TRTP Vice President guest lecturer at The Ohio State University

Mendenhall Laboratory, The Ohio State University

TUESDAY, March 18 :: Honored to be invited as a guest lecturer at The Ohio State University, TRTP Vice President Sonya Yencer spoke with students at the John Glen School of Public Affairs in a non-profit management class. 

She shared her experience in marketing a 501(c)(3) from the ground up with little to no budget, focussing on how social media plays a huge part in that strategy. Students watched TRTP videos from Tell Collective and Physicians For Peace and surfed through TRTP's online presence as part of the presentation. She talked about the challenges of growing the organization without a paid staff, fundraising and cultivating volunteers. Students asked great questions and sparked some new ideas for The Red Thread's outreach team.

What a great opportunity to share real world experience with the young adults interested in the non-profit world! Thank you Kim Ratcliff and The Ohio State University / John Glen School of Public Affairs for allowing us to be a part of the class for a night.

HAITI :: A home run for partnerships!

The Red Thread team is humbled to see that one of our programs—Camp Jake—was featured on the FRONT cover of Physicians For Peace's 2013 third quarter report! To see little Oxilus' smiling face as he learned how to play baseball warms our hearts, remembering the good times we shared at Camp Jake. It makes us look forward to seeing him again this Wednesday. (pics to come!)

We are most thankful for our partnership with Physicians For Peace and look forward to working with the wonderful contacts we've made there for years to come. Here's an excerpt from the report:

"The life changing camp (a program of The Red Thread Promise) was made possible by the investments of individual donors, Physicians for Peace and a generous grant from the Major League Baseball Players Trust."

Read the full story on page 6-7 in Physicians For Peace's report.