Happy hour for a good cause Thursday March 10

From a friend raising money for a good cause, and who is climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro to do so:

Celebrate Friends and the Kilimanjaro climb for Obstetric Fistula on Thursday March 10th !!!

Come raise a glass to support Kilimanjaro climbers!  The climb team is raising funds and awareness for life changing obstetric fistula surgeries for women in Africa (details at: http://www.mountainsformoms.org/?page_id=2).  Meet  at Public House (140 E 41st Street, NY NY 10017) on March 10th from 6-8PM to learn more about the climb and the cause.  If you donate (suggested $10), you will also receive a bracelet for discount drink specials ($3 domestic beer, $4 house wine, $5 house mixed drinks).  However, no donation is required.  When you arrive, indicate you are with Michele Costello's party. 

Women in finance - networking and volunteering events

High Water Women (www.highwaterwomen.org) is a great organization of women in finance who get together to network, volunteer, and donate to causes helping women and children. 
Check out these upcoming volunteer and other events!
Katharine
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This issue of the Volunteer Bulletin includes a variety of new, exciting, and rewarding volunteer activities helping women and children.  If you've been thinking about volunteering now is a good time.  To sign up or read more about these opportunities please follow the links provided, or you can visit our website at www.highwaterwomen.org. If you haven't already registered on the new website, you will be prompted to complete registration before signing up for a volunteer activity.  If you have any problems or questions please contact Elanor Brand. 

In this issue: Brag Party with Peggy Klaus Career Day Series Casino Night Count Me In Guest Speakers for Project Enterprise Ice Skating Jumpstart to College Partnership with Children FUNday Women In Need Young Women's Council Event Visit our site: Home Page Volunteer Opportunities NonProfit Partners Donate Now Unsubscribe: If you no longer wish to receive newsletters... Click here to unsubscribe

