Join Industry Leaders!! Register today for the 2012 NARME Conference in Baltimore, MD!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Center For Urban Families <phinerman@cfuf.org>
Date: Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 9:01 AM
Subject: Join Industry Leaders!! Register today for the 2012 NARME Conference in Baltimore, MD!
To: billcoffin68@gmail.com


Having trouble viewing this email? Click here
NARME Logo
REGISTER
TODAY!!!

2012 NARME
Conference
Baltimore, MD

**July 20th-25th**

 
CFUF is co-sponsoring NARME's 2nd Annual Conference!  Join leaders, practitioners, policymakers, and community members to discuss the latest data to reduce the cycle of poverty, enhance relationships and increase the health and well-being of children, adults and families!

Want to attend this year's conference for FREE?!

 

NARME is seeking volunteers to assist staff with workshop sessions (AND you get to participate in the workshop you are assisting).  Additionally, volunteers are reimbursed for parking and provided with lunch each day volunteering.

 

Individuals who volunteer from July 22nd-25th attend the conference for FREE! 

 

Volunteer Form:

2012 NARME Conference Volunteer Form

 
CFUF Email Blast

CFUF has partnered with the Open Society Foundations to formally establish the Practitioners' Leadership Institute (PLI). The PLI is a national initiative designed to build the capacity of and serve as a replication model for community and faith-based organizations, government agencies and other institutions engaged in efforts to structure, implement, and/or manage high-quality Responsible Fatherhood and Family Strengthening programs.    

Visit our booth at the conference! 

 For more information: 

James Worthy (jworthy@cfuf.org)

Page Hinerman (phinerman@cfuf.org)

CFUF Logo White Background 
This email was sent to billcoffin68@gmail.com by phinerman@cfuf.org |  
Center For Urban Families |
2201 N Monroe Street | Baltimore | MD | 21217

Date Night Works - Presenting at NARME

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Date Night Works <support@tangogroup.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 1:49 PM
Subject: Date Night Works - Presenting at NARME
To: Bill <billcoffin68@gmail.com>


Is this email not displaying correctly?
View it in your browser.

Dear Friends and Colleagues: 
 
We wanted to let you know that Date Night Works will be conducting a Pre-Conference Training on Sunday, July 22, at the NARME conference in Baltimore.
 
Our one day training, called Date Night Bootcamp (Session 1T-9), will be led by Sarah Meyer and Tim Popadic. Tim is our resident Date Night guru, having led Date Night events with over 20,000 participants in the Palm Beach area. Together Sarah and Tim are helping relationship champions host their own Date Nights around the country.
 
Why Date Nights?
 
“Date Nights” are being employed around the nation and in every case have been shown to improve relational satisfaction of participating couples. At the NARME Conference Dr. Bradford Wilcox from the University of Virginia will release his latest research under the title “Date Night Opportunity” which verifies the value of couple’s time together.
 
If you have been thinking about how you can help and serve relationships with people you care about, beyond what you already do, we encourage you to attend this training on Sunday. At the training session we will walk you through step-by-step how you can easily build and sponsor a Date Night campaign using smart-phone apps, date night “deals,” and engaging promotional material.  We want to help you create a “win” for relationships in your community. You’ll come away with a vision and a plan for relational impact. 
 
Apart from our training seminar we think you would also benefit from the rest of the conference that NARME has put together -- an astounding 3 days of Learning, Networking, Fun, and Information to help you serve families.
 
·         There will be a great night at the Baltimore Orioles game!
 
·         Ten workshop breakouts!  Seven plenary sessions.  Plus up to 46 available CEU hours available from a national provider!
 
·         NARME members get an additional $50 off and can attend a delicious free dinner Monday night! (Members only!)
 
·         Basic Conference fee starting at $349
 
Click here to see what all the excitement is about at www.NARMEconference.com. Please pass this opportunity along to those serving families.
 
Hope to see you in Baltimore!
 
The Date Night Works Team

Copyright © 2012 Date Night Works, All rights reserved.
Passion for relationships, marriage and family.
Our mailing address is:
Date Night Works
831 Pearl Street
Boulder, CO 80303

Add us to your address book


Empathy Matters: Empathy exercises to try at home, new competition winners, & Bill Drayton on the key factors for business success.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ashoka Empathy <lflowers@ashoka.org>
Date: Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 3:17 PM
Subject: Empathy Matters: Empathy exercises to try at home, new competition winners, & Bill Drayton on the key factors for business success.
To: billcoffin68@gmail.com


Click here if you can't see the images
 


After months of reading and reviewing entries and weeks of public voting, last week Ashoka Changemakers announced the three winners of the competition Activating Empathy. Congratulations to Sports for Sharing, Changing Worlds, and No Bully!

Sports for Sharing uses play--games and sports--to tackle civic disengagement, cross-cultural mistrust, and violence in Mexico. Their signature activity is the treasure-chest exchange, where students collect objects that represent their culture and identity, pack them up in decorated boxes, and exchange their treasure chests with another participating school.

Changing Worlds' Literacy and Cultural Connection Program turns students into historians of their own families and communities, sending them out into the field for interviews and helping them transform what they learn into a sophisticated art project.

