Ned Jennings, arch at FreemanWhite (www.freemanwhite.com), an architectural, engineering, autogenous architecture and consulting casework close for healthcare organizations in the United States, has been called for the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Raleigh program. As a actor in the nine-month program, Jennings will get an all-embracing appearance of association issues, hone administration abilities and accretion acknowledgment to association captivation opportunities. Over the advance of the affairs he will abstraction the qualities that accomplish an able leader, appraisal alone administration roles and accommodated with key association leaders to altercate issues. Jennings will aswell complete a aggregation activity ambidextrous with a association nonprofit alignment that has requested help. Forty-five to 50 candidates are called for Leadership Raleigh based on approved administration adeptness and potential, association absorption and captivation and the admiration to accept broadcast association responsibility. For added advice on Leadership Raleigh, appointment www.raleighchamber.org/events_leadership.aspx.
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News Facts:
•Ned Jennings as been called for Leadership Raleigh.
•As a actor in the nine-month program, Jennings will get an all-embracing appearance of association issues, hone administration abilities and accretion acknowledgment to association captivation opportunities.
•Over the advance of the affairs he will abstraction the qualities that accomplish an able leader, appraisal alone administration roles and accommodated with key association leaders to altercate issues.
•Jennings will aswell complete a aggregation activity ambidextrous with a association nonprofit alignment that has requested help.
•Forty-five to 50 candidates are called for Leadership Raleigh based on approved administration adeptness and potential, association absorption and captivation and the admiration to accept broadcast association responsibility.
•For added advice on Leadership Raleigh, appointment www.raleighchamber.org/events_leadership.aspx.
Quotes:
“I am accustomed to accept been called to participate in Leadership Raleigh,” said Jennings. “It is a abundant befalling to participate in important association issues while aswell convalescent administration skills.”
About FreemanWhite:
FreemanWhite provides architectural, engineering, autogenous architecture and consulting casework for healthcare organizations in the United States. Founded in 1892, the close has offices in Charlotte, N.C., Raleigh, N.C. and San Diego, Calif. and employs added than 200 professionals. FreemanWhite has accustomed abundant awards and recognitions, including accepting ranked as the better North Carolina architectural close in 2008 by the Triangle Business Journal, and the 13th best architectonics close to plan for nationally in 2007 by ZweigWhite. The close aswell accustomed the Citation of Merit Award from Healthcare Design annual for their plan on Pitt County Memorial Hospital’s Pediatric Palliative Care Unit in Greenville, N.C. For added information, amuse appointment www.freemanwhite.com or alarm (919) 782-0699.
Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, N.C.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
OSSCube Sponsored “OSSCamp” To Be Held During 5th And 6th September At NSIT, Delhi
India's better unconference on Open Source – OSSCamp – is to be captivated during 5th and 6th September 2009 at NSIT, Delhi. This OSSCube sponsored and answer accident will see IT professionals, enthusiasts and acceptance appear calm to altercate and appearance the approaching of accessible antecedent in India. This association apprenticed unconference, bargain alleged the “Camp,” is targeted accurately at announcement FOSS accomplishing and development in India.
This year’s accident includes discussions and talks from experts on capacity alignment from Programming OpenOffice.org to Social Network (Open Source). A above highlight of the accident is the affair by Bryan House (Director, Marketing) from Acquia on “Acquia: Accelerating Drupal Growth” and the affair by Adobe on their accessible antecedent RIA Framework – Adobe Flex. Other above sponsor of the accident includes Linux for you, Computer Society of India, Bigadda and NSIT.
Elaborating on the ambit of the camp, Mr. Vineet Agrawal, Sr. Manager, Community and Alliances, OSSCube, said, “We accept consistently believed in auspicious bounded communities and accept helped them through advance and participation. OSSCamps consistently accumulate us focused and on our toes with the latest in technology.” With a eyes of accepting the association even afterpiece and accurate their abandon and ability on the subject, OSSCamp Delhi, had aswell alien the ‘We are Free’ blogging challenge – a alarm to the absolute accessible antecedent association and the campers, to angle in with their contributions. The blog aswell promises to be the axial hub for documenting the advance of accessible antecedent in India.
The Delhi accident promises to be a fun-filled accident with participations from above the nation. The association is actual focussed with abundant accent on hands-on sessions, demos and amusing sandboxes. To actualize top amount for the participants, OSSCamp accept set up demos on a advanced ambit of capacity from Go Green, Save Power to accepting started with Scala. “These association initiatives and common spirit, area anybody is alive with us accept aggressive us to accord in all accessible ways.” adds Mr. Agrawal.
About OSSCamp
OSSCamp is a unique, thriving, and active association of accessible antecedent enthusiasts in India. The association revolves about “unconferences” bargain accepted as Camps. It is India's better unconference on accessible antecedent bringing calm amorous technologists and enthusiasts beneath one roof for administration best practices, experiences, and knowledge.
About OSSCube
OSSCube is a Global Open Source Enterprise for Open Source Solutions with ability in outsourced artefact development. OSSCube has partnered with arch technology development companies such as Sensiolabs, Acquia, SugarCRM, Drupal, Zend, MySQL, Ingres, Moodlerooms and Continuent, to accommodate a lot of avant-garde and able solutions.
OSSCube has served 50+ industry leaders including Intel, Google, Yahoo, Trend Micro, LinkedIn, Bigadda.com above four continents. Some of the solutions developed by them cover Enterprise Products, Web 2.0 applications, Social Networking sites, eCommerce applications and Widgets, Games and Mobile applications. OSSCube offers adjustable alive models of Onsite, Offsite, Full time, Timeshare and Dedicated Offshore Delivery Centre. With over a decade of acquaintance and 100+ aggregation members, OSSCube delivers solutions cost-effectively and on time.
Contact:
OSSCube LLC
404 Shakespeare St,
Morrisville (North Carolina) – 27560,
E-mail: info@osscube.com
Tel: 1-888-967-7282
Website: http://osscube.com .
This year’s accident includes discussions and talks from experts on capacity alignment from Programming OpenOffice.org to Social Network (Open Source). A above highlight of the accident is the affair by Bryan House (Director, Marketing) from Acquia on “Acquia: Accelerating Drupal Growth” and the affair by Adobe on their accessible antecedent RIA Framework – Adobe Flex. Other above sponsor of the accident includes Linux for you, Computer Society of India, Bigadda and NSIT.
Elaborating on the ambit of the camp, Mr. Vineet Agrawal, Sr. Manager, Community and Alliances, OSSCube, said, “We accept consistently believed in auspicious bounded communities and accept helped them through advance and participation. OSSCamps consistently accumulate us focused and on our toes with the latest in technology.” With a eyes of accepting the association even afterpiece and accurate their abandon and ability on the subject, OSSCamp Delhi, had aswell alien the ‘We are Free’ blogging challenge – a alarm to the absolute accessible antecedent association and the campers, to angle in with their contributions. The blog aswell promises to be the axial hub for documenting the advance of accessible antecedent in India.
The Delhi accident promises to be a fun-filled accident with participations from above the nation. The association is actual focussed with abundant accent on hands-on sessions, demos and amusing sandboxes. To actualize top amount for the participants, OSSCamp accept set up demos on a advanced ambit of capacity from Go Green, Save Power to accepting started with Scala. “These association initiatives and common spirit, area anybody is alive with us accept aggressive us to accord in all accessible ways.” adds Mr. Agrawal.
About OSSCamp
OSSCamp is a unique, thriving, and active association of accessible antecedent enthusiasts in India. The association revolves about “unconferences” bargain accepted as Camps. It is India's better unconference on accessible antecedent bringing calm amorous technologists and enthusiasts beneath one roof for administration best practices, experiences, and knowledge.
About OSSCube
OSSCube is a Global Open Source Enterprise for Open Source Solutions with ability in outsourced artefact development. OSSCube has partnered with arch technology development companies such as Sensiolabs, Acquia, SugarCRM, Drupal, Zend, MySQL, Ingres, Moodlerooms and Continuent, to accommodate a lot of avant-garde and able solutions.
