education summit education summit - Eric Rofes

Saturday, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm SESSION 6
MAKING GRANT MONEY WORK FOR YOU
There are many misconceptions approaching the status of urban legends,
regarding grant funds that are supposedly available to entrepreneurs and
small business owners. Several national television advertisements have
featured this “free money,” along with the announcement that “for only
$19.95,” you too can gain access to top-secret government financing that
is available to businesses.
In this session, we will debunk myth from reality and provide participants
with a list of authentic grant-funded resources (private and public) available
to companies in Northern California. The session will include a brief
presentation followed by a hearty question-and-answer session.
BOB JUDEVINE is Program Manager for BizNet, a one-stop business
resource located in Eureka, serving both Humboldt and Del Norte Counties.
BizNet focuses on cutting through red tape for local businesses and in
providing quick answers and solutions to day-to-day business questions.
KRISTIN JOHNSON is Executive Director for the North Coast Small
Business Development Center (SBDC), and Interim Co-Director for the
Northern California SBDC Network. The SBDC program provides nocost
business and management assistance to entrepreneurs and business
owners throughout the United States. SBDC collaborates with many governmental
agencies and grant programs aimed at the federal, state and
local level.
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development
Founders Hall, Green and Gold Room
VIDEO SCREENING:
RECALLING DEMOCRACY—MEASURE F IN
HUMBOLDT COUNTY (2004)
This is a documentary co-produced by Tom Voorhees and Harry Blumenthal
about the failed attempt to recall Humboldt County District Attorney
Paul Gallegos in March 2004. It includes a focus on the role of Pacific Lumber
Company in that recall. 24 minutes.
Nelson Hall East 115
DARING STUDENTS TO ACT: A FRESH VIEW—
YOUR VIEW
What’s the most inspiring class you’ve ever taken? More than likely, it’s
one that connects ideas with meaningful action. Service learning opens
your classroom to these opportunities for student civic engagement, but
community-based education comes with its own set of challenges. Honoring
the principle of community knowledge and the value of diversity,
participants at all levels of service learning experience and from all partnership
perspectives—instructor, community partner, and student—are
invited to collaborate in this interactive workshop to identify opportunities
and develop innovative and collective solutions.
JAIME THOMPSON is a senior in Child Development and Leadership
Studies, an intern at HSU’s Service Learning Center, and Co-Director
of the Summer Leadership Educational Adventure Program. In his previous
years at HSU he has served as the Co-Director of New Games and
Program Consultant for Youth Educational Services, connecting HSU
students with co-curricular volunteer opportunities, as well as a two-time
Children’s Area Coordinator for the Sustainable Living Arts and Music
Festival. He is currently working as Service Learning Liaison to the Educational
Opportunity Program, a member of the Service Learning/Experiential
Education Advisory Committee, and an active ropes-course facilitator.
Reach him at Jjt14@humboldt.edu.
CHRISTY BURKE is a current student at Humboldt State University
where she is working on a BS degree in kinesiology and a certificate of
study in women’s studies. In addition to her academics, Christy is an in-
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tern at the Service Learning Center at HSU, a crisis worker with Humboldt
Domestic Violence Services, and a volunteer board member for Six Rivers
Planned Parenthood. Christy’s current career plan is to attend medical
school and become an osteopathic primary care physician. Christy’s email
address is Clb65@humboldt.edu.
COLIN PHIFER has served as a Service Learning Center intern since August
2004 and a docent at the HSU Natural History Museum from before
time. Reach him at ccp6@humboldt.edu.
NICHOLE HILLYER is a senior with a major in child development and Service
Learning Intern at Humboldt State University. She likes trampolines
and peanut butter and her email address is nikkinbonnie@yahoo.com.
Founders Hall 179
“VOTING SUCKS! (WHICH IS WHY WE’D BETTER
FIX IT)
Our current voting system suffers from many problems that prevent it
from giving us results that are conclusive, accurate, or truly reflective
of the will of the people. Because of this, all too many of our fellow
Americans, understandably, see no reason to vote. This workshop will
explore Instant Runoff Voting (Ranked-Choice Voting) as a pathway
to creating a better voting experience for voters, while guaranteeing
that the process accurately reflects their opinions. By ensuring that the
vote allows us to make our voices heard clearly, the people would have
good reason to make the effort to go to the polls and vote how they really
wish to vote. There will be no fear of ‘wasting’ a vote or ‘splitting’
the vote and this will likely increase the chances of people’s votes making
the change they want to see. Anyone with a cause of any kind has a
stake in making the vote work. That process starts here.
Co-founder of the Voter Confidence Committee and graduate student
in HSU’s Environment and Community MA Program, SCOTT MEN-
ZIES’ ‘primary mission’ revolves around Realizing Community, an
organization committed to creating healthy, interactive communities.
Believing it integral to creating a political atmosphere within which
he, and we, can make change, voting reform is one of his so-called ‘secondary
missions.’ Reach Scott at info@voterconfidencecommittee.org
or Scott.Menzies @realizingcommunity.org.
Founders Hall 163
EDUCATION FOR PLANNING THE FUTURE:
INTRODUCTION TO FUTURE STUDIES
Make a transformation from a backward-oriented education to a futureoriented
education. Open the narrow form of (capitalist) economics taught
in schools to other alternatives. This session will present steps we might
take to move beyond current government by the corporations and for the
corporations to government by and for the people.
WILLIAM H. BOYER is Professor Emeritus, Philosophy of Education at
University of Hawaii and the author of five books on planning the future.
The latest is Myth America: Democracy vs. Capitalism (2005). This will
be available at the summit. Contact him at wboyer@dsicomputers.com.
Founders Hall 025
YOU CAN HELP YOUR CHILDREN WITH ADHD TO
SUCCEED
Attention Deficit (Hyperactive) Disorder is one of the most easily misunderstood
of all learning disabilities. It looks a lot like just being “flakey,”
or not caring, or having parents who don’t support reasonable work habits
and discipline in the home. It is actually a deficit in the brain, where tasks