HWW 6th Annual Casino Night Date: April 15th Time: 6:30 PM - midnight Location: Gotham Hall, 1356 Broadway @ 36th Street Please join High Water Women for their Sixth Annual Casino Night!  It will be a fun night: dinner, gaming, poker and black jack tournaments, a live auction, a 10pm to midnight after party, and much more. Event proceeds will benefit HWW programs and our support of partner organizations that help so many women and children in need in our area. For more information on packages and tickets, please contact Jessica at 914-235-1490 x14 or e-mail hww@thejfmgroup.com.  You can also buy tickets on-line by visiting our secure Casino Night donation page on the HWW website.  Buy tickets now.  We look forward to seeing you there! Meet HWW's Newest Nonprofit Partner: Project Enterprise supports and develops entrepreneurs and small businesses in under-resourced communities in New York City by providing access to business loans, business development services and networking opportunities helping entrepreneurs increase their standard of living, create jobs for their communities, and build financial assets. Project Enterprise will hold an orientation for those interested in learning more about volunteer opportunities as follows: Date:  March 2nd Time: 6:00 PM Location: 144 West 125th Street on the 4th floor, between Lenox Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (6th and 7th Avenues). Guest Speakers needed for Project Enterprise's Business Planning Course The Entrepreneurial Assistance Program is Project Enterprise’s intensive 10-week business planning course. Dates:  March 10th, 22nd, 29th & April 14th Time: 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Location: Abyssinian Development Corporation, 4 W. 125th Street, 3rd Fl. Speakers are needed for the following dates/topics: •         March 10th, March 22nd, March 29th - business taxes and financial management for entrepreneurs. Speakers can advise which of the March dates listed are most convenient. •         April 14th - Two volunteers are needed to serve as guest reviewers during the final business plan presentations.          Sign up now. Ice Skating Chaperone Dates:  March 4th & March 11th Time: 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM Location: Wollman Rink Enjoy the wonderful atmosphere at Wollman Rink in Central Park. Help kids put on skates, and take a turn on the ice yourself if you desire!  The Children's Storefront will be taking 12 third and fourth graders to Wollman Rink for 30-minute skating lessons on six Friday afternoons starting in January.   A teacher will accompany the students to the Rink, but we need 3 - 4 volunteers per session to assist the children in tying skates, and then changing back into shoes after the lesson. Experience with skates or skating is not necessary.   Please indicate which sessions you can attend. Sign up now. Partnership with Children FUNday Date:  March 16th Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Location: Morgan Library, 29 East 36th Street Join students from elementary school PS 3 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn for a special program at the Morgan Library.  The program is called "Write a Picture, Draw a Story", and it will explore the work of Roy Lichtenstein.   This program will engage students in writing/drawing.  Following the museum program the group will get pizza before going home. Six volunteers are needed.  Sign up now Women In Need Date: Saturday April 2nd Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Location: WIN's Brooklyn Residence (exact address to be provided) This event has two volunteer components.  The first is a personal finance budgeting program.  A speaker has volunteered to lead the workshop but additional volunteers are needed to work with the individual women.  The second is to help with childcare during the program.  This will include some form of an activity for the children.  You will be contacted prior to the event for any ideas you have for activities or crafts that the children can do while their mothers learn about budgeting.  Please indicate which part of the program you are volunteering to participate in. Sign up now. Count Me In Dates: April 6th - April 29th Time: Any 2 hour window between 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM Location: 240 Central Park South (between 7th Avenue and Columbus Circle) In 2005, Count Me In ("CMI") introduced its Make Mine a $Million Business program to help women entrepreneurs grow and build sustainable enterprises, create jobs and develop innovative products and services.  For upcoming Make Mine a $Million Business Events ("M3"), CMI will select award winners.  CMI needs volunteers to review applications for these M3 events to select Finalists.  Finalists are pre-approved for financing, so committee participation involves reviewing financial statements and personal credit reports.  You will also assess the company's potential to scale to $1million (or more) in revenues and its marketing, financial and management plans.  Sign up now. Jumpstart to College Workshop Dates: April 6th Time: 5:15 PM - 7:45 PM Location: TYWLS of East Harlem, 105 East 106th Street Jumpstart to college is a workshop held in evening for 12th grade students at the Young Women's Leadership Schools and volunteer coaches. The purpose is to help students gain skills and confidence to help them prepare for college and to get valuable guidance and advice from adult volunteers.  Each coach is paired with 1- 2 girls at the workshop.   Sign up now. Career Day Series Dates and Locations (you can sign up for 1 or more workshops):  March 4th for TYWLS of Brooklyn, 223 Graham Avenue, Brooklyn March 11th  for TYWLS of Queens, 150-91 87th Road, Jamaica March 16th for TYWLS of Astoria, 23-15 Newtown Avenue, Astoria March 24th for TYWLS of East Harlem, 105 East 106th Street, New York May (date tbd) for TYWLS at Rhodes, 3100 N. 29th Street, Philadephia Time: 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM The Young Women's Leadership Network is looking for High Water Women volunteers to participate in a Career Day morning workshop for students (grades 6-12) from The Young Women’s Leadership Schools in New York City and Philadelphia.  Volunteers will educate and inspire girls in grades 6-12 about the diverse career opportunities available to them. You will be asked to speak in classroom and fair settings about: your daily activities; responsibilities and challenges; the education and skills needed to succeed in your field; your career path and interesting aspects about your profession.   Please indicate which workshops you are interested in when you sign up.     Sign up now. Brag Party with Peggy Klaus Dates: April 14th in New York and April 15th in Philadelphia The annual "Brag Party" is for high school juniors from The Young Women’s Leadership Schools.  We need energetic and fabulous volunteers to help teenage girls learn the art of bragging and building self-confidence! Peggy Klaus, communication guru and author, will show the girls and volunteers how to deal with two of the most difficult soft skills for women to master: the impostor syndrome, and self-promotion. This high-energy, experiential workshop provides insights, strategies, tools, and techniques for conquering the little voice inside your head that whispers self-defeating thoughts and then teaches students how to toot their own horn (the right way, of course!) about the great things they’ve accomplished. This event is taking place on April 14 in New York and April 15 in Philadelphia.  Details to be announced.  Sign up now. Young Women's Council Event Panel Discussion & Networking on the Harvard Business School Case Study: "Why Men Still Get More Promotions than Women". Date: Wednesday, February 23rd Time: 7 PM-9:00 PM Location: TBA Sponsorship versus mentorship? What's the difference? And why is it important to us as women? Meet us for a conversation on why sponsorship matters, especially for women. We look forward to your thoughts as well! A 10 minute interview with the author can be found here:  http://hbr.org/2010/09/why-men-still-get-more-promotions-than-women/ar/1#               RSVP to danielle.frissell@jpmorgan.com