OSSCube has served 50+ industry leaders including Intel, Google, Yahoo, Trend Micro, LinkedIn, Bigadda.com above four continents. Some of the solutions developed by them cover Enterprise Products, Web 2.0 applications, Social Networking sites, eCommerce applications and Widgets, Games and Mobile applications. OSSCube offers adjustable alive models of Onsite, Offsite, Full time, Timeshare and Dedicated Offshore Delivery Centre. With over a decade of acquaintance and 100+ aggregation members, OSSCube delivers solutions cost-effectively and on time.
Contact:
OSSCube LLC
404 Shakespeare St,
Morrisville (North Carolina) – 27560,
E-mail: info@osscube.com
Tel: 1-888-967-7282
Website: http://osscube.com .
Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® Host 2009 Safety Seminar
John Wood, admiral of the Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® (RRAR) (www.rrar.com), has appear that RRAR will host a 2009 Safety Seminar on Thursday, Sept. 3 at 8:30 a.m. at RRAR, amid at 111 Realtors Way in Cary. The academy will be instructed by Leigh Woody, chief trainer of Citizens Against Crime, who will adviser the REALTORS® through the all-important accomplish to assure themselves at home and at work. In a contempo National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) assurance survey, 67 percent of respondents accept accomplished assurance concerns, incidents, or added afflictive situations while alive as a REALTOR®. The accident is chargeless to all REALTORS® members. To annals for the event, e-mail Sonya Yankoglu at SonyaY@rrar.com with your name(s), buzz amount and company. For added information, appointment www.rrar.com.
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www.rrar.com
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News Facts:
•John Wood, admiral of the Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® (RRAR) (www.rrar.com), has appear that RRAR will host a 2009 Safety Seminar on Thursday, Sept. 3 at 8:30 a.m. at RRAR, amid at 111 Realtors Way in Cary.
•The academy will be instructed by Leigh Woody, chief trainer of Citizens Against Crime, who will adviser the REALTORS® through the all-important accomplish to assure themselves at home and at work.
•In a contempo National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) assurance survey, 67 percent of respondents accept accomplished assurance concerns, incidents, or added afflictive situations while alive as a REALTOR®.
•The accident is chargeless to all REALTORS® members.
•To annals for the event, e-mail Sonya Yankoglu at SonyaY@rrar.com with your name(s), buzz amount and company.
•For added information, appointment www.rrar.com.
Quote:
“Due to the common acquaintance with alien humans in clandestine locations, absolute acreage agents face added on the job risks than abounding added business professionals,” said Ray Larcher, controlling carnality admiral of RRAR. “We are acquisitive it will be an acutely advisory accident for all of our members.”
About Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS®:
For added than 70 years, the Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® has been the area’s baton in absolute estate, accouterment above programs to advice its associates bear a countless of absolute acreage casework in the Raleigh area. Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® offers associates a all-inclusive ability of services, articles and programs to accommodated the evolving needs of the absolute acreage industry and consumers. These assets cover educational programs, Triangle MLS access, networking opportunities and more. The affiliation aswell serves as a arch advocate of clandestine acreage rights and association involvement. For added information, appointment www.rrar.com.
Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, NC
Related Links:
www.mmimarketing.com
www.rrar.com
www.raleighregionalassociationofrealtors.com
News Facts:
•John Wood, admiral of the Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® (RRAR) (www.rrar.com), has appear that RRAR will host a 2009 Safety Seminar on Thursday, Sept. 3 at 8:30 a.m. at RRAR, amid at 111 Realtors Way in Cary.
•The academy will be instructed by Leigh Woody, chief trainer of Citizens Against Crime, who will adviser the REALTORS® through the all-important accomplish to assure themselves at home and at work.
•In a contempo National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) assurance survey, 67 percent of respondents accept accomplished assurance concerns, incidents, or added afflictive situations while alive as a REALTOR®.
•The accident is chargeless to all REALTORS® members.
•To annals for the event, e-mail Sonya Yankoglu at SonyaY@rrar.com with your name(s), buzz amount and company.
•For added information, appointment www.rrar.com.
Quote:
“Due to the common acquaintance with alien humans in clandestine locations, absolute acreage agents face added on the job risks than abounding added business professionals,” said Ray Larcher, controlling carnality admiral of RRAR. “We are acquisitive it will be an acutely advisory accident for all of our members.”
About Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS®:
For added than 70 years, the Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® has been the area’s baton in absolute estate, accouterment above programs to advice its associates bear a countless of absolute acreage casework in the Raleigh area. Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® offers associates a all-inclusive ability of services, articles and programs to accommodated the evolving needs of the absolute acreage industry and consumers. These assets cover educational programs, Triangle MLS access, networking opportunities and more. The affiliation aswell serves as a arch advocate of clandestine acreage rights and association involvement. For added information, appointment www.rrar.com.
Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, NC
Outstanding Washington State Philanthropists to Be Honored on National Philanthropy Day
The Association of Fundraising Professionals – Washington Chapter has called six outstanding philanthropists to account at its 21st celebration National Philanthropy Day bologna on Nov. 13, 2009.
The bologna will be captivated from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center, 800 Convention Place, in city Seattle. More than 1,000 donors, volunteers, leaders and added supporters of non-profit organizations are accepted to appear this accident – one of the better National Philanthropy Day celebrations in the nation.
National Philanthropy Day ceremoniousness and supports the efforts and passions of altruistic leaders and the organizations they serve. Six individuals and organizations will be accustomed for their altruistic work, for advance their passion, time, talents, and banking abutment to bigger their community.
The 2009 honorees are:
Wells Fargo – Outstanding Corporation
Giving aback to the association has been at the affection of Wells Fargo’s ability back the aggregation was founded in 1852. Although not headquartered in Washington, Wells Fargo’s decisions about association giving are fabricated at the bounded level. In 2008, Wells Fargo contributed added than $2.3 actor to added than 400 bounded non-profit organizations throughout Washington state. The aggregation aswell expects its advisers to be association leaders by auspicious chief admiral to serve on non-profit boards and acknowledging aggregation associates who advance their time and expertise. Wells Fargo’s Volunteer Leave Program awards advisers up to four months off with abounding pay and allowances to plan with a non-profit alignment of their best to advice break amusing problems important to them and to body the non-profit’s abiding sustainability. Wells Fargo accurately supports areas the aggregation believes “are important to the approaching of the nation's animation and success: association development, education, and animal services.” Locally, that includes acknowledging abundant educational institutions, affordable housing, amusing account agencies, the arts and the environment. “Central to Wells Fargo’s eyes and ethics is association involvement,” Gaynor M. Hills, controlling administrator of the Bellevue College Foundation, wrote if nominating Wells Fargo for this award. “Whether by authoritative budgetary awards or agents accidental advance hours, Wells Fargo believes in creating bread-and-butter advance and abundance in the communities area its advisers and barter abide and work.”
St. Luke’s Foundation: – Outstanding Foundation
St. Luke’s Foundation is accidental decidedly to the bloom of the Whatcom County community. The Bellingham alignment was founded in 1982 with the auction of St. Luke’s hospital. Proceeds from the auction adjourned the non-profit accessible foundation whose name ceremoniousness the attitude of bloom affliction provided by St. Luke’s Hospital for about a century. This 27-year-old foundation has accepted added than $14 actor to advance the bloom and above of activity for all association in Whatcom County, allegorical how small, bounded foundations can accept immense impacts in their communities and statewide. The appulse doesn’t alone appear from the grants it makes but by the administration apparent by the foundation and its supporters. The alignment has been active in convening humans and institutions to appear up with community-based solutions to boxy association bloom problems. St. Luke’s Foundation was a baton in acclamation the healthcare acceptance crisis in Whatcom County, area too few humans accept bloom insurance, the canton has too few medical providers to accommodated accepted and approaching demands, and accompaniment and federal behavior sometimes get in the way of bounded solutions. St. Luke’s brought calm a accumulation of association ally to set the agenda, armamentarium programs, and abode the crisis. Then, if Whatcom County saw success, St. Luke’s abutting those aforementioned ally to ability out and advice added communities adverse agnate issues and to advance accompaniment and federal action reforms to abutment locally-grown solutions to healthcare access. Whether allowance accouchement get bloom allowance or allotment the bounded aliment bank, St. Luke’s Foundation is an basic contributor to the Whatcom County community.
