Announcing the Family Friendly Schools 2010 Engage! All Families Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada! (October 6-7, 2010) #edu #education

The Engage! Monthly 7/8/2010 In this issue: 2010 Family Engagement Conference Grant$ Corner On Sale Now! The Parent Connection Contact Us Special 25% Discount! Dr. Joni's latest book, The Parent Connection: An Educator's Guide to Family Engagement is available for discounted purchase at the Family Friendly Schools on-line store. Get 25% off the MSRP for a limited time. Click on The Parent Connection to get your copy today!    The Parent Connection: Now More than Just a Great Book! Dr. Joni Samples' highly-acclaimed book, The Parent Connection: An Educator's Guide to Family Engagement, is now a focused, practical, and inspiring one or two-day workshop! Do you have an upcoming Professional Development Day and want to make the most of it? We guarantee not to waste your time and we are confident you will find this workshop both insightful and affordable. Check out our on-line brochure The Parent Connection Workshop or just give us a call at 1-800-890-7794 to schedule your Parent Connection Workshop today. Announcing the Family Friendly Schools 2010 Engage! All Families Conference  in Las Vegas, Nevada!   (October 6-7, 2010) Family Friendly Schools is excited toannounce the location and schedule of our 2010 National family engagement conference! This year's 2-Day conference promises to be not only the most affordable conference we've ever conducted, but it also includes more hands-on content and planning curriculum than ever before.  In addition to the general group sessions on Why Family Engagement Works and "Ed" Coaching for Long Term Success, we have scheduled rotating workshops around the four primary elements of Family Engagement: 1.                               The Welcoming Environment 2.                               Support for Home Learning 3.                               Effective Two-way Communication 4.                               Degree of Engagement Make plans to join us in always exciting Las Vegas, Nevada October 6 and 7, 2010 for a fun, practical, engaging and rewarding conference that will help you plot your course for effective Family Engagement initiatives in your school and district. For more information and to register, follow this link to the FFS 2010 Engage! All Families Conference. See you in Las Vegas! Welcome to FFS's Grant$ Corner - By Dr. Christine Rowe  Two things are important for successful family engagement, an effective program and the money to fund it. I am all about getting the funding you need for your success. My grant-getting success is simple: long term relationships, hard work, innovative thinking and 25 years of success with school and social service programs. Summer is a great time to apply for grants. Why? Most educators tend to apply in May or September, so there is less competition. You have fewer distractions over the summer, making it easier to focus. And you don't have to give up your vacation up either. Just one week of your attention may be all you need to be grant-ready for the next school year. Besides the state and federal grants available, most foundation grants have at least one of their deadlines during the summer, or no deadlines at all. Foundation grant applications are shorter and simpler than state or federal applications so you can apply for more of them. Pepsi Refresh Project is a corporate option that may work for you athttp://www.refresheverything.com/. Pepsi accepts proposals every month from people, businesses, and non-profits with ideas that will positively impact their communities. Awards range from $5000 to $250,000. The challenge is that you win an award based on the online votes you get during that month. So you need a vote-getting strategy too. The good news is that you can reapply. I have an open-door policy for Family Friendly School clients. If you have any questions, especially about proposal writing, grant seeking, program development or evaluation, please give me a call. I am always happy to talk with you. Fund Your Ideas into Action! Christine Rowe  530-345-6549 christine@familyfriendlyschools.com   Contact Us: Remember, you can always reach us toll free in the U.S. at 1-800-890-7794 or by our local number at 1-276-236-9979. Or you can also email us 24 hours a day, seven days a week at info@familyfriendlyschools.com. We look forward to hearing from you soon!

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