New Horizons Un-Limited
Volunteer
Network Newsletter
“Success in life has nothing to do with
what you gain in life
or accomplish for yourself,
It's what you do for others.”
- Danny Thomas
In this issue:
New Horizons Un-Limited
“Success in life has nothing to do with
what you gain in life
or accomplish for yourself,
It's what you do for others.”
- Danny Thomas
In this issue:
Thank you to Volunteers!
·
Summer Raffle
·
Access Technology
·
Research
Office
and Clerical VOLUNTEER
OPPORTUNITIES!
· 2008
Election
· Annual
Appeal
· Office
and Clerical
· Flower
Bulb Sale
· Scrip
· Access
Technology
·
New
Horizons Un-Limited Inc. (NHU) is a non-profit
organization based in Milwaukee with a mission to make information and life
experiences more accessible to people with lifelong disabilities, their
families and caregivers. To learn more
about our mission and activities, please visit the NHU website at www.new-horizons.org.
We invite you to volunteer your time and talents for NHU in support of your disability community!
We are seeking volunteers for a variety of tasks. Which opportunity fits your interests?
NHU
volunteers are reimbursed up to $8.00 per week for your parking or up to $9.00
per week for your transportation.
NHU Volunteer Network
On-Line
All
volunteers please report your volunteer hours to NHU on-line. Go to
the NHU Volunteer Network page at http://www.new-horizons.org/volnet.html
and click on the hours report. Please
send in your hours now any time you volunteer for NHU.
THANK YOU TO VOLUNTEERS!!!!!!!
Many of our volunteers have given
very generously in July/August of their time and talents to New Horizons
Un-Limited. We would like to thank all
of you for your support!!!
Thank you to everyone who volunteered to make our 2008 Summer Raffle a success!!!! Thank you to our volunteers who worked so hard these past months to plan this fundraising event. In celebration of the Harley-Davidson 105th Anniversary event, we held a raffle and silent auction at the US Bank Center. Thank you to everyone who assisted in setting up and working at our booths for this special event. We had terrific prizes and we also sold water and soda to thirsty participants.
Thank you to all our generous raffle and silent auction sponsors and
donors! Please see our donor list
and thank you at http://www.new-horizons.org/hddono.pdf
.
Thank you to our Access Technology volunteers who worked very hard to refurbish,
clean and distribute 23 used computers to individuals and community
organizations. We continue to seek
volunteers for refurbishing and our helpdesk.
Join us on designated Saturday mornings to clean and set up computers.
Thank
you to volunteers who assisted with postings on our NHU Community
Forum.
Thank you to NHU Research Assistant
Volunteers who researched and evaluated many helpful website
resources on Parkinson Disease, Learning Disabilities, and Brain Injury for
people with disabilities. Volunteer to
research information on specific resources for people with disabilities! Check out the most recent additions at http://www.new-horizons.org/wnucat.html
.
Thank you to Office and Clerical Volunteers who worked on a special mailing of
Access Tech Tips to computer
recipients and our quarterly newsletter, Communicability
to our NHU Community. We also mailed the
Annual Flower Bulb Brochure to over 70 gardeners. Volunteers also helped with application
packets, database entry, marketing brochures, and put packets together for the Summer
Raffle. Our office and clerical
volunteers are much appreciated!
A very special thank you to our office and clerical volunteer, Peg, who has recently re-entered
the workforce, but has offered to continue to volunteer when she is able. Special thank you to Stephin who has volunteered in the area of Access
Technology setting up computers!
September - October NHU Volunteer Opportunities!!!!!!!
SAVE THE DATE!
November 4, 2008
Exercise your right to Vote!
Be sure to educate
yourself on the candidates and the issues and exercise your citizen’s right to
vote! Your vote counts on disability
issues!
For more information
on the issues visit: http://www.new-horizons.org/elec08.html
.
If you have not
registered to vote
or need to vote by
mail,
contact your local or state
government for information and dates.
Office and Clerical Assistants and Computer Cleaning and Refurbishing
Volunteers
We will be gathering on Saturday morning, September 27th and October 25th to
work on mailings, print outreach brochures, clean and set up computers for
redistribution. Please contact us if you
are interested in volunteering for these mornings.
New Horizons Un-Limited Annual Appeal
Our Annual Appeal is a special fundraiser for
our organization’s sustaining and general operational funds which allow NHU to
grow. We could use your help!!! As
a volunteer, you know what our work means to our community members with
disabilities! This year plan to pass the word about New Horizons
Un-Limited to others you know!! Consider
5-10 people you know and ask whether they would fill in a pledge card to
include a gift to NHU in their end of year giving and become a
sustaining member of New Horizons Un-Limited.
