September Edition, CBA Events, News and Announcements
Member News and Events
September Kick-off Meeting Weds. September 26th, Zelma Lacey House |
Our September Kick-off Networking event will be held at Zelma Lacey House Wednesday September 26th at 5:30 pm in the June Rielly Center (far left of building).
Our first networking meeting is sponsored by the Life Focus Center who occupy that section of Zelma Lacey House. They will be providing light snacks and refreshments including sandwiches, tea and coffee, beverages and light desserts.
This is your chance to come and meet our other members and to mingle, exchange business cards and hear about what the Charlestown Business Association has planned so far for 2007-8.
The networking part of the kick-off will be about 30 minutes of open time to talk and network with other members. At the end of that time John Millerick from The Life Focus Center will be giving a brief talk about what the Life Focus role is in the community.
Another short talk will be given by Lynne Levesque of the Charlestown Business Climate Committee. Both of these talks will just be short updates from our Sponsor and to update our members on the works of the CBCC.
We hope you will attend. This is a free event to our members and $10 for non-members
Please RSVP to info@charlestownbusiness.com or 978.376.7878
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The Charlestown Business Association and the MGH Institute of Health Professions invites you to Meet and Greet Lunch with the new MGHIHP President Janis P. Bellack, PhD, RN, FAAN October 31st, 2007 |
The event will be held on Wednesday, October 31st, at the Navy Yard Bistro, from 12 - 130 pm. This is a FREE event that is sponsored by the MGH Institute of Health Professions.
The event will feature a full lunch with the new president who will talk about highlights of the Institute, her arrival to the organization, her vision for its growth, and conduct an open a dialogue on the Institute playing a larger role in the Charlestown community.
To find out more about MGH Institute of Health Professions and Dr. Jan Bellack click here.
Please RSVP to info@charlestownbusiness.com or 978.376.7878
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Warren Prescott/CBA Holiday Sale |
 This year the CBA has partnered again with the Warren Prescott School to present the 2007 Warren Prescott School /CBA Holiday Sale.
Charlestown and other local artisans and distributors will distribute their products for sale on Saturday, November 17, 2007 from 12:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Warren-Prescott School. The Warren-Prescott School is located at 50 School Street. The Holiday Shopping Event will be held in the cafeteria which can also be accessed on Pearl Street.
"This is our way to help local businesses and artisans boost their Christmas sales, and allow other local businesses to promote themselves to Charlestown residents and businesses at the same time," said Karl Hoyt, CBA Chair. "It also allows us to help the community with all money being donated to the local school."
 Refreshments will be available for purchase. All money raised through the Holiday Shopping Event will benefit the Warren-Prescott School, a public school serving grades K through 8. So, get ready to kick-off the 2007 Holiday Season with an afternoon of shopping.
In addition to finding some great gifts for the people on your list, you will be supporting Charlestown business owners and the Warren-Prescott School.
Accepting Vendor Applications
We are currently looking for Vendors to occupy space for the sale. You can register online by October 31st. Typical Vendors are craftspeople, local retailers, skin care consultants, self employed consultants, CBA Members who want to talk to people in the community, a food vendor, jewelry vendors, and much more.
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Surveys Being Undertaken to Improve Retail Business in Charlestown |
The Business Climate Improvement Committee in conjunction with the Charlestown Business Association has recently completed the latest step in their efforts to attract and retain more businesses in Charlestown.
With funding provided by Boston City Councilor Sal LaMattina, the Committee commissioned FinePoint Consultants to conduct a business district study. FinePoint reviewed the status of Charlestown's business district, contrasted it with comparable districts in Boston, drew a picture of the demographics of our residents, and made several recommendations. The final report and its recommendations are under review by the Committee. (Highlights of the report, however, will be presented at the September 26th CBA event, so come hear more about it!)
The demographic study follows a very successful Open Market, held in June, 2007, with over twenty businesses participating, and a business survey, undertaken earlier in 2007 to identify the concerns of existing businesses in Charlestown.
Coming soon is a residents' survey, which will be an opportunity for the community to give input as to what their concerns and needs are in regard to shopping and services in our community.
With the completion of these surveys, the Business Climate Improvement Committee will present the results to the Charlestown community via a town forum, tentatively scheduled for November of 2007.
