WHAT DID YOU DO? Read what some of your fellow members did for this year's Make A Difference Day. |
| The CPI Executive Committee thanks all members who participated in USA Weekend's Make A Difference Day on Saturday, October 28, 2006. Be sure to send your report to Carol Neal. CPI of Atlanta, GA, District 3 & 4 CPI of Atlanta held a Benefit Bridge on Saturday, October 28, at the Bethesda Senior Center in Gwinnett County, Atlanta, Georgia. Participants paid $10 to play, and their entry fee included a light breakfast, lunch (donated by Chick-Fil-A, Scenic Highway, Snellville, GA), and one door prize and one cash prize per table. There were a record 16 tables, raising $500 for the Credit Education Resources Foundation, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, and CPI of Atlanta's community education activities. Five members participated in the Benefit. Three other Atlanta members staffed a booth at the Plaza Fiesta, a local Hispanic shopping complex, distributing Spanish edition credit education materials to the public, and Atlanta donated its "Take Charge of Your Life" CD and companion Instructor's Guide to Alpharetta High School in Alpharetta, GA. Atlanta's sponsor Janice Dressler gave a "weekend out" to a senior friend living in a retirement community. Atlanta Member and Foundation Vice President Anne Hammond made bookmarks and sold them at the Strategic Planning Committee in St. Louis, MO. She donated the proceeds to the Credit Education Resources Foundation. CPI of Charlotte, NC, District 3 & 4 Six CPI of Charlotte members assisted Huntingtowne Farms Elementary School in Charlotte raise needed funds by selling $5.00 coupons in two stores (Belk's at SouthPark and Carolina Place) along with ten volunteers from the PTA, raising over $1,400 for programs at the school. This is a high poverty school and the funds will allow the students to take field trips and have speakers come to the school that otherwise would not be possible. Some of the funds will be used to help with their accelerated reader program. CPI of Charlotte donated its copy of the "Take Charge of Your Life" CD to the Morrison Branch of the Charlotte library. CPI of Jackson, MS, District 3 & 4 CPI of Jackson, MS, donated "Take Charge of Your Life" CD's and tapes to the librarians at Holmes Community College in Goodman, MS; Ethel High School in Ethel, MS; and Beverly Brown Library in Jackson, MS. CPI of Jackson, TN, District 3 & 4 Jackson TN members June Aldridge, Betty Allen, and Pat Rushing presented a program on "The Consequences of Filing Bankruptcy and How it Affects Your Credit" to a group of selected high school students as part of a project with the Bankruptcy Court Western District of Tennessee (Eastern Division) called "Your Day at Bankruptcy Court". They covered credit, the effects of bankruptcy, credit reports, identity theft, and protecting your credit, and have been asked to return in the Spring to present the program again to a different set of students. CPI of Spartanburg, SC, District 3 & 4 The Spartanburg association donated its copy of the "Take Charge of Your Life" CD to the Spartanburg County Library where it will be included in their "Self Help" section. CPI of Ann Arbor, MI, District 5 Beth Blanco and Kathryn Greiner spent October 28 counseling folks with too many bills and not enough income. A few days before and after "Make A Difference Day" these two presented credit education workshops on "Basic Budgeting to Reduce Debt and Start Saving"; "How to Prevent and Deal with ID Theft", and "Holidays on a Budget: Tis the Season to Hang on to Reason" in an EMU college classroom, two high school classrooms, in Saginaw for 156 people, in a session for students and staff at UM Flint, for the elderly at the Aging in Place Conference, to a group of high school students with ADD/HD through the Ann Arbor Academy, as well as two "lunch and learn" sessions for U of M staff in their departments, and finally they were part of a 3-hour Financial Survival Workshop which was free and open to the public through the Center for the Education for Women. Kathryn shares that the feedback they get from people coming to the credit education classes is that they leave enthusiastic about what they have learned, often with new hope that they can make their own situations better. Ann Arbor will be donating its "Take Charge of Your Life" CD to the Adrian Public Library. CPI of Elmira, NY, District 5 Chris Panosian of CCSD Federal Credit Union donated a copy of the "Take Charge of Your Life" CD to the Elmira Steele Memorial Library. CPI of Goshen, IN, District 5 CPI of Goshen celebrated “Make a Difference Day” by presenting Habitat for Humanity of Elkhart County with the "Take Charge of Your Life" CD and resource information. This Habitat affiliate makes it their priority to educate future homeowners on the financial issues that lie ahead with home ownership. Pictured are Darla Kauffman, President, CPI of Goshen; Julie Schirmer, Resource Development Director for HFHEC; Anna Ruth Hershberger, Church Relations HFHEC; and Becky Bateman, Administrative Assistant HFHEC. Central Kansas Business Connection, Hutchinson, KS, District 7 & 9 Members spoke to 52 inmates in the pre-release program at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility in Hutchinson, KS, about checking and savings accounts and the importance of taking care of their money once they are back out in society. They also donated a "Take Charge of Your Life" CD to the facility's library and one to St. Frances Academy, which is an organization that works with families to keep children in their homes. CPI of Las Madrugadoras, Albuquerque, NM, District 7 & 9 All thirteen Las Madrugadoras members pitched in to gather truck loads of clothing and personal items for Safe House, a shelter for victims of domestic violence. Mary Ann Ouellette, coordinator, also involved her employer, Sandia Labs Federal Credit Union, and received donations from a large percentage of their 169 employees. The goods donated to Safe House will be made available to the needy through a store called Second Chance. Joan Kaiser headed up a second initiative to donate clothing, soaps, shampoo, and other personal items that were delivered to the Barrett House, a local homeless shelter. In center picture, left to right: Barbara Anaya, Mary Ann Ouellette, and President Connie Trujillo. CPI of Honolulu, HI, District 10 CPI of Honolulu presented its copy of the "Take Charge of Your Life" CD to Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Hawaii. Credit Education Resources Foundation, St. Louis, MO Foundation President Martha Philip donated "Take Charge of Your Life" CD's to the Bridgeton Trail Branch of the St. Louis, MO, library system and to the General Manager of the Wingate Inn, St. Louis, MO. CPI Strategic Planning Committee Twenty-three members of the International Strategic Planning Committee raised $250 to donate to the Credit Education Resources Foundation to print additional copies of the Instructor's Guide for the "Take Charge of Your Life" audio program. Don't see your local association listed here? Send your report now to Carol Neal. Sample letter for Take Charge CD Project Entry Form top of page CPI Home Page Back to Site Map |
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