Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center Newsletter - November 20, 2010

The Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center is a non-profit organization with the goal of helping disabled persons overcome the obstacles that present themselves in their everyday lives.

Richard Roehm, Dorothy Balesh, and William Cross founded this organization in 1998 in order to help those with hearing impairments. Since then, we have dedicated our efforts into improving the lives of deaf persons as well as others who have disabilities.

One of our most celebrated tools of our mission is educating, empowering, and leading people with disabilities toward self-sufficiency through proactive projects and educating the general public on how they can participate in helping people with disabilities reach their goals.

We serve mainly people with disabilities that are low-income, seeking to find and retain their jobs, move up the corporate ladder, that are homeless, that are elderly, and that have families and are trying to go from welfare to work. We started off with a deaf focus and added the other disabilities over time as we have acquired and developed the specific resources.

Recently we have modified our bylaws, and installed a new board of directors that is very diverse.

Our www.deafadvocacy.org website has undergone major changes and it more visibly appealing and easier to navigate than what we had before. Stop by our website.

Our eBay store has grown bigger. We have new shelving system that needs to be in place and is being hindered by our monstrous inventory of braille magazines. This is the reason why we have a 50% off sale on all braille magazines in our eBay store until the end of this month.
http://stores.ebay.com/OCDAC-Adaptive-Equipment-and-More/Braille-Magazines-/_i.h\
tml?_fsub=5006048&_sid=12597986&_trksid=p4634.c0.m322

We have entered one of our video blogs in a contest. We would like for you to go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZwbP3Xuz5w and click on the like button below the video. Click on the CC button if you're not familiar with sign language.

We are raising money for our Rose Parade fundraising project. See this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xect6ERXyk and for this we have several ways you
can help us out;

1) Tupperware fundraiser http://shortlinks.deafadvocacy.org/tupperware
2) Flashing rose fundraiser http://eyefirevlogs.com/eyefire2/?p=10653
3) Make a straight donation http://www.deafadvocacy.org/d

The Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center is about promoting the recognition and
inclusion of the hearing impaired and other persons with disabilities into all
aspects of our society. Our main goals are to enable deaf and disabled people to
achieve their maximum potential through increased education, advocacy, and
participation in all aspects of the community.

Your assistance in helping us achieve our goals is appreciated.

Richard Roehm
Chairman

OCDAC Newsletter October 16, 2010

Greetings members,

Yes it's been a while since you got the last newsletter. We've been busy with
our outreach and clients.

We've completed our capacity building grant that enabled our agency to hire an
attorney to tune-up our non-profit paperwork and developed a number of policies
for our agency and a handbook for our volunteers. We have a new 7 member board
that is a diverse and inclusive composition of people that know how to look into
the future and be part of the deaf future.

We've entered one of our videos in a contest, please visit this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZwbP3Xuz5w and click on the like button. It is
captioned.

AB 2072 was vetoed by the governor but it doesn't stop us from pushing the idea
at this website http://eyefirevlogs.com/eyefire2/?p=9451

Next week we will be heavy on outreach activities. We've been invited to
several events and we are ready for that.

I've been doing a lot of Facebook work and would like you to add me as a friend
so you will be up to par on our activities.
My Facebook identity is at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=593478122

Our eBay store remains above the 900 item mark we are having trouble getting
close to the 1,000 mark because people have started their holiday shopping at
our webstore. http://members.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=ocdac

Our website looks very different as we upgraded it and it still has a lot of
work to do to bring it up to par. Http://www.deafadvocacy.org

In spite of the never ending negative rumormongering about me and our agency,
our client traffic has increased and that's a sign that people still need our
help and they chose us over the social service agencies in their areas. We are
still worthy of your support.

Richard Roehm
Chairman

AB 2072 is still alive and will remain on an eternal life

AB 2072 is still alive and will remain on an eternal life

The options and resource brochures offered on this page were inspired by AB 2072
http://eyefirevlogs.com/eyefire2/?p=9451 resources have been developed for 4
counties already and more counties brochures will be developed once time becomes
available. Eventually all counties in California will have their specific
brochures and weve been asked by people in Colorado, Illinois, and New Jersey
for development of these resources for their respective locations.

