you lose a loved one but it is extremely difficult when a persons affairs are not in order. Start preparing yourself and protect yourself and loved ones by establishing a will, this will give you a peace of mind and your loved ones will be grateful and appreciative for your foresight.

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PRE-PAID LEGAL SERVICES^® is designed to provide professional legal services for you, your family and your business. It will cover almost anything that you can imagine, from simple traffic violation through vehicular homicide. We are focusing our efforts with this opportunity on getting all of our friends, supporters and clients completed or updated "Wills" and to also ensure them and their children have access to the same quality legal representation (not a over-worked & under-paid public defender) as other kids from wealthier communities.

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A year ago, I had big plans to re-vamp my web site. I was going to publish my e-newsletter twice a month every month, and I was going to upgrade my own e-commerce capabilities. Those were my Internet marketingresolutions for 2005.

And I broke them all. Every single one. (One of them I broke even before the month of January was over!) For every goal, I had an excuse. And the excuses won.

But this year is different. It's 2006 time to get live!

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I recently acquired a leads lists and was shocked to see the names people use for email. Now, don't get me wrong, I know your choice of address is your call, but if you want to be taken seriously -- that is you want potential customers, clients, employers to contact you for whatever product or service you're offering or job you are seeking you should seriously consider getting an email address that represents you as a professional.

The reason why I acquired the list was I am looking for people who are seriously interested in working for themselves (full time or part time) and some of the names on the list I immediately didn't even bother to contact:

licktheback@

txgirl12002@

bigchops555@

scbeautyqueen2000@

redthang34@

nomnkyhr@

bombdiggity916@

booboolicious23

boodaphatdady@

The above addresses I omitted the domain -- the point is how serious are these individuals who apparently completed an online survey regarding their interest in seeking a business opportunity.

I personally believe having a vanity email address is the way to go. Use your name -- and it is really easy at GDI to do that using the .ws domain. For only $10 a month you can get a website, up to 10 email addresses -- one of which you can use when you want people to take you seriously -- so that leaves you 9 to get crazy and have fun with and the GDI business opportunity which includes a BackOffice website and personalized capture pages.

So, if you need a credible email address, if you need a website for personal or business use, if you want to generate income then check out the Global Domains Opportunity. Just visit http://Website.ws/idettev

There are a great variety of ways to make entrepreneurship programs interesting and memorable through active participation in the learning process. We have provided some of these for teachers to use and adapt to their classroom needs.

• "Business Plan Know How" - Creative Thinking and Questions To Ask
• "Just What is Profit?" - Try this activity to see if you know what profit is!"
• "Creativity, Innovation, and Problem Solving" - Lots of web pages to use in practicing business creativity
• "Promotion Basics" - Practice Using the Promotional Mix
• "Visualize Your Future" - Classroom Activity
• "Franchising Know-How" - Develop Your Own Franchise
• "Market Research for the Classroom" - Find out Student Needs
• "Profits Come From Taking Risks" - How do entrepreneurs make plans to reduce risk?
• "Business Startup Simulation" - Students work together to create a business idea
• "Ethical Behavior is Good Business" - Practice using decision-making skills resulting in ethical decisions
• "Let's Speak 'ECONOMICS'" - See how economics understanding is the foundation of entrepreneurial thinking.
• "Entrepreneurship...It's Elementary" - Lots of activities for elementary school teachers.
• "Ideas for Entrepreneurship Activities in the Schools" - Use entrepreneurship as a vehicle for building academic skills.

Provides some decent researched material

The Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education

The members of the Entrepreneurship Consortium are champions for ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION at all levels of education and across all disciplines in America and the world.

The Consortium was created by the International Enterprise Academy at the Ohio State University in 1982 and has become a private, non-profit corporation since 1998. Annual membership is offered to state departments of education in the United States or nations outside the United States as the primary membership group and governing body of the organization. Other organizations may choose to become a corporate member as well. This corporate membership varies by year based on consortium priorities and educational budget constraints. The work of the Consortium saves members duplication of effort and provides resources for teachers in their states.

http://www.entre-ed.org/_teach/index.htm

"We are implementing a major strategic initiative aimed at regenerating America's inner cities, areas devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and attracting positive investment.

