A. Lauren Abele

Last week I came across an interesting tweet from @kenscommentary (Ken Berger, President of Charity Navigator)– “Too many itsy bitsy nonprofits! Consider this before you leap into teenyness”–and a link to the following article, “Alternatives to Forming a Charitable Nonprofit.”

The article is full of very useful information outlining alternative nonprofit funding options (like fiscal sponsorship or collaborating with an existing nonprofit) and highlights the need for sufficient research to be conducted as well as preparing viability plans.
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I must highly recommend a Women Wellness Seminar on Entrepreneurship and Financial Freedom I attended last Thursday at In Good Company WorkPlaces (which is another great story altogether…for another time), hosted by Change Starts With Me. Dana Skallman, an entrepreneur herself who is a partner at Independent Strategists and a Financial Coach/Trainer at Primerica Financial Services, coordinates the events and brings together women who are inspired and determined to do great things, but who could use some guidance.

Last Thursday the SOLD-OUT event, featured Sue Gilad: “an entrepreneur who has never had a job” (and, a fine public speaker, if I might add). Sue’s seminar, entitled “Financial Freedom is Sexy”:

[G]ets participants excited about creating profitable ventures from what they are already experts at. Sue’s forthcoming book, FINANCIAL FREEDOM IS SEXY, shares the inspired brainstorms and success stories of the entrepreneurs who took the proven principles of “info-preneuring” (information enterpreneuring) and ran with them.

In addition to being an inspiring, down-to-earth speaker, Sue had a slew of personal experiences to share as well as a number of concrete and useful tips for entrepreneurs. One thing she brought up was the concept of changing the way we think about money and seeing “saving as sexy” rather than a “drag” or something that makes us feel unempowered. It didn’t make that much sense to me at the moment, but this weekend when I only “window shopped” at Barnes and Noble (a difficult task, I’ll have you know) I left and thought, “Wow. It’s really nice to have money, and NOT spend it.”

OVERALL: The price was right ($10) for a fabulous and inspiring seminar and what I’ve written up here is just the tip of the iceberg. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND being on the lookout (here) for the second round of this seminar–Dana mentioned that due to high demand, Sue may be back!