Making a Meal Would Help Us Right Now.

Things are really starting to roll along and I am excited. I cannot announce anything official yet because I have to get things approved by the Board of Directors at our next meeting. However, I am starting to plan an event and I am energized.

I am also energized by how our website is coming along. I have a great graphic designer that has been volunteering for us and he is fantastic. He came up with a terrific concept and we are running with it. It has led to lots of creativity.

This is the point, however, when volunteers are needed. I have been using Facebook to post some of my volunteer needs and that has been working out well but I knew it was a long time since I had posted so I thought I would post here too.

One of my immediate needs is for a meal for the Board Meetings. We have monthly meetings. I had originally planned to spend money from our budget to cater this dinner but it seems like my budget is a bit slim to feed 9 people. The reality is, that the meal does not have to be fancy, it is more about function. In addition, this will ensure that more of the money donated to our cause is going to our cause.

The board members are volunteering their time, most of them on their way home from work and they need to eat dinner. We usually eat while we meet. Therefore, I am looking for volunteers to make a meal for the Striving for More Board Meetings.

We meet in RTP, right off of the Davis Drive exit of Route 40 at 6pm on Tuesday nights once a month (the next meeting is this Tuesday, 4/28).

I can even pick the food up from the volunteers home if the office is not close to where you live. Again, there are 8 of us. I would love it if you would conact me if this is something that you would be interested in signing up to help with. And if there is anyone out there that would like to volunteer to coordinate this, I would love that as well!

Thanks everyone for your continued support!

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Feeling Ready to Start a New Year Strong

The Christmas decorations are all put away, Mackenna is off to school, the house is almost organized from the post holiday clutter) and I am feeling motivated to start the new year off right and get moving with Striving for More.

Jill Balogh and I have our first Striving for More meeting of the new year this morning and I actually prepared written meeting notes. Jill (Balogh) one of my good friends is awesome. She was one of the people that I called upon when Colleen was lacking psychosocial support. I knew she would be this quiet presence that would sit with Colleen and allow Colleen to ask questions or talk if she needed to talk. It was a heavy job that I asked her to do knowing what the outcome would be but she was prepared and she came once or twice a week and she loved my daughter. I will always love her for that. We became very close though that experience and when I began this non profit journey, I knew that God wanted me to ask her to join me. She has been wonderful. She has been my right hand, every step of the way. We are learning all of this together and I am feeling very blessed to have someone to hold my hand through all of this.

With that said, we need a lot more help. When I was writing my meeting plan notes, I just kept coming back to the statement - "need volunteer". So, if you are interested in helping us, please let me know by emailing me. I have a new striving4more.org email address to keep business separate from personal.

People reached out to me early on when I really did not know what I needed done, well now I do. I think I might have a volunteer meeting in the next couple of weeks to get organized and I will try to get a volunteer registration database set up on the website when that is ready as well.

Have a great day and I hope you start your New Year or work off as pumped and ready as I am!

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