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ENews from United Way of Central New MexicoFebruary 19, 2014

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We Need Your Help!United Way Increases VolunteerEngagementHonoring Board Chair Don PowerMission: Graduate Update

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United Way Increases Volunteer EngagementThis year, we aim to support and raise awareness around the community-wide and collective results agencies have, rather than focusing solely onindividual program achievements. Part of this work includes the creation ofa volunteer base that supports longer-term community impact work. Weenvision a model in which more volunteers serve year-round, dedicated toa single community issue. We will continue to engage volunteers in the grant review process. We willalso expand our engagement of volunteer talent in:

Building strong relationships with partner agenciesDeveloping expertise around social service issues in central NewMexicoGathering and analyzing dataTracking collective outcomes among agency partners

Encore Innovation Fellow BJ Jones, Center for Nonprofit ExcellenceDirector Amy S. Duggan, and Community Fund Grants Manager AriHerring are working to grow our talented volunteer base and launch theHunger Catalyst Project. The pilot will start with a handful of selectvolunteers partnering with hunger relief organizations in our community.These teams will create processes and tools to evaluate program results,utilize the results to increase organizational learning, and understand thecollective results they have in the community. We anticipate that this pilot opportunity will evolve and engage new talentover the next six to twelve months. We will launch additional volunteerteams as we learn from this pilot. If you are interested in learning more,please contact Ari Herring or BJ Jones or call (505) 247-3671.

Honoring Board Chair Don Power

National Exposure for Local Encore EffortsYLS Hosts a Fun Lunch and ServeSandia National Labs Campaign ResultsVolunteers NeededFeatured Cornerstone PartnerFirst Tocqueville Tuesday of 2014 aSuccessRegister for Quality Summit in AprilCNPE Upcoming TrainingsTax Help is Available

Sandia National Labs Campaign

Results

Sandia National Labs employees and retireespledged $6,037,885 in their annual United WayCampaign, with retirees giving $808,877. Thecampaign began the week of the governmentbudget crisis and ended with an increase inparticipation to 75%. "It turned out to beincredibly successful," says Kelly Westlake, theCampaign Chair who is now known as the "$6Million Man." Sandia's 76 Campaign Representatives workeddiligently to make contact with all Sandians andplanned and coordinated various activities withintheir Divisions. These included a Book Fair tosupport the Community Fund, which is alwayssuccessful and well-attended. The Office &Professional Employees International Unionmembers increased their participation by 3.7%,

Don Power, our current Board Chair, is a long-standing supporter of anddonor to UWCNM. He is married to Vicki and they have three children andsix grandchildren. Don moved from the northeastern states toAlbuquerque in 1962 and graduated from St Pius X High School. Hereceived his BA from UNM in 1971, and in 2003 received his ExecutiveMBA from the Anderson School of Business. Don began his career with Jaynes Corp. in 1969 as a formsetter andlaborer while in college and has just retired as Chairman and CEO. Donenjoyed his work in the construction industry, receiving great fulfillmentmeeting new people, listening to their ideas and taking those thoughtsfrom the design stage through successfully completed projects. Don believes in giving back to his community and has served in aleadership role for many community and civic organizations, including hiscurrent UWCNM Board Chair role and serving as Campaign Chair in 2010.Other organizations where Don has held board positions includeEconomic Forum, CNM Foundation Board, UNM Anderson School ofManagement Foundation Board, Albuquerque Economic DevelopmentInc., New Mexico Partnership, St. Pius X High School Foundation Boardof Trustees, Great SW Council Boy Scouts of America, the AlbuquerqueChamber of Commerce, Eastdale Little League, St. Joseph's HealthcareSystem, NAIOP, Beaver Creek West Management and as a member ofthe New Mexico Amigos. Through his treasure, time and talents, Don truly lives the goal of helpingthose must vulnerable in our community. Thank you Don for yourcontinued support and partnership with UWCNM. Your efforts aresincerely appreciated.

while 121 Departments achieved 100%participation and Division 5000 members pledgedover $1 million. Please join us in congratulatingand thanking Sandia for this phenomenalaccomplishment!

Volunteers Needed

UWCNM will be a beneficiary of Mayor and FirstLady Berry's 2014 Charity Gala. As such, ourstaff members will assist with the event, includingrecruiting volunteers, event logistics andmanaging all administrative functions. Part of theproceeds of the Gala will benefit our work in thecommunity to help those most vulnerable,increase philanthropy and strengthen ourcommunity. We are seeking approximately 100 volunteers toassist prior to and on the night of the Gala(Saturday May 17th, 2014) at the AlbuquerqueConvention Center. We will have two brief trainingmeetings prior to the event. If you havequestions, or you or someone you know might beinterested in volunteering alongside UWCNM staffat the Gala, please contact Nena Perkin.

