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Bonus Depreciation & Section 179
May 23rd, 2011MOI was excited to partner with Clifton Gunderson LLP in hosting a breakfast seminar on Bonus Depreciation & Section 179. During this session, attendees learned how to take advantage of the Section 179D Energy Efficient Building tax deduction and bonus depreciation to reduce their costs by investing in new materials, products and systems!
Section 179D allows commercial property owners to reduce energy consumption and costs by making energy efficient investments.
Bonus Depreciation allows for a special depreciation allowance equal to 50% or 100% of the depreciable basis of qualified property.
Section 179 deduction maximums will dramatically decrease in 2012 and 100% bonus depreciation can only be taken for property acquired and placed in service before January 1, 2012.
For additional details, the presentation is included here: Depreciation CGA MOI
MOI Hosts Ultimate Emerging Leaders Networking Event II
April 25th, 2011On Wednesday, April 13th, MOI hosted the Ultimate Emerging Leaders Networking Event II in our DC showroom in partnership with many local industry organizations. This event was a “co-production” of the emerging and developing leader groups of IFMA, CoreNet, DCBIA, NAIOP NoVA and NAIOP MD/DC. Other event sponsors included: Charron Consulting, Chicago Title, IA Interior Architects, Kogod School of Business: American University, rand*construction, SKYFOLD, Turner Construction, and WB Engineers/Consultants. All proceeds were donated to Habitat for Humanity of Washington DC, in conjunction with the April 29th Build Day staffed by the participating organizations.
ID Chair Concept | a Universe of Identities
April 19th, 2011
Washington Women’s Weekly Announces March Event on Keys To Your Success
February 28th, 2011Washington, DC, March 1, 2011: Washington Women’s Weekly (www.womensweekly-wdc.com), is pleased to announce it’s monthly March Breakfast Meeting, The Keys To Your Success. The program, panel, interactive Q&A discussion, breakfast and networking event will be held on March 17, 2011 from 8:00am to 9:30am at the Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown. Judith Willson, the company’s CEO and Publisher will be moderating the event with generous sponsorship support from MOI, HON and The Verve Partnership.
Each panelist has been carefully selected and previously interviewed as a Washington Women’s Weekly “Woman on Top” for creating, building and leading some of the most dynamic business and organizations in the Washington, DC area.
Washington Women’s Weekly anticipates approximately 50 to 100 professional women attending this unique event to meet and learn from these highly accomplished women. Each panelist will describe three keys to her professional success and how they helped her to unlock any challenges or obstacles along the path.
The invited panelists include:
+ Lisa Dezutti, President and Founder of Market Connections, Inc.
+ Betty Thompson, Senior VP of Human Resources, Booz Allen Hamilton Worldwide
+ Deb Waterman Johns, Creative Director of Bungalow, Founder of Get Dressed, Owner of Fifi and Community Philanthropist
+ Heidi Scanlon, President of Color-Drenched Interiors, Former Senior Director at PriceWaterhouseCoopers
+ Donna McKelvey, National Field Director (and former Executive Director) of the National Capital Area Chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
+ Gayle Cozens, Principal of The Farragut Group. Served in executive positions for two Presidents, two Governors & two Fortune 100 Companies
+ Susan Moser, Partner-in-Charge of Cherry, Bekhaert & Holland LLP (Washington DC)
+ Gina Dennis, Founder of RELERIENCE, a leading international green building consulting company
Judith Willson, Washington Women’s Weekly CEO and Publisher commented, “I am extremely pleased and honored to have such a high-caliber of women leaders participating on the panel, the enthusiasm from our sponsors, and the response from the community. This is an exceptional opportunity for all professional women to hear and meet other highly accomplished women leaders. If the door is locked, how can we open the windows
. . . and still accomplish our goals? Each panelist will share her keys to success and how she used them to get inside – the boardroom, the c-level suite or a personal place of success.”
About Washington Women’s Weekly Washington Women’s Weekly (www.womensweekly-wdc.com), is an online venue committed to helping women achieve their greatest professional potential through the guidance, leadership and inspiration of other accomplished women. We do so by partnering with the most accomplished women in Washington, DC and pairing them with the next generation of female trailblazers. Our network of highly successful Mentors and Mentees serve as role models to each other and the greater community. Washington Women’s Weekly’s Mentor Match Up builds personal relationships, expands professional development and increases knowledge helping women move into the upper echelons of businesses and organizations, as well as becoming enterprising entrepreneurs.
Sneak Peek at Our Sponsor MOI’s New Office
February 23rd, 2011
Our friends and sponsors at office furniture supplier MOI are now just a half block from Bisneyland, at LEED Platinum-certified 1200 19th St. NW. They moved in August (about when we opened our new space), and we took the grand tour last week. We snapped a few team members in this office set-up from Vitra, which promotestransparency and communication with clean lines (no closed-off cubicles) and glass walls. There’s also a definite pragmatism to the layout: Workspace is divvied based on need, not on position (so designers with two computer monitors have more space than sales people, who are often out of the office).
Our tour guides: marketing director Heather Davis and biz dev and marketing VP Joanna Hoffschneider. They tell us the move from a more suburban office setting in Arlington to the District “was critical to show their best collections in a 21st century way.” Prompted by an expiring lease, the move Downtown takes MOI within a short cab ride or walk from manufacturers and business partners. The open space also lets it practice the solutions it is trying to provide, Joanna says. Business this year has been strong with wins in the government, education, and private sectors. A focus for 2011: education and thought leadership in the design industry and general community, Heather tells us. This includes collaboration with theCarpenter’s Shelter, D.A.S.H. and the Real Estate Games.
One of Joanna’s favorite features of the new space is theseshelving units that electronically slide along tracks in the floor. We snapped project management director Dave Wittle and DC sales director Ti Schulze showing off the unit. Another strategic decision was taking the second floor. “We wanted to have engagement with the street,” Heather says (notice M Street behind the gentlemen). Though one of four offices (the HQ is in Baltimore, and satellites are in Richmond and Norfolk/Virginia Beach), the DC office has become the office of envy, Joanna says. Find more info on MOI here. (You also may have seen some of its offerings at our recent Super Schmooze in the corner lounge areas.)
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