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Monthly Archives: October 2011
FamilyMoneyValues Around the Web
Family Money Values wishes to thank all of the blogs and carnivals who have put up our articles and included us in round ups and carnivals for the past few weeks. Please let us know if we’ve forgotten you in the below list!
Checkout our list of all the contests and giveaways being posted on Yakezie blogs. You probably have a pretty good chance of winning something in these – so have a look and try your luck!
Lessons from Ursula Burns – Chairwoman and CEO of Xerox
In 2010, Ursula Burns made over 13 million dollars according to the Rochester Business Journal. She has been appointed by the President to to help lead STEM, a national program to better educate students in science, technology, engineering, and math and to be vice chairwoman of the President’s Export Council.
She was the first black, female CEO of a Fortune 500 company when she took the reins of Xerox in 2009 and she was raised in the projects in New York City (The Baruch Houses on the Lower East Side) by a single mom.
How did she come so far? What can we learn from her travels? Here are some lessons from Ursula Burns.
An Immigrant’s Story
The United States of America is truly a nation of immigrants. I wager that most Americans a) are immigrants themselves b) have an immigrant in the family tree not more than two generations removed or c) know an immigrant.
Immigrants are important to family wealth and legacy.
Often, an immigrant is an important player in starting to build a family’s wealth – but how many of us take the needed steps to record the story of our family’s immigrants and their contributions to the family wealth and legacy?
One of my Grandfathers came over on a ship, steerage class, from Switzerland. I don’t know what year it was. I don’t know what steamship line it was. I don’t know why he came. I only know he came because my Aunt (his daughter) talked about it to me. He came through Ellis Island, according to my Aunt – but I can find no record that uniquely identifies him going through there. He ended up in St. Louis, married to my Grandmother, but I don’t know why he came there or when he finally arrived.
FamilyMoneyValues Around the Web
Family Money Values wishes to thank all of the blogs and carnivals who have put up our articles and included us in round ups and carnivals for the past few weeks. Please let us know if we’ve forgotten you in the below list!
Checkout our list of all the contests and giveaways being posted on Yakezie blogs. You probably have a pretty good chance of winning something in these – so have a look and try your luck!
Roundups & Carnivals
Miss T hosted the Yakezie Carnival on Oct 16 and included Who Manages Your Money.
The Carnival of Financial Planning on October 13 had my article from Prairie Eco Thrifter Seven Retirement Lessons Learned.
Staff Posts
Prairie Eco Thrifter published Are You a Cell Phone Tech ‘No’.
Broke Professionals published What to Do With All These Nuts.
Contests and Giveaways
Frugal Toad is giving away a $50 Amazon gift card. Enter by October 30, 2011.
You still have time to enter these contested that we listed last week.
Twenties Finance is giving away a $50 Amazon Gift Card. Enter by October 26, 2011.
Maximizing Money is giving away 50 personalized Inspire pens, engraved the way you want. Enter by October 31, 2011.
Couple Money is giving away a Velocity Micro T301 Cruz 7-Inch Android 2.0 Tablet. Enter by November 1, 2011.
My Personal Finance Journey is giving away cash (or Amazon gift card) – $205 worth. Enter by October 31, 2011.
Will Baby Boomers Be ‘Elders’?
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My generation (I’m a baby boomer) gets a lot of press. Everyone seems to have an opinion on what we are, what we do and how we behave. For every opinion there is usually an equally strong opposing opinion.
Some say we are self centered, only concerned about me, me, me. Others claim that we are over involved in our children’s lives or too interfering in community affairs.
Even members of my own generation make bold statements (most often without any kind of proof) about what we are and are not.