CNI/Fondy/North Business Association

CNI/Fondy/North Business Association

WHO WE ARE

CAMPAIGN NEIGHBORHOOD - CFNBA
CNI/FONDY/NORTH BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
"We Are in This Together"

March 17, 2007

Hi Neighbor!

CFNBA - CNI/Fondy North Business Association has stayed true to the belief that Inner City Milwaukee has many ¡§diamonds in the rough¡¨.

THAT, "threats" and "weaknesses" can be leveraged by partnering with LIKE-MINDS and using "strengths" and "opportunities" to ensure investment opportunities, quality-of-life issues and true economic development.

THAT, the assets of Inner City of Milwaukee and contiguous neighborhoods are the PEOPLE/people, LAND/land, HUGE GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES and what the people develop and maintain for growth.

THAT, it takes concerned and involved residents, committed businesses, and supportive government to grow neighborhoods.

THAT, accountability for ¡§net worth¡¨ and ¡§sustainability¡¨ is required by all.

CFNBA/CNI/Fondy/North Business Association encourages its members to take advantage of the opportunities to:
„Ï grow their business
„Ï be proactive
„Ï be socially responsible
„Ï to create synergy with fellow merchants of the area.

CFNBA is assisted in BOLD, INNOVATIVE and INFORMATIVE leadership by a cabinet of officers known as CFNBA Business Leadership Council.

As we CONTINUE in the quest of INNER CITY COMPETITIVENESS, let us look at:

- Accountability
- Benefit Packages
- Board/Administrators/Staff Training
- Capacity Building
- Education Attainment
- Hiring from-the Neighborhood
- Increased Wages/Family-Supporting
- Investing and Re-Investing
- Neighborhood Governance
- Neighborhood Imaging(safe and friendly)
- Partnering
- Safety: The Neighborhood Greeters Program
- Social Responsibility of all Businesses
- Smart Growth Initiative, State Statute 66.1001
- Standardized Customer Service
- Technology Hook-up
- Tourism


Additionally, I wish to invite your attention to the importance of being a "collective voice" for a better neighborhood and marketplace. The absence of a voice for you is the difference in getting contracts, appointed to decision making boards - city, county and state, and empowering the area and industry you do business in.

Join us in a COLLECTIVE EFFORT by becoming a MEMBER and HELPING to make the Inner City of Milwaukee the best it can be.

Mary Glass
Chair/CEO


JOIN US!

MEMBERSHIP INVESTMENT
We are a "for-profit" firm. The dollars we raise through membership and fundraisers the funds to help provide "operations" cost for the business association.

We ask for your investment of "membership" dollars and participation in the "annual pledge fundraiser" to help ensure that the business of the businesses of the Inner City are known and customer care is at the forefront of our elected officials and the members of the Milwaukee community.

(3)THREE-TIER INVESTMENT
* ONE-TIME JOINING FEE - $125 Everyone
* MEMBERSHIP FEE (can be paid in two payments)
* Annual Pledge Fundraiser ¡V Kwanzaa
* Annual Pledge Education - June/July/August

Types of Membership
„Ï CFNBA CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP - $395.00
Organizations with annual revenue of $1 Million Plus.

Your membership is a straightforward and powerful way your business HAS A VOICE and supports neighborhood strategic planning, social responsibility, hiring-from-the-neighborhood, customer service and having a collective voice.

Annual Dues: $395.00

NOTE:
PETROLEUM & "C" STORE Membership Fee is:
$395.00 per year for one site. If the owner has multiple sites, each site after basic membership is $200. If a Member has more than 3 other sites, the amount is: basic - $395, 2nd & 3rd site - $200 and all others $100.

„Ï CFNBA ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP - $200.00
Organizations with annual revenue of $500,000 to $1 Million.

We offer this ¡§special¡¨ membership for organizations who see the merit in being a member but have not the regular affiliations such as attendance to regular meetings.

Annual Dues: $200.00

„Ï CFNBA FAMILY-OWNED/NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS
Some of our businesses are "family-owned" as far back as 50 years on the Fond du Lac Corridor.

They are small in number, 2-10 members.

Membership: $150.00


„Ï SOCIAL/SCHOOL/CHURCH
School, Church, Community-based and non-profit organizations with annual revenue of less than $1,000,000.

