Hello and Welcome to the Community Connections blog!
It's that time of the year again...time for our 5th Annual Volunteer Recognition Luncheon. We will hold the luncheon on Monday, June 18 at Su Hong Restaurant in Palo Alto. It will be a great time to celebrate all of the volunteer work our participants have done out in the community. For reservations, please contact andrea@abilitiesunited.org.
We are also starting a new partnership next week with Peninsula Volunteers of the Bay Area. Our participants will be working at Little House in Menlo Park, assembling newsletters, doing office work and helping around the volunteer center. Everyone is excited to start this new work site.
In our community classes we held a music celebration at our Marimba class at the Community School of Music and Art. Our participants held a small concert and they were terrific! We will be on hiatus from Marimba classes over the summer, but are hoping to take singing classes at the College of Adaptive Arts in San Jose.
It's always busy in the Community Connections program. Thanks for reading!
andrea
Abilities United Community Connections activities and announcements
Friday, May 18, 2012
Monday, May 7, 2012
What a Celebration!
Hello Everyone!
Welcome to the Community Connections Blog! Thank you for reading!
Today we had our 5th Annual Participant ART RECEPTION AT CSMA. What a huge success! All of our participants' art was on display; we have such a talented group of students. Everything from ceramics to wire sculptures lined the halls of the Community School of Music and Art.
"We absolutely love Abilities United participants," noted Art School Director Linda Covello. "They are all so talented. We feel privileged to have them as our students. It's one of our favorite events of the year."
Several Abilities United staff members attended the reception, along with family and friends. All of the students were awarded an artist certificate. The art work will be on display at CSMA, 230 San Antonio Rd, until this sunday, May 13.
Please let me know if you have questions!
Thanks for the suppport and keep reading!
andrea
Welcome to the Community Connections Blog! Thank you for reading!
Today we had our 5th Annual Participant ART RECEPTION AT CSMA. What a huge success! All of our participants' art was on display; we have such a talented group of students. Everything from ceramics to wire sculptures lined the halls of the Community School of Music and Art.
"We absolutely love Abilities United participants," noted Art School Director Linda Covello. "They are all so talented. We feel privileged to have them as our students. It's one of our favorite events of the year."
Several Abilities United staff members attended the reception, along with family and friends. All of the students were awarded an artist certificate. The art work will be on display at CSMA, 230 San Antonio Rd, until this sunday, May 13.
Please let me know if you have questions!
Thanks for the suppport and keep reading!
andrea
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Save the Date !
Hello Everyone!
Welcome to the Community Connections blog!
It's time for our fifth annual Art Reception at the Community School of Music and Art...so please save the date.... Monday May 7...1 PM at the CSMA building, 230 San Antonio Road.
It promises to be a wonderful event. It is always great to celebrate the awesome art work of our participants.
Please contact me with any questions (andrea@abilitiesunited.org)
Hope to see you there!
andrea
Welcome to the Community Connections blog!
It's time for our fifth annual Art Reception at the Community School of Music and Art...so please save the date.... Monday May 7...1 PM at the CSMA building, 230 San Antonio Road.
It promises to be a wonderful event. It is always great to celebrate the awesome art work of our participants.
Please contact me with any questions (andrea@abilitiesunited.org)
Hope to see you there!
andrea
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Two new partnerships!
Hello and Welcome to the Community Connections blog!
We have just started a new partnership with the city of Sunnyvale. Every other friday we go to the Sunnyvale Community Services site and help with a variety of tasks. We work in the donation closet, help with gifts, organize food and help with whatever we can.
The Director has been so happy with our work-she has emailed several times to compliment our participants. Sunnyvale is a new area for us and we are excited to be having new opportunities. Everyone seems to be having a terrific time helping out.
Hopefully in the future we will be working at other sites in Sunnyvale.
We have also started a new project at Lytton Gardens Senior Center. Every monday a group of our participants goes to Lytton Gardens and hosts a Bingo game for the residents.
"Our residents absolutely love our Bingo game-day with your participants," notes volunteer coordinator Bethany Dihn. "They bring so much joy to our residents."
We might even film this project for our next television program!
Stay tuned for more exciting updates. And thanks for reading.
andrea
We have just started a new partnership with the city of Sunnyvale. Every other friday we go to the Sunnyvale Community Services site and help with a variety of tasks. We work in the donation closet, help with gifts, organize food and help with whatever we can.
The Director has been so happy with our work-she has emailed several times to compliment our participants. Sunnyvale is a new area for us and we are excited to be having new opportunities. Everyone seems to be having a terrific time helping out.
Hopefully in the future we will be working at other sites in Sunnyvale.
