Month: October 2015

Ann Arbor YMCA presents LIVESTRONG® at the YMCA Benefit Day: WE RIDE WE WALK WE CARE on November 14, 2015

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Contact:
Jan W. Hack
Ann Arbor YMCA
734.661-8047
Jhack@annarborymca.org

 

Ann Arbor YMCA presents LIVESTRONG® at the YMCA Benefit Day: WE RIDE WE WALK WE CARE on November 14, 2015
Ann Arbor, MI October 28, 2015 – On November 14, from 8am-1pm, the Ann Arbor YMCA will present WE RIDE WE WALK WE CARE, an event to benefit the LIVESTRONG® at the YMCA. This is a free 12 week fitness program that helps cancer survivors return to wellness after their treatment. Since its inception in 2008, over 250 men and women have benefited from this program at the Ann Arbor YMCA, which is made possible through donations from our community. Each year we strive to raise $15,000 through the event. This amount ensures the program will be offered free of charge to survivors and their families. All donations and registration fees from this event stay local and go towards:

  • Individualized twice weekly classes for 12 weeks
  • Specialty staff training
  • Free family memberships for all participants
  • Ongoing classes and staff support for program alumni

This year, event participants can ride a stationary bike or choose to walk around our indoor track. All registrations include an event t-shirt with donations levels from $35, which includes one raffle ticket up to $250, which includes 8 raffle tickets, a YMCA class registration for seven weeks, a personal training session and a complimentary one month YMCA parking pass. Participants may stay at the event for one or six hours for the same price. Ages twelve and up are welcome to participate.
To register, or to donate to the program without participating, go to www.annarborymca.org/benefitday. Questions may be directed to Suzanne Kessler at skessler@annarborymca.org or 734.661.8036.

React from Impact

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Contact:
Andy LaBarre

Andy@a2ychamber.org

(734) 214-0101

 

If you missed Impact 2015 last Friday you missed a great discussion and a wonderful morning.

 

The theme of the day was the A2Y Business Community’s response to economic inequality in Washtenaw County. Our opening presentation from The University of Michigan’s Ginsberg Center Director Mary Jo Callan laid out the data of our economic disparities. It was concise and clear, and proved why this is an item our business community needs to discuss. The Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation’s Neel Hajra did an excellent job formulating questions, moderating both panels, and engaging the audience.

 

Our first panel made plain the case for increased corporate leadership in our non-profit community. Old National’s Todd Clark and Charles Reinhart Company’s Dave Lutton, provided valuable insight on building a culture of involvement in their businesses and making sure community impact is part of thier business plan. Dave Benedict shared the Toyota Company’s unique approach to integrating staff with the community through service. Amy Emberling gave us Zingerman’s experience with directly taking on the issue through employee compensation. Her powerful remarks were met with spontaneous applause from our audience. Robin Damschroder laid out the innovative ways in which St. Joseph Mercy has successfully incorporated the concept of broader community improvement into its business model.

 

Panel two heard from leaders about their vision for a more equitable community. Nutshell’s Joe Malcoun spoke passionately about the need for increased transit options and Duo Security’s Dug Song covered the need for improved quality of life and the necessary political will to address our current disparities. Maura Thomson did an excellent job in providing experience from her own life to highlight the need for transit and accessible services while also highlighting the unique role small businesses like those in the Main Street Area Association will play in our community. Finally, Bank of Ann Arbor’s Tim Marshal spoke movingly about the need for greater financial and workplace literacy, and made the call for a Washtenaw Promise to provide greater educational options to our children.

 

The day wrapped up with the highlight keynote speech from McKinley’s CEO, Albert Berriz. Mr. Berriz resoundingly made the case for why our community needs and must have more affordable workforce housing, highlighting how it will not only help us address equity issues, but will itself show to be a wise and profitable choice for our local economy.

 

Impact 2015 was exceptional because it involved exceptional people!

 

Please see recaps from The Ann Arbor News and WEMU, and look out for coverage in Concentrate Media. You can also access the presentations on the Chamber’s website.

Thomson Reuters

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(Left) Thomson Reuters sponsored a house in Ypsilanti through Habitat for Humanity last summer. (Right) the Thomson Reuter team at a golf outing for SafeHouse.

We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world’s businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization.  With over 60,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world.

 

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has approximately 1,100 employees in the Ann Arbor area and is growing, including an ongoing initiative to consolidate staff from several locations to the Avis Farms South location at State and Textile Roads.  The majority of the local employees provide accounting, tax, and practice management software and technology infrastructure to the tax and accounting profession in the U.S. as well as internationally.

 

For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.

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Washtenaw Educational Options Consortium (WEOC) Programs

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The Washtenaw Educational Options Consortium (WEOC) is an organization comprised of the nine local school districts in Washtenaw County. These districts collaborate to provide a range of cost-effective educational options to their students. The WEOC is governed by the WEOC Joint Steering Committee comprised of the superintendents of each local district.

WEOC programs focus on preparing students to be successful and productive in the 21st century, whether they are academically talented or challenged. WEOC offers three programs:

  • The Washtenaw International High School, a certified International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma program with a rigorous curriculum that adheres to a set of rigorous international standards.
  • The Early College Alliance at Eastern Michigan University (ECA@EMU), an early college program that allows high school students to earn up to 60 transferable college credits before graduation from high school at no cost to student or family.
  • The Washtenaw Alliance for Virtual Education (WAVE), a highly individualized, hybrid classroom- online program that tailors the academic curriculum to each student’s educational needs.

Each program emphasizes customized, skill based, technology infused, goal oriented education that is tailored to the aspirations and talents of the students. Each program’s operation is collaborative and sensitive to both equity issues and community talent demands.