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Workshops: Part I - August 5-7 , 2008 Edom, TX - Part II - TBA, 2008 Edom, TX Find out details by going to Circle of 10 then click on Workshops button.

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Working with the Media Workshop.

Circle of Ten invites community-based and faith-based agencies, local schools and businesses to this workshop in Tyler on July 22, 2008 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Media professional Jeff Crilleyand east Texas media representatives will discuss "How to Get the Word Out" about your organization via print, radio, television, and Internet media.
Location is the East Texas Workforce Center, 4100 Troup Highway in Tyler. Registration fee is $35 for Circle of 10 alumni and $50 for all others. For more information or to register click here, or contact A Circle of Ten at 903-541-0013 or circleof10@circleof10.org.

AmeriCorps Week
Left to right VAVV VISTA Members Peggy Lustig, Jessica Goode, Wanda Brown, Van Kiwanis President Glenn Williams, Ellen Thompson; Martha Myers AmeriCorps Week is a recruitment and recognition event designed to bring more Americans into service, salute AmeriCorps members and alums for their powerful impact, and thank the community partners who make AmeriCorps possible. Read more of the story

Leadership Opportunities

Four AmeriCorps*VISTA positions available with A Circle of Ten! Amazing
opportunities to impact ET Communities. Positions available/experience
required:

1) Grant-Communications Coordinator with education, nonprofit experience.
2) Volunteer/Membership Coordinator with strong people, organizational skills.
3) Small Business Coordinator with real estate/property mgmt/business experience.
4) Rural Community Building Initiative Coordinator with economic, workforce
and/ or affordable housing experience .Click here to read more.

Monthly stipend, health insurance,end-of-service education award or cash
bonus.
Send resume to C10-VISTA Search Committee, 205 E. Commerce, #205,
Jacksonville, TX 75766; By email circleof10@circleof10.org.
Or click here
https://my.americorps.gov/mp/login.do?page=https%3A%2F%2Fmy.americorps.gov%2, then click on Apply to Serve.

Standing from Left: Sandi Taylor (Longview), Martha Meyers (Van), Ellen Thompson (Van), Jean Freeman (Ft. Worth), Vicki Williams (Fruitvale), Geraley Turner (Jacksonville), Donna Allen (Kemp), Shirley Calvert (Ben Wheeler),Seated: Suzy Green (Tyler), Roy Fry (Van), Kathy Holdway (Edom), Barbara Dawson (Canton)

read more here

Suzy Green served as our ET Rural Arts Council VISTA for a year. Check out the Press Release below with info on her upcoming Art Show, plus info about a painting she donated to C10 and displayed in the lobby of our Small Business Incubator, in Jacksonville. If possible, support Suzy's efforts by dropping by her Art Show on Saturday April 5^th, 5pm – 8pm
At

The Museum of East Texas Culture

400 Micheaux

Palestine, Texas

903.723.1914 Read more of Ms. Green

from left: Shirley Calvert, VISTA; Pam Anderson, Director of Outreach, C10; Suzy Green, artist; Kathy Holdway, President C10; Donna Taylor, Experience Works & Georgia Shaw, VISTA.

Georgia Shaw, an Ameri*Corps VISTA (Volunteer In Service To America) assigned to
A Circle of Ten, attended the 15th Annual Texas Association of Community
Development Corporation's (TACDC) conference in Corpus Christi on a full
scholarship provided by Wachovia Foundation. Read More of Ms Shaw

Kathy Holdway, President A Circle of Ten, Inc., Pam Anderson, C10 Director of Outreach, Georgia Shaw, VISTA Regional Coordinator for Rural Community Building Initiative, Barbara Dawson, Training Coordinator and Jeffrey Lee Basehore, Architecture Construction attended the Texas A&M University-Energy Systems Laboratory's Clean Air Through Energy Efficiency: Shaping Our Future Together conference in San Antonio. RCBI Leaders heard from top experts on the current status of efforts to achieve optimum results in energy efficiency and clean air attainment. These leaders are working to implement a Department of Energy, Rebuild America grant to "integrate energy efficient, renewable energies technologies" into workforce, education and building affordable housing and community sites.

