Empowerment Group's Women's Business Center (WBC) Thanks You

Happy Lunar New Year of the Horse!

Your friends at the Women's Business Center would like to wish you a glorious, rewarding and productive new year. Around the office, this time means a chance at a new beginning.

To quote one of our heroes, Transcendentalist scribe and exquisite thinker, Ralph Waldo Emerson, "You have done what you could—some blunders and absurdities have crept in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

It is with this sage advice in mind that we announce sad news that Women's Business Center staff is moving on to green pastures due to funding and organizational issues.
 

What's next?

Contact Empowerment Group's Executive Director, Angel Rodriguez arodriguez@empowerment-group.org at 267.318.5538, and the Board of Director members, Napoleon Garcia, owner of Impacto Latin at 267.257.0763, Min Suh, partner at Fox Rothschild at 215.299.2801 and Fran McClaffery, owner of InventIT Metals at 610.742.6579, and Emeritus Cynthia Caldwell for further information about the Empowerment Group's future. 
 

It's been a pleasure serving you. 

The LawWorks Project of Philadelphia VIP's small business legal clinic

The LawWorks Project of Philadelphia VIP is co-sponsoring a free small business legal clinic on January 20, 2014 from 10:00-11:30 AM. Topics to be covered in the one-on-one consultations include business formation, contracts, employment issues and more! If you are interested in registering, please contact Marco Gorini at mgorini@phillyvip.org or 215-523-9565. 

Marco Gorini

Community Economic Development Coordinator

LawWorks Project
Philadelphia VIP
1500 Walnut Street, Suite 400
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Telephone:  (215) 523-9565
Facsimile:  (215) 564-0845
Email:  mgorini@phillyvip.org
Website:  http://www.phillyvip.org

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Open Access Philly is a network of passionate, engaged and active Philadelphia citizens. We convene to empower every citizen with a passion for their community to be able to positively impact it without bureaucratic impediments. 

Open Access Philly is guided be our values: 

Free Information Flow

Providing Philadelphians with the data, information and applications they need to advance meaningful change in their communities.

Civic Participation & Innovation

Leveraging powerful and sophisticated Internet-based tools so that Philadelphians can organize around and advance meaningful change in their neighborhoods and elsewhere. 

Connecting Philadelphia to a Digital Future

Provide physical infrastructure so that citizens can access technology, but also develop content and training programs so that citizens can adopt technology.

Economic Development in the Infotec space

Removing roadblocks, providing incentives, and supporting the IT producing/using sectors to increase employment, revenue, productivity, prominence, and innovation.

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Census Bureau Introduces New Interactive Mapping Tool along with Latest American Community Survey Statistics

The U.S. Census Bureau released Census Explorer, a new interactive mapping tool that gives users easier access to neighborhood level statistics. The mapping tool uses updated statistics from the 2008-2012 American Community Survey (ACS), which were also released today. 

The new application allows users to map out different social, economic and housing characteristics of their state, county or census tract, and to see how these areas have changed since the 1990 and 2000 censuses. The mapping tool is powered by American Community Survey statistics from the Census Bureau’s API, an application programming interface that allows developers to take data sets and reuse them to create online and mobile apps.

The tool allows users to look at the following eight statistics from the American Community Survey:

• Total population
• Percent 65 and older
• Foreign-born population percentage
• Percent of the population with a high school degree or higher
• Percent with a bachelor’s degree or higher
• Labor force participation rate
• Home ownership rate
• Median household income

In addition to these characteristics, more than 40 social, economic and housing topics are now available through the American Community Survey statistics for all communities in the nation, regardless of size, down to the block group level. For example, health insurance coverage statistics are now available for the first time at the neighborhood level.

For more information on the American Community Survey please contact Noemi Mendez at noemi.mendez@census.gov or call the Philadelphia Regional Office at 215-717-1820. 

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The Women’s Bureau is committed to reducing barriers that inhibit or prevent women from getting and keeping better jobs, and we recognize that some women may face more barriers than others.

To raise awareness about the uphill battle that many women of color face when trying to support themselves and their families, we recently published fact sheets about the economic status of women of color.

The fact sheets provide a snapshot of the current racial and ethnic disparities occurring in wages, unemployment, and educational attainment, and the interconnected effects of these factors on the larger populations of working women of color.

While you’re on our site, take a look at our updated Data & Statistics page, where you can find interesting facts and figures about women in the workforce, including earnings, education, unemployment rates, and more. 

For more information about your equal pay rights and what we’re doing to close the wage gap, please visit the Equal Pay sites at the Department of Labor and the White House.


Come take a look today!