Clients/Websites

Overview of Clients & Websites

• Acord Food Pantry
• Alternatives 2010 (a NEC website)
• Big Game Outfitters
• Catalyst For Business
• The Dental Shopper
• Eastern Board of Approved Soccer Officials Association (EBASOA)
• The Edfund
• Francine Weigand - Healer • Teacher
• Hamilton-Wenham Generals Youth Football
• Interrelate
• Legal Advocacy Workshops (L.A.W.)
• National Empowerment Center (NEC)
• National Coalition of Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Organizations (NCMHC/SO)
• Support Our Schools (SOS)

Clients/Websites

Acord Food Pantry

Acord Food Pantry in Hamilton, MA has provided food assistance to residents of Hamilton, Wenham, and several nearby communities since 1991.

Acord is a non-denominational, non-profit, grassroots organization staffed by more than 100 local volunteers.

Acord is a partner of the Greater Boston Food Bank and the Merrimack Valley Food Bank, and a member of the North Shore Hunger Network.

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Alternatives 2010

“Promoting Wellness Through Social Justice”

The national mental health conference organized by and for mental health consumers and survivors will be held Wednesday, September 29 - Sunday, October 3, 2010 at the Hyatt Anaheim, California.

The 2010 Alternatives conference theme is “Promoting Wellness Through Social Justice,” and California is an ideal location. For 40 years, California’s mental health consumer/survivor movement has worked to promote civil rights and social justice, resulting in ground-breaking legislation such as the Mental Health Services Act. California has also long been known as the center of the wellness and holistic health movements which seek to integrate mind, body, and spirit and to empower people to have a stronger voice and greater choice regarding their health and well-being.

Wellness and social justice are inseparable and interwoven; likewise, each individual is deeply connected to a greater collective. This year’s conference will focus on strategies to increase the wellness and the health of individuals and communities through taking action for social change. We will learn about strategies to restructure mental health systems to be recovery-oriented and community-based; to protect our civil and human rights; to exercise our power of choice in health approaches, and to build more accepting, inclusive, and diverse organizations and communities. Together, we will maximize our individual and collective strengths, potential, and creativity to make wellness and social justice a reality for all.

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Big Game Outfitters

Big Game Outfitters provides name brand imprinted clothing and specailtiy items. They now offer their customers the option of selling products via an online store. Why go to the trouble of setting up a store?

• Fundraising - The Hamilton Wenham Generals Youth Football store is a seasonal store. It's open for a short period of time, the orders are consolidated and delivered all at once to the clothing coordinator who distributes them.
• Save space and administrative work - Why handle distribution of clothing through a store at your school or office? The Hilltop Country Day School uses Big Game Outfitters for all their clothing sales. Put that room to better use, and free up your staff to do what they were hired for. [View the Hilltop Country Day School Store]

Which software is best for your store?

For these two stores, we decided to give Godaddy’s Quick Shopping Cart a try. I only ran into one snag which I'm sure they will fix soon, the ability to easily offer personalization as an option. But on the whole I would recommend it to anyone that wishes to create a small store (less than 100 products).

If your needs are more sophisticated, I would recommend Miva Merchant.

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Catalyst For Business

Static Websites are Dead.

It's time for an Online Business. Our hosted and easy-to-use system is designed to meet your specific business needs - allowing you to focus on your goals, not mastering the technology behind it. Visit our new website, http://catalystforbusiness.com for more information!

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The Dental Shopper

The Dental Shopper was launched July 1, 2009 and was my first major project using the Business Catalyst platform. I created a number of custom web apps so members can pay for and upload classified ads, coupons, business directory listings etc. all of which is accessed by a searchable database. The client has full control of the site via an extensive control panel which allows him to manage data, update the website, track client interactions, and more.

Business Catalyst is an integrated system that runs the website, email marketing, and an online shop, all this while growing a customer database with integrated analytics.

Business Catalyst was recently purchased by Adobe! If you would like to try it free for a month, click here. No credit card is required, and if you feel its something you want to work with, I can extend the trial up to 6 months!

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Eastern Board of Approved Soccer Officials Association

EBASOA trains and provides officials for public High Schools and private schools throughout Section 2 -- the Capital District -- of New York State. We have been in existence since 1954 officiating boys’ soccer matches in the Albany area.

This site features a flash based slide show on the home page which showcases the soccer officials in action.

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Hamilton Wenham Education Fund

We are an independent, nonprofit, charitable corporation with the unifying goal of building a permanent endowment fund to perpetually support the enhancement of the educational experience in our community.

The Edfund is a charitable corporation that raises money for an educational endowment fund. The proceeds from the Edfund annually support educational, financial requests received from the schools in order to directly and perpetually enhance the educational experience in our school district.

