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Elizabeth O'Dell Pan American Bank Hosts First Financial Literacy Conference in East Los Angeles

EAST LOS ANGELES, Calif., Aug 24, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Pan American Bank (Los Angeles) (www.PanAmericanBank.us) today announced that on August 14, 2010, Pan American Bank and the East Los Angeles Financial Literacy Task Force successfully hosted the first East Los Angeles Financial Literacy Conference. The conference, attended by hundreds of local residents, provided members of the local community with a series of financial literacy workshops ai

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Added by Elizabeth O'Dell on August 26, 2010 at 12:10pm — No Comments

Dale Prunoske Residential Wind Power

Windtronics is promoting a residential wind turbine.

These look pretty cool and might provide up to 50% of your residential electric consumption.

You get a federal tax benefit and in some states additional funding through grants and other subsidies might allow you to install these relatively inexpensively.

Here are a couple of sites to check out info on these turbines.

http://www.windtronics.com/

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Added by Dale Prunoske on August 23, 2010 at 12:09pm — No Comments

Dale Prunoske Dry Wall That Cleans the Air

http://www.certainteed.com/airrenew/

Certainteed is promoting a new gyp board that promotes healthy housing by clearing the air of VOCs as well as increasing moisture resistance.

Thoughts?

Has anyone used or seen this product?

Please pass along any info you may have on this topic. Thanks.

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Added by Dale Prunoske on August 11, 2010 at 8:17am — No Comments

Antonio "Tony" Arocho, Esq. Name Squatting on Social Media Sites

Nonprofits, Museums, etc. may want to check social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and other such sites to see if a social media account user has registered an account name that was identical to your federally registered trademark. Such a phenomenon appears to be growing. Twitter has a specialized “Name Squatting” page on which instructions exist on how to report a name squatting incident to Twitter – http://help.twiContinue

Added by Antonio "Tony" Arocho, Esq. on August 3, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Antonio "Tony" Arocho, Esq. IRS Grants Grace Period for Small Tax Exempt Organizations

Last week the Internal Revenue Service announced that the many small tax-exempt nonprofit organizations at risk of losing their tax-exempt status have until October 15, 2010 to file returns. These organizations are at risk because they failed to file required returns for 2007, 2008, and 2009. Now these groups can preserve their exempt status by filing returns by October 15, 2010. The IRS also posted a list of the organizations at risk of automatic revocation of their tax-exempt status at… Continue

Added by Antonio "Tony" Arocho, Esq. on August 3, 2010 at 4:29pm — No Comments

Antonio "Tony" Arocho, Esq. Facebook Page Posts for the weeks of July 11th ,18th & 25th

This is a summary of posts for the weeks of July 11th, 18th and 25th to the Arocho Law Office Facebook Page:

A special episode of The Simpsons to be shown on October 3rd will focus on Grameen Bank's micro-credit schemes, and feature of Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus. http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=148256

US Nonprofi… Continue

Added by Antonio "Tony" Arocho, Esq. on August 3, 2010 at 4:27pm — No Comments

Antonio "Tony" Arocho, Esq. New News Source

As a public service the Arocho Law Office has created the following news and information website at http://arocholawnews.blogspot.com/. At that site you will find links to useful news and information on business, nonprofits, regulations, government, money, credit unions, world news and matters of personal interest! Continue

Added by Antonio "Tony" Arocho, Esq. on August 3, 2010 at 4:25pm — No Comments

Dale Prunoske DOE Seeks Input on National Energy Rating Program for Homes

Here's the link to their post. What are your thoughts on a uniform energy retrofit standard? Have an idea - you can submit it at their website.

http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/news/progress_alerts.cfm/pa_id=354

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Added by Dale Prunoske on June 15, 2010 at 3:34pm — No Comments

Dale Prunoske Make Your Own Rain Barrel

With summer here you might want to make your own rain barrel for water collection and irrigating your garden or plantings. Here's a simple and easy way for the "how-to" for this project courtesy of a great website called GreenBuildingAdvisor.com.