Membership: $150.00.


Support your Mission.
What better way to support the Mission of the local school, church and social organization than being at the table with leaders of the neighborhood and become more involved with the neighborhood and the resources thereof.

CFNBA supports partnership-building between the business community and the education centers of the world. Some ways of collaboration are speakers, mentoring programs, employment training, plans, employment and underwriting projects and field trips to support the school curriculum. There are many ways both the business and education community can compliment each other for the good of all.

„Ï CFNBA MANAGEMENT - INDIVIDUAL
Membership: $55.00

Support your neighborhood.
Network with different organizations within the neighborhood.

What better way to meet and greet varied individuals in leadership roles. CFNBA supports mentoring and partnership-building.

Some ways of collaboration are speakers, mentoring programs, employment training, employment and underwriting projects and field trips to support the school curriculum. There are many ways both the business and education community can compliment each other for the good of all.

„Ï CFNBA INDIVIDUAL - Student or Retiree
Membership: VOLUNTEERISM = Requirement minimum 40 hours.

Support your neighborhood.
Join:
.....Friends of Jazz & Blues @ Johnson Park
.....Block-to-Block Safety Alliance
.....A Good Neighborhood Network.
.....Kid's Cafe

What better way to meet and greet varied individuals in leadership roles. CFNBA supports mentoring and partnership-building.

Some ways of collaboration are speakers, mentoring programs, employment training, employment and underwriting projects and field trips to support the school curriculum. There are many ways both the business and education community can compliment each other for the good of all.

We promote business growth through educational seminars and workshops. Your membership is a straightforward and powerful way to ensure growth through neighborhood strategic planning, continuous staff development and having a collective voice.

ABC's OF INNER CITY COMPETITIVENESS

For Inner City neighborhoods to grow "self-sustainable" and gain in ¡¡±net worth¡¨, it is mandatory that the businesses and leaders of the neighborhood control the comings and goings of wealth; its land, people and government subsidies.

HIRING FROM-THE-NEIGHBORHOOD is one of the first steps to growing the workforce in the Inner City. Once you have committed to hiring from the neighborhood, it is important that Operation Standards and Staff Training are implemented.

STAFF AND STAKEHOLDER TRAINING provides the template for how a business is ran. From the Investor to the Board Member, to the Receptionist who answers the telephone, to the person watering the plants, knowing what is expected, knowing how to do what is expected, and ongoing monitoring of expectations are invaluable keys to a successful business in Inner City.

Staff training on all levels, including owners and managers, can play a big role in the growth curve. In fact, it's manditory.

Ongoing training and monitoring helps to ensure ¡¡±Customer Service¡¨. And, ¡¡±great¡¨ customer service should be the standard for each business in the Inner City.

TECHNOLOGY HOOK-UP is an added-value to Inner City businesses and it can promote ¡¡±Capacity Building¡¨ in Inner City businesses. It is a way of jump-starting revenue streams and improving services to the merchant and the merchant¡¦s clients.

In today¡¦s environment, a business can lose its edge and/or prevent market share due to not having some of today¡¦s electronic devices such as: a computer, software packages that help guide and operate the business, fax, email, website, palm pilot, cell phone, voice mail, paging, surveillance systems, security-weapon monitors, credit and/or debit options.

INCREASING WAGES and a growing Benefit Package tied to growth of the business should be part of the ongoing strategic planning of management in Inner City businesses.

IMAGING is creating a certain type of picture that represents the business in a positive and customer-friendly way. Imaging is also a perception of how the businesses of the Inner City conduct business. How the physical structure looks. What the business sells and the quality of the items for sale.

PARTNERING, INVESTING, and RE-INVESTING in the Inner City can be a new way of leveraging the playing field. A way of engaging micro businesses, creating bulk volume for big bucks. It increases the participation ability and buying options of the employers in the Inner City.

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY is one form of "accountability" that is ¡¡±paramount¡¨ in the Inner City. It is necessary for neighborhood governance, neighborhood growth, and partnering.

Social Responsibility is the ¡¡±business etiquette¡¨ and ¡¡±business goodwill¡¨ that will set the tone in Inner City neighborhood wealth-building. It is each business taking ownership in ¡¡±giving back¡¨ for sustainability of ALL. It is a paradigm shift. It is a "mind-set" for all.

