This workshop is the first one in the 2008 series of workshops held on the first Tuesday of each month. The January workshop is the exception to the “First Tuesday”, occurring on January 8th due to the New Years Day holiday. The schedule is as follows: February 5:Create Drama with Lighting, March 4:Cutting Gardens and Floral Design, April 1:Water Feature Trends, May 6:Drainage and Erosion Control, June 3: Green Landscaping, July 1: Outdoor Entertaining, August 5:Child and Pet Friendly Landscapes, September 2: Integrating Indoor and Outdoor Rooms, October 7: Using Scale in Design, November 4: Interiorscaping with Water and Creating Indoor Aviaries and Terrariums, December 2: Wildlife Habitat Certification

The Design Workshops are facilitated by members of the Garden Escapes design team and the format of the workshop is a dialog between the workshop attendees and Garden Escapes designers. Attendees are encouraged to bring photographs or digital media of things they have created, or are having design challenges with, related to the evening’s topic to share with the group. There will be a Power Point presentation to introduce the subject with handouts presented to the participants.

The Design Workshops are free and begin at 6:00 PM. Workshop space is limited, so interested participants are encouraged to make reservations by calling Garden Escapes at 805-781-0267 or email info@slolandscape.com. Guests can also show up the night of the seminar and attend, space permitting.

This event is sponsored by the Lompoc Democratic Club, Health Care for All, and Southside Coffee House.

Spiller will open the program with Schumann’s “Arabesque in C Major,” Op. 18, and “Fantasy in C Major,” Op. 17, followed by Poulenc’s “Les Soirées de Nazelles.”

The program will conclude with Rachmaninoff’s “Liebesleid” and “Liebesfreud”--transcriptions of pieces by the great violinist Fritz Kreisler.

Proceeds from the recital will benefit the Cal Poly Music Department Scholarship Fund.

This class, for NSC members only, will teach how to use and optimize search efforts on the comprehensive, continually updated online databases of foundations for finding funding, available to members in NSC Resource Centers. Sessions include training on the Foundation Center Search Online Platinum version, GuideStar and other resources. The class is a prerequisite to using these resources at NSC. Fee: $15 NSC Members Only Registration and pre-payment are required. Santa Maria Workshop Maximum: 4

Wednesday, January 16, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

This event takes place at Embassy Suites in San Luis Obispo.

Wednesday, January 23 8:00 am – 9:30 am

Kennedy Clubhouse 3889 Long Street (at corner of Tank Farm and Long Streets) Buffet Breakfast Included

Fee: $35 Members; $55 Nonmembers
$10 off if paid by January 21

Presented by: Jeff Cotter

This informative workshop will examine how a feasibility study can determine and document a project’s viability, recognize potential challenges, assess board readiness and identify specific steps an organization needs to take to move forward and become ready.

Thursday, January 24
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Coast National Bank
500 Marsh Street, San Luis Obispo
Fee: $45 Members; $70 Nonmembers
$10 off if paid by January 22

Jeff Cotter is President of Jeff Cotter Funding Services, a fundraising consulting service, with a core specialty in capital and endowment campaigns and other major gift efforts. He helps nonprofits create strong relationships with donors. He specializes in helping organizations that have challenging and audacious objectives. He has sat on both sides of the funding table and brings a deep understanding of philanthropists’ goals and objectives.

Presented by Ruta Casabianca, Consultant to Nonprofits

This workshop will provide you with a step-by-step guide and templates to help you develop proposals with all the component parts necessary for a well-thought-out grant request in today's competitive world. The importance of teamwork and program development as part of the grant-writing process, as well as research tools will be discussed. Each participant will have the opportunity to present a grant summary and discuss their needs.

Friday, January 25th
9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Santa Maria Community Cornerstone for Nonprofits Conference Room
120 E. Jones Street, Santa Maria
Fee: $45 Members; $70 Nonmembers
$10 off if paid by January 23

Ruta Casabianca has over 30 years of experience in capacity building and fund raising, as well as in grant making and analysis of nonprofit agencies for corporations and foundations. She has worked at all levels, from executive director to grant writer, administrator, consultant, and board member. She created & implemented strategic development plans, organized coalitions, planned and organized conferences as a tool to identify and create the atmosphere for procedural and policy change. She is currently a consultant to nonprofits in San Luis Obispo.

$20 Gym One Members
$25 Non-Gym One Members
Located at Gym One in Cambria, 1266 Tamson Dr. Suite 101 Cambria, CA 93428
There are local weekly Nia classes Monday–Saturday in Cambria, Morro Bay and SLO. Every Nia class is one hour long.

