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Jeanie Owens is today's guest from ProjectSleepTight.org info@ProjectSleepTight.org Brought to you by AZCPA.com
The Arizona Republic’s Veterans Voice columnist Art Sloane joins us on NPJ Talk Radio
Art has been a strong voice for veterans, ensuring they get the benefits they have earned. He also offers many resources for veterans and their families–and has helped them in so many other areas. He is also active in helping homeless veterans through the organization Arizona StandDown.
The Arizona StandDown is the state’s largest, outreach event for homeless veterans and relies upon contributions from the public to support over thousands of veterans to gain access to shelter, services, and healthcare.
A Note from Pam
My name is Pam Swanson and Lions Camp Tatiyee stole my heart in 1984. The year the then Director walked into my classroom at Arizona State University and showed a video of Lions Camp Tatiyee, I knew I absolutely had to be a part of such an amazing place. I came every summer through college and actually met my husband there. After teaching special education for 10 years and receiving my Masters in Administration Supervision, I accepted the job as Executive Director. I spend 10 weeks every summer away from home, with our kids at camp. All three of our kids have grown up at camp. All the good things, the things that matter in my adult life, have begun with Tatiyee. I have been the Executive Director since 1996.
Mission Statement: Camp Tatiyee’ s mission is to enrich the lives of individuals with special needs by providing a life improving experience promoting their emotional health, independence, self esteem and confidence, all free-of-charge.
Vision Statement To provide a community that empowers individuals to grow socially, physically and emotionally.
Values Statement We believe that everyone deserves to be accepted, loved and respected. Camp Tatiyee upholds the dignity of all individuals, at all times by embracing their abilities by asking “how” rather than “if”.
In a time when the quality of education is judged by the strength of student test scores, Restore Arts serves to bring inspiration, passion, and imagination back into classrooms.
The increased importance of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) topics within students’ education has overshadowed the equally important components of passion and imagination.
We believe that students find passion in their education through the arts, whether they are music, visual arts, creative writing, or dramatic performance. Students in Arizona need and deserve the experience that art in the classroom creates, but fine arts are the most frequently cut and undeservd classes when budgets run thin.
Art and creative development can both advance academic achievement and improve life experiences in ways that test scores cannot.
Restore Arts strives to use the experience of our Founders to create projects and programs that will use the arts to connect communities with classrooms and improve the life experiences of all students and community members involved.
Mary Lynn Kelly, Co-Founder
In 2013, Mary Lynn helped found Restore Arts in response to Arizona's ongoing need for a driving force behind arts integration and education.
A graduate of the University of Georgia with additional studies at both Harvard and Oxford, Mary Lynn has leveraged her background in the arts and community involvement to help Arizona nonprofits and small businesses for nearly two decades.
Through Restore Arts, Mary Lynn carries forward the spirit of her past successful initiatives, including heading the community coalition that raised $1.5M for the Challenger Space Center in Peoria, Arizona. Restore Arts allows her to leverage her experience as editor at Arizona Parenting magazine, and her influence as a longtime local on-air television contributor.
She honed her skills in designing educational programs during a professional engagement with The Harris Foundation and Game Truck Licensing, LLC. Mary Lynn expresses her passion for the arts on a personal level through her work as a painter and sculptor.
Since 1992, ProFund West has been playing a significant role in steering nonprofits in ways to better assess their potential for contributions, how to better utilize volunteers who are dedicated to the cause, how to manage their campaigns more strategically, and how to articulate their mission/vision, goals and accomplishments to maximize contributions to their cause.
We are financial development consultants, helping worthwhile causes, not-for-profits, and 501(c)3 organizations meet their fundraising goals with our powerful and innovative campaigns. If your organization is looking for a more effective and efficient way to raise money, look to ProFund West for complete turnkey programs that deliver better results and build longer-lasting relationships.
We're AZStRUT, and we put real-world technology training to work for Arizona's students and educators. Our model program teaches students valuable technology skills; provides quality refurbished computers to schools and non-profits around the state; and benefits the environment by diverting old equipment from our landfills. It's a classic win-win-win situation which benefits everyone involved. With your help, together we all come out ahead!
