Monthly Archive: May 2010
May 13, 2010
May 13, 2010
Having a strategic plan is important. If your organization is on a budget, how can you “do it yourself?” Join Kristy Hall and Southside Community Partners on Tuesday, May 18th to learn what a strategic plan is, why and when you do (or not do) one, a 4-step method that will provide your organization a framework for planning and how to plan for after the strategic planning to get results. This workshop will incorporate role-playing in mock-strategic planning sessions as well as group feedback around application of gained knowledge and skills. You will leave this course with 4-step plan you can use with your organization.
Southside Community Parnters Learning & Leadership workshop are only $20 and held in the Hopewell Library. Online registration and payment options are available.
For questions or more information email southsideinfo@connectnetwork.org or call Vera Pakizer at 804.458.6329 ext. 2010 or Rebecca Eisenman at 804.458.6329 ext. 2013.
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May 11, 2010
May 11, 2010
McKenney Branch, ARLS, is located in the McKenney Town Hall. It officially opened in 1987 through a strong community effort to raise funds and awareness of the need for this library. It remains a strong part of the community, and serves not only the town of McKenney and its nearly 500 citizens but also draws patrons from Dinwiddie, Brunswick, Nottoway and Sussex counties. The staff cites strong patron loyalty for the library’s success. Read the rest of this entry »
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This week the site is preparing for the concrete to be poured. The gravel levels out the site. The tubes evident in the pictures are for electrical wiring. Once laid, the gravel will bury them as well.
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Got dirt and water? We’ve got seeds! Come grow with us…
Grow Together! will take place Thursday, May 13 at 7:00 p.m. at the Hopewell Library and Friday, May 14th at 4pm at the Dinwiddie Library
In celebration of the sprouting of our upcoming adult summer reading program, “Water Your Mind,” the Hopewell Library invites you to “grow together” with us! Librarians will join Master Gardeners to share how to eat healthier by growing your own food. Staff members will talk about their recent experiences using rain barrels, building raised gardening beds, and using free materials to grow vegetables and herbs from seed. We’ll also share easy summertime recipes that incorporate what we’re growing. Master Gardeners will teach about soil preparation, container gardening, and more, as well as answer participants’ questions.
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Join us for the Grow Together! gardening program May 13th at 7pm at the Hopewell Library to get free seeds from the Dinner Garden!
The Dinner Garden has donated an incredible 500 packs of seeds (each with 5 types within it) for the library to distribute in conjunction with our
gardening and summer reading programs.
The Dinner Garden’s founder, Holly Hirshberg, loves libraries, enjoys gardening, and is passionate about abolishing hunger. “Afraid you can’t grow anything?” Hirshberg writes on her web site, “Don’t be tricked into thinking you are not a gardener. We are all gardeners. Anyone can grow their own food. The seeds do all the work!”
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Permanent link to this article: http://www.arls.org/2010/05/ending-hunger-one-seed-at-a-time/
Help ARLS observe the 91st annual Children’s Book Week and the birth of L. Frank Baum, author of the celebrated children’s classic The Wizard of Oz.
ARLS will be celebrating the entire week of May 10th – May 14th so stop by for one or more of the following events:
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Despite the book’s subtitle, the material in these pages is not just for funders. Nonprofit professionals of all kinds will benefit from reading about the reasons for building capacity, clarifying roles of various stakeholders, and more. You will find the appendices’ real-life examples, worksheets, and assessment tools as valuable as the information in the body of the book. Check it out.
Permanent link to this article: http://www.arls.org/2010/05/sharis-nonprofit-pick-7/
This novel focuses on a gifted artist named Robert Oliver, who is picked up by police and deposited in a mental ward after he apparently loses his mind and attacks a painting in the National Gallery in Washington D.C. The narrator is his psychiatrist, a man named Marlow. Marlow’s task is to solve the mystery of what happened with Oliver and why. He tries to do so by backtracking and interviewing people who knew Oliver in his former life because Oliver refuses to talk. Marlow learns much from Oliver’s ex-wife and also from his former lover, gradually falling in love with her himself.
There is something odd going on here. Is it a ghost story? Is somebody possessed? Read the rest of this entry »
Permanent link to this article: http://www.arls.org/2010/05/chris-reviews-the-swan-thieves-by-elizabeth-kostova/
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