Aloha, Ulupono Charter Chapter members and friends,
Our special day for celebrating ABWA in Hawaii is soon near.
On Saturday, September 17, 2011, we will anticipate our Annual ABWA Joint Chapters 2011 Meeting at 9:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. in the Campus Center Ballroom at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. This year we will be featuring our new National annual theme, "Share The Past, Build The Future" by celebrating our accomplishments and the year to come with our ABWA network and our next generation of leaders in Hawaii's women's business community. Together we honor the new as we inspire, motivate, and retain our members of old who share and take part in the rich legacy of ABWA here in Hawaii.
This year marks our safe and peaceful return to academia for honoring our historic value for scholarship. This year at UH Manoa, we are remembering our roots and are honoring our Stephen E. Bufton Memorial Fund, as we return to academia where we are focused on developing our future leaders in business, all in part of responding to the current global and state challenges and opportunities that lie ahead in our post-recession for our state economy and the global marketplace.
Through academia, we are developing our future leaders that will continue to be shaped by each organization's purpose and objectives, as well as trends specific to each industry. Tomorrow's leaders need to be prepared to respond to the increased competition, heightened expectations for social and environmental stewardship, new customer demographics, a shrinking and changing workforce, and rapidly advancing technology.
Please make a concerted effort to join us this year for our Annual ABWA Joint Chapters 2011 Meeting in the Campus Center Ballroom at the University of Hawaii at Manoa on Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 9:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Tickets are $25.00. Bring a special guest, a colleague or close friend, to join us for the day and participate in our full program. We are looking for new members to expand our network this year!
If you are interested in purchasing a vendor table, please send in your vendor table reservation to Sherry Goode at 384-0649 or email your request at good4u@aloha.net. Vendor tables cost $10 for members and additonally require a door prize donation of $10 Non-members cost is $20 plus $10 door prize. Deadline: July 31, 2011
You may also be interested in buying advertising space in our 2011 Joint Chapter Meeting program. We are featuring business card size or 2" x 3 1/2" color ads. Email your artwork to Faye Chambers at cateyes@hawaii.rr.com or mail in with payment. Deadline: Monday, August 1, 2011. No late submissions will be accepted.
Please support our chapter and make your donations for this event for both our Silent Auction and Door Prize Drawing.
For our Silent Auction, we will need two items valued at $20 each. All proceeds will go towards our ABWA Hawaii Stephen E. Bufton Memorial Fund donation to National at the end of this event. For our Door Prize Drawing, we will also need to donate two door prizes at $10 each, and these will need to go to Pearl Ching, president of the Aloha Chapter.
As a chapter, we will also be featuring our Education Tables to give experts in financial advising, stock investments, and legal services, an opportunity to serve as our business partners on the day of this event and provide free education to our members and their guests. Please provide our executive board with your contacts for businesses who may be interested in partnering with us.
Secondly, we will also be featuring our Community Partners and their tables with pre-approved representation from Children & Youth Day & Month 2011, the Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods, and Rene Mansho for community clean-ups and recycling drives in celebration of Earth Day every day in Hawaii with our 2012 Aloha Aina Earth Day statewide Program.
Please attend our next general chapter meeting on Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. at Pohai Nani as we finalize our details and fulfill our part of our chapter's responsibility to planning our ABWA Hawaii Annual Joint Chapters 2011 Meeting this year. Under my direction, Donna and our executive board for this new award year will be moving forward with our planning efforts. At this time, we will work towards our membership recruitment efforts and with publicity to get the word out.
Thank you all for your loyalty and dedication in this past year as a team. For your heart of service, the honor of Ulupono is all ours.
With much aloha to you all,
Sarita S.L. Corn
2011 Woman Of The Year & 2011 Top Ten
Ulupono President 2010 - 2011