Featured Cornerstone Partner

General Mills is UWCNM's second largestCorporate Cornerstone supporter, thanks to agenerous 1:1 corporate match from the GeneralMills Foundation. In 2013, Campaign Chair SteveTomasi and his team raised $191,873, which wasmatched with $191,873 from the General Mills

Mission: Graduate Update

Mission: Graduate (M:G) is well underway and is now formingCollaborative Action Networks to develop action plans for improving highschool graduation rates, college completion, and to keep more of ourgraduates in central New Mexico. In addition, M:G is partnering with theEarly Childhood Accountability Partnership, which will be developing anaction plan to increase school readiness and third grade literacy. In early February, M:G launched the High School Graduation Network, thefirst of four networks to be launched this winter/spring season. This wasan exciting day for us and we are looking forward to launching furthernetworks over the next few months. These networks will provide thefoundation for achieving the overarching goal of M:G - to add 60,000 newgraduates with college degrees and certificates to central New Mexico by2020. For more information and to learn how your organization can participate,please visit the Mission: Graduate website (click on the Request forEngagement link) or contact Angelo Gonzales.

National Exposure for Local Encore Efforts

Foundation. In addition, the team at General Millsraised $8,000 at the second annual General MillsCommunity Champions Classic Golf Tournament,for a combined record-setting campaign of$391,746. "General Mills' mission is to nourishlives. We can do that by focusing ourphilanthropic resources within our community.That means having an impact that enriches thelives of children and families," said Tomasi. "Ourgoal is to help create sustainable communityimprovement in the areas of hunger and nutrition,wellness, education, family services, and artsand culture."

First Tocqueville Tuesday of 2014 aSuccess

Our January Tocqueville Tuesday, hosted by Co-Branding Partners Bank of Albuquerque, DonChalmers Ford, Intel, New Mexico Mutual andPNM, featured speakers on business incubationin New Mexico. We welcomed about 50Tocqueville donors and their guests to thisinteresting and well-received event. A big thank you to Russell Combs with WESST,Tim Nisly with the Rio Grande CommunityDevelopment Corporation and Lisa Adkins withthe BioScience Center for educating us about theworkings of business incubators and their effecton our economy. We would also like to thankAgnes Noonan for allowing us to host this event

At the Center for Nonprofit Excellence (CNPE), we've joined the encoremovement to create easier pathways for boomers to engage in meaningfulsocial purpose work. CNPE also sees tremendous need in the socialsector to bring in new skills and perspectives to address pressingcommunity issues. In addition to the successful central New MexicoEncore Fellowship Program, CNPE is creating a new encore-relatedservice. Amy S. Duggan, Director of the Center for Nonprofit Excellence, and BJJones, an Encore Innovation Fellow with CNPE, recently attended theinaugural meeting of the Encore Leadership Institute. Amy and BJ metwith others involved with Encore.org to gain more understanding of thenational encore movement. Amy is one of nine emerging/current nationalencore leaders invited to participate in the Institute. BJ is a member of the first cohort of fifteen national Encore InnovationFellows who are developing projects to help the encore idea take root inmore places. They are skilled, experienced professionals at the end oftheir midlife careers working directly for host organizations to create orstrengthen encore initiatives, tools, resources and strategies. BJ's projectfocuses on aligning Encore volunteer talent with UWCNM's CommunityImpact focus. BJ and Amy were recently on Eric Tonningsen's "Awakening toAwareness" internet radio show where they had a chance to reach Eric'sinternational boomer audience with the encore message and resources. Listen to the podcast.

in the beautiful WESST Enterprise Center atrium.If you haven't seen their "living wall" yet, it's amust-see. For information about the TocquevilleSociety, please contact Melissa Dracup.

Register for Quality Summit in April

Quality New Mexico is hosting its annualLearning Summit & New Mexico PerformanceExcellence Awards Recognition Ceremony,"Future Defined," on April 16-17, 2014. TheSummit will offer best practice learning withspeakers from role model organizations sharingadvice. Designed for small and large companies,non-profits and government agencies, you willgain invaluable insights to guide your "excellencejourney." Registration is open now!

CNPE Upcoming Trainings

February 19, 2014Collaboration in NM: Who's Doing What & Howto Get InvolvedJoin us to learn about some local collectiveimpact initiatives and how you can get involved. The panel presentation will be followed by smallgroup discussion. February 27, 2014The Invisible Yellow Line: Clarifying Board & StaffRolesBalance the relationship between the board and

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If you are interested in learning more about the encore movement andCNPE's programs, please contact Amy S. Duggan.

YLS Hosts a Fun "Lunch and Serve"On February 5, UWCNM'sYoung Leaders Society(YLS) hosted a fun, hands-on event at Explora. Thegroup learned aboutExplora's programming,enjoyed an exclusive 'backof house' tour, and got towork preparing activities forfuture Explora learners.Thank you to EnterpriseHoldings, Intel and SandiaNational Labs, our Co-Branding Partners who make these events possible. And thank you to allthe YLS members who braved the weather to join us for a fun afternoon!

executive director by understanding areas ofresponsibility and identifying key roles of theboard and staff.

Tax Help is Available

Tax season is underway and there are twoexcellent resources in New Mexico for thoseseeking assistance with this process: In-Person PreparationTax Help New Mexico is a free service for peoplewhose household income is $52,000 or less orthose who are 65 years or older. Tax Helpvolunteers are certified by the IRS and are trainedto help taxpayers identify tax credits towhich they're entitled. Visit the CNM website forinformation and locations/hours. Online PreparationThe MyFreeTaxes Partnership provides free stateand federal tax preparation and filing assistancefor qualified individuals. Visit the website forinformation and to file your return.

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