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MEET OUR NEWEST CBA MEMBERS |
Urban Concierge
Marianne Miller Lacey
11 Mt Vernon St
Charlestown, MA 02129
Email: urbanconcierge@hotmail.com
Phone: 857-222-1157
Fax: 617-242-1885
Personal Services for the urban professional. Virtually anything from window box, design and 4 season maintenance and urban gardening to party planning or move coordination.
 Boston Baseball Field of Dreams, LLC
Alexander T. Bok, CEO
50 Franklin Street, Suite 406
Boston, MA 02110 USA
Email: alex@bostonballpark.com
Phone: 617.422.0009
Fax: 617.249.0772
Boston Baseball Field of Dreams, LLC, is working to bring minor league baseball to Boston. Please go to our web site for further information: www.bostonballpark.com
 NASE: National Association for the Self-Employed
Michael Fashjian, Field Service Representative
487 Grafton St.
Shrewsbury, MA 01545
Email: fashjianm@aol.com
Phone: 781-799-0418
Young Entrepreneurs Project/ PYD
Jennifer Ridder, Program Specialist
Email. jridder@pyd.org
Tel. 617-556-4075 x25
Jason Wheeler, Program Director
Email: jwheeler@pyd.org
Phone 617-556-4075 x19
Partners for Youth with Disabilities
95 Berkeley Street, Suite 109
Boston, MA 02116
 Young Entrepreneurs Project/PYD, in collaboration with the Boston Public Schools, teaches youth with and without disabilities to plan for their financial future by offering courses that teach career and business skills. Youth complete a year-long course, consisting of classroom learning, guest speakers, and field trips. Adult mentors from the business community work with youth to assist them in preparing business plans and an individual career portfolio. (Partners For Youth with Disabilities Young Entrepreneurs Project Class pictured right)
Crown Risk Management, LLC
 Mark C. Kowalczyk, Account Executive
17 Henley Street, Suite B
Charlestown, MA 02129
Phone: 617-337-5766
Email: kowalczykm2000@hotmail.com
Website: www.crownrisk.com
Crown Risk Management, LLC was formed to assist employers with the development and implementation of sound employee benefit programs, qualified retirement plans, and property and casualty programs.
Our firm is structured to compliment the general needs of employers in today's ever more challenging financial environment where product selection and implementation can have a significant impact on corporate profitability.
Our goal is to provide employers with the appropriate evaluations comparing both insured and self-insured alternative methods of handling risk to determine which method is most cost efficient based on the employer's own experience.
Our clients are provided an experienced service team manager for each line of coverage who has at least ten years of experience for the given product line.
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MEMBER NEWS, ANNOUNCEMENTS AND EVENTS |
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Theatre on Fire presents "Gasping" at the Charlestown Working Theatre
 You are invited to the Charlestown Working Theatre to see the U.S. Premiere of “Gasping” by Ben Elton at CWT. “Gasping” is a brilliantly funny satire on big business, the media and product exploitation. When Lockheart Industries begins selling designer air, this Perrier for the nostrils becomes the marketing phenomenon of the decade and millions are quickly made. But people start hoarding for a rainy day and oxygen supplies run low. The Third World is plundered, creating a greater divide between the haves and have-nots. Soon the world starts gasping and only the biggest suckers survive!
It opens on October 19 and runs for 3 weekends. Full price tickets are $15-20, but there is a special group rate for Charlestown-based groups: bring at least 10 people and it’s just $10 each for any show. In addition, for groups of 15 or more, Theatre on Fire will be happy to arrange a special private talkback with the cast after the show. For more information www.theatreonfire.org or info@theatreonfire.org
Navy Yard Bistro Expands, Opens Second Location
John Moore, the owner of the Navy Yard Bistro and Wine Bar, has just opened a new restaurant in Lynn - the Downtown Bistro and Wine Bar.
The new restaurant on the site of the former Oxford Street Grill has opened and provides superb moderately priced Bistro fare from highly acclaimed Chef David Fitzgerald and Navy Yard Bistro and Wine Bar owner John Moore.
The Downtown Bistro and Wine Bar, an urban, fine casual dining spot located in the heart of Lynn's historic district, serves a selection of thoughtfully prepared, beautifully presented cuisine. Guests in the clean-lined dining room, with its floor to ceiling windows and beautiful tin ceilings, experience a menu of New American Bistro cuisine, dabbling in Latin and Asian flavors as well as American regional styles.
 Dan Polvere to conduct seminar on Condominium Law Basics for Institute of Real Estate ManagementThis program is designed to give property managers, trustees and brokers a solid grounding in the law of condominiums.
