Seems all quiet, but it’s not

So, the end of the year has come and gone and it seems like all is quite. What is your local non-profit doing?

If they are like us at Carolina Canines, we are feverishly working on our end of year/beginning of year tasks. What does that mean? We are preparing our files for the 2010 calendar year, scheduling upcoming events, copying our financial records and preparing those for the auditor, closing the 2009 accounts, getting reading to have the taxes prepared and preparing our donor letters in compliance with IRS guidelines. All that boring stuff is happening in the background as we continue our mission to service people with diabilities.

As the New Year turned, we found ourselves responding to hundreds of emails from people interested in volunteering as part of the Disney Give A Day, Get A Day. While the response has already been tremendous, we hope to excite those responding to become part of our long term part volunteer base supporting our programs in the community and helping other by training a service dog, becoming a Carolina Canines for Therapy team and visiting in the community, assisting with events or fundraising activities like the 4th Annual Walk for Those Who Can’t.

Carolina Canines has already committed to participate in several upcoming event s in our community in February including the Star-News Conscience Fair on February 6, 2010 at the CFCC North Campus from 10 am - 3 pm, we are the benefitting organization for the Run for the Roses on February 7, 2010 in Raleigh, NC and will be at an event sponsored by the Have A Heart: What Are You Doing For the Greater Good? on February 18 from 5:30 - 8 pm to inspire our community young professionals to get involved in their community.

We recently meet with folks at Liberty Commons with several of the Carolina Canines for Therapy teams to share how the licensed therapy teams can help to improve the lives of the residents at their facility and look forward to an upcoming article featuring our teams in DogLiving Magazine.

Our Annual Walk for Those Who Can’t event Co-Chairs and Committee Chairs are busy working with their teams on sponsor recruitment, team development, media and marketing. Team and individual registration is open online now at FirstGiving, we are preparing the advertisement for the February 2010 PawPrints Magazine and will be ordering the posters and brochures in the next few weeks.

Now, this is just the second full week of January. Can’t wait to see what the rest of the year brings!