FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 26, 2003
CONTACT: Roland Ruiz, St. Philip's College Director of Community and Public Relations
(210) 531-4851
ST. PHILIP'S COLLEGE, GEORGE GERVIN YOUTH CENTER PARTNER TO OFFER LOW-COST BUSINESS SEMINARS THIS SUMMER
St. Philip's College has joined with the George Gervin Youth Center to host a series of low-cost business seminars for the
community this summer. The seminars, presented by the St. Philip's College Corporate and Entrepreneurial Training Center,
are taught by actual business owners and cover a broad range of business-related topics.
Seminars are held each Wednesday from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the Bowden Building on the college's main campus. The seminars
are free for individuals who qualify as low income and who enroll in the Job Opportunities for Low Income Individuals
(JOLI) Program available through the George Gervin Youth Center. The registration fee for all others is $10 per session.
For more information, call 863-2250.
The schedule of business seminars is as follows:
July 9--Catch the Texas-Sized (TM) Vision and Make it Happen
July 16--How to Develop Your Business Name
July 23--Your Texas-Sized (TM) Life: A Career, A Family, A Headache
July 30--Using the Internet
Aug. 6--Developing Your Marketing Materials
Aug. 13--Dare to Dream Texas-Sized (TM) Dream
Aug. 20--Negotiation
Aug. 27--Dealing with the Stress of Having Your Own Business
The George Gervin Youth Center provides vocational training, remedial education, mentoring, tutoring, job placement, and
supportive services for over 1,400 of San Antonio's at-risk and disadvantaged youth and their families. The Center's
mission is to provide innovative, comprehensive, culturally sensitive services to positively impact on the lives of
troubled youth and their families. The JOLI Program is a federally funded initiative designed to create new employment
and business opportunities for TANF recipients, and other low-income individuals through projects that include self-
employment, micro enterprise, expansion of existing businesses, new business ventures and nontraditional strategies of
developing or creating new jobs or employment opportunities.
St. Philip's College, one of the Alamo Community Colleges serving the greater Bexar County region, is a comprehensive
community college. The college is designated as both a Historically Black College and a Hispanic Serving Institution,
the only one in the nation to carry such a distinction. St. Philip's College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges
of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.