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Challenge your limits
“Don’t limit your challenges – challenge your limits.” So if you’re like me, your first thought in reading this quote was likely “Ugh… probably a corny motivational poster from the Skymall catalog.”...
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I’m Famous. (At least to my kids.)
So the Raleigh News & Observer has learned what all my friends already know… that the only thing that outshines my sparkling wit and profound intelligence is my devastating good looks. (Yes, I...
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Using Paypal (and WordPress) for Nonprofit Donations
So I apologize in advance – this post is really only for geeked out amateur web designers trying to build websites in WordPress for nonprofits on a budget. Yeah, small audience. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I am working...
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A big fat checkmark
Over the weekend I was able to put a big fat checkmark next to something on my to-do list: redesign a website. Admittedly I do have some prior web design experience, back around the turn of the...
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Not a single monkey
Five months into my PULSE assignment, and let me be perfectly clear about one thing – I haven’t seen a single monkey. Or elephant, for that matter. (As great as Raleigh is, they could really use more...
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36 Stories
About two weeks ago, Urban Ministries of Wake County had their fall event, called Stone Soup (after the old folk tale in which some hungry strangers, and the whole town, are fed after the townspeople...
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Health care, a few sights, and a little Grand Prix.
So as my 6-month assignment at Urban Ministries of Wake County winds down, I thought I’d share a few sights and sounds from the Raleigh area. But first (since I said I would), a little bit about...
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Who knew? Already week two…
If I thought week one went fast, this one literally flew. I finished my rotation shadowing/scanning or as we learned in the ADP training, GEMBA, in the Open Door Clinic. Well oiled machine that counts...
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Fill em up!
Week three finds me in Crisis Services, trying to make my way through all that is going on here. Too much to talk about in one blog so I will break it into several. I’ll start with the Food Pantry and...
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Christmas in July!!!!!
No, the calendar hasn’t gone crazy, the hot Carolina sun hasn’t steamed my brain – Urban Ministries is celebrating Christmas In July with the help of Chick-Fill-A and Systel to collect foods to...
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I’m # 12…
As I was getting ready to leave for the evening, one of the ladies at the Helen Wright Center had shared with me that her day planner had “disappeared” and it was hard to keep up with appointments and...
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FIGS and Dates
Continuing my journey in crisis services, today I want to share about an unbelievable program known as FIGS. (Not the kind that go into the cookies!) FIGS (Filling In the GapS) is an independent...
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1for3X9=9800 pounds
Don’t panic, I am not attempting some new wacky math. Just reporting on the awesome results of the Christmas in July food drive at Urban Ministries last week! At the nine participating sites in Wake...
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GEMBA really works
I’ll admit that sitting in a meeting room in RTP hearing about the GEMBA (fancy way of saying “go see what’s going on!”) principle and how to use ADP in my PULSE assignment, I was a bit skeptical....
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Can developing governance documents really be fun?
Well, here is a head scratcher for everyone brave enough to still be reading… How in the world can you possibly incorporate fun into a governance system? Let me share my ramblings this morning. During...
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I am Experiencing My Pulse Every Moment – Kindling Hope ♣ & Happiness Around ♥
"Hands Raised to Serve are More Blissful then Hands Raised to Pray".
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