It's the first Monday of the Month and Carolyn Sechler CPA PC will wrap up 2016 with Sandra Turner CPA . We will be chatting about year-end priorities for nonprofits. Annual reports, year-end giving and planning for 2017 will all be discussed.
Rod Houston from SCORE joins us in studio. Houston has mentored more than 400 small businesses and 100 nonprofits as a member of SCORE and the Executive Service Corps in many areas.
Houston offers some great tips on how to run successful nonprofits and overcome some of the challenges facing them today. He also shares some information about upcoming SCORE workshops.
Lea Benson is a national champion for child sex trafficking victims across the country.
As President and CEO of StreetLightUSA she has increased the national reputation of the organization to become well known for its design and ability to make positive change in the lives of child victims age 11-17.
Under her direction StreetLightUSA’s residential facility has gone from its planning stages to a successful program that serves hundreds of girls each year. The residential facility is the country’s largest residential center of its kind and serves as the first strategy StreetLightUSA is employing to fulfill its mission--to transition adolescents from trauma to triumph.
Lea travels throughout the country to talk about the dangers of sex trafficking and to counsel others on the need for greater access to services for the victims.
She has established contact with Attorneys General throughout the country to help them understand the threat that sex trafficking poses in the community.
She works with law enforcement to enhance prevention programs, and works to educate child welfare workers about how to identify and help victims. She also works with the court system to make sure judges have the option to send victims to StreetLightUSA.
She has been asked to speak at national conferences for law enforcement and court personnel as well as organizations who have adopted trafficking as their topic of interest.
Community Information and Referral Services (CIR) was founded in 1964 and incorporated in 1979 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization to provide health, human, and community service information and referrals. CIR administers two major programs, the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) and 2-1-1 Arizona.
HMIS is the data collection system required by HUD and its partners for tracking homeless persons to services nationally. CIR provides the HMIS for Maricopa and Balance of State Continuum of Care’s in Arizona. In the Annual Program Report 2015, CIR’s HMIS team provided support to over 700 users, 80 providers, assisting over 41,000 homeless persons in 14 of 15 Arizona counties.
2-1-1 is the easy to remember three-digit dialing number designated in 2000 by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for easy access to information and referrals for health and human services. 2-1-1 benefits include easy access to vital community, health, government, tribal and human service programs, coordination of volunteer needs and opportunities,demographic feedback on trends in needs, services, gaps, and poverty areas, and acts as a support system for emergency 9-1-1 operatives and disaster relief efforts.
CIR was designated in 2011
by the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) to provide 2-1-1 services for Arizona, and activated 2-1-1 in October 2011, becoming the last state in the nation to do so. In FY 2016 2-1-1 Arizona fulfilled over 1.2 million service requests through the 211 call center, website at www.211arizona.org, IVR system, and apps. 2-1-1 Arizona maintains a resource database of over 36,000 services available statewide.
Guest Denise Gary Co-founder and Executive Director of Kids Need to Read kidsneedtoread.org
Denise Gary is Co-founder and Executive Director of Kids Need to Read, a nonprofit children’s literacy foundation providing reading resources and literacy programs to disadvantaged children across the United States. She currently oversees the daily operations and program development of the organization. Denise was awarded the Edwin P. Hubble Medal of Initiative in 2012 for her work in the founding and development of Kids Need to Read. She is the author of a children’s picture book, The Little Flame, the proceeds of which benefit Kids Need to Read. In addition, Denise is a co-founder and volunteer of RMG Imaging Artists LLC, training adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Multimedia and Marketing Technology. She also participates in community service work as a member of the Mesa Host Lions Club in Arizona. Denise was a home school teacher for her two sons during their junior high and high school years. This fuels her desire to help children and adolescents learn the power and joy reading can bring to their lives.
The NonProfit Journal Guests Christopher Lengyel and Jane Fendelman from www.HelpMePTSD.org
Dee welcomes ‘Help Me PTSD’ founder Christopher Lengyel. Christopher is a retired veteran and is responsible for the creation of the upcoming seminar geared towards helping those who suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Got Housing? Guest Valerie Iverson Sponsored by Sechler CPA PC Carolyn Sechler co-hosts
The Nonprofit Journal Live with Dee Suomala radio programs welcomes back veteran and Arizona Republic columnist Art Sloane.
