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Put Your Dirty Thoughts To Good Use

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EF_WOhio_weblogoThe Epilepsy Foundation of Western Ohio is hosting the 20th annual Mud Volleyball for Epilepsy tournament on Saturday, July 10, 2010 in Dayton, Ohio.

You can help name this year’s tournament!  Generally, they switch themes every two years. Past themes inlcude MUDSTOCK, MUDARITAVILLE, MUD WHITE & BLUES etc.

You can see they like the word “Mud” to be used in the name.  If your name is chosen, they will thank you with special Mud Volleyball perks!  Even though they’re playing in the MUD, please keep it CLEAN! Submit your suggestions by clicking here.

Thanks, and LET THE MUD START FLYING!!!

Dorothy Lane Market Lets You Choose Who They Support

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dlmDorothy Lane Market has been supporting our community since 1948 and even include this support as part of their mission statement.  Their Good Neighbor Program is the main ways they do this. Now with three locations, Dorothy Lane Market has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to numerous local non profit organizations over the past several years through this program.

In 2010, DLM will donate $40,000 back to the community. The fun part is that you choose how the money is distributed using your DLM Club Card! All you do is simply choose an organization from the over 400 on their list to have your purchases credited. The groups span the interests of the community, including  A Special Wish, Dayton Gay Men’s Chorus, the Humane Society, Stivers Seedling Fund and Project READ.  If your favorite charity isn’t included, just contact DLM to add it!

Every time you shop and scan your Club DLM card, your chosen nonprofit organization is “credited” with the purchase. At the end of the year participating charities will receive a pro-rated portion of the total $40,000, depending on the amount spent by participating customers with a Club DLM card. Sign up today and shop at Dorothy Lane Market to benefit the charity of your choice!  Neighbor Program for 2010!

Raffle to win Brunch With Project Runway’s Althea Harper

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altheahaprerOakwood’s own Althea Harper made it to Fashion Week last year in New York Ctiy!  TV Personality and fashion consultant  Tim Gunn made it to the Front Street Lofts here in Dayton to follow her progress.  And another Dayton Original got nationwide attention.

If you were enthralled watching  Althea’s weekly runway designs, sketches and Fashions on last year’s Project Runway, imagine the chance to talk about it all with her over brunch here in Dayton!

Purchase a $10 raffle ticket to help the Humane Society of Greater Dayton and you just might find yourself and 3 of your friends dining with Althea Harper and her mom this Sunday at Micheal’s Dining and Jazz for Brunch. Tickets still available, and the drawing will be Friday.

Run To Raise Funds for the Special Olympics

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5kRun1-300x199Beef O’Brady’s and the Centerville Police Department are joining invite you to run and walk  to celebrate the start of St Patrick’s week festivities and raise funds for the Special Olympics.

This 5k run will begin and end at the Centerville Beef O’Brady’s on Saturday, March 13, 2010 @ 9am. There will be light refreshments after the race and door prizes (register before 3/3/10 to get eligible to win the prizes).

Students: $10 and Adult: $15 until March 3rd, $20 thereafter
Register online before 9:00 pm, March 10.

And You Can Wear It Again….

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Fairy GodmotherYeah right!  Come on ladies, how many of you had a bride tell you that about a gown you had to buy for a wedding?  Or what about the prom dresses hanging in your closet? And then there’s that one you got on sale, that would be perfect if you just lost those fifteen pounds….

Here’s your chance to play Fairy Godmother to a young lady who can’t afford to purchase a prom dress, but still deserves the opportunity to dress up and feel like a princess for a night.  Clothes That Work is launching the Fairy Godmother Project and will be collecting those gently used dresses, wraps, jewelry and purses on Sat, Feb 13th from 9am – noon at The Job Center at 1133 S. Edwin C. Moses Blvd, Suite 392.  For more info contact CTW at 222-3778.

Free Health Fair Needs Your Help

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life&healthCelebrating Life & Health is the area’s largest community health fair that offers attendees 100s of free medical tests, services & products to ensure their good health and identify potential risk-factors.

This event  takes place at the Ponitz Center (Bldg 12) at Sinclair Community College on Sun, April 11th from 11am – 4pm.

