Monthly Archives: August 2009

Greetings from Spectrum! To see the whole newsletter, click here, or click on any of the titles below to see a particular article. What a summer! Lots of folks on holidays and enjoying things with families and friends, lots of learning and growth. The blogathon – between 6 a.m. July 25th and 6 a.m. July 26th we wrote and posted 49 positive stories of folks with challenges having recipricol relationships. “Stay up late. Make a difference.” We raised double our goal for the time and had 555 hits. And the picnic was fun, as always. In the last month our focus has been hosting speaker David Pitonyak who came up from Virginia and spent three days. It was our first time taking on this role, organizing a place and meals, selling tickets, advertising and it was a great success. Over the three days David met and talked with some 200 people, mostly different people every day, about different things. Feedback was awesome, although more people would have liked to have come, and we’re negotiating with him to come back next year, as well as looking at some other training opportunities.

In this issue of our e-newsletter Judy has gathered some great stories of what people have been doing over the summer, there’s a lovely introduction to caregiver Carol Clemens, some thoughts on communication and an article about David Pitonyak. Continue reading →

I came across the 50/30/20 budget by Liz Pulliam Weston which can be applied to the organization as a whole, or it can also be helpful in determining one’s household budget. I thought this would be very applicable to our organization since we have so many “households”… Continue reading →