The Women’s Funding Alliance – Outstanding Organization
Women’s Funding Alliance, based in Seattle, is a Washington accompaniment foundation that invests in and advocates for women and girls. The alignment strategically supports marginalized and under-funded groups that advance accelerating change for women and girls. Since its birth in 1983, the Women’s Funding Alliance has invested in added than 100 organizations, a lot of of them actual small, and in the Puget Sound region. Together these organizations anatomy a association that is advancing the cachet of all women and girls and alive on issues such as poverty, education, safety, leadership, and bloom and well-being. In 2007 the Women’s Funding Alliance appear A Closer Look, a battleground collaborative abstraction accouterment an all-embracing attending at the absolute above of activity of women and girls in the Puget Sound region. This harder affirmation has been acclimated to appulse programs and behavior to advice women and girls advance in this community.
Nancy Skinner Nordhoff – Outstanding Philanthropist
From the time she accelerating academy in 1954, Nancy Skinner Nordhoff has adherent her activity to alms – not just giving, but arch the efforts to alpha new non-profit organizations that are abiding today. Her alms started if she was a child, allowance her mother array through pennies for Children’s Hospital’s allotment drives during the Great Depression. Nancy started her own alms by acceptable breath in the United Way and after became admiral of the Junior League. In 1980, she and seven added women founded Seattle’s CityClub, a able borough alignment to this day. She has had a amazing appulse on abundant organizations about Seattle and on Whidbey Island. There, she founded the Hedgebrook Women’s Writer’s Retreat and the Goosefoot Community Fund to sustain the rural appearance of the island. As an breath affiliate of the National Women’s History Project she helped advance the acceptance of March as National Women’s History Month. Nancy has been a key adherent of the Women’s Funding Alliance, lending banking and administration support. She has accustomed amaranthine hours and dollars to abounding added groups, including the YWCA, Wing Luke Asian Museum, Jubilee Women’s Center, Building Changes (formerly AIDS Housing of Washington), and Seattle Arts & Lectures. But Nancy isn’t one to jump out foreground to crop acclaim for all she does. She generally accomplish up to advance or bang off ample campaigns, and again bound leaves the spotlight for others to crop the helm. “There’s a huge pot of assets that includes skill, time, craft, affairs and aggregate it takes to complete a project,” she says. “The pot is too affluent to aces out just one.”
The Lung Tsuchiya Family – Outstanding Family
Bertha Chinn Lung Tsuchiya larboard abaft a bequest of alms and action if she died in 2004. Her bedmate Herbert Tsuchiya and her 5 children, Gloria Lung Wakayama, Kerry Lung Chew, Lori Pang, Les Lung, and Teri Yoshimura, accept agitated on that tradition, accidental time and money to abounding of the causes she started and accurate in Seattle’s Asian association and beyond. For this family, alms is a aggregate of generosity, association participation, administration and claimed investment. Organizations such as the Wing Luke Asian Museum, Asian Counseling and Referral Service (ACRS), and the University of Washington School of Pharmacy accept benefitted from the family’s aberrant leadership, association and teambuilding skills. The ancestors co-founded ACRS’ Walk for Rice, an anniversary fundraiser benefitting the ACRS aliment bank. Bertha and Herb - two pharmacists - helped alpha Kin On nursing home to serve Chinese and Asian Pacific American elders. Bertha was a role archetypal to abounding adolescent women through her captivation with assorted association girls’ organizations. She served as an adviser to boyish girls in the Chi-ettes and she, her daughters and granddaughters accept all been acutely complex with the Seattle Chinese Community Girls Drill Team. For Herb, mentoring and auspicious adolescent humans accept been capital locations of his activity back he began practicing pharmacy in the backward 1950s. As the buyer of a association pharmacy, he generally assassin adolescent pharmacy graduates and mentored ambitious pharmacists through an all-embracing apprentice barter affairs at the UW. Gloria has served as Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wing Luke Asian Museum and co-chaired its acknowledged $23.2 actor basic campaign. The ancestors has set up several able funds, including one for doctoral pharmacy acceptance gluttonous all-embracing barter opportunities, and a armamentarium at Nikkei Concerns. Bertha’s 5 accouchement abide to chase in her altruistic footsteps by confined on boards and added administration positions for the organizations abutting to Bertha and Herb’s hearts, including United Way of King County, Seattle University, the University of Washington Friends of Educational Opportunity Program, volunteering as adolescence sports coaches and at medical and dental clinics in Thailand, Laos, Viet Nam, Mexico.
Mina Saudagaran – Outstanding Youth
Mina Saudagaran, a 16-year-old inferior at Annie Wright School in Tacoma, lives philanthropy. She is adolescence adumbrative on the United Way of Pierce County Board of Directors and serves as a affiliate of the United Way of Pierce County Volunteer Engagement Advisory Committee. Bethany Opstedal, Youth United Way Program Manager, calls Mina “one of the a lot of committed and amenable associates of our organization.” Due to her efforts, low-income association associates accept been adopted for the holidays by the Youth Leadership Council and Mina was active in the a lot of contempo association acquaintance accident that aloft added than $3,000 for YLC to advice those in charge in the community. “She is anxious about every action she becomes complex with and her aeon account from this foresight. She is aswell auspicious of others as they adventure to advance and has been a abundant abutment for new associates on the council,” Opstedal said. Last year Mina accustomed absorption for her efforts to advice a 17-year-old Afghan babe who was bedridden on her way to academy if she was afflicted by Taliban fighters in an acerbic attack. Mina apprehend the adventure in the New York Times and contacted the anchorman to action to help. Since again she has aloft added than $4,000 to advice pay the girl’s medical costs and motivated a accumulation of third brand acceptance from Tacoma’s Washington-Hoyt Elementary to crop on a chic activity to accession funds for the babe – appropriately agreeable a accomplished new bearing of adolescent philanthropists.
“Anyone can accord if times are flush. But these six awardees accept accustomed even with the abridgement the way it is. They are absolutely adorning and for me they ascertain what it is to be a philanthropist,” said fundraising adviser Andrea John-Smith, who is admiral of AFP Washington.
Tickets for the National Philanthropy Day bologna are $65 afore Oct. 23 and $75 afterwards. Deadline to annals is Nov. 9, 2009. Tickets can be purchased online at www.afpwashington.org or by calling 206-367-8704.
About the Association of Fundraising Professionals: The Washington Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) presents one of the oldest and better National Philanthropy Day celebrations in the country with added than 1,000 attendees. Each November the alignment joins civic and all-embracing colleagues to bless aberrant individuals and organizations that accept committed themselves to philanthropy. Nationally, AFP represents added than 26,000 associates in 172 capacity throughout the world, alive to advanced alms through advocacy, research, apprenticeship and acceptance programs. AFP fosters development and advance of fundraising professionals and promotes top ethical standards in the fundraising profession. For added information, appointment www.afpwashington.org.
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425-603-9520
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The bologna will be captivated from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center, 800 Convention Place, in city Seattle. More than 1,000 donors, volunteers, leaders and added supporters of non-profit organizations are accepted to appear this accident – one of the better National Philanthropy Day celebrations in the nation.
National Philanthropy Day ceremoniousness and supports the efforts and passions of altruistic leaders and the organizations they serve. Six individuals and organizations will be accustomed for their altruistic work, for advance their passion, time, talents, and banking abutment to bigger their community.
The 2009 honorees are:
Wells Fargo – Outstanding Corporation
Giving aback to the association has been at the affection of Wells Fargo’s ability back the aggregation was founded in 1852. Although not headquartered in Washington, Wells Fargo’s decisions about association giving are fabricated at the bounded level. In 2008, Wells Fargo contributed added than $2.3 actor to added than 400 bounded non-profit organizations throughout Washington state. The aggregation aswell expects its advisers to be association leaders by auspicious chief admiral to serve on non-profit boards and acknowledging aggregation associates who advance their time and expertise. Wells Fargo’s Volunteer Leave Program awards advisers up to four months off with abounding pay and allowances to plan with a non-profit alignment of their best to advice break amusing problems important to them and to body the non-profit’s abiding sustainability. Wells Fargo accurately supports areas the aggregation believes “are important to the approaching of the nation's animation and success: association development, education, and animal services.” Locally, that includes acknowledging abundant educational institutions, affordable housing, amusing account agencies, the arts and the environment. “Central to Wells Fargo’s eyes and ethics is association involvement,” Gaynor M. Hills, controlling administrator of the Bellevue College Foundation, wrote if nominating Wells Fargo for this award. “Whether by authoritative budgetary awards or agents accidental advance hours, Wells Fargo believes in creating bread-and-butter advance and abundance in the communities area its advisers and barter abide and work.”
