Author: Brooke M. Stephens
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 9780070613898
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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How to hold onto hard-earned prosperity.

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Languages : en
Pages : 114

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BLACK ENTERPRISE is the ultimate source for wealth creation for African American professionals, entrepreneurs and corporate executives. Every month, BLACK ENTERPRISE delivers timely, useful information on careers, small business and personal finance.

Author: Brooke Stephens
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307813517
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429

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One evening in 1994, writer Brooke Stephens was listening to the news while working on a tribute to her grandfather for an upcoming family reunion. The evening's newscast began with three negative reports about black men--as rapists, muggers and murderers. The contrast between the black men on the news and the black man she was writing about suddenly seemed enormous. Where were the black men she knew? Stephens wondered. Why were they never featured on the evening news? Never publicly discussed or shown? From these questions, the idea for Men We Cherish was born. Waiting to Exhale and the Million Man March to the contrary, good black men are neither fantasy nor unanswered prayer. In Men We Cherish, thirty African American women celebrate these everyday heroes: fathers and grandfathers, brothers and best friends, sons and husbands. These essays, memoirs, and love letters offer moving portraits of the three-out-of-four black men who never make the headlines. The men in the lives of established black women writers, including Bebe Moore Campbell, Gloria Wade-Gayles, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, and the Delany sisters, reflect the diversity, honesty, generosity and depth that is the reality of African American men. With Men We Cherish, Brooke Stephens has created a groundbreaking collection that stands alone in the market as a literary memoir, a social critique, and an affirmation of faith.

Author: Michael Shuman
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603583432
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Local Dollars, Local Sense is a guide to creating Community Resilience. Americans' long-term savings in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, pension funds, and life insurance funds total about $30 trillion. But not even 1 percent of these savings touch local small business-even though roughly half the jobs and the output in the private economy come from them. So, how can people increasingly concerned with the poor returns from Wall Street and the devastating impact of global companies on their communities invest in Main Street? In Local Dollars, Local Sense, local economy pioneer Michael Shuman shows investors, including the nearly 99% who are unaccredited, how to put their money into building local businesses and resilient regional economies-and profit in the process. A revolutionary toolbox for social change, written with compelling personal stories, the book delivers the most thorough overview available of local investment options, explains the obstacles, and profiles investors who have paved the way. Shuman demystifies the growing realm of local investment choices-from institutional lending to investment clubs and networks, local investment funds, community ownership, direct public offerings, local stock exchanges, crowdfunding, and more. He also guides readers through the lucrative opportunities to invest locally in their homes, energy efficiency, and themselves. A rich resource for both investors and the entrepreneurs they want to support, Local Dollars, Local Sense eloquently shows how to truly protect your financial future--and your community's.

Author: Robert Egger
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060541717
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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You are a good person. You are one of the 84 million Americans who volunteer with a charity. You are part of a national donor pool that contributes nearly $200 billion to good causes every year. But you wonder: Why don't your efforts seem to make a difference? Fifteen years ago, Robert Egger asked himself this same question as he reluctantly climbed aboard a food service truck for a night of volunteering to help serve meals to the homeless. He wondered why there were still people waiting in line for soup in this day and age. Where were the drug counselors, the job trainers, and the support team to help these men and women get off the streets? Why were volunteers buying supplies from grocery stores when restaurants were throwing away unused fresh food every night? Why had politicians, citizens, and local businesses allowed charity to become an end in itself? Why wasn't there an efficient way to solve the problem? Robert knew there had to be a better way. In 1989, he started the D.C. Central Kitchen by collecting unused food from local restaurants, caterers, and hotels and bringing it back to a central location where hot, nutritious meals were prepared and distributed to agencies around the city. Since then, the D.C. Central Kitchen has been named one of President Bush Sr.'s Thousand Points of Light and has become one of the most respected and emulated nonprofit agencies in the world, producing and distributing more than 4,000 meals a day. Its highly successful 12-week job-training program equips former homeless transients and drug addicts with culinary and life skills to gain employment in the restaurant business. In Begging for Change, Robert Egger looks back on his experience and exposes the startling lack of logic, waste, and ineffectiveness he has encountered during his years in the nonprofit sector, and calls for reform of this $800 billion industry from the inside out. In his entertaining and inimitable way, he weaves stories from his days in music, when he encountered legends such as Sarah Vaughan, Mel Torme, and Iggy Pop, together with stories from his experiences in the hunger movement -- and recently as volunteer interim director to help clean up the beleaguered United Way National Capital Area. He asks for nonprofits to be more innovative and results-driven, for corporate and nonprofit leaders to be more focused and responsible, and for citizens who contribute their time and money to be smarter and more demanding of nonprofits and what they provide in return. Robert's appeal to common sense will resonate with readers who are tired of hearing the same nonprofit fund-raising appeals and pity-based messages. Instead of asking the "who" and "what" of giving, he leads the way in asking the "how" and "why" in order to move beyond our 19th-century concept of charity, and usher in a 21st-century model of change and reform for nonprofits. Enlightening and provocative, engaging and moving, this book is essential reading for nonprofit managers, corporate leaders, and, most of all, any citizen who has ever cared enough to give of themselves to a worthy cause.

