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April
26, 2010
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 Please
Join Us at our Annual Meeting
If you missed the RSVP deadline
on Friday, this is your lucky day!
We will turn in the FINAL RSVP
count to Roseburg today at 3:00....so this is your last chance to let
us know you are coming!
This spectacular Annual Event will be held
on Tuesday, May 4th at 6:00 p.m. at Roseburg Event
Center. Let us know if you will be coming by
emailing magic@comfdn.org today!
It will be an awesome night
with magicians, Married 2 Magic, performing and one lucky person
winning $5000 to place into a new or existing
endowment! Don't delay, RSVP today.
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Gas City Chamber of Commerce
Annual Dinner
Mark your calendars now. More details coming soon!
Community Foundation's
Annual Meeting
Friday, May 7, 2010
Chick-fil-a Leadercast sponsored by IWU and the Marion-Grant County Chamber of
Commerce
Tickets can
be purchased by calling the Chamber at: 664-5107
(more info
to come via eNews next week.)
Board of
Directors
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Donate Online
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Did you
know...
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Did
you know the opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
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 cleanUP DOWNtown!
The entire staff of the
Community Foundation brought their gardening tools from home and wore
jeans and sweatshirts to clean up our little piece of downtown Marion
at 505 West Third Street last Friday. We painted, planted, and
cleaned up a ton of landscaping. In the near future you'll see
our parking lot resurfaced and new parking lines
painted both at the Foundation and at the State Farm office next
door. It was a fun afternoon of teamwork that helped make our
part of Marion look a little better and brighter to all who might
pass by or visit. But, you have a chance to help Clean Up
Downtown, too. It takes everyone to get the job done. So,
don't hesitate, sign up today!
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I can't
believe another year has gone by! This time last year we
were getting ready to celebrate the Community Foundation's
25th Anniversary!
Just next
week, on May 4th, we'll be embarking on year 26 as we
enjoy an evening at Roseburg Event Center to announce
the highlights of this past year at our Annual Meeting.
Some might
wonder why it's so important to have an Annual Meeting to celebrate
the past year's accomplishments. I've thought a lot about that
question this past several weeks as our team has worked so hard
pulling all of the fact and figures together to produce our Annual
Report and also to plan a spectacular Annual Meeting.
ReinventingEducation.org
discusses how celebrating accomplishments allows organizations to:
, giving essential recognition affirming a sense of
self and group;
· Give
meaning to their work, bracketing significant experience
and naming it as an accomplishment to bring out meaning that might be
lost or under-appreciated in the flow of events;
· Benchmark
quality, telling the entire organization that
"this" is what we mean by "good" or
"excellent," "this" is how we judge quality in
this organization; and
· Assign
value to their accomplishments, saying that these
accomplishments are worthy, we value them, they are to be emulated.
As a Community Foundation we hope to do all of
these things and recognize the myriad of accomplishments by our
donors, board and staff. We'd love to have you there to
celebrate with us. It's not too late. Today is the
very last day to RSVP. Won't you join us?
Dawn Brown, CFRM
Community Development Officer
Our website is open 24
hours a day!
505 West Third Street,
Marion, Indiana 46952
foundationoffice@comfdn.org
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