Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Check off begins on October 1, 2010
Beginning October 1, 2010, Florida residents will be able to check off a $1.00 donation with their Drivers License and/or Vehicle registration renewal to help people with disabilities in Florida. 75% will go to The Arc Chapter in your county, 25% will go to support self-advocates with stipends to attend the annual Arc Florida Annual Convention and 10 % will go to Arc Florida for administration costs.
Please remember to check off when you renew your drivers license or vehicle registration! The people we serve gain so much by attending the Annual Arc Florida Convention each year!
Please remember to check off when you renew your drivers license or vehicle registration! The people we serve gain so much by attending the Annual Arc Florida Convention each year!
Friday, April 24, 2009
'Social media' math....
It is amazing how people are connecting with one another through social networks like Facebook or Twitter. The so-called 'social media' are becoming important tools to connect and stay connected with others, to share interests and lives, support causes or invite others to take a peek inside the daya-to-day of one's life.
There is an indisputable need among us to connect. We are tribal beings. Our survival as humans in the early stages of our development depended on banding together with others. That instictive need to gather has helped us thrive and advance as humans. What we once did as flesh and bone we now do virtually.
Yet that sense of wishing to be connected, to be relevant to others is still very powerful and has taken expression through 'social media'.
We have before us a great opportunity to connect with others and advance our cause at the same time. A Facebook member told us recently that they calculated the number of connections they had which totalled over 27,000 people! That is remarkable! One person connected to others who are yet connected to more people...adds up quickly.
SunriseArc is using all available 'social media' means to create awareness for the cause and to have 'conversations' with others about our mission. We hope to continue to attract interest to our cause and to inspire peopke to tell others. Our reach through these media is very powerful and can do much to advacne a very compelling cause.
Check us out on Facebook and Twitter!
There is an indisputable need among us to connect. We are tribal beings. Our survival as humans in the early stages of our development depended on banding together with others. That instictive need to gather has helped us thrive and advance as humans. What we once did as flesh and bone we now do virtually.
Yet that sense of wishing to be connected, to be relevant to others is still very powerful and has taken expression through 'social media'.
We have before us a great opportunity to connect with others and advance our cause at the same time. A Facebook member told us recently that they calculated the number of connections they had which totalled over 27,000 people! That is remarkable! One person connected to others who are yet connected to more people...adds up quickly.
SunriseArc is using all available 'social media' means to create awareness for the cause and to have 'conversations' with others about our mission. We hope to continue to attract interest to our cause and to inspire peopke to tell others. Our reach through these media is very powerful and can do much to advacne a very compelling cause.
Check us out on Facebook and Twitter!
Thursday, February 26, 2009
At the intersection of goodness
Some time ago SunriseArc had occasion to seek a favor in support of an uncoming event: get the autograph(s) of notable artists, songwirters or producers of a compilation of monster hits that would be offered for auction as a centerpiece item . After some due diligence a contact was made to a person with connections to these good folk and the process of requests began.
What is remarkable is that there was one individual out there with utterly no connection to or association with our cause who would take up our request to find people for autographs. That person was, as fortune had it, intimately connected with and at the center of one of the greatest accomplishments in the entertainment business. He was literally on the ground floor of the most successful record industry legend: Motown.
What is even more remarkable is that someone out there with no connection to us would take valued time to fulfill a request from a complete stranger. In a coarse and uncertain world we come to the intersection of goodness where someone does a decent and good thing for its own sake. And that is remarkable...
What is remarkable is that there was one individual out there with utterly no connection to or association with our cause who would take up our request to find people for autographs. That person was, as fortune had it, intimately connected with and at the center of one of the greatest accomplishments in the entertainment business. He was literally on the ground floor of the most successful record industry legend: Motown.
What is even more remarkable is that someone out there with no connection to us would take valued time to fulfill a request from a complete stranger. In a coarse and uncertain world we come to the intersection of goodness where someone does a decent and good thing for its own sake. And that is remarkable...
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