The event has grown like never before (4000+ people) & we are expecting an even larger turnout this year due to the continued poor economy, loss/cut of health insurance or no health insurance for a great number of people in our community.

The growth of the event puts us in need…we are in need of volunteers to help in a variety of capacities the day of the event.

Volunteer by yourself, with friends, with family or in groups…but please volunteer! There are morning & afternoon shifts…Bring the Whole Family!!

This year’s event takes place on Saturday, April 24, 2009 from 11am – 5pm.

To volunteer – please contact the Levin Family Foundation directly @ 937-223-5433.
If you can’t volunteer but would like to help by being a sponsor or know someone that would like to sponsor the event…please contact Debbie Fox @ 937-223-1669.

Local Group Announces Logo Contest

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images-55Linked Dayton is in dire need of a new logo and we are asking for help! This networking group of over 4000, who are either located in the Dayton area, or who have a personal or professional connection to the area, meets monthly, usually for breakfast and a speaker.

They are holding a contest to redesign Linked Dayton’s logo, any and all are eligible. The only rules are:

1. The logo must include the words Linked Dayton

2. The logo must be in JPG or GIF formatting

images-563. The logo when saved in JPG or GIF formatting can’t exceed 4 MB

The new Linked Dayton logo’s designer will not only be highlighted by the group, but will also receive a $100 gift card to the Greene in Beavercreek!

Entries must be emailed to lanceb@bradstreetcpas.com by midnight January 10, 2009. Please introduce yourself by including your name & contact information in the email.

Linked Dayton will unveil and announce the winning design at the next Linked Dayton event on January 19th at the Wine Loft at the Greene (5:30pm).

Learn How to Be a Great Volunteer

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3933052662_9b5f464386_oAre you new to volunteering, or wondering how to get more out of your volunteering experience? Have you had a hard time finding the right place to volunteer? This webinar will walk you through some of the training and screening tools nonprofits use, and will better prepare you to ask questions and evaluate whether the organization is a good fit for you and your skills. Potential stumbling blocks that volunteers encounter will be covered, as well as tools to help you identify and overcome them. Presented by two experienced volunteer managers this is an opportunity for you to ask questions and learn how to be a great volunteer.

Volunteer Match will host a FREE webinar  Thurs, Jan 14th from  2-3pm. Click here to register.

logoVolunteerMatch is a national nonprofit dedicated to strengthening communities byhelping good people and good causes to connect. Its award-winning online service, www.volunteermatch.org, makes it easy to find a way to make a difference bylocation, expertise, or availability. VolunteerMatch provides many of the nation’s most recognized businesses and organizations with Web-based solutions to facilitate and track volunteer engagement at local and national levels. As the #1 result for ‘volunteer’ on Google and Yahoo!, the VolunteerMatch network regularly welcomes more than 850,000 monthly visitors and has become the preferred volunteer recruiting service for tens of thousands of participating nonprofits.

Could You Be A Friend To The Humane Society?

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FOHS_LogoImagine yourself selling bakery treats and never having to worry about gaining a pound from them!   A dedicated group of volunteers  do this every week  at the Animal Snackers Bakery at the 2nd Street Market.  They sell over 70 varieties of treats, including poodle puffs, doxie doughnuts, pomeranian pizza plugs, rottie biscotti and kitty crunchies.  There are also dog and cat toys and bandannas that have been sewed by other volunteers.

More volunteers are needed to help with these and new projects to raise funds in order to give more dogs and cats a happy life.  If you are interested in helping these neglected animals find a a new home there is a volunteer meeting being held the second Tuesday of each month, so the next one will be Tues, Dec 8th at 6:30pm at the Humane Society of Greater Dayton at 1661 Nichols Road.


Dayton Urban League advances empowerment agenda

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DUL-redlogo-anim-125The Dayton Urban League Young Professionals is looking to train the next generation of leaders.

The Dayton Urban League auxillary group, founded in 2001, will host a networking event for young professionals on December 16 at Therapy Cafe at 5:30 p.m. Wrap up the year and prepare for 2010 by coming out to “meet and greet” with community leaders and other professionals in the Dayton area. The DULYP will unveil its “I am empowered to…” campaign as well as outline plans for the upcoming year.

