https://ww2.pointsoflight.org/nvw

National Volunteer Week, brought to you by Points of Light, is an opportunity to recognize and thank volunteers who lend their time, talent, voice and support to causes they care about in their community. Their stories can serve to inspire others to find ways to take action that creates change.

Here's a new video from our friends at Movie Mondays.  Want to here some tips about fundraising and improving your annual operating revenue?  Check it out.

This week's fundraising tip comes from our friends at Movie Mondays.

How do you start a conversation with your community?

Congress enacted the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act in 1974 and ushered in a new era of enlightenment in juvenile justice.  The original law provided for the deinstitutionalization of status offenders requiring that youth who are runaways, truants, or curfew violators cannot be detained in juvenile detention facilities or adult jails.

Last week we published part one of our interview with J.A. Leyrer, MSW, a colleague who has recently retired after working in drug and alcohol rehabilitation for thirty years. Ms. Leyrer was a pioneer in the field of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy who combined the concept of mindfulness with traditional CBT techniques to guide clients through their journey of self-discovery. Here’s part two of that interview.

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and many other social media sites, help keep people and communities together and up to date on all of our lives. We learn about who has a new job, who is having a baby and whose political views differ from another. Sounds promising and helpful, but is it?

Dear Client,

We have changed our software upgrade and update policy.  Effective immediately, “Updates” will include the following software changes.

Happy Monday!

This week's Movie Mondays contribution to our blog has to do with tips on how to conduct effective donor research.  Enjoy!

In a recent interview with J.A. Leyrer, MSW, we discussed her 30-year career in drug and alcohol rehabilitation and asked if she might share the secret to her success. This is a short excerpt from that interview.

Baby boomers are a lot more than just the generation of people born in the years immediately following World War II. They're our mothers, our fathers, our neighbors and our friends. They're also one of the most significant generations in American history, at least as far as sheer numbers are concerned. Most studies say that by the closing days of 1946 - the first official year of the "baby boom" - there were roughly 2.4 million people among the demographic. Flash-forward to 1964 - the final official year of the boom - and that number had grown to 72.5 million. Add in people who immigrated to the United States and you're looking at a total population of about 78.8 million people.