Membership is FREE.  Volunteering feels GOOD.

Empowering women and youth is PRICELESS.

Volunteering Event with Obama for America in NYC, Sun 2/27

OK, so this is a bit off topic from the usual networking posts, but I think this event looks really cool and should be a good forum to both make a difference in the local community AND meet great people (esp. if you're an Obama fan).
Cheers,
Katharine
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In order to help those friends and neighbors who have fallen on hard times, Obama for America volunteers will gather every Sunday -- starting this weekend, on February 27th -- at the Neighborhood Coalition for Shelter's basement kitchen. We'll cook, serve, and share brunch with the shelter's 65 residents.

I'm excited to take part in this kind of work -- will you join us?

Here are the details:

What: OFA community service

Where: Neighborhood Coalition for Shelter
211 E. 81 St.
New York, NY 10028

When: Every Sunday, starting February 27th
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

If you can't make it to this event, please consider finding other service opportunities at serve.gov -- it's a great website that helps people find ways to volunteer in their area.

RSVP to join us on Sunday:

http://ny.barackobama.com/Neighborhood-Coalition

Thanks,

Geoff

Geoff Berman
New York State Field Director
Organizing for America

International Women Artists' Salon Feb 28 event

I talked to Heidi Russell of the International Women Artists' Salon and she posted this to her Yahoo Group recently.  If you're interested in art or just want to meet some great people, check this out!
Happy networking,
Katharine
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Fabulous Salonistas! Time is at hand for our February Salon!

Monday, February 28th, 6:30-9:30.

Orietta Crispino and her artist run organization called Theaterlab will be our host...
Theaterlab is located at137 W. 14th Street, btwn 6/7, studio C...
The space can accommodate the presentation of large sized work, including a lovely dance space and projection, with a cd/ipod player/speaker system and wifi. You can read more about Orietta and Theaterlab here...
http://www.theaterlabnyc.com/Theaterlab3/Theatlerlab_contact.html..
.6:30-7:00 arrival and mingling
7:00-8:00 round robin introductions
8:00-9:00 presentations
9:00-9:30 mingling poll

Tech and innovation events in NYC this week

From VC Charlie O'Donnell of www.thisisgoingtobebig.com - see below for one of my favorite NYC event lists.
Happy networking!
Katharine Bierce
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Tuesday, February 22nd

6:30PM NY Video February 2011 Meetup

Programming:
- Shay David: CTO of the fast growing Kaltura talks about raising more money than you can shake a stick at, video, the changing platforms and standards, and who's going to win the platform wars.
- Tzahi Sofer Founder & CEO of Attractv.com (a Vidget Creation Platform)
- www.startupjetnyc.com will talk about a way to get to the hottest TV Festival at an amazing discount
- The Messenger Poet Show

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/nyvideo/events/16347825/


7PM NYC EdTech February Meetup: Topic: The Future of Curicculum

Who Should Attend?
You care about education and student success
You get excited about the impact technology can have on education
You either work in an institution or are working on a solution outside the institution
You currently are, or want to become, an EdTech champion
You believe collaboratively we can do more
You believe EdTech is more than just a smart board in the classroom
You generally consider yourself filled with awesomesauce...and so do others

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/NYEdTech/events/16195568/


7PM Global Impact with Social Media Panel

Panel discussion with some premier organizations doing innovative social media work on an international/global scale. The discussion will cover how social media tools are used in this context, what particular challenges there are in using these tools, and how your organization can apply some of the same techniques to promote your own global or local mission.  Panelists:

Arturo Romboli, UNICEF
Øistein Moskvil Thorsen, Oxfam
Anna Curran, Crisis Camp

RSVP: http://www.grassrootscamp.org/events/16532597/


Wednesday, February 23rd

6PM Sunshine Suites Entrepreneur Meet-and-Greet and Pool Party!