The Dayton Urban League Young Professionals employs a five-point agenda:

  • Education and Youth Empowerment: Ensuring that all of our children are well educated and prepared for economic self-reliance in the 21st century. DULYP works with DUL’s youth programs and Parity to provide role models and mentors for youth in the community.
  • Economic Empowerment: Empowering all people in attaining economic self-sufficiency through job training, good jobs, homeownership, entrepreneurship and wealth accumulation.
  • Health and Quality of Life Empowerment: Working to build healthy and safe communities to eliminate health disparities through prevention, healthy eating, fitness, as well as ensuring complete access to affordable healthcare for all people.
  • Civic Engagement and Leadership Empowerment: Empowering all people to take an active role in determining the direction, quality of life, public policy and leadership in their communities by full participation as citizens and voters, as well as through active community service and leadership development.
  • Civil Rights and Racial Justice Empowerment: Promoting and ensuring our civil rights by actively working to eradicate all barriers to equal participation in all aspects of American society, whether political, economic, social, educational or cultural.

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For more information, or to RSVP to the event, please contact:

Dayton Urban League Young Professionals. 907 West Fifth Street,Dayton, Ohio 45402. 937-220-6665

Cookies For A Cause

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We Care Arts is a non-profit organization that helps emotionally, mentally and physically disabled adults and youth achieve greater personal independence.  Through a variety of art classes and experiences, they promote the artist’s individuality, self esteem, community skills, ability to focus, life skills, responsibility, confidence and job skills.

Through the creation and sale of their individually crafted items, artists are able to affirm their self worth, take steps back into the mainstream of society and receive a supplemental income. We Care Arts provides all training and materials to artists and a portion of the proceeds of all sales is returned to the artist. The remainder goes back to program funding.

On Sat Dec 5th from 10am – 2pm,  We Care Arts will host it’s annual Cookie Walk fundraiser.  Thousands of the most gorgeous, bite-size, melt-in-your-mouth cookies will be arranged on long tables. At the start of the walk, you will receive a food service glove and bakery box. As you make your way along the cookie tables, you select as many goodies as you want, in as many varieties as you want. At the end of the walk, your box (or boxes) of cookies is weighed. The Cost – $5 per pound!!

Come buy cookies, donate cookies or candy, volunteer to help at the event and help spread the word!!

How can you help?
Helping We Care Arts by donating home-baked cookies for our event. The guidelines for donations are as follows:

1. Please contact Martha Leach at 426-5312 to confirm your donation to the
Cookie Walk.

2. We’d prefer the cookies to be miniature, bite-sized (approximately 1-1/2”). Buyers feel they can get more variety if the cookies are smaller. If your cookie works better larger, that’s ok, we’ll take them all!

3. Make your cookies extraordinary! This is an event where people can purchase homemade cookies that they normally would not make themselves. Ethnic or unusual ingredients, dipped cookies, or a variation on an old favorite are big sellers. We also welcome diabetic-friendly cookies as well as bite-sized bar cookies.

4. Homemade candies and snacks are also accepted.

5. Please include a 3×5 card with the name of the cookie and listed ingredients to inform persons with food allergies. This card will be set out with the cookies, so please print! Also specify on your 3×5 card if the cookie is diabetic friendly or sugar-free. (If you wish to be contacted for donations for next year, please fill out the form below and return it with your donation.)

6. Cookies must be delivered to We Care Arts, 3035 Wilmington Pike, on Friday, December 4, between the hours of 10 AM and 3 PM.

Can You Crochet?

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images-44Girl Scouts of Western Ohio, Dayton Region, is looking for a guest speaker to discuss and lead an activity about CROCHET as a hobby to girls in grades 1-3. This is a three-week series, with girls learning about a different hobby they can participate in each week taking place at our program center, 450 Shoup Mill Rd, Dayton, OH 45415.

Volunteers must be available from 6p-8p on January 6, January 13, and January 20. Please contact Michelle VanHuss, Program Services Specialist, at 937-279-6528 if you are interested in this opportunity.

