EVENTS

Presidio Presents: Impact Investing

HUB | WHEN: March 20th, 7:00 to 8:30 pm| WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: The next Presidio Presents speaker series event is Wednesday, March 20th.  This series features world-class entrepreneurs at the leading edge impact investing in conversation with Presidio President and CEO, William Shutkin. The 2012 / 2013 Presidio Presents Speaker Series is made possible by the generous corporate sponsorship of the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati: http://www.wsgr.com.

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[HUB WORKBENCH] Crash Course in WordPress - Session 3: Customizing your WordPress Site

HUB | WHEN: March 20th, 5:00 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: About the Series If you want to have an awesome WordPress site, this class will help you get there. WordPress is the most popular publishing platform – in fact, over 20% of new domains registered are running their sites on WordPress. Musicians, photographers, creatives, magazine, nonprofits, and small business owners are all running their sites on WordPress – and you can too.

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An Apparel Factory Tour

SFMADE | WHEN: March 20th, 10-11:30 am | WHERE: 986 Mission St, 4th floor | Details: A unique opportunity to see a sewing factory in action! We will visit Fashion Apparel, a San Francisco apparel manufacturer, for a tour of the factory and presentation by Owner, Peter Hui. Fashion Apparel has the capability to make most styles of apparel including, tops, bottoms, knits and wovens.

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Bay Area Infusionsoft User Group

HUB | WHEN: March 19th, 7:15 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: If you use Infusionsoft every day, occasionally, only on weekends or not at all (but are curious), then this is the group for you. We’re a collection of people who love Infusionsoft and use it every day to help our businesses grow.

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Right From the Start

HUB | WHEN: March 19th, 6:30-8:30 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: Starting a business is challenging, and even more-so when it is an organization that strives for social, environmental, and financial performance. Entrepreneurs often struggle with how to embed mission-driven values into the DNA of their organization.

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How to Manufacture Locally

SFMADE | WHEN: March 19th, 6-8 pm | WHERE: 926 Howard St | Details: If you are planning to produce metal or building/furniture products, this session is for you! In an interactive and supportive environment, you’ll learn how to set-up and manage your own manufacturing operation or use contract manufacturers.

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Jazz at Intersection: Les Gwan Jupons

IFTA | WHEN: March 17th, 2 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: Les Gwan Jupons play vintage party music from the French, Spanish and English-speaking Caribbean – biguine from Martinique, calypso from Trinidad, cumbia from Colombia, cha-cha and bolero from Cuba. The ensemble, the brainchild of bassist Lisa Mezzacappa and guitarist John Finkbeiner, was born out of both musicians’ love for the music of the Caribbean and vintage sounds of the African Diaspora. Mezzacappa traveled to Guadeloupe more than ten years ago in search of the traditional gwo ka music she had heard on a recording, and later researched jazz in the West Indies as an ethnomusicology graduate student at UC Berkeley. Finkbeiner has long arranged, composed and produced recordings with a homegrown dub reggae band that features…

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HUB Supper Club

HUB | WHEN: March 13th, 6:30 PM | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: HUB Supper Club hopes to be a place where socially minded business people can connect over intimate locally-sourced, seasonal dinners. Each month we will feature a new menu, focus on a specific topic of discussion and host experienced guests to ignite meaningful conversations.

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[HUB WORKBENCH] Building a Good Company Series Part 4: Sustaining the Planet

HUB | WHEN: March 13th, 6:00 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: How can we build companies that measure results in terms of sustainability and positive impact on communities? This five part course is an intensive experience that provides entrepreneurs and executives with the concepts, tools and strategies needed to build enterprises that address economic as well as social and environmental needs. Through a series of lectures and exercises, this course will help you build a plan for creating or transforming your business.

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[HUB WORKBENCH] How to Create a TED Worthy Presentation

HUB | WHEN: March 13th, 5:30 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: We are living in a world where Steve Jobs was a modern-day hero, Al Gore won an Oscar for his Inconvenient Truth presentation and the TED conference is the place everyone wants to be each year. This class is will teach techniques that can be used across a variety of platforms – whether you are doing a company presentation, pitching to an investor/client or speaking at TED.

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