Chris Fisher of StagersLISTWebsites.com

FOOD DRIVE
FOR
Mt. Diablo Unified School District
Volunteer Food Pantry
Assisting Families in Need in Our District Community

Families in the Mt. Diablo Unified School District need your help. There is a food pantry at the District office which is a maintained by group of volunteers. Child Welfare and Attendance Liaisons (CWAs), School Psychologists and other District employees pick up boxes of food from the District office and deliver them to families in need. As food is donated, volunteers check expiration dates, box up the food (emergency 3-4 day supply) and store excess food in cabinets in their main lunchroom. All volunteers help during their lunch hour or after work.

The food pantry is not just for the holidays. This is a year round project. Please consider organizing a donation station at your school either by asking your school administrator directly or going through your PTA, PTO, or PFC organization. It's simple, fill up some cans or barrels, then email or call Lori Amenta at amental@mdusd.k12.ca.us or 682-8000 ext 4002 and make arrangements to drop off your donations. This is a great way for your school communities and your scouts to help families in our immediate area, as all donations are given out to families in our District. This is also a wonderful community service project for your girls to be involved with. If you have any questions about setting up your donations please call Gina Soleimanieh at 925-429-0433. Thank you.

Top 10 Items to Donate

Peanut Butter
Rice
Canned Fruit
Cereal
Canned Tuna
Canned Chicken
Whole Beans
Canned Chili
Pasta Sauce & Pasta
Canned Vegetables

Other Suggested Items to Donate

Soup (Cans or Instant)
Crackers
Macaroni and Cheese
Jam/Jelly
Protein Power Bars
Granola Bars
Individual snacks such as:
Cheese & Crackers
PB & Crackers
Velveeta Cheese
Instant Powder Drinks
Canned Evaporated Milk
Juices -- no refrigeration
Pickles
Mayo
Mustard
Catsup

All Nonperishable Items Accepted

All this content in one fun packed day!
Prizes, gift certificates and cash, contests, networking and guaranteed at least one tip that will earn you the cost of admission. You can't afford to miss this!
Visit www.StagersLISTExpo.com and click on Metro New York!

Keynote Speaker Christine Rae
Speaker at California Association of Realtors Convention October 2009, past recipient of RESA Innovator award, President of CSP International Training Academy, trainer and author of Wiley Publishing's Home Staging For Dummies (& a Resource for the Rest of us). This book is a terrific tool which guides the reader to discover that staging is a specialty that the average person needs professional help with.

Christine's talk, 5 Mistakes Businesses Make, 5 Steps to Turn Your Business Around, 5 Market Driven Trends to Build Revenue will inspire you to take action to turn your business around. She challenges you to answer, "What keeps you from the success you want?" You will leave motivated and ready to turn your business around. Businesses need to grow and change to increase their market share; learn the trends that can help you reach your financial goals. What heights do you want to achieve in 2010?

Melissa Marro
Founder of First Impressions Home Staging & Interior Redesign, IRIS, CSP, Dewey Trainer

Melissa will be presenting Marketing for Explosive and Consistent Sales. Learn how to effectively market your staging business with a minimal budget for consistent and explosive sales without cold calling or placing expensive media print ads. Melissa will cover e-newsletters, agent "lunch & learns", neighborhood and agent farming techniques and more. Master these topics and you will be able to break free of the ebb and flow of the sales world and launch into increased, sustained sales and bookings.

Melissa will also have a workshop titled Overcome Objections - Increase Sales. Having trouble closing the deal or even setting appointments? In this session Melissa will teach you how to overcome common industry objections masterfully and with confidence. Melissa's company has had incredible success in their marketplace, once managing 40 staged properties in one month! Learn simple, proven techniques and increase your presentation skills with this informative workshop.

Visit www.StagersLISTExpo.com and click on Metro New York!

Leigh Hagen
Photographer, professinal stager and cofounder of LH2 Staging, Leigh's work has been featured on the cover of Home Staging for Dummies, Midwest Living Luxury Tours, and International Staging Magazine Staging Standard.

Leigh is presenting our lunch workshop, Photos - the final ingredient. The Sale Begins in the MLS. Photographs sell your work, your talent and your staged properties IF they reflect what you've done. Learn how to take better photos, what you need in a camera and how to utilize your photos to sell more by marketing yourself and your work online and in your portfolio through brilliant photos.

Suzy Minken
Home stager and Feng Shui practitioner

Suzy's workshop is Feng Shui - The Home Staging Connection. Suzy blends home staging and Feng Shui with great success. Staging IS Feng Shui. Feng Shui does three things: 1. Harmonize space, 2. Neutralize space from negative emotions, 3. Direct energy to a specific goal. For home stagers that means creating space that buyers "feel" at home in. Learn how home staging and Feng Shui blend and compliment each other. Realtors know how a home feels makes a difference in what properties buyers will spend more time viewing. Stagers use these techniques all the time. Suzy will teach you why it works and help you understand how to use them with purpose and intention for even more success and SOLD properties.