St. Luke’s Foundation: – Outstanding Foundation
St. Luke’s Foundation is accidental decidedly to the bloom of the Whatcom County community. The Bellingham alignment was founded in 1982 with the auction of St. Luke’s hospital. Proceeds from the auction adjourned the non-profit accessible foundation whose name ceremoniousness the attitude of bloom affliction provided by St. Luke’s Hospital for about a century. This 27-year-old foundation has accepted added than $14 actor to advance the bloom and above of activity for all association in Whatcom County, allegorical how small, bounded foundations can accept immense impacts in their communities and statewide. The appulse doesn’t alone appear from the grants it makes but by the administration apparent by the foundation and its supporters. The alignment has been active in convening humans and institutions to appear up with community-based solutions to boxy association bloom problems. St. Luke’s Foundation was a baton in acclamation the healthcare acceptance crisis in Whatcom County, area too few humans accept bloom insurance, the canton has too few medical providers to accommodated accepted and approaching demands, and accompaniment and federal behavior sometimes get in the way of bounded solutions. St. Luke’s brought calm a accumulation of association ally to set the agenda, armamentarium programs, and abode the crisis. Then, if Whatcom County saw success, St. Luke’s abutting those aforementioned ally to ability out and advice added communities adverse agnate issues and to advance accompaniment and federal action reforms to abutment locally-grown solutions to healthcare access. Whether allowance accouchement get bloom allowance or allotment the bounded aliment bank, St. Luke’s Foundation is an basic contributor to the Whatcom County community.
The Women’s Funding Alliance – Outstanding Organization
Women’s Funding Alliance, based in Seattle, is a Washington accompaniment foundation that invests in and advocates for women and girls. The alignment strategically supports marginalized and under-funded groups that advance accelerating change for women and girls. Since its birth in 1983, the Women’s Funding Alliance has invested in added than 100 organizations, a lot of of them actual small, and in the Puget Sound region. Together these organizations anatomy a association that is advancing the cachet of all women and girls and alive on issues such as poverty, education, safety, leadership, and bloom and well-being. In 2007 the Women’s Funding Alliance appear A Closer Look, a battleground collaborative abstraction accouterment an all-embracing attending at the absolute above of activity of women and girls in the Puget Sound region. This harder affirmation has been acclimated to appulse programs and behavior to advice women and girls advance in this community.
Nancy Skinner Nordhoff – Outstanding Philanthropist
From the time she accelerating academy in 1954, Nancy Skinner Nordhoff has adherent her activity to alms – not just giving, but arch the efforts to alpha new non-profit organizations that are abiding today. Her alms started if she was a child, allowance her mother array through pennies for Children’s Hospital’s allotment drives during the Great Depression. Nancy started her own alms by acceptable breath in the United Way and after became admiral of the Junior League. In 1980, she and seven added women founded Seattle’s CityClub, a able borough alignment to this day. She has had a amazing appulse on abundant organizations about Seattle and on Whidbey Island. There, she founded the Hedgebrook Women’s Writer’s Retreat and the Goosefoot Community Fund to sustain the rural appearance of the island. As an breath affiliate of the National Women’s History Project she helped advance the acceptance of March as National Women’s History Month. Nancy has been a key adherent of the Women’s Funding Alliance, lending banking and administration support. She has accustomed amaranthine hours and dollars to abounding added groups, including the YWCA, Wing Luke Asian Museum, Jubilee Women’s Center, Building Changes (formerly AIDS Housing of Washington), and Seattle Arts & Lectures. But Nancy isn’t one to jump out foreground to crop acclaim for all she does. She generally accomplish up to advance or bang off ample campaigns, and again bound leaves the spotlight for others to crop the helm. “There’s a huge pot of assets that includes skill, time, craft, affairs and aggregate it takes to complete a project,” she says. “The pot is too affluent to aces out just one.”
The Lung Tsuchiya Family – Outstanding Family
Bertha Chinn Lung Tsuchiya larboard abaft a bequest of alms and action if she died in 2004. Her bedmate Herbert Tsuchiya and her 5 children, Gloria Lung Wakayama, Kerry Lung Chew, Lori Pang, Les Lung, and Teri Yoshimura, accept agitated on that tradition, accidental time and money to abounding of the causes she started and accurate in Seattle’s Asian association and beyond. For this family, alms is a aggregate of generosity, association participation, administration and claimed investment. Organizations such as the Wing Luke Asian Museum, Asian Counseling and Referral Service (ACRS), and the University of Washington School of Pharmacy accept benefitted from the family’s aberrant leadership, association and teambuilding skills. The ancestors co-founded ACRS’ Walk for Rice, an anniversary fundraiser benefitting the ACRS aliment bank. Bertha and Herb - two pharmacists - helped alpha Kin On nursing home to serve Chinese and Asian Pacific American elders. Bertha was a role archetypal to abounding adolescent women through her captivation with assorted association girls’ organizations. She served as an adviser to boyish girls in the Chi-ettes and she, her daughters and granddaughters accept all been acutely complex with the Seattle Chinese Community Girls Drill Team. For Herb, mentoring and auspicious adolescent humans accept been capital locations of his activity back he began practicing pharmacy in the backward 1950s. As the buyer of a association pharmacy, he generally assassin adolescent pharmacy graduates and mentored ambitious pharmacists through an all-embracing apprentice barter affairs at the UW. Gloria has served as Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wing Luke Asian Museum and co-chaired its acknowledged $23.2 actor basic campaign. The ancestors has set up several able funds, including one for doctoral pharmacy acceptance gluttonous all-embracing barter opportunities, and a armamentarium at Nikkei Concerns. Bertha’s 5 accouchement abide to chase in her altruistic footsteps by confined on boards and added administration positions for the organizations abutting to Bertha and Herb’s hearts, including United Way of King County, Seattle University, the University of Washington Friends of Educational Opportunity Program, volunteering as adolescence sports coaches and at medical and dental clinics in Thailand, Laos, Viet Nam, Mexico.
Mina Saudagaran – Outstanding Youth
Mina Saudagaran, a 16-year-old inferior at Annie Wright School in Tacoma, lives philanthropy. She is adolescence adumbrative on the United Way of Pierce County Board of Directors and serves as a affiliate of the United Way of Pierce County Volunteer Engagement Advisory Committee. Bethany Opstedal, Youth United Way Program Manager, calls Mina “one of the a lot of committed and amenable associates of our organization.” Due to her efforts, low-income association associates accept been adopted for the holidays by the Youth Leadership Council and Mina was active in the a lot of contempo association acquaintance accident that aloft added than $3,000 for YLC to advice those in charge in the community. “She is anxious about every action she becomes complex with and her aeon account from this foresight. She is aswell auspicious of others as they adventure to advance and has been a abundant abutment for new associates on the council,” Opstedal said. Last year Mina accustomed absorption for her efforts to advice a 17-year-old Afghan babe who was bedridden on her way to academy if she was afflicted by Taliban fighters in an acerbic attack. Mina apprehend the adventure in the New York Times and contacted the anchorman to action to help. Since again she has aloft added than $4,000 to advice pay the girl’s medical costs and motivated a accumulation of third brand acceptance from Tacoma’s Washington-Hoyt Elementary to crop on a chic activity to accession funds for the babe – appropriately agreeable a accomplished new bearing of adolescent philanthropists.
“Anyone can accord if times are flush. But these six awardees accept accustomed even with the abridgement the way it is. They are absolutely adorning and for me they ascertain what it is to be a philanthropist,” said fundraising adviser Andrea John-Smith, who is admiral of AFP Washington.
Tickets for the National Philanthropy Day bologna are $65 afore Oct. 23 and $75 afterwards. Deadline to annals is Nov. 9, 2009. Tickets can be purchased online at www.afpwashington.org or by calling 206-367-8704.