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Francine Weigand

Healer • Teacher

Francine does energy healing work using a variety of methods. She is a meditation teacher, an Energy Medicine Practitioner*, a Reiki Master in the traditional Usui method*, and a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist.

She conducts classes and workshops in meditation and Reiki for children and adults, as well as performs individual healing sessions.

Announcing Francine Weigand's Meditation CD

Be Your Best,
A Guided Meditation for Kids & Teens

The Be Your Best guided meditation was created to bring more balance and well being into the lives of kids and teens while helping them discover what it is they truly want. Up against intense physical and emotional change and peer pressure, it can be hard for kids and teens to find their way. This meditation offers a way for them to relax, look within for answers and feel refreshed in the process.

For further information visit her website at www.kidsandteensmeditate.com.

To schedule an appointment, please email her at info@kidsandteensmeditate.com.

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Hamilton-Wenham Youth Football

This website was launced April 15, 2009 after about a week of intense work. It's a Joomla based Simplweb site which offers out of the box features not available with regular websites. Features installed include:

• Rotating image banner on home page
• JCal Pro Calendar
• Web 2.0 Lightbox Image Gallery
• Build in Contact Form

It's a content managment system, so the football commissioner can edit pages whenever he wants. We can create pages which are only available to view if you are a logged in registered user. Special menus can be created and arranged as needed.

In addition to the website, I recently created an online store for Generals Youth Football which is operated by Big Game Outfitters of Hamilton, MA.

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Interrelate

Home of the International Coalition of Mental Health Consumer/Survivor/Service User National Networks.

The primary principles of the Coalition are:

Recovery is possible for everyone. To recover, we need services and supports that treat us with dignity, respect our rights, allow us to make choices, and provide assistance with our self-defined needs. This range of services must include consumer-run and -operated programs.

Self Determination: We need to be in control of our own lives.

Holistic Choices: We need choices, including a range of recovery-oriented services and supports that provide assistance with housing, education, and career development.

Voice: We must be centrally involved in any dialogues and decisions affecting us.

Personhood: We will campaign to eliminate the stigma and discrimination associated with mental illnesses.

With representatives from 7 countries including:

• Australia -Australian Mental Health Consumer Network
• Canada - National Network for Mental Health (NNMH)
• England - National Survivor User Network (NSUN)
• Ireland -Irish Advocacy Network
• New Zealand -Central Potential – Te Rito Maia Inc
• Scotland -VOX-Voices Of eXperience
• US - National Coalition of MH Consumer/survivor Organizations (NCMHCSO)

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Legal Advocacy Workshops

Since 1994, Legal Advocacy Workshops’ training programs have shown over a thousand lawyers how to sharpen their advocacy and writing skills. At Legal Advocacy Workshops, we teach concrete writing techniques and a confident, modern style of writing that today’s clients and judges will appreciate and understand. We insist on plain English and sharp, clean papers that focus on fact and state their position up front, yet we also encourage each lawyer to find his or her own voice. Our workshops are proven tools for developing legal talent and consistently earn rave reviews.

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National Empowerment Center

The mission of the National Empowerment Center Inc. is to carry a message of recovery, empowerment, hope and healing to people who have been labeled with mental illness. We carry that message with authority because we are a consumer/survivor/expatient-run organization and each of us is living a personal journey of recovery and empowerment. We are convinced that recovery and empowerment are not the privilege of a few exceptional leaders, but rather are possible for each person who has been labeled with mental illness. Whether on the back ward of a state mental institution or working as an executive in a corporation, we want people who are mental health consumers/survivors/expatients to know there is a place to turn to in order to receive the information they might need in order to regain control over their lives and the resources that affect their lives. That place is the National Empowerment Center.

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National Coalition of Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Organizations

WASHINGTON, DC - April 16, 2008 - Dan Fisher with Senator Kennedy at the Campaign for Mental Health Reform's Gala Dinner in Washington DC

The National Coalition of Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Organizations (NCMHCSO) will ensure that consumer/survivors have a major voice in the development and implementation of health care, mental health, and social policies at the state and national levels, empowering people to recover and lead a full life in the community.

Mental health consumers/survivors are leading the transformation of the mental health field through our authentic voice and vision for self-directed recovery. Our vision of recovery goes far beyond treatment, because it is about all the elements that go into good lives–housing, education, jobs, social relationships, and full participation in the community. Our vision was echoed in the New Freedom Mental Health Commission Report, which sees a “future when everyone with mental illness will recover.”

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Support Our Schools (SOS)

SOS is a grass-roots organization of citizens who are concerned about our public schools. Our goals include engaging the community in the school budget process and exploring numerous ways of maintaining and increasing funding to the Hamilton-Wenham (MA) schools.

See also the SOS Calendar which I created using Easy PHP Calendar.