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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 |
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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:
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National Office NewA Note From Lori Simon
I'm very pleased to let you know that you'll soon be getting complete templates for both small- and large-grant applications! This is a big step in providing a great tool that each planning team will be able to use in making applications not only to Susan G. Komen for the Cure affiliates, but can use in developing applications to other funding sources in your area. Stay tuned for more details!
Annual Appeal Results
As I look at the results of the Annual Appeal it is gratifying to see that our alumnae have been reacting with generosity and are obviously very willing to help "pass along" the experience. I wanted to share some of the handwritten notes received with checks, as well as some of the online donation comments, from past participants. It's a testament to the power of the CFR program that during these challenging economic times the number of alumnae donors are holding steady: there was even a slight uptick in donations from alums in 2009! - "I had a wonderful experience at the retreat and would like to help another woman participate next season." -Colorado
- "CFR made all the difference in the world to my recovery. In one weekend it put a difficult experience behind me and replaced it with memories of overwhelming generosity and kindness." -Minnesota/Wisconsin
- "Even today - more than five years later - CFR was one of the most important positive events in my cancer journey!" -New York
These comments, and others like them, are a wonderful sign of the "Ripple Effect" that continues to radiate outward from your hard work!
"RISE" Film Premiere Events to benefit CFR programs
Premieres of the film "RISE" have been scheduled or have taken place in Oregon (in Eugene, Medford, and Roseburg), Alaska, northern New York, Texas, and in Tennessee. The gross receipts of premieres held to date approach $1,000 each, and these results--not only the financial, but the networking and visibility benefits for CFR in each community involved--are a real credit to the work of the volunteers who worked so hard to make it happen. Kudos!
Online Auction Report
Good news: the online Holiday Auction generated over $21,000 for Casting for Recovery! Thanks to generous donors who ranged from Alaska to Vermont, and to successful bidders from Louisiana to Maine, the success of this second-ever online auction sets the stage for us to make it happen again in 2010! The next online auction is planned for May. If you're interested in listing any items, please email Kate for more information. If a local outfitter wants to donate a trip, or if a lodge wants to provide a weekend, you can take advantage of a nationwide audience with this opportunity! |
The Heritage Award
The American Museum of Fly Fishing has recently
announced that it will be honoring Casting for Recovery with its 2010 Heritage Award, to be presented on April 29, 2010, at a special ceremony
at the Yale Club in New York City.
The Museum is producing a supplement to its quarterly magazine to publicize this event and is offering friends and supporters of
Casting for Recovery the opportunity to place messages of inspiration in a special "Voices" section and to advertise in the supplement. (Check the links above to find out more!)
The deadline for participation in the supplement is Friday, February 5th. All proceeds directly support both Casting
for Recovery and the American Museum of Fly Fishing. For more
information, please contact Kim Murphy at the Museum via email or phone at 802-362-3300.
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Volunteer & Volunteer Leadership Council News
Planning Coordinator Bios (continued)
Lily Renzetti (FL) is the mother of a wonderful and happy 16-year-old young man, is a community servant, and manages Renzetti, Inc.--a manufacturer of fly tying vises, tools, and accessories--with her husband, Andy. Lily first heard of CFR in  1998 through her friend, Kate Fox, and in 2008, Lily applied for the Planning Coordinator position to create a new program in Florida. In April 2009 she attended her first retreat in Arkansas with Planning Coordinator Kerri Russell. Lily says that memories of that weekend are what motivates her every day to promote CFR and she is looking forward to the first Florida retreat, scheduled for the autumn of 2010.
Larry Hughes (SC) has had a 35-year career in public relations, political consulting, strategic marketing, and executive recruiting. He and his wife Judith retired in 1994 and moved to Vermont where he met Tom Hayes (CFR Board of Trustees and volunteer), then moved to South Carolina, where they have been deeply involved in local and regional economic development issues and have served for eight years as volunteers/officers/board members of the Bluffton Historical Preservation Society. Larry also serves on the board of the regional Clemson University Extension Service, and is currently on the State Advisory Council as an at-large board member. He is looking forward to the new 2010 SC retreat.
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Regional & Retreat News & Events
Winter is the season for flies and fly tiers! This note from the Tippecanoe Fly Fishers (Indiana) in one of many received this month: "Tying for the CFR program seemed to be a big hit for our rag tag group. Glad we could help out!" Thanks to all the fly tying groups and individual fly tiers around the country who continue to tie flies for retreats, for fundraising raffles and for fly plates, and for alumni gatherings. We couldn't do it without you!
The Montana Outfitters and Guides Association (MOGA) has adopted Casting for Recovery as one of four charitable organizations they're supporting under their "Big Hearts under the Big Sky" charitable partnership program. CFR is extremely grateful to the Board of the Educational Institute, the non-profit arm of MOGA, for their support for Casting for Recovery's missions.
- A list of the many other events that volunteers are involved in is available on the website events page. To find out more about what's going on with all CFR teams around the country, visit the Volunteer News.
- Please be sure to send complete details via email on any outreach or fundraising event that you'd like to have listed on the website.
- If you need to take advantage of the online credit card processing capability we have for your fundraising events, we're here to help you! Email for further details on the online connection!
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Keeping in Touch
If there are any changes in your contact
information (home phone, work phone, preferred phone, email or address) please email your changes, or any
updates of alumni information you come across, to Suzi.
All Planning and Retreat Team members can have an opportunity to get these updates. Please send this to other 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. As we greet the month of February, I look forward to our working together on another successful season of spreading the "ripple effect" of Casting for Recovery.
Lori Simon
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