The office community of Sunshine Suites is know for its incredible networking bashes, and what better way to shake off this cold and wet February than with a killer pool party?! Sunshine invites any and all in the small biz and entrepreneurial community to come out to the Gracy Hotel on Feb 23 from 6-9 PM to take a dip in the pool, have a drink, mix and mingle! This party will be epic, you do NOT want to miss out.  Plus, you get to see if Kim Bellinger keeps her Cal Ripken-like streak of being the first one in at every tech event near a pool.

RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=179099532127074


6:45PM Hoboken Tech Meetup 9

One of the most significant challenges entrepreneurs face is how to raise the funding needed to bring their vision to market. David S. Rose, who has both raised and invested millions of dollars of venture capital as one of the country’s leading startup investors, will demystify the options and provide a clear and actionable path to early stage financing.  He'll also be bringing a huge novelty check.

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/HobokenTechMeetup/events/16012451/


7PM New York Viral Meetup

Speakers:

    * Faris Yakob, Chief Innovation Officer at MDC Partners and head of the Hair Club for the Social Media Elite (also a client)
    * Jordan Cooper, CoFounder/CEO Hyperpublic & Venture Partner, Lerer Ventures
    * Colin Nagy and Shelby MacLeod (of the Clan MacLeod) from The Barbarian Group - Case Study on the Samsung Campaign Tweet Wrap

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/New-York-Viral-Media-Meetup/events/16182282/



Thursday, February 24th

6PM TV APPS, Social TV, Content & Viewer Experience

From Hulu, to Google TV to streaming Netflix it is clear that the future of TV is online. Are best practices emerging? Is one case setting the tone? Attend Order to Chaos, the world's premier Digital Media and Social Network Conference from Talk NYC to learn about what's new and discuss what's next with leading industry players and digital thought leaders.  Wait... what's TV?

RSVP: http://www.talkforumnyc.com/marketing-partners/  <-- $20 discount for my readers!


6:30PM NYC2050: What will the future bring to NYC?

A lot can happen in forty years and while we can’t predict the future, we can anticipate some of the urban challenges and begin to address their potential impacts. Join us for a two hour session of participative discussion and collaborative problem-solving.

We will kick off with a panel of guest speakers who will give us an overview of the urban challenges that they foresee for NYC in 2050, like the mole people from the sewers. Their insights will lead to an evening of rapid design prototyping where everyone will be asked to imagine how we might redesign our city in response to some of the challenges ahead.

RSVP: http://nyc2050.eventbrite.com/


6:30PM Digital Dumbo

Come join us and Brooklyn-based behavioral data company, Saaspire, to celebrate the launch of its SaaS-based behavioral analytics tool, FocusLab, at Digital DUMBO.  FocusLab was recently showcased at O'Reilly's Strata Conference, which covers emerging opportunities in Big Data. The SaaS-based tool enables web operators to visualize data and gain insights into user behavior. The event will feature a look into the affinities and motivations of visitors to RCRDLBL.com, a premier music destination for free, curated, legal, MP3 downloads from the hottest marquee and emerging artists. RCRDLBL is owned by Downtown Music, a record label that artists such as Gnarls Barkley, Cold War Kids, and Santigold call home.

All Digital DUMBO attendees will receive free trial access to the FocusLab software and will be treated to music from DJ Ian Beck, who will be spinning hits from Downtown Music artists. As usual, there will be a free beer and wine bar!