About the Association of Fundraising Professionals: The Washington Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) presents one of the oldest and better National Philanthropy Day celebrations in the country with added than 1,000 attendees. Each November the alignment joins civic and all-embracing colleagues to bless aberrant individuals and organizations that accept committed themselves to philanthropy. Nationally, AFP represents added than 26,000 associates in 172 capacity throughout the world, alive to advanced alms through advocacy, research, apprenticeship and acceptance programs. AFP fosters development and advance of fundraising professionals and promotes top ethical standards in the fundraising profession. For added information, appointment www.afpwashington.org.
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Windsong Nursing Home in Manly Now Fully Open
With growing appeal for luxury, extra-service age-old affliction beds on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Windsong nursing home at Manly is the ideal best for families who ambition above affliction for their admired ones while befitting them abutting to home. Windsong has 82 private, high-care apartment with ensuites, courtyard area as able-bodied as a defended addition for association with abnormality dementia.
Windsong at Manly is aswell accouterment abundant bare acquittal beds which are consistently in top appeal abnormally during anniversary times.
Director of Nursing at Windsong, Rachel Fairweather, said appeal for the blazon of accessories that Windsong offers has been even greater than anticipated. “More than 100 humans accept already toured the new ability in the endure six months. Certainly our official aperture with columnist Thomas Keneally AO created a lot of interest. Mr Keneally is a abundance and our association were captivated that he could accompany us.”
“Our association are decidedly adequate the advanced ambit of amusing activities we accept on offer. The Windsong agents accept put a lot of time into developing links with the bounded association organisations including Stella Maris College, Knitting for the Needy, bounded artists and volunteers. Warringah Library has aswell been a abundant abutment in allowance us set up our aboriginal citizen Book Club which starts after this month.”
As able-bodied as the aboriginal chic facilities, Windsong nursing home in Manly is calmly amid to accessible transport, association accessories and is alone account from beaches and admirable Manly Dam.
For added advice amuse acquaintance Rachel Fairweather on (02) 9951 0400 or appointment www.cookcare.com.au
Cook Care is a ancestors endemic and operated accumulation of companies accustomed in 1987.
The Cook Care Vision is "Excellence after Compromise". All Cook Care accessories abide to accomplish abounding accreditation with the Aged Care Standards Agency and are recognised in the association as alms top above affliction standards.
Windsong at Manly is aswell accouterment abundant bare acquittal beds which are consistently in top appeal abnormally during anniversary times.
Director of Nursing at Windsong, Rachel Fairweather, said appeal for the blazon of accessories that Windsong offers has been even greater than anticipated. “More than 100 humans accept already toured the new ability in the endure six months. Certainly our official aperture with columnist Thomas Keneally AO created a lot of interest. Mr Keneally is a abundance and our association were captivated that he could accompany us.”
“Our association are decidedly adequate the advanced ambit of amusing activities we accept on offer. The Windsong agents accept put a lot of time into developing links with the bounded association organisations including Stella Maris College, Knitting for the Needy, bounded artists and volunteers. Warringah Library has aswell been a abundant abutment in allowance us set up our aboriginal citizen Book Club which starts after this month.”
As able-bodied as the aboriginal chic facilities, Windsong nursing home in Manly is calmly amid to accessible transport, association accessories and is alone account from beaches and admirable Manly Dam.
For added advice amuse acquaintance Rachel Fairweather on (02) 9951 0400 or appointment www.cookcare.com.au
Cook Care is a ancestors endemic and operated accumulation of companies accustomed in 1987.
The Cook Care Vision is "Excellence after Compromise". All Cook Care accessories abide to accomplish abounding accreditation with the Aged Care Standards Agency and are recognised in the association as alms top above affliction standards.
Raleigh Regional Association Of REALTORS® Hosts Rally To Support Our Troops
John Wood, admiral of the Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® (RRAR) (www.rrar.com), has appear that from Nov. 1 through Nov. 23, the Association will host the RRAR Rally to Support Our Troops. During this time, RRAR will be accepting donations of assorted items to forward to the better USO Distribution Center in Baghdad, which is anon accepting managed by bounded REALTOR®, Terry Benson. Requested items cover baby bottles of duke sanitizer, Chapstick, charwoman cloths and rags, travel-size bottles of absterge and conditioner, toothbrushes and toothpaste. Among added donation needs are chewing gum, bottom and anatomy powder, razors and atom cream, sunscreen, insect repellant and more. Participants may accompany items they ambition to accord to the Association bead box, amid at 111 Realtors Way in Cary.
QUOTES:
“It is important that we abide alert and abutment our troops who abide across during the anniversary season,” said Raymond Larcher, controlling carnality admiral of RRAR. “We achievement our association will advice us in accomplishing so with a donation of any kind.”
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DETAILS:
-Terry Benson, a accomplished RRAR member, is confined a 12 to 16 ages position with the USO area he is aperture the better USO administration point in the Middle East.
ABOUT RALEIGH REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®:
For added than 70 years, the Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® has been the area’s baton in absolute estate, accouterment above programs to advice its associates bear a countless of absolute acreage casework in the Raleigh area. Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® offers associates a all-inclusive ability of services, articles and programs to accommodated the evolving needs of the absolute acreage industry and consumers. These assets cover educational programs, Triangle MLS access, networking opportunities and more. The affiliation aswell serves as a arch advocate of clandestine acreage rights and association involvement. For added information, appointment www.rrar.com.
Michelle Fowler
MMI Public Relations
(919) 233-6600
michelle@mmipublicrelations.com http://twitter.com/MMIPR
www.mmipublicrelations.com
QUOTES:
“It is important that we abide alert and abutment our troops who abide across during the anniversary season,” said Raymond Larcher, controlling carnality admiral of RRAR. “We achievement our association will advice us in accomplishing so with a donation of any kind.”
NEW MEDIA CONTENT:
www.twitter.com/RaleighREALTORS
www.facebook.com/RaleighRegionalAssociationofRealtors
www.linkedin.com/companies/raleigh-regional-association-of-realtors
DETAILS:
-Terry Benson, a accomplished RRAR member, is confined a 12 to 16 ages position with the USO area he is aperture the better USO administration point in the Middle East.
ABOUT RALEIGH REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®:
For added than 70 years, the Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® has been the area’s baton in absolute estate, accouterment above programs to advice its associates bear a countless of absolute acreage casework in the Raleigh area. Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® offers associates a all-inclusive ability of services, articles and programs to accommodated the evolving needs of the absolute acreage industry and consumers. These assets cover educational programs, Triangle MLS access, networking opportunities and more. The affiliation aswell serves as a arch advocate of clandestine acreage rights and association involvement. For added information, appointment www.rrar.com.
Michelle Fowler
MMI Public Relations
(919) 233-6600
michelle@mmipublicrelations.com http://twitter.com/MMIPR
www.mmipublicrelations.com
Raleigh Regional Association Of REALTORS® Names Hall of Fame Award Recipients
John Wood, admiral of the Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® (RRAR) (www.rrar.com), appear the recipients of the 2009 Annual Hall of Fame Awards. The honorees this year cover Raymond Larcher, Ed Willer, Carter Worthy, Parker Creech and the backward Ray Stivers. The awards were presented in a clandestine ceremony, which included abutting associated and family, on Dec. 3 at 4:30 p.m. at RRAR address amid at 111 REALTORS® Way in Cary.
About this year’s recipients:
Among his abounding accomplishments, Raymond Charles Larcher has been the controlling carnality admiral of RRAR for added than 16 years afterwards abutting in 1994 if the affiliation had a simple 2,200 members. Prior to his associates in Raleigh, Larcher spent over a decade at the NC Association in REALTORS® in Greensboro, as able-bodied as served as the controlling administrator of the NC Real Estate Educational Foundation and administrator of the association’s anniversary Convention.
Ed Willer is the accepted admiral of York Properties Residential. In accession to confined as a accomplished admiral of RRAR, Willer has aswell been called as a REALTOR® of the Year and serves as the admiral of the North Carolina Educational Foundation. Ed is a able accepter in association service, and acts as a axle affiliate of Wake County United Way, the Chamber of Commerce and Wake Education.
Carter Worthy began her acknowledged absolute acreage career in the Triangle afterwards admission from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1982, and has been an breath association assistant in a advanced array of industry, accessible and advance roles. In accession to confined on the RRAR Board of Directors, she was called Realtor of the Year by the Triangle Commercial Association of Realtors in 1998.
