http://www.care4mylambs.org/blog Helping People In Need In Our Community Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:56:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We were able to help a single mother of three children, and Domestic Violence Survivor, who was having "a heck of a time making ends meet".  With a long history of violence in her life, starting with her childhood and continuing through young adulthood and into marriage, this woman was ... http://www.care4mylambs.org/blog/?p=146 I want to thank Northrop Grumman once again, for providing us with a small grant for educational support.  This grant is particularly gratifying because funds are relatively tight this year.   This particular grant is from the Sacramento - San Jose operating units, as part of their ongoing employee charity organization (ECHO) ... http://www.care4mylambs.org/blog/?p=142 Wow, I can't believe I almost missed posting in May.  Well, this has been a busy month with my day job.  (For those of you who don't know, I have a full time day job in addition to running this non-profit organization).  However, I have completed two grant applications.  The ... http://www.care4mylambs.org/blog/?p=138 We received sufficient funds this past month to extend our grant program "Grants for Graduates of Domestic Violence Shelters" to another homeless and domestic violence shelter in our local area - Tri Valley Haven Homeless and Domestic Violence Shelter. I'll contact them today or tomorrow to see how we can ... http://www.care4mylambs.org/blog/?p=133 We made our first grant in our "Grants for Graduates of Domestic Violence Shelters" program.  We are working through Shepherd's Gate on this effort.  They selected a woman who has about 2 months left in their program.  The woman is working, budgeting and saving, and needed some additional funds in ... http://www.care4mylambs.org/blog/?p=129 We finally got our Google AdWords grant on-line.  Thanks a million Google!  It was a little harder this time around than the last time I started an AdWords campaign.  However, the difficulty was only because Google requires that your adds confirm to their guidelines better.  From what I can tell, this ... http://www.care4mylambs.org/blog/?p=125 Thanks to a few wonderful donors, we were able to allocate funding to our program "Grants for Graduates of Domestic Violence Centers".  These grants targeted at "graduates" of domestic violence shelters in the Tri-Valley Area of Livermore, California.  We're working closely with Shepherd's Gate (www.shepherdsgate.org) to identify women either currently "graduating" ... http://www.care4mylambs.org/blog/?p=119 I've been traveling a lot this month for my regular day job, but we have received a few calls from clients.  Earlier this month were able to put together a couple of bags of groceries for one client and give a couple of $25 Safeway gift cards to another client.  ... http://www.care4mylambs.org/blog/?p=115 I received a call from one of our clients today.  She is doing well, and told me that she had contacted one of our dentists who do volunteer work for us.  She said that she really needed the dental work, and that they did a good job.  It's nice to ... http://www.care4mylambs.org/blog/?p=113 I want to thank the individuals in the 2009 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employee fundraising campaign, Helping Others More Effectively (HOME) who have chosen to support us this year.  Through this program, employees of LLNL can select various charities to receive the benefit of their donations made through payroll withdrawals.  These ... http://www.care4mylambs.org/blog/?p=110