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Family is hoping to raise money for father’s books with your help

Leah’s father Ronald Nepomuceno was diagnosed with ALS also known as Lou Gehrigs disease, about five years ago. He is currently being hospitalized and can no longer walk and each day even though weaker, he has been maintaining fortunately slow progressive ALS. He is also living off a ventilator that helps him breathe. He can talk, eat, and move his hands a bit, he cannot stand our walk but he is certainly spirited, full of humor, and remains the positive person that he has always been. His mind is sharp as a tack and he remains the creative force that we all know and love.

Over the past two years, he has been writing songs and books with only a stick to type on his computer keyboard. He has written and completed two books one called “Sam’s Path” a lovely reader for children about a turtles adventures and the love of family and a good reader for all ages. His most current book “Artist Not Dead” is an inspirational book filled with humor, metaphors for life, and life’s lessons. A book of character and strength, “it is a must read, and a tour de force,” says Marv Klassen-Landis professor of poetry and literature.

Geoff Forester (photo journalist and with the Concord Monitor of New Hampshire for years) says “this book must be published, it will be a great read”.

Leah’s father would someday love to get these books published as soon as possible. He is the most inspiring person that she has ever known and she is sure anyone that has also met him will say that. She truly wishes there was a cure for this awful disease but there isn’t. Just to see her dad’s face when she shows him that she helped raise funds through the generosity of others to get his book published for him, would help fulfill his limited days on this earth and bring to joy to his heart.

For information about ALS, visit: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis/DS00359, http://www.alsa.org/about-als/what-is-als.html, http://www.alsa.org/ and http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/amyotrophiclateralsclerosis/detail_ALS.htm.

To read some of Nepemuceno’s writings and to make a donation to the cause, visit: https://www.fundraise.com/leah-nepo/artist-not-dead-an-als-story-of-inspiration.

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Women With Potential empowering women with your help

Women With Potential, Inc. is dedicated to empowering female ex-offenders to reinvent their lives through education, mentoring, community service, personal development, and professional growth. With proper management, support, guidance and encouragement we enable women to become self-sufficient and end the viscous cycle of incarceration.

By supporting their campaign, you are helping us to provide their clients with basic necessities upon their release, including clothing, food, and toiletries. Through your support, they are also able to provide access to transportation which allows them the opportunity to seek and maintain gainful employment. Finally, your support also helps provide assistance with housing and education, including resources for GED and vocational training.

For more information about the organization, visit www.womenwithpotential.org and to make a donation, visit: https://www.fundraise.com/women-with-potential-inc/reinventing-lives

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The Good Ones needs your help to make a difference

The Good Ones, through its roundtables and curated soirées - enables the most curious, original, and charismatic to come together and align in ways that enhance their own lives, as well as the lives of those surrounding them.

Their goal is simple: to infuse communities with opportunity, optimism, and value - through the establishment of meaningful relationships.

Our vehicles are their live connector events and roundtables an their online, logic-based, membership-only, BOOK of GOOD people you need to know. 

This is where they need help financing and donations to make the program a success.

The Good Ones, LLC is proud to announce its partnership with Tryumph Foundation. Tryumph is a non-profit organization that provides scholarships to high school students who enrich their communities through dedicated community service. The organization seeks to reward these students for their unwavering commitment to helping others.

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Ashley Edwards needs financial support for mission trip to New Castle

Ashley Edwards was recently accepted into a Discipleship Training School (DTS) in with Youth With A Mission (YWAM). This school is very special to me because it will allow me to use my own creativity to evangelize. She will be able to use her musical abilities as well as my personal experiences to worship and lead others to Christ.

She is leaving at the beginning of July 2013, and it will be a six-month program located in NewCastle, Australia. 

During the first three months, she will be attending a school, which is the actual Discipleship Training. During the second three-month period I will choose an outreach. This will give her the opportunity to share my testimony with many people and help lead them to know Jesus.

First of all, she is asking for prayer. For one, this is such a huge step in her faith and in her life, to follow what God has put in my heart from day 1, so it is going to be really hard for her to leave my friends and family for such a long period of time, and for the very first time in my life. Please pray for the people she will be ministering to, that I show God’s heart in all that I do.

For more information on Edward’s Mission trip and to make a donation, visit: https://www.fundraise.com/ashley-edwards/help-me-get-to-ywam-new-castle2

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Zootown Arts Community Center presenting First Annual Mini Benefit Show

The Zootown Arts Community Center proudly presents The First Annual {mini} Benefit Show on April 12th from 5:30 p.m. until 11 p.m.

This gala event will bring together Missoula’s creative community to celebrate all things mini. The evening will begin with a mini-cocktail hour with Eden Atwood, sponsored by Montgomery Distillery. There will be a Mini-Chef Challenge which will consist of the mini creations from 17 of Missoula’s finest restaurants and bakeries. Guests will dine on these delicious mini creations while a panel of celebrity judges decide who gets the first annual mini awards. An exhibition of miniature pieces by over 60 talented artists will be shown and auctioned off by Mayor John Engen. Finally, Missoula’s own power pop sensation, Secret Powers, will finish off the night with music and dancing.

Food Sponsors For The Event

Savory Challenge: Posh Chocolat. The Silk Road. Mercantile Deli. Tagiare Delicatessen. The Empanada Joint. Riverside Cafe. Bravo! Catering. Philly West. The Top Hat. Blue Canyon Kitchen. Masala Food Cart.

Sweet Challenge: Pearl cafe. Le Petite Outre. Bernice’s Bakery. Posh Chocolat. The Mercantile Deli. The Silk Road. Burns St. Bistro. Black Cat Bake Shop.

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Banned in Boston coming to the House of Blues to benefit Urban Improv

When? Friday, April 5 at 6 p.m.
Where? House of Blues on Lansdowne Street in Boston, MA

Banned in Boston will kick off with pre-show food and cocktails next door at Lansdowne Pub. Skits and songs will follow and of course, binders full of women. This year, the celebration is Farmer’s Almanac style. Be prepared for a deluge of tasteless skits drenched with bad jokes and a nor’easter packed with completely useless prognostications, predictions, and parodies. The madcap musical revue featuring Boston’s social, political, entertainment, and media roosters will have you running to the bar…or the closest manure pile.

Best of all, you’ll be supporting Urban Improv’s interactive, improvisational theater programs that help the city’s youth stop violence before it starts.

All sponsors will be acknowledged in the Banned in Boston playbill. For major gifts above $5,000 please contact the Urban Improv office at 617-524-7065.

To purchase tickets and to learn more about sponsorship opportunities, visit: https://www.fundraise.com/bannedinboston#donate

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