INTRODUCTION A successful comprehensive strategy for reconstruction after a major disaster must have as its catalyst an organized private sector initiative composed of local residents and the communities leaders, Small and Medium-sized Business Enterprises (SMBE's. They must be empowered so they can participate in government and privately funded construction contracts and programs.

OBJECTIVE To create synergistic relationships and empower Community Development Corporations, Community Grassroots Organizations, Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs), Small and Medium-sized Business Enterprises (SMBE's), construction, architectural and engineering firms and companies that come on board and joint venture with us to be able to procure and participate in the government and private sector funded Gulf Coast reconstruction contracts and inner-city community development programs.

GENERAL OVERVIEW Immediate focus is on residential and related commercial construction not only in the Gulf Coast region but in inner-cities around the country. These efforts are spearheaded by our PeaceZone.net Community member company, www.AmoroCorp.com Amoro Corporation is an African American owned company, whose founder and CEO Ephren W. Taylor II is considered a “high-performance visionary with the ability to make things happen, when nobody else can.

Amoro Corporation is a publicly-held investment development group dedicated to Empowering Communities with Socially Conscious Development. Amoro Corp has extensive expertise and focuses on creating affordable housing, especially in urban environments. PeaceZone.net's technology provides the added ability to integrate information and computer technology platforms into development projects and create wired communities.

The AmoroCorp team assembled by its CEO include, IBSA, ENUF, and the www.PeaceZone.net Biz Zone and its information communication technology (ICT) base represent over 275 years of expertise in construction project marketing, management & development, accounting, legal & business consulting, information technology, software development, and other key areas in training and certification.

Amoro brings to the table a proven track record of having worked closely with Economic Development Groups and Community Development Corporations across America creating successful commercial and residential development and redevelopment programs that have fulfilled client communities needs and objectives. Amoro Corp is capable, under the right circumstances, to lend a publicly traded instrument to a proposed joint venture allowing an easier raise of capital and the securing of a project's bonding requirements.

We present an African American group with the master plan for a private sector initiated reconstruction effort based on grassroots contacts and our unique understanding of the internal social and economic dynamics of the inner-cities of America and the Gulf Coast cities devastated by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Our group's resources and local market business intelligence can be leveraged for the benefit of contract procurement, implementation, and operations and management. We eliminate the guesswork and can source real-time strategic data on which to base responses to RFPs, RFAs. Teaming and empowered with qualified national or international joint venture partners we can procure and undertake major US government funded (IDIQ) Indefinite Deliver and Indefinite Quantity Contracts related to Katrina disaster reconstruction projects.

Foreign or local companies interested in partnering with our group on contracts already signed and to know about opportunities we have in the pipeline contact:

Dr. F. A. Young, Esq., Special Advisor to the Chairman of Amoro Corp & Executive Director, PeaceZone.net & Biz Zone Email: drfayesq@peacezone.net ===========================================

Any initiative to rebuild the infrastructure of the US Gulf Coast cities hit by Katrina and revive the private business sectors must include the empowerment of the communities residents so they can participate in the rebuilding of their homes and their businesses with dignity. Dr. F. A. Young, Esq., Perspectives from the PeaceZone.N

Business Plans, Budgeting and Business Plan Consulting

Fast4Cast offers a free business plan application, budgeting software and provides consulting. The business plan application provides an online word processor for the text of your business plan and web forms for completing the financial portion of your business plan. The application generates integrated pro-forma financial statements with supporting schedules, graphs and charts. Upon request, consulting is provided at reasonable rates.

With Fast4Cast you can easily build a complete, well formatted business plan without installing any software. Since there is nothing to install, you can start immediately and our cost is much lower (so low we can offer the service for free!).

