Chan House – Spring 春天 2012 Newsletter

In This Issue

A new sign for the Chan House

Fund Raising Dinner at the Yummy Kitchen Folsom

Hop Sing’s Fund Raising Dinner Pictures

Chan House Committee Meeting Schedule

New Chan House Website

Chan House Video

Chan House Spring Fund Raising Dinner

On May 17th Yummy Kitchen Chinese Restaurant will be hosting a Chan House Fund

Raising Dinner

Donation amount $35 Time 6:00pm

For reservations, contact Jeff Ferreira-Pro @ 916-792-9438

199 Blue Ravine Rd Suite 100 Folsom CA

A 9 course dinner will be served:

Chicken with Sweet Corn Soup

Broccoli Beef

Kung Pao Chicken

Fish Filet in Black Bean Sauce

Orange Chicken Salt and Pepper

Pork Chops House Fried Rice

House Chow Mein

Honey Walnut Shrimp

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The Chan House Project

  A concept of the Howard Sr. and Mabel Chan Museum

   The Heritage Preservation League, Friends of Chan House and Folsom Historical Society have been working hard this Winter! A new sign was designed, fund raising activities have starting up and donations are coming in to reach our goal of $300,000

Chan House SignA sign has been designed and placed in front of the Chan House to give visitors to the Historic District a sense of what the Chan House Restoration will look like when completed.

New Friends of Chan House Website

We have just completed the redesign of our

Friends of Chan House Website

The website now has latest news and updates, newsletters,

pictures, upcoming events, contact information, history and a

PayPal donation link.

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Chan House Committee Meeting

You are invited to attend our Chan House Committee Meetings. These meetings are held every 2

weeks at the Folsom History Museum. The Chan House

Committee is looking for new volunteers to help out on this

project.

Next meetingTuesday May 8th

5:00pm to 6:00 pmFolsom History Museum823 Sutter St., Folsom

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Chan House Conservancy

Please take a few moments to watch this

informative video

Hop Sing’s Fund Raising Dinner

Our March 15th kick-off fundraising dinner at Hop Sing’s was a huge success with all of the tickets selling out. Over 60 people attended

the dinner and several went home with nice Raffle Prizes.

“Raffle Winner”

Be sure to attend our Spring Fund Raising Dinner Thursday May 17th at the Folsom Yummy Kitchen, 199 Blue Ravine Rd Suite 100,

Donation amount $35 Time 6:00pm – 10pm

How Friends of Chan House can help:

        Make a monetary donation to the Chan House Fund, c/o Folsom Historical Society, 823 Sutter St. Folsom 95630.

PayPal donations can been made at

http://www.friendsofchanhouse.org/get-involved/donate/

$100,000 - Garden to be named after donor$50,000 - Bench with donors name on it$25,000 - Garden Feature (statue, etc.) with donor’s name adjacent to or on the feature$10,000 - special plaque in garden with the donor’s nameDonations of $500 or more will be permanently memorialized at the Chan House.

         For more information contact the following:          Candy Miller                  folsomcandy@sbcglobal.net          Barbara Leary                barbaraleary@comcast.net          Jeff Ferreira-Pro            ferreirapro@earthlink.net   Visit our updated “Friends of Chan House” website http://www.friendsofchanhouse.org/

Volunteer Opportunities:

The Chan House Committee is currently looking for volunteers. The following is a list of volunteer opportunities.

Please contact Candy, Barbera or Jeff is you are interested

Marketing jobs         Study our website and other literature on the project

o   Get familiar enough to speak to others         Make suggestions to help us improve our marketing materials         Write articles about the project         Share information with local media contacts Online jobs         Post event photos and comments on our Facebook page         Setup and post comments on Twitter account         Provide links to our website from other related sites         Manage the Chan House email list          Send emails about the project to our distribution list Community Outreach Jobs         Staff table at community events

o   Take photoso   Hand out brochureso   Collect donationso   Get contact info to add people to our distribution listo   Answer questionso   Bring questions back to our committee if you don’t know the answer

         Make phone calls to those who don’t have email o   Explain the projecto   Get current email and other contact info

o   Invite to community eventso   Ask for donations

         Send letters to people who don’t have email or phone numbers         Make presentations to community groups         Write thank you letters to volunteers Fund Raising Jobs         Ask your friends to contribute         Solicit donations from local businesses         Host a fund raising event         Help us identify potential major donors         Help us with grant writing

o   Research grant agencies that might support our projecto   Write and submit grant proposals

         Write thank you letters to donors         Maintain donor recognition information on webpage and Facebook Planning Jobs         Attend our planning meetings         Manage the scheduling of volunteers         Plan fund raising events         Become part of our major donor outreach effort