Parker Creech accelerating from East Carolina University with a absorption in Real Estate and Marketing afore he began his absolute acreage career in 1977 in Wilson, North Carolina at Etheridge and Associates. He confused to Raleigh in 1984, still associated with Etheridge, after alive with Steve Eastman. Creech came to plan with Zack Bacon in 1987 – now with Prudential York Simpson Underwood Realty. Creech served as admiral of across axle and was called its Realtor of the Year. He is a founding affiliate of the Raleigh Regional Association of Realtors Foundation. On the accompaniment level, he served as a bounded carnality admiral and a adherent of North Carolina Association of Realtors’ Homes 4 NC.
Raymond Stivers was one of the aboriginal “southern gentlemen” of absolute acreage aback in the backward sixties and aboriginal seventies. Stivers initially abutting Ogburn Realty and after formed and co-owned Blakely-Stivers Realty afore catastrophe his career with Simpson Underwood. He served as admiral of RRAR in 1974 and remained an breath axle affiliate as able-bodied as a association assistant through his role as broker of the Brooks Avenue Church of Christ afore his afterlife in 1986.
QUOTES:
“It is our abundant amusement to account this year’s Hall of Fame Award recipients,” said Wood. “RRAR appreciates the harder plan of all of its associates and we adore acquainted those who accept committed their time and fabricated constant contributions to the association.”
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www.facebook.com/RaleighRegionalAssociationofRealtors
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ABOUT RALEIGH REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®:
For added than 70 years, the Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® has been the area’s baton in absolute estate, accouterment above programs to advice its associates bear a countless of absolute acreage casework in the Raleigh area. Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® offers associates a all-inclusive ability of services, articles and programs to accommodated the evolving needs of the absolute acreage industry and consumers. These assets cover educational programs, Triangle MLS access, networking opportunities and more. The affiliation aswell serves as a arch advocate of clandestine acreage rights and association involvement. For added information, appointment www.rrar.com.
Michelle Fowler
MMI Public Relations
(919) 233-6600
michelle@mmipublicrelations.com http://twitter.com/MMIPR
www.mmipublicrelations.com
About this year’s recipients:
Among his abounding accomplishments, Raymond Charles Larcher has been the controlling carnality admiral of RRAR for added than 16 years afterwards abutting in 1994 if the affiliation had a simple 2,200 members. Prior to his associates in Raleigh, Larcher spent over a decade at the NC Association in REALTORS® in Greensboro, as able-bodied as served as the controlling administrator of the NC Real Estate Educational Foundation and administrator of the association’s anniversary Convention.
Ed Willer is the accepted admiral of York Properties Residential. In accession to confined as a accomplished admiral of RRAR, Willer has aswell been called as a REALTOR® of the Year and serves as the admiral of the North Carolina Educational Foundation. Ed is a able accepter in association service, and acts as a axle affiliate of Wake County United Way, the Chamber of Commerce and Wake Education.
Carter Worthy began her acknowledged absolute acreage career in the Triangle afterwards admission from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1982, and has been an breath association assistant in a advanced array of industry, accessible and advance roles. In accession to confined on the RRAR Board of Directors, she was called Realtor of the Year by the Triangle Commercial Association of Realtors in 1998.
Parker Creech accelerating from East Carolina University with a absorption in Real Estate and Marketing afore he began his absolute acreage career in 1977 in Wilson, North Carolina at Etheridge and Associates. He confused to Raleigh in 1984, still associated with Etheridge, after alive with Steve Eastman. Creech came to plan with Zack Bacon in 1987 – now with Prudential York Simpson Underwood Realty. Creech served as admiral of across axle and was called its Realtor of the Year. He is a founding affiliate of the Raleigh Regional Association of Realtors Foundation. On the accompaniment level, he served as a bounded carnality admiral and a adherent of North Carolina Association of Realtors’ Homes 4 NC.
Raymond Stivers was one of the aboriginal “southern gentlemen” of absolute acreage aback in the backward sixties and aboriginal seventies. Stivers initially abutting Ogburn Realty and after formed and co-owned Blakely-Stivers Realty afore catastrophe his career with Simpson Underwood. He served as admiral of RRAR in 1974 and remained an breath axle affiliate as able-bodied as a association assistant through his role as broker of the Brooks Avenue Church of Christ afore his afterlife in 1986.
QUOTES:
“It is our abundant amusement to account this year’s Hall of Fame Award recipients,” said Wood. “RRAR appreciates the harder plan of all of its associates and we adore acquainted those who accept committed their time and fabricated constant contributions to the association.”
NEW MEDIA CONTENT:
www.twitter.com/RaleighREALTORS
www.facebook.com/RaleighRegionalAssociationofRealtors
www.linkedin.com/companies/raleigh-regional-association-of-realtors
ABOUT RALEIGH REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®:
For added than 70 years, the Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® has been the area’s baton in absolute estate, accouterment above programs to advice its associates bear a countless of absolute acreage casework in the Raleigh area. Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® offers associates a all-inclusive ability of services, articles and programs to accommodated the evolving needs of the absolute acreage industry and consumers. These assets cover educational programs, Triangle MLS access, networking opportunities and more. The affiliation aswell serves as a arch advocate of clandestine acreage rights and association involvement. For added information, appointment www.rrar.com.
Michelle Fowler
MMI Public Relations
(919) 233-6600
michelle@mmipublicrelations.com http://twitter.com/MMIPR
www.mmipublicrelations.com
Stockland Cleans Up Sustainable Company Of The Year Award
Stockland has been called Sustainable Company of the Year at the 9th Australian Sustainability Awards at a bologna in Melbourne today.
The Awards, hosted annually by Ethical Investor magazine, recognise outstanding accomplishment by Australian Securities Exchange-listed companies in a ambit of areas of accumulated sustainability.
Stockland accustomed the accolade for its advancing charge to sustainability, acclimation environmental, amusing and bread-and-butter outcomes.
Stockland Managing Director Matthew Quinn said the aggregation was captivated to accept been recognised by Ethical Investor for its charge to accomplish ethically, responsibly and in a acceptable way.
“We accept accomplished a abundant accord this year by creating a added able-bodied sustainability action for our Residential and Retirement Living businesses, as able-bodied as continuing to focus on convalescent the sustainability achievement of our assets,” said Mr Quinn.
Stockland was aswell recognised for its charge to creating acceptable and active communities through stakeholder engagement, association development and association involvement.
“At Stockland, we aim to actualize acceptable and active communities by agreeable with the bounded association and added key stakeholders,” Mr Quinn said.
This access has been formalised over the accomplished year with the development of a Stakeholder Engagement Framework and bright stakeholder assurance plan templates for all of its projects.
“We are currently adorning our community development affairs and aim to acquaint world-class initiatives on amusing sustainability.
“Our association investment affairs has been developed by our humans and allows us to accomplish a absolute appulse in the communities in which we operate,” said Mr Quinn.
Stockland contributed $3.4 actor in association investment in FY09, with added than 44 percent of advisers volunteering time to coach acceptance and abutment bounded communities.
Stockland ecology highlights from the accomplished year include:
• Achieved ‘Gold’ associates of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index World in aboriginal 2009. The Index represents the top 10 percent of the arch companies globally, with four acreage companies awarded ‘Gold’ status. Stockland is aswell included in the FTESE4Good Index which recognises organisations that administer and authenticate outcomes adjoin environmental, amusing and babyminding principles.
• Listed in the Australian Climate Leadership Index in 2009 which ante companies with beat strategies on altitude change.
• Two projects, Stockhome and 2 Victoria Avenue, Perth, accomplished their final Green Star accreditation with both accomplishing 6 Stars (‘World Leadership’).
For added advice amuse appointment http://www.stockland.com.au/About/Sustainability
For media enquiries contact
Katie Lennon
Media Relations Manager,
Media and Corporate Communication
Stockland
T +61 (0)2 9035 2552
M +61 (0)406 316 907
Stockland Corporation Ltd ACN 000
The Awards, hosted annually by Ethical Investor magazine, recognise outstanding accomplishment by Australian Securities Exchange-listed companies in a ambit of areas of accumulated sustainability.
Stockland accustomed the accolade for its advancing charge to sustainability, acclimation environmental, amusing and bread-and-butter outcomes.
Stockland Managing Director Matthew Quinn said the aggregation was captivated to accept been recognised by Ethical Investor for its charge to accomplish ethically, responsibly and in a acceptable way.