You write the text portion of your business plan using our online word processor which includes sample business plans and business plan outlines (an outline with detailed instructions). At any time you can save your business plan as a word document. You even can cut and paste text from/to your word document to/from the online text editor.

A complete business plan requires integrated forecasted financial statements along with supporting charts, graphs and tables. This is done using the online budgeting program which is also free and completely integrated with the business plan program. For more information see the budgeting section.

Budgeting

We supply the templates and provide tools to help you forecast. You just enter the numbers. You can start forecasting by editing one of the sample budgets or you can start from scratch with a blank budget template.

The budgeting program generates several reports including: Proforma Income Statements, Balance Sheets, Statement of Cash Flows and schedules (sales, payroll, depreciation, loan amortization, etc). To see a sample of these reports go the sample budget reports page.

The budgeting program has charting and graphing capabilities built in. To see samples, please go to the sample graphs and sample charts pages.

Business Plan Consulting

If you need help, we will proofread or finish uncompleted business plans (and budgets) at reasonable rates. Please contact us for a quote.

Free Registration

Before building your business plan or budget you must register. Registration is free. Your data will stay online for 6 months. When you register you will be asked for a username and password, this will insure that only you or people you authorize can view your data.

The Fast4Cast program contains no advertising or hidden charges. None of the data that you enter into the application will be disclosed to the public, used by Fast4cast, Inc. or sold to third parties without your express written consent. You can copy your tables, graphs and documents to your PC and/or keep them online for free for 1 to 6 months. Your data will be deleted after 1 month of inactivity (no one logs on to view or modify your business plan or budget) or after 6 months from the day you register.

To register and use the application for free, please go to the registration page.

Teen Filmmaker's Updated Doll Test Reaps Same Sad Results Decades Later

Date: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 By: Jackie Jones, BlackAmericaWeb.com

It started out as a school project for black girls to see the world through our eyes, said Kiri Davis, who produced A Girl Like Me, a seven-minute documentary that has won acclaim at New York's Tribeca Film Festival, the Silverdocs festival in Silver Spring, Md., and has won the Diversity Award from Media that Matters, a nonprofit Internet group that screens films about social issues.

In the course of the project, Davis told BlackAmericaWeb.com, Standards of beauty kept coming up. So we started from there.

IBSA is a nonprofit tax-exempt organization that provides direct employment or career counseling, micro-enterprise training & development and facilitates online continuing education courses as well as an opportunity to work towards your College Education online. These educational opportunities are provided in partnership with Gatlin Education Services. Since 1993, we have provided effective advocacy, comprehensive services to youth offenders, and counseling to the low-income aspiring entrepreneurs seeking to start or expand a business. Our online means of sharing information with agency contacts, program participants, individual donors and business partners include:

Interesting article...

Community Entrepreneurship By Michael H. Shuman While the spread of nonprofit entrepreneurship training programs for low-income Americans is a hopeful sign, to truly turn around low-income communities these programs must also teach the value of local ownership and socially useful goods and services.........

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Edrea Davis is a Business and Communications Consultant in Atlanta, Ga. and has worked with a host of luminaries in the entertainment, civic, and political arenas. She produces dogonvillage.com, one of the oldest black sites on the Internet. The New Jersey native was educated at Georgia State University and has traveled throughout the world to cover events including Amsterdam, South Africa, Ghana, France, and Switzerland. She spends her spare time traveling and enjoying her vivacious grandchildren.

Dogon Village Press Fiction Cover design by Jacqueline Caldwell

Email: author@snitchcraft.com Phone: (818) 613.9521

RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 2006

Pre-order your autographed copy of “SnitchCraft” due out September 2006

SnitchCraft - a novel by Edrea Davis

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June 12, 2006

BATON ROUGE, La.- Louisiana Economic Development's (LED) Entrepreneurial Services group, working with Urban Entrepreneur Partnership Gulf Coast, Inc. (UEP), is hosting regional meetings to help bring together and develop a structure for all local entities that provide assistance to entrepreneurs and small business owners.