No Bully creates school-based Solution Teams of students to resolve instances of bullying. The core philosophy behind their work? A non-punitive response to bullying that integrally involves students themselves.

Stay tuned to StartEmpathy.org in the coming weeks for full profiles of all of the winners, and check out the list of all 14 finalists here.



"I get it. It's not gender, it's not race; it's whether or not you're a changemaker that determines whether you will be a success or failure." So said a 15-year-old young woman and active Youth Venturer, quoted in a recent article from Ashoka Founder Bill Drayton, appearing in Forbes India.

"The key factors for success for any business (or other organization) going forward," writes Bill, "will be: What proportion of your people are changemakers, at what level, and how effective have you been in enabling them to work together and openly to the world? No leader will succeed against this test if he or she is not doing everything possible to ensure that every member of his/her team is brilliant in applied empathetic ethics and if the organization is not meeting the same test."

Discover whether you're meeting the test, and check out tips from Bill to ensure you and your company aren't left behind. Read more.

8

"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own." Henry Ford

 
Take advantage of the lazy--or hectic--summer afternoons you'll spend with your children to try out some empathy building exercises. Not sure where to begin? Start with a family album. Gathering the family around an old photo album is an easy and fun way to share memories with your children--and a perfect opportunity to talk about emotions. Consider scanning some family photos that represent common emotions and putting them on the fridge. Create moveable labels for each family member that say "Today I feel like this."

Read more about how to use the experience as an empathy builder here.


Earlier this month, we found ourselves sitting in an industrial warehouse in Half Moon Bay, CA, joined by Ashoka Fellow Molly Barker, Henry De Sio, and more than a dozen leading thinkers & doers from across a variety of industries, including design, advertising, media, and academia. Convened by Insight Labs, the group set out to crack what it's going to take to make empathy a norm in today's education system.

Over the course of three hours, we wrestled with the very same questions we've been asking ourselves for months: what exactly do we mean by empathy? Why exactly is it more important today than ever? And what's it going to take to spread not a curriculum or a program, but an idea?

Among the takeaways are that empathy must be applied--it's most powerful as an ingredient in changemaking; that relationships are crucial in today's world and empathy is the vehicle that helps us build effective ones; and that the strongest arguments for empathy may not be facts and figures but rather powerful stories. Read more about these and other lessons learned here.

 

 
This email was sent by: Ashoka
1700 N Moore St., Suite 2000 (20th Floor) Arlington, VA, 22209, USA

Update Profile

Save the Date for MAC 2013

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Association of Catholic Publishers <tbrown@cbpa.org>
Date: Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:33 AM
Subject: Save the Date for MAC 2013
To: billcoffin68@gmail.com


Having trouble viewing this email? Click here
In This Issue
Promote the MAC
Save the Date!
Keynoters on YouTube
MAC Specials!
Quick Links
Registration Information
Hotel Information
Find us on Facebook

Did You Know . . .

That 54% of the people who attending in 2012 were personally invited by someone else?

Who could you invite to the 2013 MAC?

Promote the Mid-Atlantic Congress!
Promote the Mid-Atlantic Congress in the following ways:
  • Put the MAC logo on your website, blog, or Facebook page, and link to www.MidAtlanticCongress.org 
  • Forward this email to your friends and colleagues and invite them to come to 2013 MAC.
  • Include information about the 2013 MAC in your parish, school, diocesan, or organizational newsletters.
  • Add a link to the MAC website (www.MidAtlanticCongress.org) to your email signature 

Your 2013 Mid-Atlantic Congress Update

July 2012 

Save the Date! Mark Your Calendars Now!
Mark your calendars now for the 2013 Mid-Atlantic Congress at the Baltimore Hilton Hotel in Baltimore, MD!

Congress begins on Thursday, March 7, 2013, with a brief opening and two rounds of master classes followed by the evening's opening Leadership Assembly featuring Cardinal Donald Wuerl.

Congress concludes on Saturday, March 9, 2013, with a Leadership Assembly led by Ron Rolheiser.

So, block out March 7-9, 2013 for the 2013 Mid-Atlantic Congress! 

Check Out Two Keynote Speakers on YouTube
Seek First the Kingdom - Cardinal Wuerl's Latest Book
Seek First the Kingdom - Cardinal Wuerl's Latest Book

Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI, Dark Nights and Doubts: A Failure of Faith - or Imagination?
Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI, Dark Nights and Doubts: A Failure of Faith - or Imagination?
 
What You Will See, Hear,and Experience at MAC
Diana Macalintal Here are some of the things that you will see, hear, and experience at the 2013 MAC.
  • A brand-new, multifunctional Resource Center featuring the 2013 MAC exhibitors, wireless Internet service, food, and spaces to relax with friends and colleagues
  • Diana Macalintal, diocesan worship director from San Jose, CA
  • Complimentary continental breakfast and box lunch on Friday, March 8, 2013
  • Networking opportunities during Friday afternoon's resource sessions from 2:45-5:00 p.m. plus options for Friday evening's dinner
  • Plus over 75 speakers!
This email was sent to billcoffin68@gmail.com by tbrown@cbpa.org |  
Association of Catholic Publishers |
PMB #709 | 4725 Dorsey Hall Drive, Suite A | Ellicott City | MD | 21042