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Dear Friends,

The current economic situation has brought about much change in the world of business, and this change will affect our children as well. Now is the time to support business, entrepreneurship and financial education: donate, teach a class and spread the word…you can make a difference! Thank you for your past support and we look forward to working with you in the New Year!

The BizWorld Foundation continues to be abuzz with exciting new initiatives, conferences and events and we are excited to share the following news with you:

• Annual Education Luncheon featuring Tom Siebel
• Teacher Spotlight: Teresa Murray
• Grand Prix 8 Highlights
• Wachovia Foundation names BizWorld a Key Partner
• McKesson Corporation Teaches BizWorld

We wish you all the best in 2009 and thank you for your future support in helping us reach our next major milestone!

Best,

Catherine Hutton Markwell
CEO/Executive Director
The 2008 Annual Education Luncheon Featuring Tom Siebel

The BizWorld Foundation Board Members, Tom Siebel, and BizKids from North Star Academy (Redwood City, CA) at the Education Luncheon
The BizWorld Foundation was honored to have Tom Siebel, Founder of Siebel Systems as our featured guest for the Annual Education Luncheon, highlighting the need for teaching entrepreneurship and business in elementary schools around the world. Joined by Tim Draper, Founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Siebel - an entrepreneur himself - focused on the current market trends and opportunities for entrepreneurship in a global economy.

As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, this year’s luncheon featured the World’s Largest Friendship Bracelet. Children from around the world submitted their friendship bracelets after completing the BizWorld curriculum. In an exciting, edge-of-your-seat live auction, the audience bet on the unique bracelet which fetched a whopping $10,000. All proceeds from the live auction will support The BizWorld Foundation’s programs. Thank you to our sponsors and guests that attended and supported the luncheon.

Teacher Spotlight: Teresa Murray

Teacher Teresa Murray with her daughter
Teresa Murray teaches Business Leadership at The Charter School at Waterstone in Homestead, Florida and has taught the BizWorld program for two years. This fall Teresa mobilized 85 eighth grade students to participate in The BizWorld Foundation’s World’s Largest Friendship Bracelet Challenge. Going above and beyond, Ms. Murray dedicated two weeks of her classroom time to making over 1,500 friendship bracelets-more than any other participating school!

Ms. Murray has been teaching in various educational settings for over 20 years. When she started teaching her business leadership class, Teresa chose to integrate the BizWorld curriculum because of its “hands-on, differentiated approach that can’t be beat.” When asked how students respond to the curriculum, Ms. Murray responded, “The kids just soak it up for its creative approach to education.” Keep up the great work Teresa!
Celebrating the 8th Annual Grand Prix

Left to Right- Winning Teams from Informatica, DFJ, and Palo Alto Investors
The BizWorld Annual Grand Prix has become a signature event of The BizWorld Foundation experience. Each year, companies take to the track to prove their driving skills —all while supporting an incredibly worthy cause.

This year the stakes were higher as a select group of sponsors tested their driving skills in the first ever “Race the Pro” match-up against Johannes van Overbeek, a professional Porsche driver. Zipping around hair-pin turns our corporate sponsors were put to the test. In an exciting finish, Coulter Mulligan, driving for the DFJ Riskmasters team, took the lead crossing the finish line and beating the pro!

BizWorld supporters placed friendly wagers on for “Fastest Lap” and “Slowest Lap” with all proceeds benefiting The BizWorld Foundation’s programs. The evening culminated in an exciting finish with winners – DFJ, Informatica and Palo Alto Investors. The event raised important funding for BizWorld programs! Thank you to all of our sponsors and fans, and we’ll see you in May!
Wachovia Foundation announces The BizWorld Foundation as a Key Partner


