THE BWL Partners with the American RED CROSS to bring Readiness – Train the Trainer classes this Fall!
Preparation is the key to success and safety during times of emergency. The BWL has partnered with the American Red Cross to provide a class that will allow citizens to receive training to be Readiness Trainers for their respective neighborhoods. 1 – 2 representatives from all BWL community neighborhoods are welcome to attend. Learn the steps to prepare to shelter in place, items needed for shelter kits, evacuation plans and strategy, and much more! Two classes are being offered, the first on Saturday, Nov 8, 2014, from 9 am to 11 am at the BWL Depot, 1201 S. Washington Ave. Lansing MI and the second session will be the following week, Wed, Nov 12, 6 pm to 8 pm in the same location. You can register at http://readinesstrainthetrainer.businesscatalyst.com/ or you can email Maxwell Bollinger at mrb1@lbwl.com indicating which session you’d like to attend. Please RSVP or register by Oct 8, 2014.
Ingredients to Turn Your Home Food Business into A Commercial Business
Starting a commercial food business or changing your business activities from being a home food processing business to a commercial business will affect not only the licensing of your product, but much more.
Learn where you can gain more knowledge about the steps needed to accomplish this.
Starting a new commercial food business is a lot of work and takes some serious capital. Businesses often start their business out by making direct sales under the Cottage Food Law to gather consumer feedback. This allows the company to slowly scale up their production and increase their effectiveness to meet consumer demand.. Once this avenue of sales is perfected, businesses usually decide to wholesale their product to grocery stores and other outlets. This step drastically changes all business factors and should only be engaged in once the business has seriously considered what is vitally necessary for this step.
The MSU Product Center offers the seminar “Cottage to Commercial: “Ingredients for a Successful Food Business in Michigan” each year at many locations around the state. This fall the seminar is being held at follows locations with their registration links:
October, 16, 10-Noon, Mason, Hilliard Bldg.
http://events.anr.msu.edu/smithmasoncommfood/
Nov. 11, 10-Noon, Grand Rapids, MSU Extension:
http://events.anr.msu.edu/SMITHCTCKent2014/
This seminar is perfect for a business that is interested in starting a commercial food business based on their favorite recipe or a value-added agriculture product. The seminar is especially useful for business owners that want to go beyond the limits of the Michigan Cottage Food Law by becoming licensed to sell to stores. More importantly, if a business has a food product that is a sauce, salsa, pickled vegetable, beverage, dairy product, meat product, they will learn the special regulations that surround these types of products.
The MSU Product Center, in partnership with Michigan State University Extension, provides free business counseling for product development and marketing strategies that will help Michigan entrepreneurs commercialize high-value, consumer–responsive food products. For more information, visit the MSU Product Center website or call 517-432-8750.
For more information, contact Diane Smith at 517-526-7895 and dismith@anr.msu.edu.
New Diversity Initiative Offers Paid New York Internships to Minority Journalism Students
City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism to lead diversity initiative with $1.2 million from Knight Foundation
BLACK PR WIRE—To address the underrepresentation of minority journalists in newsrooms, the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Journalism will launch a diversity initiative that includes an all-expenses-paid, two-month summer internship program for 20 participants and free tuition for five students. The three-year diversity initiative is supported by $1.2 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
The CUNY J-School will recruit participants from historically black colleges, Hispanic-serving institutions, CUNY, the State University of New York (SUNY) and the membership of associations representing underserved populations, such as the Asian American Journalists Association, the National Association of Black Journalists, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the Native American Journalists Association.
The program will begin in Summer 2015. The 20 participants will intern for two months at journalism outlets in New York, while receiving supplemental instruction from the CUNY J-School’s faculty. Knight funding will cover the students’ travel expenses, as well as housing and living costs for the period.
At the end of each summer, five of the students will receive scholarships covering their entire tuition at the CUNY J-School, if they choose to apply and are accepted. They will have two years from the time of their offers to decide if they would like to pursue the graduate school opportunity.
“This program gives deserving students from all over the country the opportunity to receive intensive journalism training in the nation’s top media market,” said Sarah Bartlett, dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. “By strengthening their skills, we enhance their future employment prospects, while helping to increase the diversity of the industry’s newsrooms and our own classrooms.”
“For newsrooms to be able to innovate, they need to include a variety of backgrounds and perspectives; diversity is key to innovation,” said Marie Gilot, Knight Foundation program officer for journalism.
Joanna Hernandez, who has been the director of career services at the CUNY J-School for the past two years, will lead the initiative. Hernandez is the National Association of Hispanic Journalist’s representative on the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (ACEJMC) and a former president of UNITY: Journalists of Diversity.
The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism prepares students from a broad range of economic, racial and ethnic backgrounds to produce high-quality journalism at a time of rapid change. It offers a Master of Arts in journalism and an M.A. in entrepreneurial journalism, and is seeking approval for an M.A. in social journalism, which it expects to launch in 2015.
Support for City University of New York is one part of Knight’s efforts to encourage newsroom diversity and advance excellence in journalism. The Knight diversity initiative includes previous work with historically black colleges and universities, including journalism programs at Morgan State and Hampton University; the International Center for Journalists “Back to the Newsroom” initiative; sponsorships of annual conferences (Asian American Journalists Association, National Association of Black Journalists, National Association of Hispanic Journalists); and more.
For more information on the CUNY J-School’s new diversity initiative, contact Dean Sarah Bartlett at sarah.bartlett@journalism.cuny.edu or Joanna Hernandez at joanna.hernandez@journalism.cuny.edu.
‘MAKERS: Women in Space’ Featured at
WKAR Community Cinema and Project 60/50
Free Screening and Conversation at WKAR
EAST LANSING, MI – WKAR Community Cinema returns in October with a screening and conversation about Makers: Women in Space. The new documentary chronicles the crucial and often unsung role women have played in the U.S. space program. This screening and conversation is a free presentation in partnership with Project 60/50 at Michigan State University.
The WKAR Community Cinema event takes place Thursday, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. at WKAR in the Communication Arts and Sciences building on the Michigan State campus. The event is free, but online reservations are required at WKAR.org.
The evening begins with a screening of a short portion of the film and continues with conversation led by Michigan State University scientists Megan Donahue and Melanie Cooper.
Megan Donahue is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at MSU, where she explores what clusters of galaxies can reveal about the history and contents of the universe, as well as how people learn about astronomy and science.
Melanie Cooper is Lappan-Phillips professor in the Department of Chemistry at MSU, where she specializes in chemistry education with a focus on approaches to teaching and learning.
MAKERS: Women in Space film is both a look back as well as a glimpse of the important role women will continue to play in the future of this field.
The story of women in the US space program starts in 1957, as the United States raced to beat the Soviet Union at sending a human being into orbit. Thirteen women were included in NASA’s initial tests to select America’s first astronauts and the rigorous testing proved that women were ready to go into space. But America wasn’t yet ready to put women into space. Sally Ride would become the first woman to launch into space in 1983. By the 1990s, there were new milestones; Eileen Collins became the first woman pilot astronaut. Just a few years later, Collins became the first woman commander. The space race continues and women are in it.
The program includes interviews with Eileen Collins, as well as Sally Ride’s classmates Shannon Lucid, Rhea Seddon and Kathryn Sullivan, and features Mae Jemison, the first woman of color astronaut, and Peggy Whitson, the first female commander of the International Space Station.
Editor’s note: Material in this column were collected from press releases.
This was printed in the October 5, 2014 – October 18, 2014 edition.
