The mission of the Greater New England Minority Supplier Development Council is to significantly increase business relationships between our corporate members and our certified MBEs. We believe that minority business development is a key component of reducing poverty, unemployment, increasing wealth, and integrating American society. You are receiving this email in order to keep you abreast of developments with the Greater New England Minority Supplier Development Council, Supplier Diversity Issues and Minority Business Development. If you like what you read please share internally and externally.
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| Thank You!!! | |  Thank you to Sponsors, Golfers, and Volunteers!!
What a great day we had on Friday. The weather was as they say: Sweet!. There were two full courses of golfers from our corporate membership and our certified MBEs having a great time getting to know the best of each other. The forty plus pink-shirted volunteers covered the course so that everyone had what they needed when they needed it. The scores were low (58 and 64 were the winning scores). Nobody won the Mercedes E Class, but there is always next year. And on top of this we raised over $4,000.00 for MBE scholarships in our raffles. This will come in very handy as we continue to pursue the goal that every certified MBE in our great Council will have had Executive Training. Thank you all for sharing your time and your resources with us. It will be hard to match this year's event. |
| NMSDC Quarterly Meeting in Boston - July 19-21 | | 
The GNEMSDC is hosting the NMSDC Quarterly Meeting in Boston at the Westin Copley from July 19 through July 21. We welcome the NMSDC executive staff and the leadership from the 36 regional councils. GNEMSDC corporate members and certified MBEs are welcome to join us for the receptions on Monday night in our Copley office, the reception on Tuesday at Copley Plaza, the luncheons on Tuesday and Wednesday and on the Cruise of Boston Harbor on Wednesday, July 20. We have only 20 seats left! See the link for registration information. This should be a great event for the region as we showcase Boston, our corporate membership and our outstanding MBEs. The NMSDC Quarterly Meeting Agenda is full of activities and events for the primary stakeholders, Regional Presidents, MBEIC Chairpersons, Regional Council Chairpersons and the NMSDC executive staff, and there are events that are open to the GNEMSDC corporate membership and certified MBEs. Currently, we are up to about 200 guests for the public events including the luncheons, receptions and cruise. There is still room for more to register for this event. Call Andie Kim in the Boston office for details and registration assistance, 617-578-8900. We look forward to this important and exciting event. |
| Sherry Winston - Grammy Nominee to Entertain on the Cruise |  We are very pleased to announce that Grammy nominated jazz flutist and certified MBE Sherry Winston will be our featured entertainer on the NMSDC Quarterly Meeting cruise on Wednesday, July 20. Come on out for what we believe will be an enjoyable evening of networking and fun as we welcome minority business development leaders from across the country. |
| MBE of the week -Judi Hampton Public Relations & Blackside | |  Judi Hampton is a professional development trainer and coach whose strength is connecting and communicating with a wide variety of audiences, from cross-generational to cross-functional. As a company president and manager in public, private and nonprofit sectors, she gained firsthand experience in dramatically different work cultures.
Now she translates this experience into results-based training and coaching that makes an immediate and measurable difference in clients' work lives. By focusing her passion and energy on the participants' development, Judi enriches their learning experience and motivation to use their new skills. The outcome is significant and lasting improvements in leadership and management skills-plus enhanced productivity. Ms. Hampton offers one-on-one and small group coaching, group workshops, and seminars using interactive materials and formats that are customized for each client. Her leadership program, based on Eyes on the Prize, is one of its kind. Other areas of expertise and training topics include: Managing Multiple Priorities Effectively, Equal Employment Opportunity Solutions, Cross Cultural Communications, Business Writing for Results, and Managing High Return Meetings. In addition to her training practice, Judi Hampton is president of Blackside film and video production company, which produced Eyes on the Prize, the Emmy award-winning series on the civil rights movement created by her late brother, Henry Hampton. She spearheaded the fundraising campaign to re-release Eyes on the Prize in educational and home video formats, rebroadcast the series regularly on PBS, and conduct a national educational outreach campaign. She also continues to market Blackside's other documentaries, including The Great Depression and I'll Make Me a World. These projects reflect Ms. Hampton's lifelong commitment to promoting equal rights and diversity. Prior to turning her focus to training and coaching, Ms. Hampton ran a successful public relations agency with government, corporate, and nonprofit clients. She also served as a senior public affairs officer with a major corporation. These experiences with management and leadership enable her to offer practical, applicable strategies and solutions for complex workplace issues. Judi Hampton 75 Cambridge Parkway Cambridge, MA 02142 617-621-0007; 617-851-1690 (cell) Jhamp76817@aol.com www.judihampton.com |
| GNEMSDC Business Opportunity Expo Date Changed! - New Dates October 3 through October 5 | | 
The GNEMSDC Expo that was originally planned and advertised for September 26 to September 28 has been changed to Monday October 3 through October 5 at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods. The reason for the change was a number of conflicts on the originally scheduled dates between our show and the Federal Government's Minority Enterprise Development Week program in Washington, DC from September 27 through September 30. Many of our corporate members and certified MBEs attend MED Week either because the Federal Government is often their largest customer and this is the premier Federal government event focusing on supplier diversity. The MED Week event is also an event that the GNEMSDC may have a role in this year. So for these reasons, we have moved the dates. I apologize for any inconvenience this change may have caused. We look forward to seeing you at perhaps both programs now instead of neither.
Volunteer opportunity available - Contact Volunteer Coordinator
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| NMSDC Assessment Program | | The National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) is rolling out a new and exciting program designed to help MBEs develop their businesses in order to be more profitable and successful suppliers to Corporate America. Take a look at the link below for more information. As we learn more about the program we will share it with our readership.
NMSDC Assessment Program |
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| NMSDC/GNEMSDC Upcoming Events, Activities and Information | | Please take a close look at the events listed below. The links will take you to detailed information about the events. We will have more information for those events that do not currently have live links, but please mark your calendars and call the office.
Events and Activities Information |
| Non-GNEMSDC Events | | Most of these activities our corporate members, MBEs and Council staff have been invited to attend. The links will take you to detailed information about the events. If you have events and activities that you want to share with our network send us a PDF file at least two weeks before the event. We reserve the right to publish or not publish events and activities. |
| Opportunities with Corporate Members | | | If you are a corporate member, and want the Council to spread the word about your opportunity we would be happy to do that for you anonymously and for free!
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| And Finally... | | 
I recently joined a men's book club and one of the first books on the list that we will soon discuss is titled "On Bull___" by Harry Frankfurt. Dr. Frankfurt is not some commoner when it comes to important topics. Dr. Frankfurt is a retired professor of philosophy from Princeton University. So now that I have established his legitimacy as a thinker with gravitas, I can discuss the details of this small bite sized book of 81 pages. Understanding the difference between BS and everything else is an important executive ability. Imagine an executive who could not distinguish between BS and the truth. That executive would not be an executive for long. So what is BS? This important book makes the distinction between lies, hot air, humbug, hocum, bluffing, balderdash, and other related concepts including sincerity, which can be the highest form of the art of BS. The book describes the etiological relationship between BS and the business concept of Bull Sessions, where a team comes together to discuss various aspects of a policy, product or problem. There is also mention of the connection between political speak, public relation messages, advertising and marketing in general. I could imagine that some might ironically read this book with the intent of becoming a more effective BS artist, but my interest is purely academic. Do you believe me, or was that BS? In your service, Dr. Fred |
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