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Dear Friend, WELCOME TO LOTSA COMMUNITY WORKS Featured this month:
We’ve already had an inspiring number of visitors to Lotsa Helping Hands make promises to help a caregiver in 2013, from offers to pick up groceries for caregivers, to keeping an aging loved one company, to watching young nieces and nephews in order to give a caregiver some much-needed respite. We’ve even heard from people who are purchasing gift cards this holiday season to give to those who are tight on money. We’ve been overwhelmed by all of the enthusiastic, kind and heartwarming promises of help. So this December, we’re keeping the giving going. It only takes a minute to make your promise. And starting in January, we’ll be sharing tips to get started. Visit our Promise Page and make a promise to help a caregiver today. From our Community to yours, Hal Chapel, Co-Founder & CEO 
Lotsa News Free Webinar — Thursday December 13, 2012, 1pm EST Caregivers Helping Loved Ones in Pain Join Lotsa and guest speaker Shirley Otis-Green, a licensed clinical social worker and Senior Research Specialist in Nursing Research and Education at the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California, as we take an inspiring look at the experience of caregivers who are caring for a loved one in pain. Participants will learn:
Lotsa Tips We’re sharing tips for those Members and Coordinators who are coming together to organize help in Communities this holiday season. Remember, you can always visit our How it Works Page for ideas about how to get the most from your Lotsa Community web site. Tip 1 — Create a New ‘Community Section’ You can Create a New ‘Community Section’ that will appear at the top of your Community web site just like the Message Board, Photo Gallery, or Resources Section. At the top right of your home page you’ll see a link to 'Add a Section'. Use this to add a fundraising link, recipe book, extra photo gallery or anything that can help your Community stay connected and provide the best support possible. Tip 2 — Easily Switch Between Multiple Lotsa Communities! More than 30% of our Members are in more than one Community, whether it’s helping a neighbor with breast cancer or organizing volunteers in their child’s classroom at school. When joining, creating or accessing a 2nd (or 3rd, or 4th!) Community web site, you’ll always use the same email address and password. When you are a Member of multiple Community web sites, the orange ‘Sign In’ menu at the top of the page will give you the option to ‘Switch to Another Community’. Simply click this and you’ll be able to easily navigate between every Community web site you are participating in. Tip 3 — There’s No Limit to the Size of Your Community If you are looking to expand your Community to your town, neighborhood, school or beyond, let us know. We have Communities that are more than 1,000 Members strong! If you need more space to add Members in your Community, just contact support@lotsahelpinghands.com and we’ll gladly increase the size of your Community so everyone who wants to help can. If you have additional questions, contact us at info@lotsahelpinghands.com.
Find Resources that can Help in our Resource Directory We’ve compiled a fantastic and informative list of organizations and resources that serve caregivers in our Resource Directory. We add organizations and resources every week, and we hope you find them helpful along your caregiving journey. Take a look today, with over 60 resources in over 20 categories, there’s sure to be a resource that is helpful to you and your Community.
Join the Conversation on our Lotsa Blog Want to learn more about Communities at Lotsa, resources from our nonprofit partners, and stories from the people behind Lotsa? Visit our blog and post a comment. And to keep up with our latest posts, you can now subscribe to our blog as well! If Only… The Votes are Counted – Now Caregivers Need to Speak Up We Were Each Other’s Caregivers My Community on Halloween: Trick or Treating, Candy and Kind Neighbors |
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