Letter from YES! Staff

Dear Friends,

We have dived right into 2010 with several significant organizational gatherings around our Program Committee, Staff Development Retreat, and Board/Staff Strategic Planning.  It’s been an important time to reflect on what we’ve accomplished, take stock of where we are at, and vision into the new year and beyond.  So far we seem to be weathering a challenging fundraising environment with care and fortitude. Our extended community (that means you!) has been very present with us during our recent conversations and in all of our work, so thank you for being alongside in this journey.

As you will read in the next few blog entries, there is YES! action happening at every level with many different partners all over the world.  This is only a glimpse of our work still so we invite you to visit our newly formatted website, yesworld.org, to learn more.  Our Jam alumni database has been fully integrated there as well so you can easily access information about Jammers and their work.  Please let us know what you think about our new look and content after you visit!

Finally, we are in the midst of planning activities to celebrate YES!’s 20th Anniversary, which is officially coming up in June. We feel excited and honored to be standing in this moment of our organization’s history and evolution.  We’ll be sharing more details soon and look forward to celebrating this milestone with you.  In the meantime, if you have any interest in supporting or sponsoring our 20th Anniversary Campaign, please contact Nga Trinh-Halperin.
 
With warmth and gratitude always,

Nga on behalf of Julie, Lorin, Ocean, Romy and Tiffany