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Welcome to www.AliceWhite.WordPress.com & 2010!*  Given the exponential speed of change & population shifts (www.YouTube.com/Watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY), I hope you will find at least one opportunity or re$ource (by selecting categories in the right-hand menu) that may be helpful to you, your colleagues, friends, family, faith-community or neighborhood.  Thank you for doing your part to make ours a wonderful world:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rooyt3ptNco&feature=email   

Join awe-struck audiences who have viewed u@50:  www.YouTube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA – one-minute, 44-second, award-winning palindrome video by a 20-year-old.  The presentation reads & means the exact opposite backwards, as forward.  Your life is your choice.

While you are providing your service to people & places where you work, worship, volunteer, learn, play or thrive, please remember to 

1.  Click daily to support causes you believe in:  www.ClickToGive.com  Choose a cause to click to give:  animal care, feed the poor, stop child abuse, shelter homeless, fight cancer:  all monies created by your clicking is sent directly from the advertising network to the listed charity.  www.GreaterGood.org  Support causes you care about at no cost to you.  www.GiftsThatGiveMore.com Provides charity royalty of 5% to 30% paid on every item purchased from online stores with 4,500+ products.  www.FreeKibble.com  Automatically donate pet food whenever you take informative quizzes  on both, color-coded dog & cat portals.  www.AnimalRescueSite.com  Pay for food & care for some of the 8M companion animals relinquished to US shelters annually.  www.TheHungerSite.com  100% of fees from Web site sponsorships goes to hunger  relief:  1.1 cups of food to the hungry everytime you click.  Shop to give more.  www.TheLiteracySite.com  Click to provide books for children:  1+M free books since 2004.  www.GlobalGirlFriend.com  Purchase eco-friendly apparel & accessories hand-made by women & communities in need.  

2.  Refer friends, families & neighbors to www.211Texas.org (& select “Search for Services” in the middle of the page & then fill in two blanks about your needs & your location … & voila!  – a list of places/organizations that have what you need.  Or call 2-1-1 for referrals to resources you need.  2-1-1 helps first-generation families succeed in college through childcare, transportation, food, housing, domestic-violence prevention & more referrals.  Financial aid for college?  In Texas:  1-888-311-8881 (easy-to-remember phone number:  almost identical forwards & backwards).  www.LapTop.org  One laptop per child:  give a laptop.  Change the world.  www.BoostUp.org  Do your good deed for the day in 15 seconds:  e-encourage a high school student to stay in school.  Everyday nearly 7,000 students drop out of high school:  help make it 6,999 by your e-boost of encouragement.  Reasons to boost:  a high school diploma looks good on any wall; compared to non-graduates of high school:  high school graduates are less likely to live in poverty or to be on public assistance; 7 times more likely to own a home; are in better health; 8 times less likely to go to jail.  E-boosting is good karma:  you’ve probably done something bad that you need to make up for, plus:  the children ARE our future. 

3.  Share your ideas, successes, learning lessons & offers with President Obama (& through him:  the world) at  www.WhiteHouse.Gov/Contact or write The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania NW; Washington, DC  20500; or call 202-456-1111 (fax 202.456.2461) or TTY/TDD 202-456-6213.

Many thanks to all who are [1] posting www.AliceWhite.WordPress.com onto your Web sites or including my blog link in your communications; [2] sharing your opportunities & resources with me for this e-bulletin board & [3] referring your friends & family directly to me at or 806-742-1480, x. 258.

I invite you to visit www.AliceWhite.WordPress.com every month or two in order to discover or re-discover new, date-sensitive & perpetual opportunities & resources — within recent and older entries throughout my e-bulletin board.  

With friendship, appreciation & my very best wishes to you! 

Alice 

P.S. #1:  I would be sorry to see you go if you asked me to un-subscribe you.  But if you do ask to un-subscribe, the fastest & surest way to get unsubscribed is to

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* Adaptation of Robert Burns’ Auld Lang Syne, written & sung by Charles Osgood on “CBS Sunday Morning,” Jan. 3, 2010:     And now we’re in a different year     We’ve only just begun     A hundred fifty billion miles     As we loop around the sun.     We ended one trip Thursday night     And here we go again     It’s quite a flight, so hang on tight     In the year two thousand ten!     Two thousand nine is Auld Lang Syne     It’s part of times gone by     Two thousand ten is here & now     As through each day we fly.     Yes, time does fly     And years go by     And what will happen then?     We cannot say     But we’re on our way     In the year two thousand ten!

