​We need your help.
 
The HIVE (High Impact Volunteer Engagement) team is undertaking the next step for their project — finding a Planning Wizard and team of volunteers to help create, plan, and run a family fun day along with their Born to Run 5K Race.
 
We are actively seeking volunteers from the community to fill these positions. The team will work for approximately seven months to create, plan, and run a family fun day and the 5K race fundraisier to be held on Sept. 22. They will work with the support of the HIVE team and resources available from TLC.
 
Following last year’s race, several staff members talked about expanding the event to include fun educational games for families. When the opportunity to learn more about how to engage high impact volunteers through the HIVE program came along, it seemed like a natural fit to combine the two and achieve some strategic goals, such as increasing funding and collaboration with other organizations throughout Sullivan and lower Grafton counties.
 
This is an excellent opportunity for people to become involved with TLC without having to make a major commitment and contribute to the community by offering an event that appeals to runners and families. The 5K race is our biggest fundraising event all year. Expanding it to include a family fun day was a natural progression.
 
Volunteers should be 16 years or older and available to meet every two weeks either at TLC’s office or virtually. Interested candidates must sign-up through the VolunteerNH website. The deadline for volunteers to sign up is Friday, March 16.
 
More information about the opportunities can be found at https://tinyurl.com/ycd927nl.
 
HIVE is a competitive program organized by the NH Center of Nonprofits in conjunction with VQ Volunteer Strategies of Denver, CO. The program offers nonprofit agencies the opportunity to explore trends and best practices in volunteer engagement and support the organizations as they pilot one strategic innovation in volunteer engagement that will measurably build capacity. During the year, participating nonprofits will receive training, tools, and coaching both individually and with collaboratively with all the participants.

At our annual meeting on January 9, 2017, we recognized the 22 years of service that Char Delabar has given to our organization. Char has served on our board in various capacities for most of those years. Most recently she has been the treasurer of the board. But her true heart is with the children.

She started as a Good Beginnings of Sullivan County volunteer. She supported new moms in the first few weeks of a baby’s life. Soon she discovered a love of working with twins and became famous for that. Her first set of twins is just getting ready to graduate from Stevens High School!

In appreciation for her service, Executive Director Maggie Monroe-Cassel presented Char with an engraving pendant of the Old Man in the Mountain, New Hampshire’s state symbol. Maggie reminded Char and those gathered that in serving the children of our regions, Char has served the children of New Hampshire.

​While her term on the board is over, Char will continue to serve on the Finance Committee and to serve as a volunteer in the office twice weekly.