We had our 3rd conNEXTions graduation celebration and we are so excited for the mentees’ next step. Thank you to everyone who attended the event and for all those who made this program possible! Thank you all for your support in guiding young adults to achieve their financial and career goals! Special thanks to Madison Magnet for being our largest fundraiser! We are very grateful for your support!
Thank you to Sara Alvarado from Alvarado Real Estate Group and Daniel Weiss and Tim Bickmore from LBW Wealth Management for presenting at our last conNEXTions workshop. Understanding personal finance, investments, and building generation wealth through real estate will help the mentees in our program eliminate barriers and create opportunities for them to be successful!
Thank you so much to the Alliant Energy Foundation for their generous grant to help support young adults in our community to achieve their financial and career dreams!
Please go to https://www.facebook.com/connextionsmadison/ to make a donation on Dec. 3rd so that Facebook will match your gift. Thank you so much for your support!
Do you love online shopping and supporting local nonprofits? Thanks to AmazonSmile you can now do both of those things at once. This holiday season AmazonSmile will donate to conNEXTions for every purchase made through them. To support us go to smile.amazon.com/ch/81-2082849 to make your purchase.
We have exciting news! We just hired one of our conNEXTions alum who was a mentee in our very first cohort as our very first employee! Please help us welcome Fatou TK as our Program Director!
We had a wonderful time at the Resume Writing workshop! Mentees learned valuable resume tips and tricks, received relevant information and resources, and they got to work with a professional to create and update their own resumes! Thank you Nikki Ryberg from Ryberg Group, LLC for facilitating this workshop for our conNEXTions program.
Please join us for our 3rd conNEXTions graduation celebration honoring the mentees in our program. Come and enjoy delicious food from Lemongrass and awesome music by DJ Andrew McKinney! The event is free, however space is limited so please RSVP for you and your guests. Thank you!
https://connextions-graduation-celebration-2019.eventbrite.com
Schedule:
11:00am-11:30am: Mingling
11:30am-12:00pm: Program
12:00pm-1:00pm: Lunch
*Free headshots for conNEXTions participants
We had an awesome time at the conNEXTions entrepreneurship panel event! We’ll be posting photos soon but just wanted to say thank you to all the organizations and programs who came out to share information and resources for entrepreneurs in our community! We loved that everyone was able to connect with one another! conNEXTions is what we are all about! Thank you UpStart Program, Kiva, gener8tor, Doyenne Madison, Synergy Coworking, WWBIC, Social Good Accelerator, and Latino Chamber of Commerce of Dane County.
In addition to having inspiring entrepreneurs at the conNEXTions entrepreneurship panel event, we also have representatives from programs and organizations that support entrepreneurs! Thank you Synergy Coworking, WWBIC, UpStart Program, gener8tor, Kiva, Social Good Accelerator, and Doyenne Madison! You’ll want to check them out as they have some amazing programs! RSVP for the event at https://connextions-entrepreneurship-panel.eventbrite.com