Camp BizWorld at Wachovia Headquarters
The BizWorld Foundation is honored to have been chosen as a Key Partner by The Wachovia Foundation. As a non-profit organization with a shared mission The BizWorld Foundation received a grant in the amount of $25,000 to support a new initiative, “Partnership for Innovative Education – Building Better Communities”. With a focus on the Bay Area, the grant will fund teacher trainings and Camp BizWorld. Working with Wachovia’s Volunteer Council, volunteer employees will participate in teaching the concepts of BizWorld and BizWiz programs to local school children in the Bay Area. On November 11th and 12th, Wachovia hosted the partnership’s first Camp BizWorld at Wachovia’s headquarters in Oakland, California. Students from a local charter school, Civicorps Elementary, benefited from the partnership by participating in the two day event. Students and volunteers left Camp BizWorld invigorated and excited about their company’s successes - a true entrepreneurial experience! Thank you Wachovia Foundation!
McKesson Corporation Teaches BizWorld

McKesson Volunteer shopping at the Sales Bazaar
This past summer, The BizWorld Foundation was invited to teach the BizWorld program as part of the Summer Youth Development Program at the McKesson Corporation Headquarters in San Francisco. The Summer Youth Development Program provided students with an eight-week paid summer internships which included seminars on job training and career development.

Long-time BizWorld teacher and supporter Marian Connelly from St. Cecilia School in San Francisco taught the program, bringing her enthusiasm for BizWorld to a new group of students. “It’s great to see BizWorld being taught outside of the traditional classroom environment,” said Ana Blanco, Director of Development. “The students did a fantastic job of working together and applying the real-life skills they learned in the BizWorld program to their internships at McKesson.”
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Board Spotlight: Michela Alioto-Pier


The BizWorld Foundation is pleased to announce our newest member of the National Board of Directors, Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier, representing District 2 of the City of San Francisco.

Appointed to the Board of Supervisors in January 2004 by Mayor Gavin Newsom, Supervisor Alioto-Pier is a nationally known disability rights advocate. She decided on a life in public service after seeing first-hand how effective advocacy can improve the lives of people dramatically. She later worked for Vice President Al Gore, as an advisor on domestic policy matters and a liaison to the Department of Health & Human Services.

Supervisor Alioto-Pier has received numerous awards and honors, including seconding the nomination of Vice President Al Gore at the Democratic National Convention in August of 1996. She has been named one of the top 21 up-and-coming women leaders in the country by Ms. Magazine, she is a Henry Crowne Fellow with the Aspen Institute, and she was a delegate to the Lifetime Summit on Women in 1997. Supervisor Alioto-Pier has been profiled in nationwide magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Time, and People. She was named one of "the ten people expected to have the greatest impact on the Bay Area in the early part of the 21st century" by the San Francisco Examiner.

Supervisor Alioto-Pier’s District 2 covers the Presidio, Cow Hollow, Marina, and part of the Richmond.

The BizWorld Foundation enthusiastically welcomes Michela to its National Board.

The BizWorld Foundation introduces BizMovie! Click here to see a sneak peek of the program.

Interested in piloting BizMovie at your school? Email Courtney.Connelly@bizworld.org for more information on this project.

The BizWorld Foundation will be exhibiting at the following conferences this spring.

February
13th-15th Anaheim, CA
California Association of Gifted

19th-21st San Francisco, CA
American Association of School Administrators

25th-27th Chicago, IL
National Association of Independent Schools

March
6th-7th New York, NY
Celebration of Teaching and Learning

10th-13th Long Beach, CA
California Charter Schools

9th  Oakland, CA
California Association of Independent Schools

13th-14th Monterey, CA
California Math Council- Central

April
22nd-25th Palm Springs, CA
Best of Out of School Time

26th-30th Charlotte, NC
Magnet Schools of America

If you have taught BizWorld in the past and are interested in being a BizWorld presenter at one of these conferences, please email Courtney.connelly@bizworld.org for more details.

For updated information check out our BizBuzz page.

The BizWorld Foundation Staff Team

Catherine Hutton-Markwell
CEO/Executive Director

Ana Blanco
Development Director

April Bond
Education Outreach Manager

Lindsay Boyer
Administrative Coordinator

Mary Miyata
Development Program Coordinator

Laura Ziegler
Regional Outreach Manager (California)

Courtney Connelly
Education Assistant

Clay Oliver
Volunteer Coordinator

Rachel Friedman
Education Consultant

Wendy McArdle
Creative Director
The BizWorld Foundation
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