Visit www.StagersLISTExpo.com and click on Metro New York!

Chris Fisher
Creator of StagersLISTWebsites.com, blogging expert and virtual assistant

Chris' workshop is Websites, Blogging, SEO - The Key To Building Your Business. Learn how you can get a web presence on YOUR budget. Do you have a website? Do you know it doesn't have to be expensive to be effective? If you have a website, is it active, engaging and bringing you business? You may only need slight changes to improve your existing site dramatically? Do you know that blogging is bringing Realtors and home stagers across the country business? If you answered no to any of these questions, this workshop is for you! Drive business to your door without spending a fortune doing it. Take this workshop and receive a FREE blog header for the blog platform of your choice.

How to Create and Solidify Realtor Relationships

We have three successful professional home stagers to talk about how they create partnerships with their Realtors and continue to get business. Sid Pinkerton has been featured on TLC as a home staging expert and has staged hundreds of apartments in Metro Nerw York in the last six years. Kate Hart is an award winning home staging expert, has helped hundreds of families prepare homes for sale, has mentored and trained thousands of Realtors and home stagers. Lynelle Hartman has been a trainer for the two largest staging training companies in the US, trains in the Dewey Color System and authored a continuing education course on vacant home staging.

Visit www.StagersLISTExpo.com and click on Metro New York!

FREE HIV Testing

Friday, Nov 6, 6-8pm
Monday, Nov 9, 6-8pm

When was the last time you got tested? Have you talked with anyone about ways to protect yourself against HIV?

Come to the RCC on Friday, Nov 6 & Monday, Nov 9 between 6-8pm and you will get:

• FREE HIV oral rapid testing- You will know the result in 20 minutes with 99.7% accuracy;
• FREE safer sex counseling;
• FREE condoms & lube;
• Peace of Mind that comes from knowing you are taking care of yourself!

Rainbow Community Center (RCC)
3024 Willow Pass Road, Suite 200
Concord, CA 94519-2588
Phone: 925.692.0090
Fax: 925.692.0091

The RCC also offers counseling, support groups, food services and so much more. If you'd like to donate to help this wonderful organization, please click here. If you'd like to learn more about their programs and services, visit their website.

Thank you!

I received this email from my friend Adryon and I think it's a cute way to remind us that she's raising money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society by participating in Team in Training. If you'd like to see more information about Adryon, visit www.AdryonRocks.com. Then donate if you can. This Winter my grandpa, who passed away from Multiple Myeloma, will be one of the team's honorees.

I think you should dress up as a PHILANTHROPIST! It's a super easy costume to make - you don't even need to leave your house or even your chair! Plus, everyone will be dressing up as The Cat in The Hat - why not step outside of that box!

To make the costume, follow ALL of these steps:

1) Donate to my fundraising page http://pages.teamintraining.org/aketcham

2) Print out the receipt

3) Tape the receipt to yourself (wherever you choose!)

4) There you go! You are now a PHILANTHROPIST! Just like the Rockefellers! J

If you like, you can even print out the name tag I've provided below and wear it - but only after you follow the steps above!

Go Team!

Adryon Ketcham

Run when you can, walk when you have to, crawl if you must, JUST NEVER GIVE UP!

Marriage Equality-No on 1!

This Sunday, Nov 1, 2-4:30pm at the RCC
No on 1 Phone Bank
Make the difference on the last weekend before Nov 3!

Join Courage Campaign in helping protect marriage equality in Maine!

After a bill to allow same-sex marriage in Maine was signed into law on May 6, 2009, Maine became the fifth U.S. state to recognize same-sex marriage and the second to do so through legislative process rather than through a judicial ruling. The law would have taken effect on September 11, 2009, but will now be subject to a potential "people's veto" in Maine's November elections.

The stakes are extremely high in Maine. Right now, the same people that launched Prop 8 are airing fear-mongering TV ads in Maine that are carbon copies of the ads they aired last year in California.

In an election that is so close, a robust and disciplined field campaign can make all the difference. The Maine "NO on 1" campaign needs help making voter ID and persuasion phone calls. And that's where you can help.

Come make calls the whole time, or just some of the time. We need you!

Rainbow Community Center (RCC)
3024 Willow Pass Road, Suite 200
Concord, CA 94519-2588
Phone: 925.692.0090
Fax: 925.692.0091

To make a donation to RCC, click on this link.