January 24, 2011 – Our board meeting to get ready for 2011 has been completed and Story From a New Friend has some exciting things happening this year. There are three updates that I wanted to address today: our 501-3c status, our event structure for this year and our online presence.
Our organization has decided to remain an education organization and not pursue our 501-3c status. We have decided to focus our energy on our core: education. Education should be free and we want to keep it that way. All of our events will remain free. During our events we will team up with a 501-3c nonprofit that relates to our speakers topic. All donated money will go directly to that 501-3c charity. Our goal is to help promote stories and raise awareness for great causes.
Our event structure for this year will be a little bit different from last year: we listened to our community and we heard YOU! We will be hosting 4 larger events this year. We are expanding into local college campuses as well. One thing we can promise: the events will be educational, fun and everyone will leave wanting more SFANF!
SFANF has also started working on our online presence. We have received many stories from people around the city throughout 2010. Unfortunately, we only have limited events and that is why we decided to spend some time building an online community where people can share their stories. If everyone is living online now a days so should SFANF right?
We are excited for 2011! If you have any questions email me at ksmith@anewfriend.org. Remember, everyone has a story to tell and we can all learn from each other. We look forward to seeing you at our first event in April! Details to come.
