As the 2010 United Way campaign gets underway in our community, the clients and staff at ARC Marion were proud to participate in the campaign kick-off yesterday that was a bit unorthodox.  Instead of the usual meeting of business leaders and agencies over breakfast or lunch with a speaker, announcement of the campaign goal, and [...]

As we are in the height of fundraising season at the Heart of Florida Hope Foundation, the fundraising arm for ARC Marion, it’s always interesting for me to pause and reflect on just how we can reach people with our message.  Sure, we have fun events in which anyone would want to be apart such [...]

A few years back our local United Way hosted their annual campaign kick-off celebration with a twist.  They brought in the comedian, Josh Blue, to be the guest speaker for the event.  Blue won NBC’s Last Comic Standing in 2006 partly because of his humorous jokes about himself.  He lives with cerebral palsy and said [...]

When I was a child, my mother had been caring for my developmentally disabled sister at home for a little over two years and had reached a point she didn’t think she could do it anymore.  Mom cared for my sister the best she could on a daily basis.  She struggled to hold back the [...]