How do you keep track of the day-to-day financial transactions of a business?  Whether you are looking to advance in your career, or you’re an entrepreneur, (or maybe you are a part of a family business), this course will help you if you are looking to understand the numbers. 

Understand and record every penny that comes into your business and every penny that goes out of your business. Create a chart of accounts that meet your needs.   All of the money you spend, and all of the money you earn, have a place to go.  What are debits and credits?  What do the numbers mean?  How do I label accounts?  No one should be blind to his or her finances!  

Learn where the numbers go, and why!  You will learn the bookkeeping terminology as well as what it means to keep track of the numbers.  At the end of the cycle, what do the numbers mean?  The Basics of Bookkeeping will show you how to keep track of the numbers and why!

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This is an online course.

Whether starting a business or growing the one you have, a business plan serves as a roadmap and can help secure needed funding.  In this course, you evaluate the many aspects and potential hurdles of the business and build the Business Plan, one step at a time. This practical, hands-on approach encourages you to immerse yourself in the vision and planning aspects of your business.  Focusing on the most critical components of the Business Plan enables you to uncover hidden risks and assess the business from a marketing, management, and financial vantage point.  

 For full details, see:   https://www.yougotclass.org/index.cfm/Sanford

SCAECertificate

This is an online course.

Increase your business with YouTube, the online video site and now the second-largest search engine.  Discover the power of video for your organization, and how to use video as a marketing tool to reach and serve more people.  Find out what types of video work best on YouTube, how other business organizations are using YouTube, how to create your own YouTube channel, and the techniques of adding captions, annotations, and other extra features.  YouTube can enhance your current marketing and communication strategy.  After attending this course you will take back proven strategies and techniques for making YouTube work successfully for your organization.  YouTube, as the second largest search engine can no longer be ignored by businesses and organizations.  YouTube reaches a broad age and gender demographic and is the largest video search/discovery destination with over 35 hours of video being uploaded every minute.  YouTube is now accessible from nearly every top mobile device as well as from your TV.  How can your videos rise above the music mashups and cat antics? Learn how to get your YouTube video on the first page of Google Search. Just like Facebook, YouTube is a social network that needs to be set up, optimized, and used regularly to be effective. Your patterns of behavior on YouTube may be working against you.  Learn how YouTube can complement your current marketing and social media strategy and how to maximize your YouTube Channel to get the greatest return.

For full details, see: https://www.yougotclass.org/index.cfm/Sanford

SCAEcertificate

Spend Monday mornings writing in a small group via Zoom. Bring works-in-progress or begin new work in any genre. Generative theme-based prompts are offered as optional, and each class includes 30 minutes of quiet writing time. You may choose to read your work aloud and feedback will be carefully guided so that writers hear what others found meaningful, evocative, interesting, exciting, and enchanting.

Diana Mullins is a writer and editor who has taught writing workshops for three decades. She is an expert on feedback and revision techniques, and has advanced degrees in education. Her creative writing has been published in literary journals.

A Death Cafe is a safe place where you, your family, and your friends can share stories, question reality, and hear new voices as we ponder the mystery of death and dying. Death Cafes are not grief sessions or bereavement groups, but rather interesting and inviting gatherings held around the world to increase awareness of the importance of making the most of this life as we ponder what we know about death. Everyone is welcome at this open, relaxed, spontaneous discussion. Please join us.

Instructor will demonstrate how to navigate and interface with Excel’s basic features. See how to create a simple contact list. You will view how to use calculations such as autosum and see how to generate simple formulas. Also, learn to use the fill handle, sort existing data, merge and center, move cells and ranges, and wrap text. These easy steps will be held over Zoom.

Monthly Storytime Adventures are curated to include a copy of the storybook for each child registered. A comprehensive craft to accompany the book, along with a take-home and follow-up for parents/guardians to continue the discussions from our Adventure together. The outdoors, movement, and opportunity for creative outlet are encouraged.

These sessions are ideal for parents/guardians of children birth to 4 years. Parent/Guardian discussions will be monthly to discuss topics of how to integrate literacy into our lives with the assistance of Community Partners.

Cherish a special memory and keep your loved ones close all year long! Family, friends, a beloved pet-you choose what to commemorate using a single photo or a collage. Design, with love, this personalized photo plate for your table, as a keepsake, or to give as a gift to a loved one. Certainly, this makes a great Mother's Day Gift! Please email your photo(s) to rpayeur@sad55.org on or by May 3. Materials fee of $5 is payable to the instructor at the time of the class. Please pre-register as we need a minimum of 4 people to run the course.