Verizon Foundation

The Verizon Foundation recently awarded Gateway to American Opportunities, the regional literacy initiative serving Cherokee, Rusk & Van Zandt Counties ,with a $24,000 literacy grant. Included in the check award picture: Peggy Lustig, regional literacy coordinator of Gateway to American Opportunities, Linda Pannell, Verizon Rep, State Rep Chuck Hopson (Cherokee & Rusk Counties), Kathy Holdway, President of A Circle of Ten, Inc., & Cesar Moncada, Verizon Rep.

Jacksonville leaders attend East Texas Economic Development Summit. Front: Becky Bailey,
Senator Robert Nichols, Geraley Turner. Second row:Glen Hamilton, Mayor Robert Haberle,
Pam Anderson, Peggy Renfro, Joe Angle,Ben Hamilton, Al Chavira. Back Row: Darrell Prcin,
James Houser, Mandy Johnston, Jan Hill, Marlene & Phil Jowell, Mo Raissi, Richard Ball,
GeorgeBaker & Chris Day. Not pictured: Dale Jamersonread more

Volunteers of the year Award Kathy Holdway, Pam Anderson, Georgia Shaw, Peggy Lustig, Donna Timmons (Click on Picture to enlarge)

C10's 3-Day Workshop, The Process of Collaboration, Set for Dates available:May 20, 21,22. and August 5,6,7; Limited Space in the Part II-The Next Step Workshop set for Part II June 24, 25 26. Contact the C10 Office for more info: 903-541-0013 or circleof10@circleof10.org Read more

Van Area VISTA Vision Leaders at September 25 Press Conference to Kick-off the Oct 25-26 Funders' Forum & Networking Gathering. Seated Left to right: Suzy Green, VISTA ET Rural Arts Council Regional Coordinator; Pat Percifield, VISTA Coordinator for City of Van; Martha Myers, VISTA Outreach & Development Coordinator and Dian Burleson, VISTA Program Coordinator, both with Van Community Library. .Standing Left to Right: Billy Smith, Mayor of Van; Barbara Dawson, VISTA Training Coordinator; Susan Ameling, VISTA Emergency Response Coordinator; Sheree Griffin, VISTA Van Area Rural Community Building Initiative Coordinator; Vicki Williams, VISTA City of Van Grants & Communications Coordinator; Peggy Lustig, VISTA Team Leader and Gateway to American Opportunities Regional Director.

Graduates and faculty of the most recent Part I – The Process of Collaboration workshop took a break for this photo. Among them are Van-area VISTA Vision workers Barbara Dawson, Ellen Thompson, and Roy Fry. Future part-one workshops are scheduled Sept. 18-20 and Nov. 13-15. Part II – The Next Step is scheduled Dec 11-13. For more information, more on workshops or call 903.541.0013.

John Beall of the City of Van and Roy Fry of Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry listen attentively during an orientation meeting for VISTAs – Volunteers in Service to America – and supervisors. VISTAs will spend a year or more in Van working with a dozen host agencies on a variety of projects that enhance quality of life. For more information, contact Van Economic Development Corporation Director Glen Williams at 903.963.8887 or 903.830.0542, or go to www.vanedc.orgor

Suzy Green (center) and Sherry Gasper from the East Texas Rural Arts Council accept a $500 check from Shelly Ritch of Sam’s Club in Tyler. The money will help support ETRAC’s mission. For more information, go to www.etvv.org/etrac.