17 organizations (in bold) where I serve on board/committee &/or in an officer/officer-like capacity &/or participate weekly:   www.TTU.edu/PhiBetaKappa & www.Depts.TTU.edu/PhiBetaKappa & www.Depts.TTU.edu/Honors (CEO Roundtable);  www.TTU.edu/Diversity (President’s Diversity Council);  www.Educ.TTU.edu  www.ClosingTheGaps.org  www.SouthPlainsCollege.edu    http://www2.SouthPlainsCollege.edu/displayPage/554  www.Breedlove.org  www.LubbockRotary.org  www.LubbockLions.org   www.UnderstandOurWorld.org  http://AgriLifeExtension.TAMU.edu  www.TXNetwork.org  www.TANO.org www.LubbockISD.org/Wheatley & www.WBU.edu fund-development committee; www.Lubbock-Al-Anon.org 

20 other current/previous affiliations/service/collaboration with www.TexasTechAlumni.org (member since 2005);  www.RaidersRojos.org (Honorary Charter member since 2007);  www.Orgs.TTU.edu/SigmaDeltaPi/AboutSigmaDeltaPi.html (elected into membership of national collegiate Hispanic Honor Society’s Alpha Phi Chapter/TTU, 2009); www.Orgs.TTU.edu/LHFSA/mission.htm  (member, Latino/Hispanic Faculty Staff since 2006); www.HispanicAssociationOfWomen.org (member since 2006); www.Orgs.TTU.edu/BFSA (member, Black Faculty & Staff Association since 2006); www.TexasTech.edu (member, Chancellor’s Council since 2005; member, Enrollment Taskforces:  African American, Hispanic & International Students, 2007-2009); www.SkyviewsTTU.org (regular customer & advocate since 2005); www.LubbockAreaFoundation.org (founder of three endowments:  Dog & Cat Welfare, Lubbock Animal Services & Phi Beta Kappa Association); www.NationalService.Gov (RSVP volunteer:  recruiting, training & assisting seven weekly volunteers who refresh the 12 feeding stations for feral cats across the TTU campus); www.AAUW.org (life member & past Pres., Kansas Division); www.Depts.TTU.edu/MentorTECH (four proteges since 2005); www.Depts.TTU.edu/EmployeeLearning (Quality Service Awards selection committee, 2009 & 2010); www.NRHC.com (member since 2005); www.LubbockEDA.org (service to Lubbock’s 20 Under 40 program since 2007); www.ARCSFoundation.org (Lubbock Chapter member since 2008); www.Windmill.com (member since 2009);  TTU divisional Planning & Assessment team (since 2008); www.GoToTexasTech.com (RRED liaison for recruiting collaboration between Undergraduate Admissions & Texas Tech Alumni Association) since 2009; www.TexasPHA.org (Public Health Fellow since 2005 & member since 1994); initiated into lifetime membership in 1965 into the Lambda Chapter at the University of Kansas:  www.ChiOmega.com Lead, Serve, Give.  Resources for students, parents, family, alumnae & media:  leadership development, risk-management workshops, educational speakers, educational grants, emergency financial help for alumnae & prevention information at www.GreekLifeEdu.org; www.ChiOmega.com/EveryDay (for recruitment information, lost Sisters, personal information); www.TheEleusis.com (supplemental articles not found in the magazine); http://lc.ChiOmega.com (Life Skills Library; officer & advisor training materials; tips for effective collegiate & alumnae chapter operations);  https://Dashboard.ChiOmega.com (on-line tools for all collegiate chapter functions; analyze chapter data:  scholarship history, philanthropic gifts, membership retention & more); www.TravelChiO.com (international adventures with your Sisters, friends, spouses & family members); & http://ChapterSites.ChiOmega.com

From HeresAThought@Ragan.com:  Don’t undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others.  It is because we are different that each of us is special.  Brian Dyson