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• 4,000 hours raised at Edmonton’s 2nd Timeraiser! Next up: Ottawa!

  Date: 2010.10.19 | Category: Timeraiser | Response: 1

  This past Saturday, if you were in Edmonton, the place to be was the TransAlta Arts Barn for the 2nd annual Edmonton Timeraiser. Pastillas levitra Over 250 Edmontonians came out to learn about new volunteer positions and enjoy some amazing local artwork. Kaufen viagra In the end over 4,000 hours were pledged and to celebrate the crowd was treated to a live performance by Amy van Keeken’s Rock & Roll Sing-a-long. Viagra for women When the official proceedings ended, the 11-piece band belted out Motown, 70’s and 80’s hits – a gre Viagra levitra at way to cap off a night of community building. Levitra contraindicaciones  You can view a full compilation of photos from the Timeraiser, here.  Thanks to Patient Man Productions for capturing the night! Viagra sale In total this year $10,000 was paid to artist, all thanks Levitra pill to the generous support of our corporate partners. Viagra bestellung Levitra prix pharmacie In particular the Timeraiser national presenting partner, WestJet, and the Edmonton Founding partner, Enbridge. Since day one in Edmonton Enbridge has seen the value that Timeraiser brings to the community and has been a staunch supporter since. Levitra pas cher Kauf von viagra Thanks also to CIBC, Molson Coors, Nexen, PriceWaterhouseCooper, RBC and TD.

  

  The room starting to fill up!

  Leading up the to Timeraiser, we are grateful to Mack D. Male for having facilitate a pre-Timeraiser WestJet Contest. Via his blog he asked Edmontonians how they are making their community a better place. Check out the entries here. The winner of the pair of WestJet tickets, Christina Muran, wrote that in addition to volunteering on a Board of Directors she, “…[educates herself] on a daily basis as to what is happening in our city, ie. Prospecto levitra politics, new local businesses, social media, etc, so that I am an informed Edmontonian. This way, instead of complaining about how Edmonton sucks, I can help to make this city better.”

  At the Timeraiser we gave away another pair of tickets, courtesy of WestJet. From the 50+ entries, the winner was Shauna McConechy (@outinc) who tweeted, “Edmontonian’s rock! Our city is founded on people helping people & Timeraiser is continuing the tradition in an uber-fun way.” You can relive the twitter contest by checking out the Cover It Live stream that was up and running.

  A huge thank you goes out to the 30 volunteers who helped out leading up to and at the Timeraiser. Purchase viagra online It never ceases to amaze how much smoother the night runs with passionate, enthusiastic volunteers on hand! Viagra sin receta Levitra achat Cheap viagra online  A special thanks to the night’s fabulous MC, Ryan Jesperson of Citytv’s Breakfast Television – always a pleasure to have Ryan involved.

  We’ll be wrapping up the 2010 Timeraiser season on November 13th in Ottawa at the beautiful N Online levitra ational Gallery of Canada. Brand viagra Be sure to let your friends in National Capital Region know – it sold out last year so tickets are expected to go fast! Viagra alternatives

• 6,830 hours raised at Vancouver’s 3rd Timeraiser. Edmonton here we come!

  Date: 2010.09.27 | Category: Timeraiser | Response: 0

  Last Thursday, September 23rd, over 250 enthusiastic Vancouverites energetically rolled into the Roundhouse Community Centre.  Armed with a passion for community and an interest in the arts, they got started chatting with the 25 organizations that were in attendance and perusing the 25 works of art on display. Prospecto levitra  Take a look at these photos from the night, courtesy of Millie Kuyer.

  

  Roundhouse Community Centre

  Vancouver’s 3rd Timeraiser was a sold out event. Viagra bestellung  The addition th is Levitra prix pharmacie year of a pre-Timeraiser social media contest was no doubt a boon to the overall awareness campaign. Levitra contraindicaciones  A huge thank you is owed toWestJet for supplying the voucher, as well as Rebecca Bolwitt, aka Miss604 (Sidenote: Miss604 is the recent recipient again of the “Best of Vancouver” Best Local Blog award and Best Local Twitterer award – congratulations!).  Rebecca facilitated the contest on her site, www.miss604.com and asked people to enter by leaving a comment about what inspires them, their favourite volunteer experience and/ or their favourite charity. Kaufen viagra  Take a look at the entires here – to read about people’s passion for their community and their dedication to civic engagement is inspiring and heart warming. Viagra for women Viagra sale Over the counter viagra  In the end, though, there h ad to be Kauf von viagra a winner.  Congratulations to Erin Graham for winning 2 tickets anywhere WestJet flies with her entry: “Volunteering is a way to take responsibility for the well-being of others Viagra sin receta Pastillas levitra , a way to get a Viagra levitra way from doing your own laundry and a way to learn how to be human. We need each other. Levitra achat Viagra alternatives I’ve volunteered my whole adult life for this thing and the other.  One of my favourite most challenging places was Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter.  It changed my life for the better, for sure. Cheap viagra online Another great place is the UBC farm. Levitra pill  You get to grow food and pretty things AND work with young people to teach them where food comes from as you learn, too. This is a big city.  There’s lots of stuff to get involved in. Lucky us.”

