WIBN Grant Fundraiser – April 20th, 2012

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This Wine & Ale Tasting Event is a fundraiser that will benefit Women in Business Network’s Grant Program. Click here to RSVP.

The Women in Business Network Grant was created in 2011 to give back to the members of the Women in Business Network. The grant is designed to assist members who need help starting a business or will aid members in the success of their current business.

As Atara Melo, owner of A Melo Place and recipient of the First Place grant last year, stated: “By having to fill out the forms to apply for the Women in Business Grant, I had to think my business through to know what I wanted to accomplish. The Women in Business support means so much to me.”

The grant is one of the many great benefits for members of the Women in Business Network. Besides cash, we also have available two memberships to JEDI and two memberships to the Mount Shasta Chamber of Commerce. Last year, the Chamber matched the cash grant we were giving and has made the same offer for 2012. We are excited to announce that this year, JEDI has given us the same offer and will be matching the cash grant.

To recap, the benefits the Women in Business Grant will offer this year are as follows:

1. A cash grant determined by the success of the fundraiser
2. Two memberships to the Mount Shasta Chamber of Commerce
3. Two memberships to JEDI
4. Two memberships to WIBN

We are so excited to offer assistance and support to members of the Women in Business Network. We look forward to toasting you at our first Wine and Ale Tasting Grant Fundraising event!

March WIBN Support Meeting

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WIBN Support

We will be meeting WEDNESDAY, March 14th at 512 B Spruce Street in Mount Shasta (Allou Guthmiller’s home).

Meeting will start at 5:30PM and end at approximately 7:30PM. Snacks and tea will be provided.

Hope you will join us! WIBN Support is a great opportunity to meet and share on a deeper level with other women in business.

Questions / More Info Marguerite 530-926-1088 Allou 530-926-4555

WIBN Support is a solution-oriented support and mentoring forum open to all Women in Business Network members who are interested in exchanging ideas, celebrating successes, supporting and receiving support from other women in business. Meetings, which last approximately 2 hours, are confidential and free to all members.

Guest Speaker: March Meeting

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Please join us March 7th for our Membership Meeting, at Best Western Tree House (Shastina Room), 111 Morgan Way, Mount Shasta, CA 96067. Please bring $6.75 for breakfast buffet, or $2.50 for beverages only (coffee, tea, juice etc.) provided by the hotel.

I have invited Ellen Coleman to be our Guest Speaker for the March 7th Membership Meeting because I thought that her success story would be very inspirational to all of us.
Enclosed you will find her background and successes.
- Matilde

Staff of Wholesale Solar

Staff of Wholesale Solar. Ellen is in the back row, second from the left.

Ellen Coleman co-owner of Wholesale Solar in Mount Shasta:

  • B.A. in French from University of Texas
  • Post graduate studies in Organizational Development from University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Graduate and Diplomate of Louis Klein’s Master Homeopathic Clinician Program (led to homeopathic practice in Taos, New Mexico, and later in Mt. Shasta, California)
  • College level studies in biochemistry, health, diet and nutrition through American Health Science
    University led to Certified Nutritionist licensure and private practice in conjunction with homeopathy.
  • Married to Mark Coleman since 1974
  • Mother of two
  • Gardener

My work history includes administrative and management work for the University of Texas and nonprofit organizations, including the meditation-teaching organization that brought us here to Mt Shasta once a year for fifteen years before we moved here. I’ve also had private homeopathic and nutritional counseling practices in Taos, New Mexico and Mt. Shasta.

Once we moved here, our solar business began to grow and to demand my attention. It needed me. Started as on offshoot of my husband Mark’s home building business, it has grown from a one-person office in the back of the house to a multi-million dollar business in eight years.