Silver Lining Riding with guests Amanda Hart and Dawn Brown Silverliningriding.org

Childrens Cancer Network and Run to Fight Cancer

Dee and Art Sloan are live on location at Arizona Stand Down

The Arizona Republic’s Veterans Voice columnist Art Sloane joins us on NPJ Talk Radio

Art has been a strong voice for veterans, ensuring they get the benefits they have earned. He also offers many resources for veterans and their families–and has helped them in so many other areas. He is also active in helping homeless veterans through the organization Arizona StandDown.

The Arizona StandDown is the state’s largest, outreach event for homeless veterans and relies upon contributions from the public to support over thousands of veterans to gain access to shelter, services, and healthcare.

A Note from Pam

My name is Pam Swanson and Lions Camp Tatiyee stole my heart in 1984. The year the then Director walked into my classroom at Arizona State University and showed a video of Lions Camp Tatiyee, I knew I absolutely had to be a part of such an amazing place. I came every summer through college and actually met my husband there. After teaching special education for 10 years and receiving my Masters in Administration Supervision, I accepted the job as Executive Director. I spend 10 weeks every summer away from home, with our kids at camp. All three of our kids have grown up at camp. All the good things, the things that matter in my adult life, have begun with Tatiyee. I have been the Executive Director since 1996.

Mission Statement:

Camp Tatiyee’ s mission is to enrich the lives of individuals with special needs by providing a life improving experience promoting their emotional health, independence, self esteem and confidence, all free-of-charge.

Vision Statement

To provide a community that empowers individuals to grow socially, physically and emotionally.

Values Statement

We believe that everyone deserves to be accepted, loved and respected. Camp Tatiyee upholds the dignity of all individuals, at all times by embracing their abilities by asking “how” rather than “if”.

In a time when the quality of education is judged by the strength of student test scores, Restore Arts serves to bring inspiration, passion, and imagination back into classrooms.

The increased importance of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) topics within students’ education has overshadowed the equally important components of passion and imagination.

We believe that students find passion in their education through the arts, whether they are music, visual arts, creative writing, or dramatic performance. Students in Arizona need and deserve the experience that art in the classroom creates, but fine arts are the most frequently cut and undeservd classes when budgets run thin.

Art and creative development can both advance academic achievement and improve life experiences in ways that test scores cannot.

Restore Arts strives to use the experience of our Founders to create projects and programs that will use the arts to connect communities with classrooms and improve the life experiences of all students and community members involved.

Mary Lynn Kelly, Co-Founder

In 2013, Mary Lynn helped found Restore Arts in response to Arizona's ongoing need for a driving force behind arts integration and education.

A graduate of the University of Georgia with additional studies at both Harvard and Oxford, Mary Lynn has leveraged her background in the arts and community involvement to help Arizona nonprofits and small businesses for nearly two decades.

Through Restore Arts, Mary Lynn carries forward the spirit of her past successful initiatives, including heading the community coalition that raised $1.5M for the Challenger Space Center in Peoria, Arizona. Restore Arts allows her to leverage her experience as editor at Arizona Parenting magazine, and her influence as a longtime local on-air television contributor.

She honed her skills in designing educational programs during a professional engagement with The Harris Foundation and Game Truck Licensing, LLC. Mary Lynn expresses her passion for the arts on a personal level through her work as a painter and sculptor.

Since 1992, ProFund West has been playing a significant role in steering nonprofits in ways to better assess their potential for contributions, how to better utilize volunteers who are dedicated to the cause, how to manage their campaigns more strategically, and how to articulate their mission/vision, goals and accomplishments to maximize contributions to their cause.

We are financial development consultants, helping worthwhile causes, not-for-profits, and 501(c)3 organizations meet their fundraising goals with our powerful and innovative campaigns. If your organization is looking for a more effective and efficient way to raise money, look to ProFund West for complete turnkey programs that deliver better results and build longer-lasting relationships.

We're AZStRUT, and we put real-world technology training to work for Arizona's students and educators. Our model program teaches students valuable technology skills; provides quality refurbished computers to schools and non-profits around the state; and benefits the environment by diverting old equipment from our landfills. It's a classic win-win-win situation which benefits everyone involved. With your help, together we all come out ahead!

It's the first Monday of the Month and Carolyn Sechler CPA PC will wrap up 2016 with Sandra Turner CPA . We will be chatting about year-end priorities for nonprofits. Annual reports, year-end giving and planning for 2017 will all be discussed.

Rod Houston from SCORE joins us in studio. Houston has mentored more than 400 small businesses and 100 nonprofits as a member of SCORE and the Executive Service Corps in many areas.

Houston offers some great tips on how to run successful nonprofits and overcome some of the challenges facing them today. He also shares some information about upcoming SCORE workshops.