6th
Annual
Flower
Bulb Fundraiser
Our
bulbs will not only bring beauty to your home, but opportunity and hope to
hundreds of individuals with disabilities
in
Southeastern Wisconsin.
VanBourgondien, our fundraiser partner, delivers the most brilliant spring-blooming
flower bulbs around! Our satisfied
“customers” come back year after year to order these magnificent bulbs.
Our 6th annual Flower Bulb Fundraiser offers a terrific
assortment of Tulips, Daffodils, Alliums, Lilies and more! Each package of
quality bulbs costs just $10, with 50% of sales going to New Horizons
Un-Limited.
Help us
make this year’s sale the best ever! Contact the gardeners in your life, your
friends, family and neighbors and ask them if they have a spot or two in their
gardens for flowers that will not only bring beauty for years to come but also
support programs for our community members with disabilities. As a volunteer for NHU, would you be willing to
sponsor sales in your neighborhood or apartment complex? Contact
us for a neighborhood bulb sellers kit. To view or
request the full color brochure,
please e-mail us at horizons@new-horizons.org or download the packet from our
website at www.new-horizons.org/08bulb.pdf.
(Available mid-July) Order before mid September 2008, to ensure
time for planting.
Purchase Scrip Gift Certificates from NHU
Thank
you to everyone who has purchased scrip certificates! The easiest way to raise money is where supporters raise
funds with money they would spend on themselves anyway. Are you planning fall
purchases? Cabelas,
Ace Hardware, Home Depot, or Sears are available. Scrip orders are due Thursday, September 18, 2008.
More Volunteer
Opportunities!!
Volunteer Computer Refurbishers
Do you have skills in testing or refurbishing
computers, working with software, building computers, or do you have some
training in computer building but need more experience in using these
skills? Join our computer refurbishers in recreating used computers for people with
disabilities. Work at home or in our
office. Please contact us if you are
interested in refurbishing computers.
Our NHU Community Forum and Topic Discussion Boards could
use your help!!!
If you have an interest in disability issues
and have computer access, this task is completed on-line. Post an event, a favorite resource, share a
solution you found, review a good book, share an inspirational picture, poem,
story or website, instant message others, or find someone else who shares your
outlook on life. The NHU Community Forum
is there for you!
Research and Writing
Do you have a lot of resource information, a
personal experience or a solution you found on your specific disability? Join our research
and writing team.
Specific Disabilities - We are working on a
new area of our website to cover Specific Disabilities. We could use your input!!! Please contact us if you would like to assist
in research and writing on your specific disability or other disability issues.
Legislation - We are
interested in providing current national, state and local legislative
issues. We could use your input!!! Please contact us if you would like to assist
us in research and writing on legislative issues for people with disabilities
and our community.
Newsletter -We are interested in
providing current national, state and local news and events from across the
country. We could use your input!!! Please contact us if you would like to assist
us in research and writing on news and events for people with disabilities.
Help New Horizons Un-Limited
(NHU) reach people affected by disability with needed information, resources
and opportunities! It’s so simple!
Shop Pick ‘n Save. Select NHU on your
Pick ‘n Save Advantage Card Application and use it every time you shop. Add NHU’s id number (542100) to your
Advantage Card today! We would love to hear
(via e-mail) from everyone who is saving on their groceries and earning a
donation for NHU and our community.
Use
goodsearch.com - A New Internet Search Engine and
Raise Money for NHU.
The next time you search the Internet, visit www.goodsearch.com
and select or type in New Horizons Un-Limited Inc. (Milwaukee, WI) from the
list. GoodSearch
will give a penny to NHU every time you use Goodsearch
to search the Internet.
NHU Wish List. We are in need of the following new or used items for
the recipients of our computer redistribution program to be better able to use
their computers. Give a gift with a
specific purpose in mind!
·
56K modems for computers ($5 each)
·
Windows 2000 Licenses ($5 each)
·
Speech
Recognition Programs ($85 each)
·
Screen
Reading Programs ($595 each)
·
Speaker
sets ($2.50 each)
Make a secure on-line credit card
donation via PayPal. It’s free, secure and so easy! Visit NHU’s website ( www.new-horizons.org/donnow.html
) and click to PayPal. Complete the
online form and you’ve just given back to your community!
Send a
donation to NHU. Fill out the NHU Printable Donation Form at
http://www.new-horizons.org/donnow.html
.
Please mail with your contribution to
New Horizons Un-Limited Inc.
Post Office Box 510034,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53203.