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Added by Dale Prunoske on June 15, 2010 at 2:52pm — No Comments

Dale Prunoske High Efficiency Windows and Low-e Storms

Here is a link to the DOE website with information on hew high efficiency replacement windows and low-e storms that might be of use in your retrofit projects. With a large purchase and the increased energy savings these could add value to your program or projects. http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/news/progress_alerts.cfm/pa_id=342 Continue

Added by Dale Prunoske on June 2, 2010 at 9:43am — No Comments

Katrina Rex Making Social Media Work for You-Presentation from Phoenix May 3, 2010

It was great to see all the organizers that attended the annual CB&O meeting in Phoenix. Many people asked for copies of this presentation, so I'm sharing it here for anyone who's interested.

Let me know if you have any questions, I'm always happy to answer any social media questions you may have.

Katrina


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Added by Katrina Rex on May 17, 2010 at 5:36pm — 2 Comments

NeighborWorks America Tell Your Colleagues -- 990 Drop-Dead Deadline TODAY!

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Added by NeighborWorks America on May 17, 2010 at 2:08pm — No Comments

NeighborWorks America Nominations Open for the American Express NGen Leadership Award

Independent Sector is pleased to begin accepting nominations for the inaugural American Express NGen Leadership Award. This award was created to honor an outstanding nonprofit leader under age 40 who has had a transformative impact on addressing society’s critical needs.

By recognizing the contributions of young lea

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Added by NeighborWorks America on May 14, 2010 at 2:51pm — No Comments

EQMejia Peer to Peer Lending

I just saw an interesting news piece dealing with a new trend called "Peer to Peer Lending." Individuals put up profiles outlining what they need money for and individual investors put up the money with an interest rate based on a credit rating, much the way banks do traditionally.

What do you think about this new trend in personal finance? Should such an approach be used to help foreclosure clients? If so in what way, if not - why

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Added by EQMejia on May 12, 2010 at 10:46pm — 2 Comments

Natallie Keiser Community Stabilization Summer VISTA position

Community Stabilization VISTA Position

Supported by NeighborWorks America

4/28/2010

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Added by Natallie Keiser on April 28, 2010 at 3:35pm — No Comments

Elizabeth O'Dell Educating children in financial literacy :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Personal Finance

Parents can play a key role in teaching their children financial literacy, and help is available through the American Bankers Association Education Foundation.


The foundation will host its annual Teach Children to Save Day on Tuesday. Its Web site www.teachchildrentosave.com offers tips and features a Money Talks newsletter in Spanish and English for young people and their parents with guidance on how to make savin

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Added by Elizabeth O'Dell on April 26, 2010 at 9:22am — No Comments

Elizabeth O'Dell VISTA worker saves world a piece at a time

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- No, she can't change the world, but she's trying to preserve her place in it, one little piece at a time.

Living in Charleston on a yearlong assignment through AmeriCorps VISTA, 23-year-old Abigail Weglarz works as a community activator and passionate sustainability advocate.

Her personal approach to conservation and prudence includes riding a bicycle for transportation, sharing a bare-bones apartment on Charleston's East End and garden

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Added by Elizabeth O'Dell on April 26, 2010 at 9:05am — No Comments

Dale Prunoske EPA Lead Based Paint RRP Rule in Effect

The EPA Lead Based Paint Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule went into effect today - are you certified?

The RRP Rule requires that renovators are trained in the use of lead safe work practices, that renovators and firms be certified, that providers of renovation training be accredited, and that renovators follow specific work practice standards. Additional information on this Rule can be found at:

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Added by Dale Prunoske on April 22, 2010 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Dale Prunoske Phoenix NTI Workshop on Energy & Building Science

MONDAY AFTERNOON WORKSHOP: 4:30pm – 6:00pm

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Added by Dale Prunoske on April 19, 2010 at 9:15am — No Comments

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