“Changing The World Is My Business”
This event marries profit with purpose, illustrating the link between creating change in the world and building a profitable, sustainable business.

Wednesday May 12th, 2010
6 pm - 9 pm

Pre- Event: 6:00 pm Tours and Refreshments

The Writers Junction
1001 Colorado Ave.
Santa Monica, CA 90401
www.writersjunction.com

Event Venue: 7:00 pm

Causecast
969 Colorado Ave.
Santa Monica, CA 90401
www.causecast.org

Members: FREE

Non-Members Ticket Price: $35.00

Moderator:

Amy Swift Crosby, Founder of SMARTY
SMARTY is a community of more than 400 entrepreneurial women based in Los Angeles, Pasadena and Orange County. SMARTY delivers programs and workshops to women in the LAUNCH or GROWTH phase of their business. SMARTY produces monthly events and seminars and uses a membership model to deliver premium programs designed to create profitable, sustainable businesses. Amy is an expert moderator and has hosted big business names like Mariel Hemingway, Christy Turlington, Arianna Huffington, Jackie Collins as well as business celebrities like Dermalogica founder Jane Wurwand, fitness expert Kathy Smith, cupcakes aficionado Candace Nelson and trend-spotter Jane Buckingham.

Panelists:

Ryan Scott, Founder of Causecast.
Causecast is a Cause Integration company that provides customized solutions to nonprofit and for-profit organizations. In working with some of the world's leading entertainment platforms, nonprofits, celebrities and brands, Causecast develops strategies and campaigns centered around the modern media mix. Utilizing social media, word-of-mouth, interactive technologies, user engagement and experiential marketing, Causecast focuses on creating custom, integrated campaigns that fully engage audiences

Steve Glenn, Founder of LivingHomes, LLC.

Living homes is a premier developer of modern, prefabricated homes that combine world-class architecture with an unparalleled commitment to healthy and sustainable construction.

Julie Cordua, Communications Director for (RED).

(RED) is a business model created to raise awareness and money for the Global Fund by teaming up with the world's most iconic brands to produce (PRODUCT) RED branded products. A portion of profits from each (PRODUCT) RED product sold goes directly to the Global Fund to invest in African AIDS programs, with a focus on women and children.

Kathy Eldon, Founder & President Creative Visions Foundation.

Kathy has worked as a teacher journalist, author and film and television producer in England, Africa and the United States. She is the founder of the Creative Visions Foundation, a global organization that supports “creative activists”, to use their creative talents to change the world around them. CVF was inspired by the life of her son Dan Eldon — artist, adventurer and activist — killed in 1993 while on assignment for Reuters News Agency in Somalia. CVF has assisted more than forty artists, filmmakers, playwrights, leaders of other social movements and others who use media and the arts as vehicles of social change.

Please note this event has TWO VENUES. You're invited to have refreshments at and take a tour of The Writers Junction, a workspace for writers with the quiet of a library, focus of a daily office, society of a coffee shop, and camaraderie of a private club. After you check out this ideal spot to pen your next book, blog or business plan, then make your way down the block to Causecast for the panel.

This event has limited seating so if you do plan on attending, register early! Members, please email Elena at eschuber@yahoo.com for the Member Code.