This episode starts with a Zonta Wire news roundup: Zonta Club service projects from Australia to Porterville, Santa Clarita to Michigan- (we apologize to the Zonta Club of Milford in Michigan, we inadvertantly landed them in Missouri !), and out to Arkansas. Hear what other clubs are doing in their community service projects, and read all about it on our Zonta Newswire to your left!
First in our oral history series, Zonta Women's Community Radio Project interviews Zonta Club of New Rochelle member and CEO Rosa Kittrell Barksdale . Barksdale shares her entreprenuerial experience founding her eponymous woman-owned company, Barksdale Home Care Services. She speaks to us candidly about the people who influenced her, flying without a safety net, becoming a single parent, and looks back on the work she's done to became the largest single employer of women in the county. In March 2009, Rosa Barksdale was inducted into the Spirit of Women Archive. The archive, developed by the non-profit group, American Women of African Heritage, will be housed at the Harold Drimmer Library at Westchester Community College.
ZWCR speaks to New Rochelle high school senior and 2009 Alexander Hamilton citizen awardee Norelle Edwards. Norelle Edwards along with her schoolmate Julia Agee created, "Literature for the Little", a community service project to donate gently used books to low-income kids. Norelle explains how their community service project to collect and donate books grew to include neighbors, the local library, the high school, an elementary school and the National Honor Society. These girls demonstrate the importance of creating social capital through horizontal integration and social networking- applying well-known business strategies to improve the common good.
First in our oral history series, Zonta Women's Community Radio Project interviews Zonta Club of New Rochelle member and CEO Rosa Kittrell Barksdale . Barksdale shares her entreprenuerial experience founding her eponymous woman-owned company, Barksdale Home Care Services. She speaks to us candidly about the people who influenced her, flying without a safety net, becoming a single parent, and looks back on the work she's done to became the largest single employer of women in the county. In March 2009, Rosa Barksdale was inducted into the Spirit of Women Archive. The archive, developed by the non-profit group, American Women of African Heritage, will be housed at the Harold Drimmer Library at Westchester Community College.
ZWCR speaks to New Rochelle high school senior and 2009 Alexander Hamilton citizen awardee Norelle Edwards. Norelle Edwards along with her schoolmate Julia Agee created, "Literature for the Little", a community service project to donate gently used books to low-income kids. Norelle explains how their community service project to collect and donate books grew to include neighbors, the local library, the high school, an elementary school and the National Honor Society. These girls demonstrate the importance of creating social capital through horizontal integration and social networking- applying well-known business strategies to improve the common good.