Skills Needed: Volunteer should be proficient in crochet techniques and able to teach young girls a few basic skills.

All supplies for the girls will be provided. Staff member will work with volunteer to ensure a quality experience for girls.

Another Green Drinks Get Together

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images10Dayton Regional Green Task Force hosts their monthly networking event, Dayton Green Drinks at Thai 9 on Wed, Nov 8th.   Thai9 will feature appetizers provided by Vectren, and a CASH BAR will be available for you to order beverages.

Around 6:30pm, Matt Lindsday will speak about Biking in Dayton. Matt Lindsey founded the group Courteous Mass, Dayton’s bicycle advocate group that aims to do monthly group rides in the urban core of Dayton.

Green = Good
Drinks = Good
Green Drinks = Excellent!

What: Dayton Green Drinks
How: Walk, cycle, bus, car (though DO try to carpool!)
Who: Anyone working on environmental issues or interested in them
Why: Fun, contacts, alcohol, info, gossip, inspiration, business & pleasure … plus free appetizers provided by Vectren. CASH BAR

.Just go up to someone and say, “Are you green?” You’ll be made welcome!

This is an informal, self-organizing network that is now active in 582 cities worldwide!

For more information, check out www.greendrinks.org

Know A Women of Influence?

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WOIPin1The YWCA Dayton is seeking nominations for its 2010 Women of Influence Awards. This award honors women in the greater Dayton community who have made a positive impact on the lives of people in the Miami Valley through their community service.

Nominations are accepted from the community and honorees are selected by a panel of community leaders. Nominees do not have to be active in the YWCA. They should reflect the YWCA’s mission of eliminating racism and empowering women and should also exemplify community spirit, leadership, volunteerism and making a difference in the lives of others. To nomiate a Woman of Influence, go to the YWCA Dayton website: www.ywcadayton.org and complete the online nomination form. Deadline to submit a nomination is Friday, December 4, 2009.

A luncheon celebration will be held on March 18, 2010 at the Dayton Convention Center to honor the award winners. For more information on tickets and sponsorship, please call Angie Hoschouer at 937-461-5550, ext. 179.

Ohio is Recruiting Amabassadors!

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ohioambassadorsSharing the story- that’s what Ohio is hoping it’s newly recruited advocates will do.  The Ohio Ambassador Program is a key initiative in the Ohio Department of Development’s Strategic Plan, Ohio Home of Innovation and Opportunity.

“In the midst of one of the most challenging economic crises that our nation and state has ever faced, a critical role Ohioans can play is promoting all of the assets of living and doing business in our state,” Lt. Governor Lee Fisher said. “Although we face great challenges, our ability to come together and tell the world what is great about Ohio will be key to ensuring prosperity and a bright future for our state.”

The state’s goal is to engage people across our state and around the world in
conversation about all the diverse opportunities available in Ohio. In these conversations, an Ohio Ambassador is expected to:

  • Share their Ohio experiences
  • Address misperceptions of Ohio
  • Avoid negatively positioning another state or location
  • Be supportive of all Ohio locations

In the four months since the Program was officially launched, we now have more than 1,065 Ohio Ambassadors and counting! What’s more,  Ohio Ambassadors include people from every corner of the state and friends as far away as Japan, China, and Germany. That means that not only is our Ohio Ambassador Program becoming an increasingly popular way for us to Share the Ohio Story, but we are also now reaching audiences on new continents.

Ambassadors must be at least 18 years of age, be supportive of Ohio and willing to share the Ohio Story, have a current or past connection to Ohio, and an interest in positively impacting the Ohio economy.

A Web site – www.Ambassador.Ohio.gov. – has been created to support the program. The Web site provides Ohioans with an in-depth look at the benefits of becoming an Ohio Ambassador. Resource materials on the Ohio Story, dramatic pictures of Ohio’s communities, and facts about the state economy are available online, providing Ambassadors with information about Ohio’s education
system, industry strengths, business climate, and social and recreational opportunities around the state. This information is designed to help Ohio Ambassadors more effectively share the Ohio Story with others.

I’m an ambassador, won’t you consider becoming one?