Teachers: Suraya Breen Smith: 805-459-5988 suraya_breen@hotmail.com Calico Hauser: 805-975-5385 calicohauser@charter.net Whitney Fisher: 805-895-1765 travelfish2002@yahoo.com

Classes: Mon: Jan. 21st ’08 8:30am Nia Lab Cambria at Gym One (Suraya) Mon: 6:00pm Cambria at Gym One (Suraya) Mon: 3:45pm Morro Bay at Fitness Works (Calico) Tu: 8:15am Cambria at Gym One (Suraya) Tu: 12:30pm Morro Bay at Fitness Works (Calico) Tu: 12:00 SLO at the YMCA (Whitney) Tu: 6pm Cambria at Gym One (Cailco) Tu: 6:15pm SLO at Club 24 (Whitney) Wed: 3:45pm Morro Bay at Fitness Works (Calico) Thur: 8:15am Cambria at Gym One (Suraya) Thur: 10:15am Morro Bay at Fitness Works (Calico) Fri: Jan 25th ‘08 8:30am Cambria at Gym One (Suraya) Fri: Feb 1st ’08 8:30am Nia Lab Cambria at Gym One (Suraya) Sat: at 8am Cambria at Gym One (Calico)
**Additional classes will be beginning in SLO**

Locations: Gym One: 1266 Tamson Dr.Suite101 Cambria,CA 93428 927-4961
Fitness Works:500 Quintana Rd. Morro Bay,CA 93442 772-7466
YMCA:1020 Southwood Dr, San Luis Obispo - (805) 543-8235
Club 24:872 E.Foothill Blvd. SLO

Three years later Joe called Hannah with some ridiculous ploy of an interest in hearing the sounds of her cello and the guitjo together. Her mother probably warned her about guys like this, to no avail. She agreed and over the next 3 years an unusual musical sound was born, a business partnership and friendship grew, and their love for their collaboration of music and each other became Acoustic Eidolon. And, oh yes, they are now married. Hannah did not listen to her mother.

But we get to listen to both of them at Música Del Río. From house concerts such as ours and venues as diverse as St. Paul’s Cathedral and The Royal National Theatre in London, to the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas and the Vancouver Island Music Festival; Acoustic Eidolon has created their own style without letting go of the musical heritage they share. There is such a magical timbre to their combined sounds. This is an orchestra of two. And our only regret is that this orchestra will not fill the air at Música Del Río until next year.

You can learn and hear more about Acoustic Eidolon at www.acousticeidolon.com.

You can hear their music and amusing stories in our living room on January 26. Please join us if you can.

Twenty-three English composers contributed to a collection of 25 madrigals to honor Queen Elizabeth I. Compiled by Thomas Morley in 1601, composers range from the well-known Thomas Morley, Thomas Tomkins and Thomas Weelkes to the obscure John Lisley, Thomas Hunt and John Hilton.

Members of the Cal Poly Early Music Ensemble include sopranos Stephanie Davies, Kelly Eshoff, Chloe Gill, Karlie Saenz, Michelle Schwartz, and Laura Zapata; altos Carolyn Jorstad and Corrie Stallings; tenors Bruno Caulk and Patrick Little; and basses Richard Carrick, Matt Donner, Bryan Kim, and Spud Schroeder.

Music Professor Thomas Davies will open the concert with a short lecture about the work’s history, including musical examples from selected madrigals.

Tickets are $10 for the public and $8 for seniors and students. They are on sale at the Performing Arts Ticket Office from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. To order by phone, call SLO- ARTS (756-2787).

The Nonprofit Support Center and Cal Poly Continuing Education’s Center for Nonprofit Organization Advancement are offering two valuable professional training opportunities for nonprofit staff, volunteers and/or board members. Program leaders are offering a free information session January 29 from 9 until 10:30 a.m. at the Community Cornerstone for Nonprofits, 120 E. Jones Street in Santa Maria.

The Nonprofit Development Officer Certificate Program trains individuals to become active in fundraising for local nonprofits. The Volunteer Management Certificate Program serves nonprofit staff who manage volunteers.

Registration is open to anyone, but pre-registration is required. Register on-line at www.nscsb.org or call 928-2503.

The Nonprofit Support Center provides leadership, consulting, and training to help nonprofits do their good work better. To learn more about the Nonprofit Support Center, call 928-2503, stop by their Resource Library at 120 E. Jones Street, Suite 117 in Santa Maria, or visit virtually at www.nscsb.org.

For more information about the event, contact Cal Poly’s Research and Graduate Programs office at 756-1508.

This lecture is scheduled for TUESDAY, JANUARY 29th, at 7 p.m., in Room 510-B of the Kennedy Library on the Cal Poly campus.

San Luis Obispo
Wednesday, January 30
8am to 9:30am
Coast National Bank Community Room
500 Marsh St., San Luis Obispo
Refreshments generously provided by Coast National Bank