We have also started a new project at Lytton Gardens Senior Center. Every monday a group of our participants goes to Lytton Gardens and hosts a Bingo game for the residents.
"Our residents absolutely love our Bingo game-day with your participants," notes volunteer coordinator Bethany Dihn. "They bring so much joy to our residents."
We might even film this project for our next television program!
Stay tuned for more exciting updates. And thanks for reading.
andrea
Thursday, February 23, 2012
What a gift!
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We have very exciting news. One of our terrific volunteers, Diana Alchimisti and her husband Jerry have made a very generous donation to our Adult Day Program. The Alchimistis along with their family business, Advantage Converters donated $500 and several supplies to the program.
It is a wonderful gift and we are so very grateful. We are delighted that Diana is working on tuesdays and thursdays as a volunteer in the program. She is a very talented person and we are so grateful to have her help.
We presented Advantage Converters with a Make My Day gift of flowers, cookies and a card and they were really happy. The entire company took part in the celebration.
We could not do what we do without our incredible volunteers. Thank you Diana, Jerry and all of Advantage Converters. You are our angels!
andrea
We have very exciting news. One of our terrific volunteers, Diana Alchimisti and her husband Jerry have made a very generous donation to our Adult Day Program. The Alchimistis along with their family business, Advantage Converters donated $500 and several supplies to the program.
It is a wonderful gift and we are so very grateful. We are delighted that Diana is working on tuesdays and thursdays as a volunteer in the program. She is a very talented person and we are so grateful to have her help.
We presented Advantage Converters with a Make My Day gift of flowers, cookies and a card and they were really happy. The entire company took part in the celebration.
We could not do what we do without our incredible volunteers. Thank you Diana, Jerry and all of Advantage Converters. You are our angels!
andrea
Monday, February 20, 2012
Our work continues...
Hello Everyone and welcome to the Community Connections blog!
We are working really hard this winter....we just finished putting labels on 500 pamphlets for El Camino Hospital. It was a very big assignment and our participants did a great job. Soon we will start on our second project for the hospital.
At the BOK Horse Ranch and NCEFT in Woodside, we continue to work with the horses, clean the barns, horse rinks and do general ranch work. It's a lot of fun but hard work!
At the Boys and Girls Club in east Palo Alto we are responsible for keeping all of the after school classrooms clean. We have started working there twice a week now!
At the beginning of February we returned to the Community School of Music and Art to take Marimba and Art classes. We learn so much there-it's our fifth year of classes.
This spring promisese to be very busy as well!
Stay tuned for more updates and thanks for reading.
andrea
We are working really hard this winter....we just finished putting labels on 500 pamphlets for El Camino Hospital. It was a very big assignment and our participants did a great job. Soon we will start on our second project for the hospital.
At the BOK Horse Ranch and NCEFT in Woodside, we continue to work with the horses, clean the barns, horse rinks and do general ranch work. It's a lot of fun but hard work!
At the Boys and Girls Club in east Palo Alto we are responsible for keeping all of the after school classrooms clean. We have started working there twice a week now!
At the beginning of February we returned to the Community School of Music and Art to take Marimba and Art classes. We learn so much there-it's our fifth year of classes.
This spring promisese to be very busy as well!
Stay tuned for more updates and thanks for reading.
andrea
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
A partnership with El Camino Hospital
Hello and Welcome to the Community Connections blog!
We have great news! As of February 1 we are starting a terrific new partnership with El Camino Hospital. We have been working hard to get this volunteer work site going and now it is official.
El Camino staff members came to tour our agency and they already have several projects lined up for our Community Connections participants. We will be helping them with office work, mailings and several other projects. It will be a great way for our participants to learn about the hospital.
Tomi Ryba, the CEO of El Camino Hospital personally helped set up this partnership. "We really respect the work that Abilities United does and we want to be a part of it," she said.
Our Community Connections program continues to grow every day and we are reaching out to communities beyond our local area. It is a very exciting time for us.
Stay tuned for more updates on our developing work projects. And thanks for reading.
andrea
We have great news! As of February 1 we are starting a terrific new partnership with El Camino Hospital. We have been working hard to get this volunteer work site going and now it is official.
El Camino staff members came to tour our agency and they already have several projects lined up for our Community Connections participants. We will be helping them with office work, mailings and several other projects. It will be a great way for our participants to learn about the hospital.
Tomi Ryba, the CEO of El Camino Hospital personally helped set up this partnership. "We really respect the work that Abilities United does and we want to be a part of it," she said.
Our Community Connections program continues to grow every day and we are reaching out to communities beyond our local area. It is a very exciting time for us.
Stay tuned for more updates on our developing work projects. And thanks for reading.
andrea
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