The course is being offered in Quincy the morning of October 17, 2007. For a full description, fees and course brochure, visit the IREM website at www.iremboston.org and scroll down to Featured Events.
Health Insurance Benefits offered to CBA Members
After much research into benefits for the self-employed, the NASE (The National Association for the Self-Employed) can offer small business owners access to health and business benefits among many other benefits. The NASE was started in 1981 as an organization that offers support, benefits and consolidated buying power. Today, the NASE is over 200,000 members strong, and is the largest nonprofit, nonpartisan association of its kind. The NASE works hard to ensure that Congress consider issues important to the members, with a full time advocacy team located in Washington D.C.
Through the NASE membership, we are able to benefit in many ways like large corporations by banding together to have power in numbers. This has primarily affected the small business owner by offering access to tax savings programs and affordable health insurance among many other discount programs.
The NASE's No. 1 most requested benefit is access to health coverage. Securing affordable health coverage is a top priority for micro-business owners. This coverage is underwritten by The MEGA Life & Health Insurance Company* The health insurance plans can be enhanced with optional benefits and are designed for the self-employed. These plans also provide NASE Members with some valuable features. First, you have the freedom to see any doctor and go to any hospital, without network restrictions. There are many options to choose from including dental, vision, prescription and disability.
For information on how to access these benefit, contact our representative:
Mike Fashjian
Field Service Representative
NASE Association
Liscensed Insurance Agent
MEGA Life & Health Insurance Co.
CBA Member
781-799-0418
fashjianm@aol.com
Association benefits are dependent on membership level and state of residence. Benefits are subject to change.
*Administrative Office: North Richland Hills, TX. Exclusions and limitations apply. Optional benefits require additional premium. (Policy Series 25875, 25876) Association membership may be required.
M/MA000036 Exp. 8/08
Workforce Development Center of Bunker Hill Community College
In keeping with Bunker Hill Community College's motto of "Imagine the possibilities", our Workforce Development Center has the motto "Imagine the possibilities for your company".
That is, at the Workforce Development Center of Bunker Hill Community College, we're very much involved in providing not just education, but training for the community. We don't stay in an ivory tower, we define the community we serve as the business community as well as individuals who need skills upgrades to stay competitive in the marketplace.
Our forte is providing custom training programs targeted to specific workplace needs, provided at your company site on your timetable, by hands-on professionals with real-world experience.
Our team of highly skilled contract managers work directly with your company to put together custom training programs designed to help you improve your bottom line.
We draw from an Access database of hundreds of field experienced instructors, sorted by skills, to provide you with the best person to provide training for real world results.
Last year we helped over 30 companies become healthier and more competitive- this year we want to add just one more company to that list- yours!
Call us toll free at 877-953-2422 for a free initial consultation and put us to work for your company!
Janis P. Bellack Named President of MGH Institute of Health Professions
National search taps Boston health professions leader to lead 800 student graduate school
Boston, MA: Following an extensive nationwide search, Janis P. Bellack, PhD, RN, FAAN, has been named the next President of the MGH Institute of Health Professions, an independent graduate school and academic affiliate of the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Bellack, previously Vice President for Academic Affairs/Provost and Professor of Nursing and Health Sciences at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, is a widely published and nationally recognized health professions leader with extensive experience as a federally-funded investigator.
Dr. Bellack will assume her post at the beginning of the new academic year in September. As President of the MGH Institute, Bellack will also hold an academic appointment as John Hilton Knowles Professor. She arrives on campus just as the MGH Institute significantly expands its existing Graduate Program in Nursing with the introduction of a Doctor of Nursing Practice and an Accelerated BSN. Degree and certificate programs are also offered in physical therapy, speech-language pathology, clinical investigation and medical imaging.
While her early career focused on nursing education, Dr. Bellack has been responsible for leading and shaping health professions education across a range of disciplines for more than a decade. Since 1997 she has been a senior consultant and core faculty team member for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Executive Nurse Fellows Program based at the University of California, San Francisco, Center for the Health Professions. She has been a Senior Fellow at the Center since 1996.
Dr. Bellack is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and was a member of the national advisory committee of the Robert Wood Johnson-funded Partnerships for Quality Education Program from 1999 - 2006. During her thirteen year tenure at the Medical University of South Carolina, she was an effective advocate of interdisciplinary education, and promoted interdisciplinary primary care education as a consultant to the South Carolina Area Health Education Center. She has been associate editor of the Journal of Nursing Education since 1998.