“We accept accomplished a abundant accord this year by creating a added able-bodied sustainability action for our Residential and Retirement Living businesses, as able-bodied as continuing to focus on convalescent the sustainability achievement of our assets,” said Mr Quinn.
Stockland was aswell recognised for its charge to creating acceptable and active communities through stakeholder engagement, association development and association involvement.
“At Stockland, we aim to actualize acceptable and active communities by agreeable with the bounded association and added key stakeholders,” Mr Quinn said.
This access has been formalised over the accomplished year with the development of a Stakeholder Engagement Framework and bright stakeholder assurance plan templates for all of its projects.
“We are currently adorning our community development affairs and aim to acquaint world-class initiatives on amusing sustainability.
“Our association investment affairs has been developed by our humans and allows us to accomplish a absolute appulse in the communities in which we operate,” said Mr Quinn.
Stockland contributed $3.4 actor in association investment in FY09, with added than 44 percent of advisers volunteering time to coach acceptance and abutment bounded communities.
Stockland ecology highlights from the accomplished year include:
• Achieved ‘Gold’ associates of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index World in aboriginal 2009. The Index represents the top 10 percent of the arch companies globally, with four acreage companies awarded ‘Gold’ status. Stockland is aswell included in the FTESE4Good Index which recognises organisations that administer and authenticate outcomes adjoin environmental, amusing and babyminding principles.
• Listed in the Australian Climate Leadership Index in 2009 which ante companies with beat strategies on altitude change.
• Two projects, Stockhome and 2 Victoria Avenue, Perth, accomplished their final Green Star accreditation with both accomplishing 6 Stars (‘World Leadership’).
For added advice amuse appointment http://www.stockland.com.au/About/Sustainability
For media enquiries contact
Katie Lennon
Media Relations Manager,
Media and Corporate Communication
Stockland
T +61 (0)2 9035 2552
M +61 (0)406 316 907
Stockland Corporation Ltd ACN 000
CEEOA Are to Host a Set of Webinars on IT Outsourcing Potential of the CEE Countries
Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association are to host a set of webinars advised to present IT outsourcing abeyant of the better countries from Central and Eastern Europe. The webinars are appointed for January 2010 through March 2010 and will accommodate the presentation of the opportunities for IT outsourcing development in the countries of the CEE arena – Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria. The civic industry associations will host the abstracted webinars on anniversary country presentation.
The capital cold of the webinars is to popularize the Central and Eastern European arena as a provider of adopted and nearshore outsourcing IT services. The participants of the webinars will be able to accept the abundant advice about anniversary country from the region, apprentice the advantages of business ambience up and development in the countries, akin of accomplishment and amount of the graduates of IT professions. The speakers will present the capital centers of IT outsourcing in the countries and the a lot of cogent case studies.
The webinars are advised for the admirers of outsourcing casework consumers, who are analytic for the opportunities to collaborate, set up R&D offices in the CEE countries, and those who are absorbed to alpha alive in the IT outsourcing industry.
Mr. Saulius Masalskis, Chairman and Managing Director of Baltic Outsourcing Association, noted, “It is our aboriginal alternation of online presentations on the accepted overview of the CEE countries, but we intend to hosting the webinars on continuing base with the abundant advertisement about the abstracted bazaar segments and presentations from the arch CEE companies. The webinar architecture allows us to be added afterpiece to our audience and to awning the area of average and baby business, which is still not abundant application the advantages of outsourcing for their business activities.”
The alternation of webinars will abide of 6 absolute webinars, aboriginal of which will be captivated on 13th of January.
Webinars agenda and organizers:
13 January, 2010 – Ukraine, the webinar is hosted by Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative (http://www.hi-tech.org.ua)
27 January, 2010 – Romania, the webinar is hosted by Employers’ Association of the Software and Services Industry –ANIS (http://www.anis.ro)
10 February, 2010 – Hungary, the webinar is hosted by Hungarian Service and Outsourcing Association – HOA (http://www.hoa.hu)
24 February, 2010 – Lithuania, the webinar is hosted by Baltic Outsourcing Association – BOA (http://www.balticoutsourcing.com)
10 March, 2010 – Poland, the webinar is hosted by Association of IT & Business Process Services Companies – ASPIRE (http://www.aspire.org.pl)
24 March, 2010 – Bulgaria, the webinar is hosted by Bulgarian Web Association – BWA (http://www.bwa.bg)
Attending of the webinars will accommodate an befalling to accomplish the aboriginal footfall in the accord with outsourcing companies from Central and Eastern Europe.
All webinars are chargeless to attend. Register for the webinars now! (http://ceeoa.org/en/news/ceeoa-news/registration-webinars-ceeoa/index.html)
About CEEOA
Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association (CEEOA) (www.ceeoa.org) was founded in 2008. The associates of the affiliation are the arch civic IT and Outsourcing associations from the Central and Eastern Europe, a allotment of them Baltic Outsourcing Association (BOA), Ukrainian HI-TECH Initiative, Hungarian Service Industry and Outsourcing Association (HOA), Employers’ Association of the Software and Services Industry (ANIS) from Romania, Bulgarian Web Association (BWA) and ASPIRE - Association of IT & Business Process Services Companies (Poland). One of the capital objectives of CEEOA is to advance the Central and Eastern European Region as aggressive addition to added Global offshoring destinations, and to access casework accumulation above and aggregate to the accustomed standards.
Marina Osadchuk
CEEOA
email: m.osadchuk@ceeoa.org
website: http://ceeoa.org .
The capital cold of the webinars is to popularize the Central and Eastern European arena as a provider of adopted and nearshore outsourcing IT services. The participants of the webinars will be able to accept the abundant advice about anniversary country from the region, apprentice the advantages of business ambience up and development in the countries, akin of accomplishment and amount of the graduates of IT professions. The speakers will present the capital centers of IT outsourcing in the countries and the a lot of cogent case studies.
The webinars are advised for the admirers of outsourcing casework consumers, who are analytic for the opportunities to collaborate, set up R&D offices in the CEE countries, and those who are absorbed to alpha alive in the IT outsourcing industry.
Mr. Saulius Masalskis, Chairman and Managing Director of Baltic Outsourcing Association, noted, “It is our aboriginal alternation of online presentations on the accepted overview of the CEE countries, but we intend to hosting the webinars on continuing base with the abundant advertisement about the abstracted bazaar segments and presentations from the arch CEE companies. The webinar architecture allows us to be added afterpiece to our audience and to awning the area of average and baby business, which is still not abundant application the advantages of outsourcing for their business activities.”
The alternation of webinars will abide of 6 absolute webinars, aboriginal of which will be captivated on 13th of January.
Webinars agenda and organizers:
13 January, 2010 – Ukraine, the webinar is hosted by Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative (http://www.hi-tech.org.ua)
27 January, 2010 – Romania, the webinar is hosted by Employers’ Association of the Software and Services Industry –ANIS (http://www.anis.ro)
10 February, 2010 – Hungary, the webinar is hosted by Hungarian Service and Outsourcing Association – HOA (http://www.hoa.hu)
24 February, 2010 – Lithuania, the webinar is hosted by Baltic Outsourcing Association – BOA (http://www.balticoutsourcing.com)
10 March, 2010 – Poland, the webinar is hosted by Association of IT & Business Process Services Companies – ASPIRE (http://www.aspire.org.pl)
24 March, 2010 – Bulgaria, the webinar is hosted by Bulgarian Web Association – BWA (http://www.bwa.bg)
Attending of the webinars will accommodate an befalling to accomplish the aboriginal footfall in the accord with outsourcing companies from Central and Eastern Europe.
All webinars are chargeless to attend. Register for the webinars now! (http://ceeoa.org/en/news/ceeoa-news/registration-webinars-ceeoa/index.html)
About CEEOA
Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association (CEEOA) (www.ceeoa.org) was founded in 2008. The associates of the affiliation are the arch civic IT and Outsourcing associations from the Central and Eastern Europe, a allotment of them Baltic Outsourcing Association (BOA), Ukrainian HI-TECH Initiative, Hungarian Service Industry and Outsourcing Association (HOA), Employers’ Association of the Software and Services Industry (ANIS) from Romania, Bulgarian Web Association (BWA) and ASPIRE - Association of IT & Business Process Services Companies (Poland). One of the capital objectives of CEEOA is to advance the Central and Eastern European Region as aggressive addition to added Global offshoring destinations, and to access casework accumulation above and aggregate to the accustomed standards.