RSVP: http://digitaldumbo.eventbrite.com/


Friday, February 25th

7PM Touchtech Launch Party

Join us to celebrate the launch of another awesome company started at NWC, Touchtech!

Touchtech is all about Android. Specifically, building new Android apps, porting iOS apps, and designing apps for tablet form factors. They also have a new product, Touchtrak, which captures screen shots, audio, touch events, and debug info feeds. In other words, it's a badass way of testing out new apps to see how users react to them.

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/coworking-nyc/events/16580894/


Sunday, February 27th

1PM HTML5 and CSS3 Intensive

You have been hearing all about HTML5, now come find out what all the fuss is about. The course will be a mix of lecture, samples and hands-on labs to get you up and running.  You will leave the class with new knowledge AND a ready-reference card!  Pre-requisite: The Intro to HTML/CSS class, or a working knowledge of HTML/CSS.

In this three-hour class we will:
    •    DIscuss HTML5 and CSS3 at a high level, examining what it is, where we are now, and who is leading the way.
    •    Cover CSS3 effects, including rounded corners, inset and drop shadows, and gradients.
    •    Learn how to add audio and video to your sites using HTML5 with no plugins required!
    •    Review HTML5 Offline Storage, what it is and how to use it.
    •    How to test for individual HTML5 feature support in your visitor’s browsers.
    •    Examine sites currently live using HTML5 and CSS3, and discover resources and materials for learning more.


RSVP: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1247187371



Technically Speaking


Monday, February 21st

6:30PM February NYC Java Meetup

Intro Speaker: Timothy Fagan on Java Best Practices

Featured Speaker: Reza Rahman, Author, EJB 3 in Action; Member, Java EE 6 and EJB 3.1 expert groups

Topic: Effective Caching Across Enterprise Application Tiers  Increasingly, caching challenges span multiple tiers within the enterprise. Architects and developers are discovering cache and clustering settings are crucial to understanding the life cycle of scalable critical components. In this session, attendees will learn how to leverage caching across enterprise application tiers to achieve better scalability. The presentation focuses on examples geared to caching as applied in enterprise development tools such as Java EE and Spring.

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/nycjava/events/16098983/


Tuesday, February 22nd

6:30PM php meetup CouchDB: JSON, HTTP & MapReduce Introducing noSQL and the Document-oriented Database with PHP and CouchDB

CouchDB is a document-oriented database that stores JSON documents, has a RESTful HTTP API, and is queried using MapReduce views. Each of these properties alone, especially MapReduce views, may seem foreign to developers more familiar with relational databases. This presentation will demystify the basic concepts behind CouchDB and give web developers a practical guide to getting started with CouchDB. We'll discuss how CouchDB relates to other SQL alternatives and what makes CouchDB unique.

RSVP: http://www.nyphp.org/PHP-Presentations/178_CouchDB-JSON-HTTP-MapReduce


7PM Aviary - NYC Tech Talks Meetup

This month, we will have Ari Fuchs and Bruce Drummond from Aviary talking about AviaryFX API, a server side image manipulation and effects service, and Feather, their simple client side image editing tool (www.aviary.com/html5).

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/NYC-Tech-Talks/events/15128578/


7PM hacker townhall

A casual, tech- and company-agnostic opportunity to get together and get caught up on the prior and coming month.  We'll have:

    * lighting tech talks (more than one!)
    * open stage & forum
    * mix and mingle
    * foodstuffs

RSVP: http://anyvite.com/events/home/6arfodowrd


7PM Twisted with Glyph

We are very lucky to have Glyph, the creator of Twisted, in town! NOTE - this meeting is THIS TUESDAY - apologies for the short notice. Please RSVP soon so we can get an idea of the number of attendees. Thanks!”

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/nycpython/events/16603364/


7PM Hackfest

Bring your laptop or just yourself, and come hang with other Rubyists.