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Languages : en
Pages : 176

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EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Author: Cynthia Elliott Cpa
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1463438109
Category : Finance, Personal
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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pDO YOU KNOW YOUR ABCs TO FINANCES? Are you able to make dollars and sense out of them? Does your family have financial independence? If you answered "no" to any of these questions, then "ABCs that make cents" is just for you. It is essential for everyone to apply these ABCs to their own money management system. You will learn how to apply the knowledge and translate it to your own personal life, your children and everyone in your family; it's as simple as 1-2-3. If you do not learn this at an early age, then you and your family could miss out on various opportunities needed in order to survive and succeed financially in these times. "ABCs that make cents" will provide ways for you to manage your finances, ways to enforce budgeting and saving and ways to set goals to build wealth. The instructions provided are for you to carry forward and follow daily. The direction for the parent is to have funds for rainy days, emergencies, special occasions, big events and retirement. As a family, you will learn special techniques that will be amusing for the adult and entertaining for your children of all ages. These tools are crucial for your future well- being and for the name sake of your youngsters. Allow "ABCs that make cents" to help you get up, stay up and initiate ascending up to higher financial grounds. This book is definitely a Godsend. Stop stumbling at base level zero and start climbing to financial wealth by using the ABCs detailed in this book. Quotes regarding my book: You are about to embark on a voyage into monetary enlightenment. Enjoy your journey. You will be rewarded. J. David Spiceland, PhD, CPA, Professor of Accountancy. Cynthia's publication comes at a great time when people are in need of professional advice concerning their finances. She has hit a home-run. Laurence V. Plummer, Sr., President, Plummer Financial Services, LLC. Cynthia has done an excellent job of capturing my weakness when it comes to my motivation to spend... I'm elated with the solutions she offers and I will make sure all of my friends and family have a copy of this book. Marilyn Kelley, Business Instructor and friend - Dallas, Texas. "ABCs that make cents" has practical tools; it's filled with great ideas to building a successful financial plan for your family, needed especially during these economic times. Christine Shipman, CPS - Miami, Florida.

Author: Maggie Anderson
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610390253
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Maggie and John Anderson were successful African American professionals raising two daughters in a tony suburb of Chicago. But they felt uneasy over their good fortune. Most African Americans live in economically starved neighborhoods. Black wealth is about one tenth of white wealth, and black businesses lag behind businesses of all other racial groups in every measure of success. One problem is that black consumers -- unlike consumers of other ethnicities -- choose not to support black-owned businesses. At the same time, most of the businesses in their communities are owned by outsiders. On January 1, 2009 the Andersons embarked on a year-long public pledge to "buy black." They thought that by taking a stand, the black community would be mobilized to exert its economic might. They thought that by exposing the issues, Americans of all races would see that economically empowering black neighborhoods benefits society as a whole. Instead, blacks refused to support their own, and others condemned their experiment. Drawing on economic research and social history as well as her personal story, Maggie Anderson shows why the black economy continues to suffer and issues a call to action to all of us to do our part to reverse this trend.

Author: Marilyn Hughes Gaston
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
ISBN: 0345432169
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 497

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Today seven million African American women are living in their prime, experiencing the joys and challenges of middle age. Now, at last, here is the book that addresses ourtotalhealth needs—physical, emotional, and spiritual. Written by a distinguished physician and a clinical psychologist,Prime Timeis the first complete guide that empowers us to take charge of our lives and attain the well-being we deserve. In many ways, it’s true that we are better off today than our foremothers were: We earn more money, command more respect. Yet in spite of these advances, we still experience more chronic health problems, endure more stress, and live shorter lives than women of other races. That’s whyPrime Timeis both urgent and essential. This groundbreaking book not only lays out a detailed, practical plan for overall healing and for maintaining wellness, it also addresses the underlying attitudes and assumptions that lead so many of us to neglect ourselves and undermine our own health.Prime Timewill help you • Reframe priorities to put yourself and your own health needs first • Interpret the latest medical findings on the Big Four killers and how they affect black women in middle age • Profile your current health with worksheets, quizzes, and assessment tools • Renew sex at midlife by eliminating restricting myths and taboos and finding new paths to pleasure • Reduce anger and “attitude” that block you from attaining good health • Identify the nontraditional signs of depression and anxiety common to African American women Comprehensive, straight-talking, and grounded in science and spiritual truth,Prime Timeis at once a guide to total health in middle age and a celebration of the strength, wisdom, and beauty of African American women in their second half of life.

Author: Stan Berenstain
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385370318
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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This classic Berenstain Bears story is a perfect way to teach children about money and responsibility! Come for a visit in Bear Country with this classic First Time Book® from Stan and Jan Berenstain. Papa thinks it’s time to teach Brother and Sister how to budget their money, but will the cubs come to understand the value of a dollar, or will their pockets continue to be empty? Includes over 50 bonus stickers!