Marina Osadchuk
CEEOA
email: m.osadchuk@ceeoa.org
website: http://ceeoa.org .
ATCOM Business Telecom Solutions Director Of Sales Graduates From Leadership Raleigh
David Finch, admiral of ATCOM Business Telecom Solutions (www.atcombts.com), a communications solutions provider, has appear that Dan Litman, administrator of sales for the firm, accelerating from the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Raleigh affairs on June 11. As a actor in the nine-month program, Litman acquired an all-embracing angle of association issues, acid his administration abilities and acquired acknowledgment to association captivation opportunities. Over the advance of the affairs he advised the qualities that accomplish an able leader, analyzed alone administration roles and met with key association leaders to altercate issues.
Candidates were called for Leadership Raleigh based on approved administration adeptness and potential, association absorption and captivation and the admiration to accept broadcast association responsibility. For added information, appointment www.raleighchamber.org/events_leadership.aspx.
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News Facts:
•Dan Litman, administrator of sales for ATCOM Business Telecom Solutions, accelerating from the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Raleigh affairs on June 11.
•As a actor in the nine-month program, Litman acquired an all-embracing angle of association issues, acid his administration abilities and acquired acknowledgment to association captivation opportunities.
•Over the advance of the affairs he advised the qualities that accomplish an able leader, analyzed alone administration roles and met with key association leaders to altercate issues.
•Candidates were called for Leadership Raleigh based on approved administration adeptness and potential, association absorption and captivation and the admiration to accept broadcast association responsibility.
Quotes:
“I crop pride in my accord with Leadership Raleigh because it provides abundant acquirements accoutrement and assets for business professionals,” said Litman. “I benefited from the affairs in so abounding ways, but mostly by acquirements how to bigger serve my association through my profession.”
About ATCOM Business Telecom Solutions:
ATCOM Business Telecom Solutions, a advice solutions provider founded in 1979, is an industry baton in business telecommunications with an ability in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), a technology that enables businesses to advancement their absolute systems while all-embracing Internet technologies such as the Web, e-mail, burning messaging, attendance and video conferencing. With a applicant abject absolute over 5,000 businesses, ATCOM offers deployment of business blast systems, unified messaging systems, wireless solutions, LAN/WAN infrastructure/services, video conferencing, carrier arrangement casework for bounded and continued distance, and structured cabling solutions for articulation and data. The privately-held close is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, with bounded offices in Charlotte and the Triad. ATCOM has alert accustomed accolade acceptance as one of North Carolina’s Top 50 Technology Companies, a lot of afresh in 2001. For added information, amuse alarm (800) 849-8266 or appointment the Web website at www.atcombts.com.
Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
Candidates were called for Leadership Raleigh based on approved administration adeptness and potential, association absorption and captivation and the admiration to accept broadcast association responsibility. For added information, appointment www.raleighchamber.org/events_leadership.aspx.
Related Links:
www.atcombts.com
www.raleighchamber.org/events_leadership.aspx
News Facts:
•Dan Litman, administrator of sales for ATCOM Business Telecom Solutions, accelerating from the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Raleigh affairs on June 11.
•As a actor in the nine-month program, Litman acquired an all-embracing angle of association issues, acid his administration abilities and acquired acknowledgment to association captivation opportunities.
•Over the advance of the affairs he advised the qualities that accomplish an able leader, analyzed alone administration roles and met with key association leaders to altercate issues.
•Candidates were called for Leadership Raleigh based on approved administration adeptness and potential, association absorption and captivation and the admiration to accept broadcast association responsibility.
Quotes:
“I crop pride in my accord with Leadership Raleigh because it provides abundant acquirements accoutrement and assets for business professionals,” said Litman. “I benefited from the affairs in so abounding ways, but mostly by acquirements how to bigger serve my association through my profession.”
About ATCOM Business Telecom Solutions:
ATCOM Business Telecom Solutions, a advice solutions provider founded in 1979, is an industry baton in business telecommunications with an ability in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), a technology that enables businesses to advancement their absolute systems while all-embracing Internet technologies such as the Web, e-mail, burning messaging, attendance and video conferencing. With a applicant abject absolute over 5,000 businesses, ATCOM offers deployment of business blast systems, unified messaging systems, wireless solutions, LAN/WAN infrastructure/services, video conferencing, carrier arrangement casework for bounded and continued distance, and structured cabling solutions for articulation and data. The privately-held close is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, with bounded offices in Charlotte and the Triad. ATCOM has alert accustomed accolade acceptance as one of North Carolina’s Top 50 Technology Companies, a lot of afresh in 2001. For added information, amuse alarm (800) 849-8266 or appointment the Web website at www.atcombts.com.
Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
Raleigh Regional Association Of REALTORS® Hosts Planning And Administration Event
John Wood, admiral of the Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® (RRAR) (www.rrar.com) has appear that the Association’s Triangle REALTORS® Leadership Academy will host a planning and administering accident on June 26 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. featuring keynote speaker, Jim Manke. Manke is admiral of Association Solutions, Inc., a full-service affiliation administration and consulting close headquartered in Minneapolis. The amount of his abetment access is the aesthetics of bond action with leadership. The Triangle REALTORS® Leadership Academy prepares baddest REALTOR® associates for absolute and approaching Association, community, civic, religious, political and claimed administration opportunities.
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www.rrar.com
News Facts:
•John Wood, admiral of the Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® (RRAR) (www.rrar.com) has appear that the Association’s Triangle REALTORS® Leadership Academy will host a planning and administering accident on June 26 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. featuring keynote speaker, Jim Manke.
•Manke is admiral of Association Solutions, Inc., a full-service affiliation administration and consulting close headquartered in Minneapolis.
•The amount of his abetment access is the aesthetics of bond action with leadership.
•The Triangle REALTORS® Leadership Academy prepares baddest REALTOR® associates for absolute and approaching Association, community, civic, religious, political and claimed administration opportunities.
Quotes:
“We are aflame to accept Jim Manke allege at this event,” said Raymond Larcher, controlling carnality admiral of RRAR. “He has formed with added than 150 civic accompaniment and bounded able societies and associations and this will be abundant befalling for our Triangle REALTORS® Leadership Academy.”
About Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS®:
For added than 70 years, the Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® has been the area’s baton in absolute estate, accouterment above programs to advice its associates bear a countless of absolute acreage casework in the Raleigh area. Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® offers associates a all-inclusive ability of services, articles and programs to accommodated the evolving needs of the absolute acreage industry and consumers. These assets cover educational programs, Triangle MLS access, networking opportunities and more. The affiliation aswell serves as a arch advocate of clandestine acreage rights and association involvement. For added information, appointment www.rrar.com.
Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, NC
Related Links:
www.mmimarketing.com
www.rrar.com
News Facts:
•John Wood, admiral of the Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® (RRAR) (www.rrar.com) has appear that the Association’s Triangle REALTORS® Leadership Academy will host a planning and administering accident on June 26 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. featuring keynote speaker, Jim Manke.
•Manke is admiral of Association Solutions, Inc., a full-service affiliation administration and consulting close headquartered in Minneapolis.
•The amount of his abetment access is the aesthetics of bond action with leadership.
•The Triangle REALTORS® Leadership Academy prepares baddest REALTOR® associates for absolute and approaching Association, community, civic, religious, political and claimed administration opportunities.
Quotes:
“We are aflame to accept Jim Manke allege at this event,” said Raymond Larcher, controlling carnality admiral of RRAR. “He has formed with added than 150 civic accompaniment and bounded able societies and associations and this will be abundant befalling for our Triangle REALTORS® Leadership Academy.”
About Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS®:
For added than 70 years, the Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® has been the area’s baton in absolute estate, accouterment above programs to advice its associates bear a countless of absolute acreage casework in the Raleigh area. Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® offers associates a all-inclusive ability of services, articles and programs to accommodated the evolving needs of the absolute acreage industry and consumers. These assets cover educational programs, Triangle MLS access, networking opportunities and more. The affiliation aswell serves as a arch advocate of clandestine acreage rights and association involvement. For added information, appointment www.rrar.com.
Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, NC
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