The Nonprofit Journal Live with Dee Suomala welcomes Steve Gehrts Local Business Owner. Steve is the owner of Ink and Toner in Tempe AZ and believes that giving back is not always done through our charities.
Tune in Monday, May 16th at 1- 2pm MST LIVE on Star Worldwide Networks as we talk with Steve and why it’s important to buy locally. For more information visit www.InkandTonerAZ.com
We have another great show planned for Monday, May 2. Carolyn Sechler co-hosts The Nonprofit Journal Live with Dee Suomala radio show. Carolyn introduces Frantz Beasley, president and co-founder of a Phoenix based nonprofit organization called AZ Common Ground. AZCG is a community based organization created behind the razor wire of a prison fence by three former inmates who developed a plan to provide services to men, women, and youth upon their release from prison. Possessing the unique perspective of having been ex-offenders, experiencing the difficult process of re-entry firsthand, and learning to rebuild their own lives after having been convicted of numerous felonies, these men came together to form this organization to confront the challenges which have created an out of control recidivism rate.
Arizona Hands and Voices is a nationwide non-profit organization dedicated to supporting families and their children who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as the professionals who serve them.
When parents are told that their child is deaf or hard of hearing, the news is most often a shock. Many will go through a grieving process, and feel that all hopes and dreams they had for their child have been shattered.
The organization is a parent-driven, parent/professional collaborative group that is unbiased towards communication modes and methods. Their diverse membership includes those who are deaf, hard of hearing, and their families who communicate orally, with signs, cue, and/or combined methods. Arizona Hands and Voices exists to help children reach their highest potential.
For more information about Arizona Hands and Voices, visit www.azhv.org.
With more than 50,000 members and chapters in 42 cities, YNPN activates emerging leaders by connecting them with resources, people, and ideas.
Our nation and our communities are facing serious challenges. At the same time, technology and new thinking about networks are presenting unprecedented opportunities for social change. In order to take advantage of these opportunities and overcome these challenges, we need inspired and engaged leaders who bring energy, creativity, and new perspectives to the sector.
YNPN activates emerging leaders and helps them acquire the skills and awareness they need to be effective changemakers. With these leaders, YNPN is building a diverse and powerful social sector that can support and strengthen our communities.
Sean is the founder of Missional Law, a non-profit organization that seeks to protect human rights and to obtain justice for vulnerable, poor, and marginalized individuals locally and internationally.
To find out more about Missional Law, visit www.missionallaw.org.
The Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits is a unifying association formed in 2004 to advance the common interests of more than 20,000 nonprofits in the Grand Canyon State.
Kristen brings extensive leadership to the Alliance, most recently serving as the chief operating officer at the Arizona Small Business Association (ASBA), the largest trade association in Arizona serving over 10,000 small business owners and entrepreneurs. Through her previous roles at ASBA, the ASU Foundation and the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, Kristen brings over 12 years of association and nonprofit knowledge and expertise to her new role as Alliance CEO.
ACF works to improve the quality of life in Arizona by promoting and facilitating effective philanthropy. The organization and its statewide affiliates harness the collective generosity of thousands of Arizonans, steward their gifts with an eye toward permanence and growth, and from the investment earnings on the endowment, award millions of dollars in grants and scholarships every year. Funding is awarded in the following focus areas: quality education, health innovations, arts and culture, environment and sustainability, and community development and improvement. ACF has awarded more than $500 million in grants and scholarships since 1978.
Greater Phoenix SCORE Mentor Rod Houston joins us in studio. Rod has mentored more than 400 small businesses and 100 nonprofits as a member of SCORE and the Executive Service Corps. In this interview, Rod will offer great tips and strategies for overcoming financial sustainability challenges, and give an overview of the tools and resources available at SCORE to assist nonprofits in implementing solid business practices.
The NonProfit Journal-The fantastic annual Car Show is coming October 24th. This family is a fund-raising family for all. Hear their story.