Reporting October hours and lots of news

Hello, everyone!

I hope this week's wintry weather isn't disrupting your life too much and you are successfully staying safe and warm.

It's almost time to report your in-home tutoring time for October. Click here to go to the survey link.

I know it can be easy to skip reporting, but it's important that you follow through with this monthly task. When I completed my year-end progress report for the state recently, we almost didn't meet our progress goal. It wasn't because students weren't learning; it was because I was missing a lot of data from tutors who didn't report their activity each month. I guess a practical way to look at it is data=dollars in the nonprofit world.

Did you know that in Colorado, each hour of volunteer time is valued as an in-kind donation of $28.02? That adds up and is often considered as a metric in figuring out the money that ends up in our grants. We are grateful for every hour you contribute to the in-home tutoring program!

In other news:

Citizenship workshop this weekend

Asian Pacific Development Center is hosting a free citizenship workshop this Saturday, November 2^nd from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm. Participants will get help with the citizenship application (N-400 form) and fee waiver (I-912), which will be reviewed by a team of immigration attorneys. See the attachment for the information and documents needed to participate. If you have any questions, please reach out to APDC Citizenship Coordinator, Alex Bisges at alexandreabisges@apdc.org or 303.617.2567.

Movie night

This event has been postponed, but will be rescheduled. Contact the organizer if you want to go and need the new date information!

Join the University of Denver for their 2nd Annual Noble Movie Night! 

"Noble" is based on the true and extraordinary story of Christina Noble, a children's rights champion, charity worker and writer, who founded the Christina Noble Children's Foundation. 

In theme with the film, a Việtnamese dinner will be provided.

There will be beautiful artwork created by children at one of many Christina Noble Children's Center for bid at the silent auction along with TONS of other incredible items.

The flyer is attached. Tickets and more information can be found below:

Eventbrite and facebook

Housing help needed

This comes from our colleagues at Lutheran Family Services. If you're in a position to help, please contact Mary.

I’m working with a husband & wife refugee couple from Sri Lanka who are past their 5 years in the US. They’re in need of housing until November 16^th when they have a new lease starting. Does anyone have a connection to a basement or a place where they could stay for 2.5 weeks?

Please let me know if you have suggestions!

Gratefully,

Mary Feeney Francis, MA

Volunteer & Community Engagement Coordinator

Refugee & Asylee Programs, Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains

1600 Downing Street #600, Denver, CO 80218

Direct: (303) 225-0199

Another volunteer opportunity

As many of you know, I oversee a side project, A Little Something Denver Refugee Crafts Collective. If you're not familiar with us, please visit our website, www.refugeecrafts.org or our Instagram, @alittlesomethingdenver . Note the contact email at the end of this section--it's not my work email!

The time from September to Christmas is crunch time for us, but we are stuck this year. We know you're busy. We get it. We are, too. So are most of our volunteers, apparently. We really need some help, though. Our very busy event season is upon us, but we have almost no volunteers available to help us out. If we don't have anyone to help at an event, we'll have to cancel our participation. We don't want to do that because this is the time of year that our refugee artists bring in 90-percent of their income from the items they create at A Little Something. If we can't sell, these women can't get paid.

If you're outgoing, friendly, and able to share information about our organization, you would be a great fit for what we need. If you can't help out, please consider sharing this information with your networks.

For almost every event listed here, we also need help with setting up the display (usually the day/evening before) and packing up at the end of the event.  If you can help for a half-day, a few hours, a full day, one event, several times...we'll take it! We especially need help with the sale in Evergreen. It's our biggest event of the year, but so far, we have no one willing to take this one on or to get our items home from Evergreen.

What you would do:
Volunteers greet customers, share our mission and product knowledge, and complete sales transactions at various craft and fair trade events around Denver metro. We are looking for volunteers who are able to volunteer for an entire day or just a shift at these events.

Duties may include:

• Transporting, setting up or breaking down the sales display
• Keeping the sales display stocked and attractively arranged
• Handling cash/check/card sales
• Sharing our story with customers.

Volunteers often work in teams at events.

Volunteers are passionate about our mission to empower Denver's refugee women through this local income generation craft project and share this knowledge of refugees and refugee participants' stories with customers. The service of our volunteers enables A Little Something to further its work to make a meaningful difference in the lives of Denver's refugee artisans.

If you can help us out or if you have questions, please send an email to refugeecrafts@gmail.com. The event list is below.

Global Gift Fair 2019
Saturday, 11/2, & Sunday, 11/3
9am-2pm each day
Atonement Lutheran Church
6281 W. Yale, Lakewood, 80227

Evergreen Alternative Gift Fair 2019
Saturday & Sunday 11/9 & 11/10
Sat 9am-4pm Sun 9am-3pm
Evergreen Lutheran Church
5980 Highway 73, Evergreen 80439

Holiday Sale 2019
Tuesday 11/12
4-7:30 pm
Bear Valley Church
10001 W Jewell Ave, Lakewood, 80232

World Gift Mart 2019
Saturday 11/23 & Sunday 11/24
Sat 9am-4pm, Sun 9am-2pm
First Universalist Church of Denver
4101 E Hampden Ave, Denver, 80222

Alternative Gift Fair 2019
Sunday 12/1
8 a.m.-12p.m.
Glory of God Lutheran Church,
12200 W 38th Ave, Wheat Ridge, CO 80033

Montview Mission & Fair Trade Christmas Market 2019
Saturday 12/7 9am-3pm
Sunday 12/8 8am-12:30pm
Montview Presbyterian Church
1980 Dahlia St., Denver, 80220

Alternative Gift Market
Sunday, 12/8
8am-12pm.
Arvada United Methodist Church
6750 Carr St, Arvada 80004

Here is the unmasked reporting link for your tutoring time.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdqiykoJdkQcnie3Ux_xWx6mX9lvP6AP9gg4C2ixPntFrlmKQ/viewform