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Women of Impact, Strength and Entrepreneurial Resolve offer insight about the challenges of leading and managing a company.
Featuring:
Patricia Watts
President & CEO
FCI Management Consultants
FCI is a full service energy/utility consulting company and a Class III enterprise earning between 10 — 50 million in annual sales.
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Congratulations to Jet Harris who got an mbe in the New Year’s Honour’s List from The Queen for 2010 and wishing Jet all the best. You are the Best! Well Done. Here Jet plays live with the Wildcats in 2007 at The London Palladium and guested at Marty Wilde’s 50th Anniversary Concert
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Cong. Rush and other members of the Financial Services Committee fought and secured the inclusion of provisions in the final Wall Street Reform legislation that President Barack Obama will sign into law:
• Creates the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to protect taxpayers from predatory tactics
• Establishes Offices of Women and Minority Inclusion in each federal financial agency
1. In addition to this bill’s well-publicized plans to establish over a dozen new financial regulatory offices, Section 342 sets up at least 20 Offices of Minority and Women Inclusion. The Treasury, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the 12 Federal Reserve regional banks, the Board of Governors of the Fed, the National Credit Union Administration, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau…all would get their own Office of Minority and Women Inclusion.
• Authorizes the SEC to issue rules on proxy access
• Strengthens the Neighborhood Stabilization Program
• Provides Emergency Assistance for Unemployed Homeowners
THE FOUR MAJOR VICTORIES IN THE WALL ST REFORM BILL:
Last night the House passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill. The legislation now must pass the Senate. Because there were a ton of CBC members (Waters, Watt, Meeks, Towns, Cummings, Rush) involved in the process they scored, led by Maxine Waters, on several major fronts.
1. OFFICE OF MINORITY AND WOMEN INCLUSION: Women- and minority-owned firms were largely overlooked for the contracting opportunities made available by the government’s historic intervention at banks and other financial institutions. Congresswoman Waters authored an amendment, adopted by the House-Senate conference, to create Offices of Minority and Women Inclusion at each of the federal regulatory agencies — including the Department of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Depository Insurance Company, among others — in order to ensure the racial, ethnic and gender diversity of the work force and senior management. The offices would also increase the participation of minority-owned and women-owned businesses in the programs and contracts of each agency.
2. CHAKA FATTAH scores $1 BILLION for help for Unemployed Homeowners:
While the first wave of foreclosures was driven by subprime and predatory loans, current foreclosures are increasingly being driven by unemployment. Congresswomen Waters has introduced a national program to assist unemployed homeowners by providing them low-interest loans to help them pay their mortgages. The program is based on a successful program that has helped many Pennsylvania homeowners avoid losing their homes. The financial regulatory reform bill will provide
$1 billion for this purpose; the Treasury Department has committed to providing an additional $2 billion for the program.
3. NEIGHBORHOOD STABILIZATION PROGRAM: created 2 years ago through Congresswoman Waters’ efforts — enables local governments and non-profits to purchase and rehabilitate foreclosed and abandoned properties and sell those homes to low- and moderate-income buyers.
NSP has made significant investments into communities nationwide, and the need for NSP funding is growing. The financial regulatory reform bill includes an additional $1 billion in funding for NSP.
4. PROTECTING HOME OWNERS FROM SCAM ARTISTS: Waters worked with Americans for Financial Reform and the American Bar Association to include language in the final financial regulatory reform bill that would regulate attorneys providing financial services or products, such as loan modification and debt settlement services, to be regulated under the newly-created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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Lorraine Fisher has been a certified WBE for more than 2 1/2 years, and her partnerships with other WBEs have proven to be the most valuable benefits of being certified. Watch her testimonial to learn more.
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I am looking to identify the fastest growing minority owned businesses in the US (top 10) — like a subset to Fortune’s list of top 100 fastest growing companies. Growth percentages are acceptable. This will serve as a basis for comparison.
I’m hoping my business will be in this list soon. In the mean time, I have a counter question.
Whatever happens to minorities who do/did everything by the book, but has yet to reach that level of success in which he/she has set out to achieve?
When I say ‘did everything by the book’, I mean EVERYTHING:
1.Finished high school in the top of my class without getting pregnant – 2002
2.Attended and finished college as a 1st generation college student (LSU) – 2007
3.Went beyond a bachelor’s degree and obtained a MBA (SU) – 2009
4.No problems with the law
5.Behaves in a professional manner
6.Launched a new business – www.mbtees.com – 1 year after graduating with MBA
7.Overall – a cool person – no enemies that I know of
8.A natural networker/people person
Do we not get any support?
While trying to save those minorities who are lost, can we also support those minorities who have never been lost and wish to help others? I mean, can we get some love too??? – lol
Visit my site and join the M.B. Tees Facebook Fan page! Also, if you know any vendors that will be interested in selling my products in stores, you can give them my site and have them contact me.
THANKS in advance!
POSITIVITY shared is POSITIVITY multiplied!
The Border Agency receives a tip-off that two curry houses are employing illegal immigrants. The second restaurant not only provided illegal immigrants with work but also accommodation above the restaurant. Among the occupants were Bangladeshi youths who couldn’t speak any English and who were found to be in possession of Islamic extremist terrorist DVD’s. One of them denied having a passport which was discovered in his clothing.
The majority of these raids and arrests of illegal immigrant workers are occurring in ethnic minority communities, and in businesses operated by ethnic minority people. Whether this is an organised and deliberate attempt to encourage illegal immigrants to enter the UK and support them, or just a way to exploit cheap labour and avoid paying tax and National Insurance, both undermine the British economy and raise serious security issues.
Unfortunately the government doesn’t seem to making the connection between ethnic minority communities and illegal immigrants, and doesn’t have any clear policies or ways of dealing with it. The law is also being poorly enforced.
In 2007 The Border Agency arrested more than 5,000 immigrants who entered Britain illegally. Unfortunately the vast majority of these are released and abscond, only a very small percentage are actually deported.
Employers who employ illegal immigrations can face fines of £10,000 for each illegal immigrant they employ.
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I need information on Sir Henry Charles Usher, MBE of the country of Belize.
He is the General Secretary of the Peoples United Party, the main opposition party, in Belize. It is a Christian Democratic party, the current party leader is John Briceno. The party is currently embroiled in various financial scandals uncovered by the ruling party and its Prime Minister Mr Dean Barrow.
I do not know whether he has an mbe, i do not see him any evidence that he has a knighthood either. Caveat: Maybe this is a different person of the same name.
Governor O’Malley gives a quick update on