RSVP: http://www.nycruby.org/events/16179485/


7PM Learning Feature Hierarchies for Vision

This month we're very lucky to have Yann LeCun from Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Center for Neural Science at NYU presenting "Learning Feature Hierarchies for Vision." Here's Yann's abstract: Intelligent perceptual tasks such as vision and audition require the construction of good internal representations. Theoretical and empirical evidence suggest that the perceptual world is best represented by a multi-stage hierarchy in which features in successive stages are increasingly global, invariant, and abstract. An important challenge for Machine Learning is to devise "deep learning" methods than can automatically learn good feature hierarchies from labeled and unlabeled data.

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/NYC-Machine-Learning/events/16489490/


Thursday, February 24th

6:30PM Social Analytics on MongoDB with Buddy Media

In this session, Buddy Media's Chief Product Officer, Patrick Stokes will talk about how Buddy Media is implementing their entire platform analytics engine on MongoDB.

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/New-York-MongoDB-User-Group/events/15680304/


8:00PM Primer on Android Development

In this course, students will learn the essentials of Android application development. Come with a laptop and leave with all the basics you need to develop applications on your own. In the first session, students will build their Android development environment (IDE, SDK, Emulator) and learn the building blocks of Android SDK.  Prerequisites: A basic understanding of the Java programming language. Students should bring laptops.

RSVP: http://developingformobile1.mogotix.com/

Feb 23 women in finance event

Attention women in finance - check out this career workshop next week!  High Water Women is an association of women in finance (esp. hedge funds) who also do philanthropic work.
Happy networking,
Katharine
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High Water Women's Young Women's Council (YWC) is presenting a two part series entitled "Women in Finance and an Introspective Look at Our Careers". What better way to kick off 2011 than furthering our careers by gaining a better understanding of how to present ourselves when it's our turn to brag (i.e. performance review time) and a focus on the role of our mentors and sponsors.

Part I was a great success last week – we hope to see you on Wednesday!

PART II: Round Table Discussion & Networking on the Harvard Business School Case Study: "Why Men Still Get More Promotions than Women"
Date: Wednesday, February 23rd
Time: 7 PM-8:30 PM
Location: TBA

Sponsorship versus mentorship? What's the difference? And why is it important to us as women? Meet us for a conversation on why sponsorship matters, especially for women. We look forward to your thoughts as well! A 10 minute interview with the author can be found here:  http://hbr.org/2010/09/why-men-still-get-more-promotions-than-women/ar/1

RSVP to danielle.frissell@jpmorgan.com

March 24 concert for microfinance at Lincoln Center

Just heard about this from Women Advancing Microfinance, NY chapter.  It's a great concert for a great cause!
Cheers,
Katharine Bierce
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Pro Mujer is a women's development and microfinance organization that provides Latin America's poorest women with the means to build livelihoods for themselves and futures for their families through microfinance, business training, and healthcare support. During its 20 year history, Pro Mujer has disbursed more than $885 million in loans impacting the lives of more than 1 million women and more than 5 million children in Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru.

On Thursday, March 24th at 7pm, Pro Mujer is celebrating 20 years of empowering women in Latin America with a concert event at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center featuring the Philharmonic of the Americas. This unique concert will be conducted by Alondra De La Parra.  Alondra has gained wide-spread attention for her spellbinding and vibrant performances making her one of the most compelling conductors of our generation. She is the first Mexican woman to conduct in New York City and the official Cultural Ambassador for Mexican Tourism.

Help Pro Mujer reach its goals for the next 20 years by attending this special event or by making a donation. 

Ticket prices range from $60 - $250 and tickets at the $60 and $125 levels will only be available through February 22nd, so act fast!

You can purchase your tickets here: https://www.wepay.com/tickets/view/156942
- 100% OF PROCEEDS GO TO PRO MUJER

If you cannot attend but would like to make a donation visit this page: https://www.wepay.com/donate/14598 

More information is included in the attached invitation. Please share with friends and colleagues. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact Rebecca Feinberg at rfeinberg@promjer.org or (646) 626-7000 x11