  We ran a second WestJet contest at the Timeraiser so we could hear from Timeraiser participants.  Congratulations to Joshua Marek who will be on his way to any schedule WestJet destination for his entry: “I am new to the city and this is such a fun way to learn about deserving causes, and I have found some organizations that have excited me to take part! Purchase viagra online The art? That’s just a bonus!”

  Another great addition to this year’s Timeraiser was QR codes for agencies and artists.  On each agency poster and each artwork bid sheet we added a QR code (check out this short video demoing the process).  Participants could therefore scan the image with their smartphone (Blackberry, iPhone or Android-based phones all worked) and the contact information of the agency or artist would immediately be downloaded onto the person’s phone.  It was a great way to help participants easily and instantly connect with agencies Online levitra and artists. Brand viagra

  

  At the 2010 Vancouver Timeraiser

  At the end of the evening 80% of the works of art went for the maximum bid and a total of 6,830 hours were pledged to local organizations.  I heard from many organizations that they had a ton of great conversations, and overheard a participant saying, “…disappointed I didn’t win art, but still excited to start volunteering!”

  A special thanks to Vantage Point for their ongoing partnership on the Vancouver Timeraiser program, as well as the many volunteers who made the night such a success.

  After last week’s successful Timeraiser, we couldn’t be more excited for the last 2 Timeraisers of 2010: the 2nd Edmonton Timeraiser will take place on October 16th and the 3rd Ottawa Timeraiser will Levitra pas cher take place on November 13th.

• Kicking Off the last week until the 3rd Vancouver Timeraiser!

  Date: 2010.09.15 | Category: Civic Footprint | Response: 0

  Last night we had a great group of people come out to celebrate the last week Viagra for women before the 3rd Vancouver Timeraiser.  A big thank s Levitra pill Viagra bestellung to Vantage Point for hosting us at their office downtown.  Vantage Point has been our Community Partner since the 1st Vancouver Timeraiser in 2008, and is also home to the art work Levitra pas cher during the 12 month pledge period.  It was fun to see the new pieces coming in and taking a look at the 2009 artwork that will be going to new homes next week. Viagra sale Over the counter viagra

  

  Guests enjoy conversation and artwork at the 2010 Vancouver Kick Off Party

  Over a dozen artists were in attendance to drop off their artwork and pick up their cheques.  It was great to put a face to the talent, and everyone in attendance marveled at this year’s selection of work. Online levitra Kauf von viagra

  Since the night of the Timeraiser is really focused on connecting volunteers and organizations, the Kick Off night is a great opportunity to shine the light on the art element of the Timeraiser and acknowledge the important contribution of artists to making our cities vibrant, exciting and unique.  We’re very proud that we have corporate partners that allow us to invest directly in the careers of artists.  And since the artists have all been paid fair market value for their work, when they attend the Timeraiser they can really just enjoy the evening, connect with art lovers and watch as multiple people pledge to do volunteer time to ‘earn’ their work.

  The Kick Off night therefore allows us to highlight this relationship – Timeraiser sponsors are investing directly in the careers of artists.  And since our National Presenting partner, WestJet, is vital to our Vancouver program, we were stoked to have the local representative from WestJet, Sam Martorana, out at the Kick Off night last night.  He’ll be rallying his colleagues at from WestJet’ s Vancouver office to come out next week. Levitra achat Viagra alternatives

  

  Photo courtesy of www.milliekuyer.com

  A special thanks to Lynda Gerty from Vantage Point for welcoming all the guests, and to Jessica Evans who’s been working through the year to rally the community to come out next week (read about her experience with Timeraiser here – she’s an art winner from the 1st Vancouver Timeraiser).  And it’s working!  Tickets are selling fast! Viagra sin receta Purchase viagra online Brand viagra Prospecto levitra Pastillas levitra

  If you haven’t already done so, be sure to enter the Miss604 Timeraiser contest for your chance to win a pair of tickets anywhere WestJet flies.  The contest ends September 22nd, read all the details here.

  You can take a look at all the photos from the Kick Off night here, courtesy of the talented Millie Kuyer. Thanks again to everyone who joined us – your support is invaluable and we look forward Levitra prix pharmacie to seeing you NEXT WEEK! Viagra levitra Levitra contraindicaciones Kaufen viagra Cheap viagra online

• Smartsheet Success!

