Greetings!
The College of Marin Alumni Association has suggested that I could be helpful to them if I would spend some time improving their archives to reflect additional distinguished past members of the college community. It has occurred to me that I might be able to integrate this effort with the project I have undertaken to open the County's Health and Human Services Campus Connections Center. One of the goals of both the COM Archives and the Connections Center is to help connect the community with its valuable resources.
Here is a description of the Center from the County:
"The hub for bringing together community members and community assets is The Connection Center. Unlike a traditional lobby, the Connection Center will be the focal point for health promotion, prevention activities, and contact information for
other county and community services. Clients and visitors can enter the Campus via this one-stop welcoming Connection Center, an inviting space with meeting rooms and a cafe. A reception area will offer information, referrals, billing services,
case management and health insurance enrollment. The Connection Center will have exhibits and displays to highlight various Marin community services and health-related activities."
The Campus design for the facility described above is available on the county's website:
Marin's Health and Wellness Campus
In research I have begun recently, I appears clear that many who attended College of Marin in the past 30 years have contributed considerably to the health and effectiveness of the nonprofit community. I will be contacting those I can locate, to determine if they would be interested in being honored for their work.
Some of those whom I have identified have experience and skills assisting community groups to produce short videos explaining their programs and services. I believe that I may be able to assist both the College and the County if I help build connections to these community resources.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
Appetite for Change
Greetings!
Patricia's fundraiser, Appetite for Change, took place yesterday here in Sonoma County. Ten restaurants agreed to donate 25% of their sales to the local poverty organization (Community Action Partnership of Sonoma County) on whose board of directors she sits. We went to breakfast at KC's Downtown Grill on the Windsor town square, she hosted lunch at Annapurna in the Brickyard in Santa Rosa, and we had dinner with a group of my golfing friends and wives at the French Garden in Sebastopol. Lots of people have been indicating their appreciation of her work in setting this event up, and it once again makes me very proud of her dedication to giving back to our community.
Patricia's fundraiser, Appetite for Change, took place yesterday here in Sonoma County. Ten restaurants agreed to donate 25% of their sales to the local poverty organization (Community Action Partnership of Sonoma County) on whose board of directors she sits. We went to breakfast at KC's Downtown Grill on the Windsor town square, she hosted lunch at Annapurna in the Brickyard in Santa Rosa, and we had dinner with a group of my golfing friends and wives at the French Garden in Sebastopol. Lots of people have been indicating their appreciation of her work in setting this event up, and it once again makes me very proud of her dedication to giving back to our community.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Social Causes and Social Networking Resources
Greetings!
Here is a video I produced to explain how I am using Google Blogger, You Tube, and Facebook to help promote Coastwalk, and to help others do the same for causes they work for.
Here is a video I produced to explain how I am using Google Blogger, You Tube, and Facebook to help promote Coastwalk, and to help others do the same for causes they work for.
I Give Thanks
Greetings!
Since I'm posting to Facebook and Myspace groups this week on Coastwalk and the Children of Vietnam photographs, I thought I'd also include a video I have on my You Yube account which was produced by Pachamama Alliance at their Mills College World Conference last summer. It really is beautiful.
Since I'm posting to Facebook and Myspace groups this week on Coastwalk and the Children of Vietnam photographs, I thought I'd also include a video I have on my You Yube account which was produced by Pachamama Alliance at their Mills College World Conference last summer. It really is beautiful.
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Comments on the Nonprofit World
Greetings!
Hanging out with a moderate case of poison oak for the last day, I had a chance to catch up on some blogs that I found this week. One is of particular interest.
NonProfit Eye
It's written by a friend of mine who once worked for me in a small nonprofit here in Sonoma County. She's gone on to do wonderous things for nonprofit financial management, and I'm glad that I've discovered her work again after many years. I highly recommend subscribing to her blog to keep abreast of the views of a wise younger one.
Other Resources
There are groups of people in thos part of the world whose work I support. The work they do is varied, and my support results from personal associations I have established with them. Some are connected to me through WiserEarth, others from times long past.
