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AnewAmerica Celebrates
Grand Opening of Our New
SBA Women's Business Center

  

AnewAmerica's SBA WBC
Board of Advisors

 US Congresswoman Barbara Lee
 Honorary Chair

 Maggie Kaplan
 Chair

 Mayor Irma L. Anderson
 City of Richmond

Eunice Azzani
Korn/Ferry International

 Jerry Baldwin
 Peet’s Coffee

 Meredith Beam
 Beam, Inc.

 Patti Chang
 The Women’s Foundation of California

 Cheryl Evans
Citibank

 Amanda Feinstein
 Walter & Elise Haas Fund

 Senator Liz Figueroa
 State of California

 Assemblymember Loni Hancock
 California State Assembly
District 14

Heather Hiles
 ISF Advisors

Gail Horvath
Just Desserts

 Hon. Alice Lai-Bitker
 Alameda County Supervisor, Dsitrict 3

 Darien G. Louie
 Wells Fargo

 Idelisse Malavé
 Tides Foundation

 Anna L. Marks
 Bay Area BusinessWoman

 Darlene  L. McKinnon
 U.S. Small Business Administration

 Ingrid Merriwether
 Merriwether & Williams Insurance Services

 Judy Patrick
 The Women’s Foundation of California

 Bernida Reagan
 Port of Oakland

 Dr. Norma Rees
 California State University, East Bay

 Deborah Ritchey
 Ritchey Real Estate & Investments

 Cora M. Tellez
 Sterling HAS

 Mal Warwick
 Mal Warwick & Associates, Inc.

 Alice Waters
 Chez Panisse

 

 
   

  


AnewAmerica recently achieved a great milestone with the opening reception of our SBA Women's Business Center on May 18, 2005. We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to all those who made this wonderful evening possible: AnewAmerica's supporters, clients, board members, volunteers and our friends at the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).  The reception was truly a collaborative event!

Over one hundred guests joined AnewAmerica to celebrate the event, infusing a warm spirit and energy that were felt throughout the evening.  Harmonies of live jazz delighted the crowd.  Inspirational stories and photographs of new Americans lined the gallery.  Tamales, salsa, desserts and other goodies catered by AnewAmerica's food entrepreneurs were a delicious treat.  Keynote speakers, Hon. Ignacio de la Fuente and Hon. Alice Lai-Bitker delivered empowering messages for our new American communities. 

"I am truly in awe," says the Deputy District Director of the SBA, Darlene McKinnon, "of the AnewAmerica clients who spoke and the stories I read around the room." Not only did the reception provide AnewAmerican entrepreneurs with an opportunity to network within the local business community, but the function also served as a testament to the power and spirit of the new American woman!

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. SBA District Director
Mark Quinn

 

                                                                                                              
                                                                                                             U.S. SBA Deputy District Director
                                                                                                                             Darlene McKinnon


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Sylvia Rosales-Fike with a few of AnewAmerica's
Women Entrepreneurs

 

AnewAmerica Entrepreneur
May Tang-Ramos

 

 


 

    

Hon. Ignacio de la Fuente

 

 

 

 

 


 



President & CEO Sylvia Rosales-Fike with
Hon. Alice Lai-Bitker
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




WBC Advisory Board Chair Maggie Kaplan


    AnewAmerica Community Corporation
1918 University Ave., Suite 3A, Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone (510) 540-7785     Fax (510) 540-7786
Email:  info@anewamerica.org
 

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