  Date: 2010.08.18 | Category: Technology, Timeraiser | Response: 0

  While we love an effective and well-formatted Excel spreadsheet, they were never made for project management. So a while back we started exploring online tools that we could use for our project management. Cheap viagra online

  We found SmartSheet.  Smartsheet is an easy-to-use program that offers essential features of a spreadsheet plus project management software. Kauf von viagra We like it because it offers us the ability to streamline our communication, boost our efficiency and all Viagra bestellung the while become even more transparent to the public. Purchase viagra online Smartsheet will help us remain flexible and cut down on the amount of time we spend on back-and-forth decision making and information sharing. Levitra pas cher Viagra for women Levitra contraindicaciones   Check out out the product comparison we posted on it.timeraiser.ca, here.

  Bonus: it’s integrated with Google Docs! Over the counter viagra Levitra achat Here is a great video that overviews the integration. Viagra sin receta Viagra levitra Viagra sale
  So how is it working for us now Viagra alternatives ?  I woke up this morning, fired up my email and saw a series of notifications that our dedicated and amazing social media volunteer, Jessica Evans, had been up late organizing and activating the social media campaign for the upcoming Vancouver Timeraiser.  She had updated rows to add details around her strategy for engaging Twitter users, she had updated the status of certain tasks, had added comments, etc.

  This tool gave her seamless access to the information she needed, when she needed it.  It allowed her to engage with her role as the Vancouver Media Volunteer when it w Brand viagra as convenient for her and, ultimately, it gave us a huge head start on the overall awareness campaign for the upcoming program. Kaufen viagra

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• The Value of Local Arts Events

  Date: 2010.05.03 | Category: Civic Footprint | Response: 0

  I’m fortunate that my work with the Timeraiser program affords me the opportunity to learn about an array of local art events, as well as meet many local artists Viagra for women and art enthusiasts. Purchase viagra online Prospecto levitra Since our Vancouver program started in 2008, and to a larger extend after moving here last summer, I have been exposed to a number of arts events, festivals, etc. One group in particular hosts a pair of annual events that I am really excited about.

  They are CARDED! Levitra prix pharmacie and Hot One Inch Action. Pastillas levitra The premise of the shows is presenting local artwork on cards in the former and butt Cheap viagra online ons in the latter, selling packages for a nominal amount, and then letting people loose to trade for their favourites. The night ends up being a great mix of music, art and easy socializing. The Hot One Inch Action show was conceived by Chris Bentzen and Jim Hoehnle back in 2004. This year, there was a such a demand for the February CARDED! Levitra pill show that the duo decided to host a second one in April. Brand viagra

  Of the shows, Bentzen says “I hope that our shows bring a little fun into the local art scene. Over the counter viagra I think for an outsider or beginning artist, the “scene” can be a little intimidating and our shows make it super easy to interact with complete strangers and everyone feels pretty comfortable.”

  I love this element – making art engaging and accessible and an easy first step for those just getting in to art collecting. Viagra levitra I’ve felt like the odd person out at a number of art events, as if I’m wearing a sign that says “my biggest art achievement is a copy-cat sketch of Mickey Mouse”, which would be true. So events, and I count Timeraiser in this group, that encourage people to enjoy and learn about local artists are vital to communities. Levitra contraindicaciones I may never (read: will never) produce anything remotely artistic, but I certainly will be consuming art and, like many of peers, hope to start a personal art collection, too.

  CARDED! and Hot One Inch Action are also great opportunities for young artists to get their name out and get some recognition that could ultimately lead to sales. Bentzen says, “Our shows really get people excited about local art and artists…it really does a lot for promotion.” Sarah Mulder, a Vancouver artist who had pieces in both the 2008 and 2009 Timeraisers as well as in both CARDED! and Hot One Inch Action says, “These events are great. I get to meet so many people and it’s just so fun to take part in local art events. It’s so great that [the organizers] do this for the Vancouver art scene.”

  Art events like Timeraiser and CARDED! Levitra achat Viagra bestellung have lasting benefits for artists. We’ve heard from some Timeraiser artists that indeed their participation in a Timeraiser has led to sales and commissioned work. Vancouver artist Victoria Heryet’s 2008 piece, “Stop Light” was so popular that she sold 2 prints of the piece after Online levitra the Timeraiser.

  So kudos to the creators of CARDED! Viagra sin receta Viagra sale Kauf von viagra Kaufen viagra and Hot One Inch Action for creatively supporting the local art scene. And be sure to check out all the fantastic artists at a Timeraiser in your city. Levitra pas cher Viagra alternatives