"Make
It Happen, Watch It Happen or Wonder What Happened - the Choice
is Yours"
NABTP supports taking active rolls in our communities. One way
is to keep our communities informed. The Video Access Alliance
is a not-for-profit organization designed to serve as an advocacy
and advisory group for independent, emerging and minority networks,
content providers, independent film producers, video programmers,
entertainers, and other industry participants. ...more
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Looking for a career
change, a lateral move or perhaps a new location? Our contacts around
the country provide us with data about positions. Take a moment
and browse through these job
postings. |
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Previous Sankofa Issues
Current Issue
June 29, 2006 Issue
June 19, 2006 Issue |
NABTP Gets New President
Newly elected NABTP President, Brenda Lowe shares
passion for building out our real and virtual community. The
organization has much to gain from her creative force and ability
to collaborate and bring minds in the industry together. ...more
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INROADS
The mission of INROADS is to develop and place talented minority
youth in business and industry and prepare them for corporate and
community leadership. Preference goes to African American, Hispanic,
and Native American high school and college students with 3.0 or
better grade point averages. ...more |
"Awesome Conference"
Ed Corrothers, Executive Director, Verizon Communications
had this to say about the NABTP 2006 Conference, Transferable
Skills: Turning Change into Currency. "Having attended this
year's annual conference, I must say that I was thoroughly impressed
with the professionalism of the organization and list of panelists
and guest speakers. Given the state of the telecom industry, I
walked away from the session realizing that we need an organization
like NABTP to be in the forefront making a difference for the
African American community. Thank you for an awesome conference
and I look forward to working with the organization in the future." |
NABTP Conference
Notes
Our "Responding to the Times" segment featured
NABTP founders discussing the environment and issues that made
NABTP and member organizations necessary. While reviewing the
organization’s initial mission, they focused on the values they
believed we must preserve in these changing times.
The "Will to Change" included panelists from various sectors shared
the strategies, skills and circumstances that helped them shift
and sustain careers/lives in a volatile telecom environment.
The "What Change Demands of Us" forum allowed attendees to participate
in facilitated break-out sessions to begin the conversation about
values, the relevance of our mission, goals and strategies necessary
to create and build momentum for this new century.
The conference also included a "Got Broadband?" segment which
was a high energy, information-packed moderator-led panel examined
the issues with broadband deployment. The panel addressed issues
relating to questions like the following: Is a re-write of Telecom
96 in order? What is the network neutrality mandate? Will we see
choice, flexibility and quality services grow or diminish? Will
private interests trump public access? we heard diverse views
from industry leaders on what the fundamental issues of broadband
deployment are and how they affect how we earn, learn and live.
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...Through the Years
NABTP recognized that there was a need to identify the source of
real transformational power and "tap"into it accordingly in 2003.
Then in 2004, after being energized and enpowered the organization
began to deliver powerful, informative and timely messages to our
communities to help lift and augment economic and public policy
awareness. Now, in 2006 it's time to leverage skill sets and learn
how to identify those skills that can be transferred into income
producing assets. ...more |