It provides the ¡¡±safety net¡¨ that is needed to provide seed money, capital improvement, taxes, volunteerism, mentoring, and civic mindedness vital to short- and long-term growth.

ACCOUNTABILITY is a uniform expectation. No one is exempt. It is a ¡¡±zero tolerance¡¨ policy that is known and expected of all who live, invest, grow families. It is the reason for electing and re-electing a representative for the Inner City.

It is commercial. It is retail. It is light industrial. It is residential. It is government. It is the church. It is our public and private schools. It is the library. It is law enforcement and the judicial system. It is the leader. It is leader-groups. It is unions. It is all service providers. It is the developer. It is the investor. It is the financial institutions. It is the young. It is the old. It is all ethnic groups. It is the employed. It is the under-employed. It is the un-employed. It is the homeless. It is the "voter". IT IS THE NON-VOTER.

TOURISM can be an Inner City ¡¡±neighborhood revenue-builder. It is the ¡¡±payola¡¨ for ¡¡±Show and Tell¡¨ of the Inner City Neighborhood in a bragging fashion. It is the doorway/gateway to global commerce.

It is being a year-round Welcome Wagon/host and hostess for the Inner City Neighborhood.

It is sharing ¡¡±goodies¡¨ ¡V services, products, crafts, skills, ideas and stakeholders with the intent of trade.

COMPETITIVENESS is an ¡¡±under-utilized¡¨ revenue stream for Inner City Neighborhoods of Milwaukee.

Article by: Mary Glass

Email us
mgurbanicongroup@yahoo.com

Links

CFNBA INNERCITYWIRELESS.BIZ
INNERCITYWIRELESS BUDDY

About our association

MISSION STATEMENT

WELCOME TO NEIGHBORHOODLINK.COM/MILWAUKEE/CFNBA!

"We are Neighborhood Engineers, Building a NEW Image"

Campaign Neighborhood - CFNBA is a Member of the SMART GROWTH NETWORK.

CAMPAIGN NEIGHBORHOOD - CFNBA's "Action" Mission is to engage residential, commercial, light industrial and institutional (clergy-school-social-government) stakeholders of the Inner-City in providing “state-of-the-art” strategic leadership in advancing:

1. Quality-of-Life Issues.

2. Investment Opportunities for Neighborhood
Business SmartGrowth.

3. Economic Restructuring within Inner City
Neighborhoods through "Social Responsibility" and "Competition".

4. Employment "within" Inner City
Neighborhoods.

5. Self-Governance and Self-Sustainability.

6. The Knowledge of Neighborhood Cultures in the Inner City.

Neighborhoodlink & Wiki Websites

We encourage you to take a look at other points of interest on our "Neighborhoodlink" website; AND our Wiki site - www.bdcproundtable.info.

And, we look forward to you returning from time-to-time to see our engagement.

We also invite you to become a MEMBER, and we ask for your support of the following events, programs and projects:

.....5-Year Signature Plan (20025-2010)

....."BUSY BEAVERS" Public Art Project

.....Annual Jazz & Blues @ Johnson Park (July 4th thru Labor Day)

.....WHO'S WHO AWARDS (last Friday of January)

.....BI-Coastal Development Tourism Trade Strategy Meetings (first one, August 6-7, 2004)

.....BI-Coastal Development Tourism Trade Strategy Meeting - August 20, 2007

.....Media, Wireless & YOU Syntopican (October 23-24, 2007 - MSOE/Milwaukee School of Engineering, Todd Weir Conference Center(Annually)

.....Breakfast Roundtable(Every 3 months)

.....Luncheons of Distinction - BI-ANNUALLY

.....BUSY BEAVER STUDENTS & YOUNG ADULTS
1. Busy Beaver Club
2. Busy Beaver Poet Laureate(bi-annually)
3. Busy Beaver Book Club
4. Busy Beaver Southern Serenade

Membership

Go to the "Home page" and click on "MEMBERSHIP" and CNI/Fondy/North Business Association for more about CFNBA.

Email us
mgurbanicongroup@yahoo.com

About Us

Campaign Neighborhood - CFNBA