Over 8000 copies of the brochures have been downloaded as of today

AB 2072 is not dead. It is alive and getting bigger.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXRwy0Quflg

Richard Roehm
Modern Deaf Communication
Http://www.moderndeafcommunication.org

Special Bonus to Help Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center

It's been another hard year for many causes.  The approaching holiday season gives us a chance
to help Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center.  It requires your participation, but it's free and definitely easy.

iGive.com is going to attempt to donate $5,000 in just 24 hours to Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center and other causes.

For each person who joins iGive using the special link below and does just one qualified web search on our
site between now and noon. Thursday, September 30, 2010 (Chicago time), we'll
give Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center a dollar.

Share this e-mail now if you care to help Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center.

5,000 new members, $5,000.  No purchase necessary.

We hope that it'll turn into much more, as these new members shop and search during the holidays.

If these new members search more (or buy something at an iGive store) they'll earn even more
money for Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center.  Right now, we're donating a $.01 per search and a
bonus $5 for that first purchase plus the usual percentage.

Here's where you come in.  The only way Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center will get new supporters and that free $1+
is if you invite them.  Send your friends, family, and colleagues the following link in an e-mail, tweet it, do a
Facebook posting, put up posters, shout from mountain tops (you know the drill) and let them know you think
Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center is pretty cool and deserves their support, especially since it's free!  You can even just forward
this e-mail.

This is the link:
       http://www.igive.com/welcome/warm_reg_promo.cfm?m=401786

If they wish to shop and help Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center this holiday, they can choose from eBay to Amazon, iTunes to Home Depot,
Staples, JC Penney, Expedia, and about 800 other great stores.

The details:
    - Offer active between now and 11:59 a.m., September 30, 2010 (Chicago time).
    - New members only (never have been an iGive member previously).  All the normal rules of membership, searching, and
       purchasing apply, our site has the details.
    - Once we've given away $5,000 in total, the offer ends.
    - The special link is important.  No link, no qualified web search, no $1.

That's it.  Don't forget to try our search yourself (http://isearch.igive.com).  You may need to login first.

Yours,

Robert N. Grosshandler
Founder

P.S. We've added a little something new.  If you want to track how you are doing, just visit http://www.iGive.com/html/referralsreport.cfm.

 If you want to track how your cause is doing, please visit http://www.iGive.com//html/causestats.cfm .

Special Bonus to Help Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center

It's been another hard year for many causes. The approaching holiday season gives us a chance
to help Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center. It requires your participation, but it's free and definitely easy.

iGive.com is going to attempt to donate $5,000 in just 24 hours to Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center and other causes.

For each person who joins iGive using the special link below and does just one qualified web search on our
site between now and noon. Thursday, September 30, 2010 (Chicago time), we'll
give Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center a dollar.

Share this e-mail now if you care to help Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center.

5,000 new members, $5,000. No purchase necessary.

We hope that it'll turn into much more, as these new members shop and search during the holidays.

If these new members search more (or buy something at an iGive store) they'll earn even more
money for Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center. Right now, we're donating a $.01 per search and a
bonus $5 for that first purchase plus the usual percentage.

Here's where you come in. The only way Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center will get new supporters and that free $1+
is if you invite them. Send your friends, family, and colleagues the following link in an e-mail, tweet it, do a
Facebook posting, put up posters, shout from mountain tops (you know the drill) and let them know you think
Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center is pretty cool and deserves their support, especially since it's free! You can even just forward
this e-mail.

This is the link:
http://www.igive.com/welcome/warm_reg_promo.cfm?m=401786

If they wish to shop and help Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center this holiday, they can choose from eBay to Amazon, iTunes to Home Depot,
Staples, JC Penney, Expedia, and about 800 other great stores.

The details:
- Offer active between now and 11:59 a.m., September 30, 2010 (Chicago time).
- New members only (never have been an iGive member previously). All the normal rules of membership, searching, and
purchasing apply, our site has the details.
- Once we've given away $5,000 in total, the offer ends.
- The special link is important. No link, no qualified web search, no $1.

That's it. Don't forget to try our search yourself (http://isearch.igive.com). You may need to login first.

Yours,

Robert N. Grosshandler
Founder

P.S. We've added a little something new. If you want to track how you are doing, just visit http://www.iGive.com/html/referralsreport.cfm.

If you want to track how your cause is doing, please visit http://www.iGive.com//html/causestats.cfm .