Thanks to Our Premier National Supporter
The Hartford is the first life insurance company to offer policies at
standard rates, with no postponement period, to qualified breast cancer
and prostate cancer survivors.Visit The Hartford's website for more information.
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If you want to download a single copy of CFR's official video for use in presentations, it is also available from another site:
click this link
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National Office
Contacts:
You should find this brief summary of national office "helping hands" useful:
For anything dealing with program budgets, facilities, staffing, retreat planning: contact
Jacki Lappen
For general volunteer questions: Brenda Churco
For expenses, reimbursement and payment requests: contact
Suzi Dorgeloh
For questions about participant applications, shipments of retreat materials: contact Martha Robertson
For help with public relations, media outreach, branding issues, and news from the field: contact
Kate Fox
For help on development, fundraising, and events, contact: Sandy Trudel
To reach the Executive Director, email Lori Simon If you have any questions about equipment or equipment shipments to retreats, please email equipment@castingforrecovery.org |
CFR "VOICES":
"Thank you for all you do to make Casting for Recovery possible. I really needed the information about breast cancer and the support of other survivors."
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National Office News
A Note From Lori Simon
I am pleased to announce that Sandy Trudel has joined Casting for Recovery as Vice President of Development. Based in Scottsdale, AZ, Sandy is an accomplished marketing and non-profit executive whose focus is on fundraising and relationship marketing, and who brings us key skills in event management and corporate partnership recruitment. Sandy comes to CFR from the Community Dental Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing dental services to underserved children and individuals in the Phoenix area through mobile clinics, and her experience includes developing partnerships for the March of Dimes Foundation. Sandy is an avid golfer, and has worked in real estate, hospitality, and tourism. Sandy can be reached by phone at 480-659-5568 (office) or 480-200-1087 (cell), and her email address is sandy.trudel@castingforrecovery.org. She will be working out of her Scottsdale office. Please join me in welcoming her!
Annual Appeal
In reviewing our annual appeal results to date, we are happy to report that of the online donations received, over 60% of the money received has been directed to specific programs and of the checks received at the national office, over 65% was applied to local efforts. We anticipate generating over $26,000 from the effort, which means at least $15,600 will go directly to local program budgets. We are blessed to have the support of so many wonderful donors who believe in the power of our mission.
Ripple Effect Story
Thanks to a generous donation from a board member's family foundation, we now have a very high-quality marketing piece for us to use in telling the story of Casting for Recovery's "Ripple Effect" -- perfect for those top donors who can be of help to the CFR program in your area!
One of the things we covered during the Volunteer Leadership Council July meeting was our wish for a more substantial piece that would help tell the Casting for Recovery story - a tool that a Program Coordinator could use when making a presentation to a prospective major donor, or to provide to current donors to encourage them to reach out with the story to their friends. To see this wonderful marketing brochure you can download a pdf of the "Ripple Effect".
This piece was just mailed to our top donors, and each Program Coordinator has been sent a supply. I am looking forward to hearing how it is being received!
Event Registration
As part of our new online donation capacity, we now have the capability to offer our volunteers Event Registration! If you are holding an event this Winter for which you are selling tickets, we can help by providing a secure link for credit card payment that you can email to prospective attendees, or print as part of your invitation. Please email if you are interested in finding out more about this opportunity.
Online Auction
The Casting for Recovery Online Auction is open - and will be open for bids until December 31st. If you have an item to offer to donors the online auction is an opportunity to list items that might elicit greater bidding through exposure to a national audience. The program that submits the item receives 60% of the proceeds, the general fund receives 40%. This time we have the opportunity to offer several trips to Alaska, thanks to generous donors who were thrilled with the response to the last auction.  One of the successful bidders on the first online auction wrote: "I'm a breast and ovarian cancer survivor and a 2005 retreat participant and now one of the luckiest winners of the first Alaska fishing adventure auction. The Alaska Fishing Adventure was a trip of a lifetime! We met great people and I felt most alive from the thrill of the entire experience. To the next CFR auction winner: my wish is for them to experience their own trip of a lifetime, come back with great stories, and to have incredible memories for all time." (Janis P.) If you're interested in listing an item, there may still be an opportunity in this auction: please email Kate for more information and with details. |
Volunteer & Volunteer Leadership Council News
Volunteer Program Coordinator Bios (continued)
Nancy Murphy (NY ) transitioned from corporate marketing executive to fly-fishing professional in 1996 and became the first female Endorsed Orvis Fly Fishing Guide and shooting  instructor at Skytop Lodge, PA, an Orvis Endorsed operation. From 1999-2005 Nancy managed a large Orvis dealership in Bethlehem, joined TCO Fly Shop in Reading and Philadelphia, and moved to The Adirondacks where she first managed, and now owns The Hungry Trout Fly Shop. She serves on the boards of the USA Youth Fly Fishing Team and Becoming an Outdoorswoman in New York. Nancy continues her work with Casting for Recovery as a Retreat Leader and Fly Fishing Instructor and is proud of the successful effort to bring an Adirondack Retreat to the women of Northeastern New York in 2010 with Co-Planning Coordinator Jody Visconti.
Jody Visconti (NY) began volunteering for the program in 2006 as a Fly-Fishing Instructor for the first retreat and became a Retreat Leader shortly there after. Ov er the span of years she has been involved in retreats held in MI, CT, VT, MA, and NY. Jody was a high school biology teacher for five years prior to becoming a stay-at-home-mom for her two young boys. Her current role for CFR is a Co-Coordinator with Nancy Murphy for the first Adirondack retreat in August 2010 serving women in Northeastern NY region.
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Regional & Retreat News & Events
A list of the many events that CFR volunteers are involved in is available on the website events page. To find out more about what's going on with teams around the country, visit the Volunteer News.
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Keeping in Touch
We
really appreciate learning if there are any changes in your contact
information (home phone, work phone, preferred phone, email or address)
so that our database is up to date! Please email your changes, or any
updates of alumni information you come across, to Suzi.
We want to make sure that all Planning and Retreat Team members have an opportunity to get these updates. Please send this to other planning and retreat team members using this forward link. |
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Thank you! We're ever grateful for all your hard work.
Please let me know if there's anything else you'd like to see in these updates. During this holiday season, I wish you and yours peace, prosperity, and happiness.
Lori Simon
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