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What comes to mind first?  What is OK?

A person with a disability
A person who is weighs 300 plus pounds
A person who lives in public housing
A person who is homeless
A person who has multiple jobs
A person with mental health condition
A person who dresses well
A person over qualified
A person who did not finish high school
A person who is married
A person who is single
A woman
A man
A person whom looks young
A person whom looks old
A person with experience
A college student

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Everything you need to know about retirement…but were afraid to ask.

Like doing your taxes or rearranging your sock drawer, retirement can be one of those things you just don’t want to think about. Don’t let confusing industry jargon scare you. Motley Fool, one of the best personal finance sites, has put together an easy-to-use guide that gives you everything you need to know about retirement.

Check out this link

This article comes to you from The Online 401(k), a provider of 401(k)s for small businesses. For more information or a free consultation on your 401(k) plan, call John Wasiejko at jwasiejko@theonline401k.com or call us at 415.477.8800 ext 828.

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Corporate Responsibility-Social Media-Nonprofit Help Part 4

Making a difference needs to be measurable for any corporation to decide whether any initiative is worthy of support.  Every company should incorporate into their strategic planning a social media and corporate responsibility initiative that achieves a measurable outcome for the corporation. Said measurable objectives may not always be easy initially to decide.  Listed below are just a few non-traditional areas to make measurable in order to create a stronger organization.

·    Educational requirements vs. salary
·    Living Wage vs. welfare wage
·    Disability/welfare vs. work
·    Work vs. benefits
·    Listening vs. learning
·    Listening vs. accepting
·    Continuous quality improvement vs. stagnation
·    Stated truth vs. underlining truth
·    Prejudice for employment vs. best candidate
·    Talk vs. action

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Corporate Responsibility-Social Media-Nonprofit Help Part 3

Why is it important for corporations to be socially involved in their service community?  It is good for business.  Ultimately it is always a human being making the choice of whether to make purchases from any corporation.  That person has many factors that influence choices but ultimately most choices lean towards that choice that is influenced by emotion.  This emotion is not only the customer making the choices but the individual connecting the customer to the corporation. Make connections between the nonprofit sector and create a synergy that promotes your corporation agenda.

It is quality vs. quantity.
It is outcome focus vs. transaction focus
It is wishful thinking vs. reality

Expected treatment of employees
Expected treatment of customer
Positive experience vs. negative experience

Employee management
Employees are averse to working towards conformity of an employee’s behavior.
Front line Employee valued vs. back room employee valued

Expectations:  Provide clear expectations and reward positive employees behavior with support to show others what it takes to be productive employees.

Better identified factors of Mental Illness, Autism and Developmental Disabilities.

Check out this link for the article in the Boston Globe.

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The Boston Business Journal article shows that incentives and costs are the best ways to get better participation towards better health.  Check out the article.

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Corporate Responsibility-Social Media-Nonprofit Help Part 2

Social Media is not confine to for-profit corporations.  It is necessary for nonprofits to reach out to their communities to solve community issues.

Nonprofits organizations can be helped by not having them pay any taxes.  You may say back to me but they already do not pay taxes.  This is the biggest false fact which that the majority of people believe about Nonprofits.  The nonprofits organizations pay fuel taxes, gasoline taxes, telecommunication taxes, unemployment taxes, workers compensation tax, social security tax, and the Medicare tax.  Corporate energy companies should try to help nonprofits with their transportation costs such as gasoline, alternative energy, and heating/cooling costs.

Another area of nonprofit help is affiliating with colleges.  Decrease the use of Temps and increase use of Interns.  Decreasing turnover through building a network of college students not only builds an educated work force but also allows recruiting and hands on skill building.

Use the need for housing by college student to support the nonprofits goals and the student’s goals.

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Corporate Responsibility-Social Media-Nonprofit Help Part 1

Resources for nonprofit organizations should not always cost money.  Helping nonprofits achieve their mission should be a form of corporate responsibility.

The “Hopes and Dreams” of nonprofit organizations as they help their consistency need the help of corporate America.  Social Media is a strategic means to achieve such for corporations.

Corporate America and the community in which a nonprofit organization resides can provide the baseline help for the nonprofit organization.

Want to know who to help?

Log into www.guidestar.org type in your zip code and nonprofit organizations in that zip code will be shown.  Most of the organizations bases in your community are more likely to serve your community as a priority.

Corporate America can help nonprofit organizations by donating time, staff, goods or money.

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The only way to decide whether to use a Roth and make it your rock star is through knowledge.

Find out if a Roth 401(k) plan is right for you!!

Beginning January 1, 2006, employers had a new retirement savings option to offer employees. The plan, commonly referred to as a “Roth 401(k),” is a hybrid that combines features of Roth IRAs and traditional 401(k) plans, but differs in important aspects.

A Roth 401(k) is similar to a Roth IRA in that it allows after-tax contributions to fund tax-free retirement income. However, a Roth 401(k) allows for sharply higher annual contribution amounts than a Roth IRA — up to $15,500 ($20,500 if older than age 50) in the 2008 tax year versus just $5,000 for a Roth IRA.

As a general rule, Roth 401(k) fits particularly well with highly-paid employees who will be in a high tax bracket during retirement. It is also a good fit for financially savvy employees because an analysis is required to make an intelligent decision about Roth deferrals.

Wondering if a Roth is for you or your employees? Contact your local financial advisor or benefits provider to see if it’s the right fit for you.

This article comes to you from The Online 401(k), a provider of 401(k)s for small businesses. For more information or a free consultation on your 401(k) plan or to find out if Roth is right for you, call John Wasiejko at jwasiejko@theonline401k.com or call us at 415.477.8800 xt 828.

There is no need for Class Warfare, just the courage to make change and work together.

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