progress on community service explorations

[Jan Eveleth]

Talked with Mercer Island Youth and Family Services. Got names of three more people there to call about volunteering for programs and projects. Left voicemail and waiting to hear back.

Same at UW: waiting to hear back about Combined Fund Drive volunteer work.

In the meantime, am making my own contributions to the Combined Fund Drive (there are over 2000 organizations that you can donate to through this university fund drive). It's easy: comes out of your paycheck directly, and before taxes. Really a great program. From their web pages: "Last year, University of Washington employees made a difference by contributing more than

2 million dollars to support programs in the arts, environment, health, education, disaster relief, and human services."

Also donated blood last week. They require you wait 8 weeks between donations. I will be more diligent in scheduling at the 8 week mark in the future rather than letting it go a few months as I did this past year.

[MeLisa Turcott Strongheart]

Way to go Jan! great examples of how to take your practice out of the dojang and into the world. thanks for posting--