Weekly Update

January 5, 2009


Connect's New Year's Resolution

One of our goals as your information and communication resource is to showcase you, Richmond's local nonprofit community. We will best succeed with the help of your active participation. Keep us abreast of the issues and changes affecting your organizations and, especially, any collaborative initiatives that others may join. Send us action photos from your events, mulitmedia links to your nonprofit making news, newly found nonprofit resources, and alert us to timely local and statewide reports or new resources devoted to the issues you address. 

Nonprofits large and small, we want to hear what you're doing, what you need and with whom you're connecting. We will advertise this information through our Weekly Update, email group and Website, as appropriate. 
 
Help us to better feature your work and your causes. Email lkleeman@connectnetwork.org with all information. Best of luck in 2009!


What Do You Think?

Rethinking Va.'s prison system

Time for autism insurance?

Failure on the Chesapeake Bay

Who are the stingy givers: conservatives or liberals?


News This Week

Education's latest fad: '21st-century skills'

Virginians over 65 to double, says UVA study

Next-gen givers take different approach

$38 billion lost to volunteer mismanagement


 "How to" Successfully Send a Message to the Nearly 4,000 Members of the ConnectRichmond Email Group

1. Join the email group at ConnectRichmond.org/email
2. Address your email to the email group(s) you wish to write (ex: connectrichmond@connectnetwork.org)
3. Include a descriptive phrase in the subject line. Example: "New Local Environment Guide" or Free Computers"
4. Provide contact information, including your first and last name, affiliation, and phone number or email
5. The following steps are required if your message includes a:
    *job posting, first add it to the Job Finder
    *date or deadline, first add it to the Calendar
    *registration or admission fee, state the organization that will benefit from the proceeds 

 Guidelines for prohibited types of messages include, No:
 *"Please Post", "FW", "RE", or similar text
 *Attachments
 *HTML text
 *Volunteer needs (instead, please see Volunteer Match)
 *Press releases and newsletters
 *Advertisements for for-profit products and services
  
Please note: ConnectRichmond cannot edit messages. Messages that do not meet guidelines will be returned to the sender with editing suggestions.

What's Happening

Volunteer Recognition and National Volunteer Week
Greater Richmond Association for Volunteer Administration
January 8, 2009

8:30 - 10:30 a.m.

Friday Night LIVE
Centenary United Methodist Church
January 9, 2009

6 - 8 p.m.

Boxing Masters Invitational
Alzheimer's Association Greater Richmond Chapter
January 10, 2009
6 p.m.