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Tavis Smiley and Nationwide Insurance Issue Call To Action
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Written by Kandise Thomas-Humphrey, PhD.   
Joomla Popin Window by DART CreationsOn Saturday, June 14, 2008, Nationwide Insurance brought its innovative five-city economic empowerment and financial literacy tour to Richmond, Virginia.  The event’s keynote speaker was Tavis Smiley, an individual that is well-known for his efforts to educate, empower, and encourage all people, but specifically African-Americans.

As I received the call, inviting me to attend the event the day prior, my initial response was, “the last thing I need to spend my Saturday morning doing is listening to someone with money tell me how to get money and materialistic things for myself.”  To be perfectly honest, I almost had an attitude about having to go to the event, especially since I was charged with the task of reporting on the activities that took place.

You must understand, my father, who is also a member of Kappa Alpha Psi, as is Tavis, raised us with a healthy respect of finances as it pertains to our lives.  We were constantly admonished to view money and wealth as a “tool” for changing and improving the world that we live in, not as a “tool” for promoting our own comforts and self indulgences.
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Save Money by Telecommuting
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Written by Momolu Sancea   
Gas prices are on the rise, and for the next 6 or so months I don't see a slow down.  The reasons behind that are debated over and that is not the focus of this article.  I am here to advocate for more telecommuting options in the workplace.  Before you all get up in arms about the need for face to face interactions, I am not talking about a 100% solution here more so a 3-4 day work week.  Most office professionals chit-chat for between one to three hours a day, and that is an observation of mine and by no means corroborated by any metrics.  I think there needs to be a movement to partial remote work in the near future in an effort to increase productivity and avoid office distractions.

The personal computer is quite powerful and only getting better with every new year.  For heaven's sake, we can deliver PowerPoint presentations from our cell phones now!  It makes no sense to me why salesmen and executives are the only people allowed to work remotely.  The same systems that are in place to handle their remote needs can service the majority of the other workers in a company.  For instance, most knowledge workers like programmers and the like don't need to be in an office every day.  The only conceivable reason for this would be to justify a manager's role in the office.  I would like to contend that an effective manager can "manage" remote workers as well as traditional in-office workers.
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Gorillas Don’t Participate in Recessions
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Written by Kelvin Jones   
Are u a recession monger ?? I mean just because gasoline is over 100.00 a barrel and we are paying more than 3.00 at the pump nationwide and we have had a downturn in the economy for two consecutive quarters does not mean we are in a recession !!!!!!!!!!! well maybe it does ….what do i know?? Hmmm let me think..doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

(theme song from jeopardy people ..Come on !!) OK what i mean is us Gorillas cannot afford to be in a recession, therefore we should not participate. Yes we are stuck in this strange economic place with everyone else, but we must sell harder and sell smarter and while i love making lots of money we need to take a look at our debt. A friend of mine whom i respect greatly is always saying the sure fire way to wealth is debt reduction. It is not what you make but what you keep, so do not fret we can ride this out together.
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