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Step It Up Sierra 2007 - A wonderful
Success!!
The SIUS celebration was a fantastic
success. There were many wonderful organizations, vendors, music and food.
We had between 50-75 visitors to our booth asking many questions. There were
good speakers and had an opportunity to talk to many people that were in
line with what we are all about. I want to take this time to thank all the
members who volunteered their time and energy to make this a success as well
as the whole Step It Up Sierra crew (Bridget, Naomi, Judy and all the others
that put this event on.)
501 (c) 3 Status
We are now a 501 (c) 3 tax-exempt
organization. What does that mean?
As a 501(c)3 organization, we are
federally recognized as a public education charity organization and are
tax-exempt. This gives us the opportunity to accept donations, gifts,
property, etc. and allows the donors to take a tax credit for the donations.
It also allows us to apply for grants that normally would not be available
to us.
Do we have to be a 501 (c) 3
organization to exist?
No. We have been around for 2 years
without it, although it does help with funding and offers our supporters a
tax break on donations.
New Board Member
We are happy to announce that
Charlotte Randolph has been selected as a member of the Board of Directors
for The Chrysalis Institute. Charlotte was nominated by Kevin Bowman and was
voted in by a unanimous vote. Charlotte brings the desire and enthusiasm to
make a difference in the world and we all welcome her aboard.
Step It Up Sierra 2007
We are honored to be partnering with
Bridgett Fithian of Step It Up Sierra 2007 to help host the Climate Change
Festival here in Mariposa on Nov. 3. We will be working with Bridgett on
advertising the event, helping to organize the speakers, music, food, etc.
as well as acting as the fiscal sponsor for the event. This is a wonderful
opportunity to get our organization out to the local community.
New Banner
We have ordered a new 2' x 8' vinyl
banner with our name and logo. We solicited art work for the logo from our
members and ended up with combining the logo from member Sam Fluharty and
Erika Thomas to produce the final banner version of our logo. We hope to
receive it within the second week of Oct.
VolunteerMatch.org
We have registered with VolunteerMatch
to solicit volunteers to help with grant writing and to build a volunteer
list to help with workshops and events.
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