Spectrum
Community Action Partnership of Sonoma County
Canal Alliance
Coastwalk
Sonoma County Conservation Action
Sebastopol Center for the Arts
Committee for Green Foothills
The Pachamama Alliance
Idealist
Point Loma High School Alumni Association
Surfrider Foundation
Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network (NTEN)
Technical Assistance for Community Services
CompassPoint
GuideStar
The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University
Whatcom Council of Nonprofits
Hanging out with a moderate case of poison oak for the last day, I had a chance to catch up on some blogs that I found this week. One is of particular interest.
NonProfit Eye
It's written by a friend of mine who once worked for me in a small nonprofit here in Sonoma County. She's gone on to do wonderous things for nonprofit financial management, and I'm glad that I've discovered her work again after many years. I highly recommend subscribing to her blog to keep abreast of the views of a wise younger one.
Other Resources
There are groups of people in thos part of the world whose work I support. The work they do is varied, and my support results from personal associations I have established with them. Some are connected to me through WiserEarth, others from times long past.
Spectrum
Community Action Partnership of Sonoma County
Canal Alliance
Coastwalk
Sonoma County Conservation Action
Sebastopol Center for the Arts
Committee for Green Foothills
The Pachamama Alliance
Idealist
Point Loma High School Alumni Association
Surfrider Foundation
Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network (NTEN)
Technical Assistance for Community Services
CompassPoint
GuideStar
The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University
Whatcom Council of Nonprofits
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Prioritizing
Greetings!
With so many things to spend the time in retirement, how do you keep from getting over-extended? The fence next to my hot-tub has seven combinations of one inch and six inch plywood boards. It makes a really nice design for a fence, but an even better design to help focus your mind and planning. As I sit in the toasty water thinking about what I'm going to do each day, I assign the work to one of the seven large boards. I don't try more than seven things each day, though I have to admit that some of the tasks get pretty complex.
With so many things to spend the time in retirement, how do you keep from getting over-extended? The fence next to my hot-tub has seven combinations of one inch and six inch plywood boards. It makes a really nice design for a fence, but an even better design to help focus your mind and planning. As I sit in the toasty water thinking about what I'm going to do each day, I assign the work to one of the seven large boards. I don't try more than seven things each day, though I have to admit that some of the tasks get pretty complex.
Friday, December 1, 2006
Volunteerism
One of the answers which seems to come up often as I inquire of friends how they define the goodness in themselves is their volunteerism. They have either continued and expanded the work they were doing before they reitred, or begun to volunteer in projects and causes which interest them.
I have expanded my volunteer work with Coastwalk, where I have been Treasurer for the past few years. The organization has been the primary advocate for California coastal access since the passage of Proposition 20 in 1976, which established the California Coastal Commission. Known for leading statewide and local county walks on the coast, it has been working for the past few years to secure, map and publicize the California Coastal Trail.
I have established a separate blog:
to help coastal activists be alerted to, and advocate in, coastal access issues which come before local, regional and state regulatory bodies.
I have also begun another volunteer project which returns to some work I did a few years ago as a staff member in the early years of the California Children and Families Commissions. These were the state and county commissions which were authorized to collect and spend cigarette taxes for children's programs under Proposition 10 on the November, 1998 Statewide Election.
I was very involved in the early stages of organizing California's implemenentation of this law, and I am now going to use a web blog to engage those early pioneers in a discussion of how they feel in turned out. I have established a separate blog:
to assist me in recruiting and engaging my colleagues to undertake the review.
Finally, I'm researching blogs which have also begun to ask questions of retirement:
I have expanded my volunteer work with Coastwalk, where I have been Treasurer for the past few years. The organization has been the primary advocate for California coastal access since the passage of Proposition 20 in 1976, which established the California Coastal Commission. Known for leading statewide and local county walks on the coast, it has been working for the past few years to secure, map and publicize the California Coastal Trail.
I have established a separate blog:
to help coastal activists be alerted to, and advocate in, coastal access issues which come before local, regional and state regulatory bodies.
I have also begun another volunteer project which returns to some work I did a few years ago as a staff member in the early years of the California Children and Families Commissions. These were the state and county commissions which were authorized to collect and spend cigarette taxes for children's programs under Proposition 10 on the November, 1998 Statewide Election.
I was very involved in the early stages of organizing California's implemenentation of this law, and I am now going to use a web blog to engage those early pioneers in a discussion of how they feel in turned out. I have established a separate blog:
to assist me in recruiting and engaging my colleagues to undertake the review.
Finally, I'm researching blogs which have also begun to ask questions of retirement:
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