Van Mayor Billy Smith and Bahman Yazdani of the Texas A&M Energy System Laboratory listen intently during a meeting to prepare for writing a grant proposal to create curriculum and train local electricians, plumbers, and other trades people in energy efficient and renewable energies technologies. Other meeting participants included representatives from the East Texas Council of Governments Workforce Board, East Texas Virtual Village, East Texas Workforce Centers, the International Polytechnic Institute, the Northeast Texas Consortium, Rural Community Building Initiative/A Circle of Ten, SUPERNet, Texas State Technical College, and Van Independent School District. Teams hope to complete the grant application in September as part of a Rebuild America: East Texas Rural Community Building Initiative.For more info: Click here or call 903-541-0013

public Service Announcement
Fresh from supervisor training, Van city officials and nonprofit executives met June 27 preparing to host 16 VISTAs who will spend a year or longer on local economic development and cultural projects. Left to right: City Council member Pat Percifield, Joan Driver of Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry, and Glenn Williams of the Van Economic Development Corporation. For more information, go to Click here to Visit Van EDCor Click here to visit RCBI.or call Glenn at 903.830.0542

Applications for the Van microenterprise revolving loan program are now available from the City of Van and the Texas Center for Rural Entrepreneurship. The program is to help small business owners in Van create or retain jobs while getting the capital they need to start or grow a business. For more information, see Click here to Visit RCBI or call Van EDC’s Glenn Williams at 903.830.0542 or TCRE’s Greg Clary at 903.714.0232. Learn more about grassroots community organizing, program development, grant writing, building healthy collaborations, and leadership skills at the upcoming Part I – The Process of Collaboration workshop scheduled July 24-26, or a separate workshop (click here to see workshops)scheduled Aug. 28-30. Future Part 1 workshops are scheduled Sept. 18-20 and Nov. 13-15, and a Part 2 workshop is scheduled Dec. 11-13. For more information, click here or call 903.541.0013.

Builder’s Best and Gateway to American Opportunities held an awards ceremony April 18 in Jacksonville to honor 20 employees who attended on-site English classes for five months through a regional literacy initiative funded a Verizon Foundation grant. For more information, go to Click here to visit GAO.

Dare to Dream: That's what the buttons say that these kids got at the booth hosted by A Circle of Ten, Inc., at the Earth Day celebration April 21 at Camp Tyler in Whitehouse. Families have been selected for more than 50% of the children represented by East Texas Heart Gallery, which reminds that April is Child Abuse Prevention Month and May is Foster Care Awareness Month. The group also has a new PSA and is working on a 16-page full color Heart Gallery book that highlights the hardest of the hard-to-place kids. Call ETHG at 866-787-adopt, email easttexasheartgallery@yahoo.com, or go to http;//www.EastTexasHeartGallery.com.

A Circle of Ten, Inc., is leasing space in Jacksonville's Austin Building as a small business and nonprofit incubator. C10 will host 5-10 organizations and its own core service staff and several regional initiatives at 201-205 E. Commerce. For more information call C10 at 903-541-0013 or email circleof10@circleof10.org.

Felix Lopez of the State Energy Conservation Office talked about the Van Area Rural Community Building Initiative. Through SECO, RCBI won a Department of Energy grant for $228,145 to support business development, tourism, environmental issues, and efficient affordable housing. For more information, call Glenn Williams at 903.830.0542 or C10’s Kathy Holdway at 903.541.0013, or connect to www.etvv.org/rcbi.
A Circle of Ten, Inc., has a VISTA position available for someone with a warm heart and a willingness to “get things done” as a first priority. VISTAs – Volunteers in Service to America – give of themselves to help solve problems and transform lives by sharing their time, skills, energy, and enthusiasm with communities that need it most. Leaders retired or fresh out of college are welcome to apply as training coordinator for C10 & partners’ workshops and training, including the fall 2007 Funders’ Forum. Skills and experience needed: communication and organizational abilities. www.etvv.org/funders forum. A Circle of Ten, a nonprofit agency, has trained and supported leaders to multiply partnerships impacting economic development, since 1996. Contact Kathy Holdway for more info at circleof10@circleof10.orgfor more information.