Good Things In April

As you can tell, I still have not gotten the hang of updating often enough. But, by waiting, I now have a good chunk of news for you.

Last week, John Mark, Ben, Kelly, and I met with all 5 of our potential Board Members. The meetings went very well and I am hoping that they will all agree to be apart of Karama House. I went ahead and decided to give them a week to think about everything. I am going to meet with them this week to see what everyone thought.

I also got a chance to meet with Michael Stroope, a professor at Truett to talk about some things regarding 501c3 status. He has started many non-profits and knows a lot about the amount of paperwork that will need to be done. From what I gather, it seems that it will be much easier for us, to stick with UBC and use their non-profit status. But, this will need to be discussed with the Board and they will make the final decision.

As you can tell, last week was full of meetings and I have yet another one to tell you about. I met with a friend of mine, Matt Genitempo in Austin on Friday. He is an amazing artist and has agreed to design brochures and a logo for us. I am so excited. I know that he is going to do a fantastic job!

I talked to Matt Singleton from Incarnate Word High School, last week and told me that a bunch of the girls in his classes wrote letters to Oprah and they are fantastic. I guess they have sent 40 so far, and will hopefully send more soon. The school is also holding a fundraiser hopefully this month as well.

Fun news coming up for next month:
I will be speaking at UBC on Graduation Sunday and I'm very excited. I didn't have nearly enough time when I spoke at the Hub earlier this month, so it will be nice to have the Sunday service to talk about everything.

So, that is all for now but there will be much more soon!
Hope you all are well!

Larissa

A Bit Of News

Hello to all!
Well, I don't have a whole lot of news as of right now but I just wanted to let everyone know that things are moving along nicely. I have finally finished the rough draft of our business plan and will be presenting the final draft to our potential Board Members soon. I'm hoping to schedule lunches with each of them by the end of next week.

I got a chance to speak at the HUB at UBC last Wednesday for a few minutes and that was great. I should be speaking about Karama House more in depth during a Sunday service this month which will be fantastic. I really didn't get enough time to talk about everything at the HUB so it will be nice to have that extra time.
I also have a friend that is working on getting me a place to speak in Austin, so I'm excited about that as well.
I've been talking to a few groups at Baylor to see if I can get some speaking engagements around Baylor too.

I have some people helping me out with getting a fundraiser together as well, with another organization called the Alive Campaign http://www.alivecampaign.org/. They are doing some really cool stuff with suicide prevention. Check out their site if you get a chance.

Well, that's about it for now. I'll update again I have some more exciting news to share.
Have a great week!

Larissa