Thursday, February 23, 2012

What a gift!

Hello And Welcome to the Community Connections blog!

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

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