"Dr. Bellack's national reputation as a collaborative program builder and as a recognized leader in helping to shape health professions education, makes her the ideal choice to lead the MGH Institute," said MGH Institute board of trustees chair George E. Thibault, MD, Vice President of Clinical Affairs for Partners HealthCare System, and Daniel D. Federman Professor of Medicine and Medical Education at Harvard Medical School. Bellack will succeed Ann W. Caldwell, who announced last September that she would step down this year after ten years as president of the MGH Institute.
Dr. Bellack earned her PhD in Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation from the University of Kentucky, a master's degree in pediatric nursing from the University of Florida. She began her nursing education at the University of Virginia, graduating from the school's last diploma class, followed by a BSN two years later. Earlier this month, the UVA nursing alumni association named her the recipient of its 2007 Distinguished Alumna Award. The University of Kentucky named Bellack to its Alumni Hall of Fame in 2002.
Dr. Thibault chaired the presidential search committee which was comprised of several MGH Institute trustees, with additional members representing the faculty, administration, alumni, and Partners HealthCare: Andrew Dwyer '00, Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Research Coordinator, Reproductive Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital; Jeanette Ives Erickson, Senior Vice President for Patient Care Services and Chief Nurse Executive, Massachusetts General Hospital; Julia L. Greenstein, President, Life Science Advisers, LLC; John V. Guttag, Dugald C. Jackson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Charles Haynes, Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Communication Sciences and Disorders; Mairead Hickey, Senior Vice President for Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer, Brigham & Women's Hospital; Matina Horner, President Emerita, Radcliffe College; Mary Knab, Clinical Assistant Professor, Graduate Programs in Physical Therapy; Carolyn Locke, Director of Student Affairs; and Sara Sievers, Senior Program Officer, Developing Country Advocacy, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The MGH Institute of Health Professions (www.mghihp.edu), an academic affiliate of Massachusetts General Hospital, is an innovative and independent graduate school that operates within the framework of Partners HealthCare System. A progressive leader in developing comprehensive models of health care education, the MGH Institute prepares advanced practice professionals for careers in the fields of nursing, physical therapy, speech-language pathology, medical imaging (radiologic technology) and clinical investigation through a distinctive combination of academic study, clinical practice and research. An average of nearly 800 students are enrolled in graduate level and certificate programs, with an increasing number of courses available
Men of Boston Cook
for Women's Health
Mark your calendars! Prepare your palates!
Men of Boston Cook for Women's Health (MOB) will take place on Thursday, September 27, 2007, at the Gala Tent at 637 Washington Street, Dorchester, from 6 - 9 pm.
Since 1995, Men of Boston Cook for Women's Health has gathered some of Boston's most notable personalities under one roof, along with food donated by first-class restaurants. Why do they come? Not just for the aprons (though that's always a draw). They come to support women's health programs, from breast cancer and pregnancy to depression and diabetes.
Tickets cost $150* and can be purchased online or by calling Lai Nguyen at (617) 474-1457. http://www.menofboston.com
We are proud to thank all of our Men of Boston sponsors. If you would like to contribute to this worthy cause, please contact Millie Clements at (617) 474-1446.
*$100 out of every ticket goes directly to support women's health programs, and is tax-deductible.
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VIEW PHOTOS
FROM THE JUNE COOKOUT
CBA VOLUNTEER BOARD MEMBERS
Co-Chairs
Karl Hoyt (Whittemore Wright)
Tom Coots (Cooperative Bank)
Board Members
Jessica Cluff (Paychex)
Diane Grant (Diane Grant Design/Market America, CNC Chair)
Lynne Levesque (Lynne Levesque Consulting)
George Megaloudis (Roach Wise)
Lysa Miller (Ladybugz Inc.)
Editor/Designer/Writer
Lysa Miller, Ladybugz Inc.
Charlestown Business Climate Committee
Lynne Levesque
Diane Grant
June 2007 EVENT CALENDAR
September 26th, 530 pm Zelma Lacey House - September Kickoff Meeting
October 31st, 12 noon, Navy Yard bistro - Lunch with the President of MGH Institute of Health Professions
November 17th, 10 - 5 pm - Warren Prescott School/CBA Annual Holiday Sale
December 7th, 6 pm Vitale Caturano - Annual Holiday Party
December 8th, 9 am Cooperative Bank - Annual Holiday Decorating
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