UEP Gulf Coast is an unprecedented partnership among the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, National Urban League, Business Roundtable, federal agencies (White House, SBA and others) and LED. It was formed to respond to the unique circumstances resulting from hurricanes Katrina and Rita, alleviate deficiencies in basic needs such as housing and job creation and help catalyze entrepreneurship education, research, policy development and growth throughout Louisiana.

Kick-off meetings are being held state-wide to introduce UEP to local business assistance providers. During the meetings, UEP intends to learn about local providers' activities and identify their needs.

To date, LED has held meetings in Lake Charles, Lafayette, Baton Rouge, Hammond, New Orleans and West Monroe. Future meetings include:

Contacts

Shreveport, NW LA Planning District 7 Shreveport Chamber — 1st Floor Conf Rm 400 Edwards Street Shreveport, LA 71101

Central Louisiana — Planning District 6 Central LA Chamber of Commerce Planning District 6 1118 Third St. Alexandria, LA 71309 Ph: 318-422-6671

Bayou Region — Planning District 3 South Louisiana Economic Council (SLEC) Nicholls State University Rm 113, Betsy Cheramie Ayo Hall Thibodaux, LA 70310 Ph: 985-448-4485

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The mission of Louisiana Economic Development is to provide excellence in leadership, policy and programs to create a business climate enabling public-private linkages, which result in capital investment, a diversified economic base and quality job opportunities for all Louisiana citizens. For more information, visit www.LouisianaForward.com.

Advance planning can help businesses secure property, commerce and enable them to release or evacuate employees sooner in the event of an emergency. Louisiana Economic Development recommends the following hurricane season checklist.

Develop a Plan

• Develop an emergency plan and procedures to address the potential hazards that could impact your business.
• Review all existing plans and procedures to determine whether all plans are in agreement.
• Identify your company’s most critical business processes and take steps to protect them.
• Determine the financial and operational impact if your business must shut down for a day, a week, or an entire revenue period. Is this impact minor or catastrophic?
• Establish an emergency plan with your suppliers.
• Establish temporary relocation contingencies.
• Determine if the business is adequately insured.
• Create a Business Go Box and determine what vital items should be included, such as:
  • Insurance information
  • Bank information: check books, account numbers, etc.
  • Client contact list
  • Employee contact list
  • Vendor contact list
  • Computer back-ups
  • Customer files, charts, etc.

Secure Property and Assets

• Take necessary steps to protect your building, equipment and other assets.
• Establish a procedure for creating computer back-ups of all vital records.
• Perform an assessment of short-term impacts vs. permanent impacts.
• If your business is located in a multi-tenant building, coordinate with your building management’s emergency plans.

Establish a Communication Protocol

• Establish procedures for your employees to report their whereabouts and status.
• Establish procedures to communicate with customers/clients following the emergency.

Economic empowerment of the people who reside in inner cities and other black communities today demands a combination of political will, visionary thinking, and organizing acumen. It requires the resurrection of a democratic media space inside black communities where spirited intra-community discussion can take place, and in which leadership can be held to account. The business class has failed. Let's move them out of the way.

Basic Office Software Training Curricula

Field-Tested and Adapted by CTCs

In 2004, Microsoft released the Unlimited Potential (UP) Community Learning Curriculum. CTCNet proposed to test the curriculum by working with five CTCNet members* to review, edit as needed, and field-test the curriculum at their centers. The project and the CTCs produced 14 modified curricula adapted for specific populations that commonly attend centers. Two of the curricula are available in Spanish.

These customized curricula include step-by-step training instructions and supporting student materials on the following topics.

• Computer Fundamentals
• Word Processing Fundamentals
• Spreadsheet Fundamentals
• Database Fundamentals
• Presentation Fundamentals

Learn about the five participating CTCs. »

Read about and download the the 14 adapted and field-tested curricula. »

Request the original Microsoft UP curriculum. »