Happy New Year from John and all the members of NhN
John R. Fugazzie
December 30,2012
3:22 PM
I just want to take a short minute to wish everyone a Happy and Healthy New Year and to thank everyone who attends and helps others with our pay it forward job search group.
Our extensive list of friends of NhN who allow us to hold meetings in their libraries, the professional coaches who come speak pro-Bono, the businesses, organizations, and government officials who support us and the significant number of media who help us get the word out to others, and those who take the time to send job leads and support our program and membership.
I want to specially thank all the facilitators, co-facilitators, board members and special advisor to me that have helped this organization grow, create an impeccable reputation, and become national recognized.
I want to wish all of you and your family and friends a Happy New Year and hope for many many more of our members to create their success story to add to our ever growing list…which stands at 217 as of today.
This job search process is not easy but we hope that the support that all of our member groups provide will help each week be motivated to do the things you need to to to land. Please spend time our our web site as it is loaded with helpful links and resources that keep being donated to us to help all of our members. make sure you click the more tab and visit each and every one of the tabs.
A very exciting moment will occur at 7pm on Wednesday night when we open our first NhN meeting location outside of NJ.
The opening of our Boston group will be a milestone for our organization’s national expansion. We have Abby Kohut to thank for finding these great volunteers and this great group of volunteers for establishing the relationship with BPL to allow us to have weekly meetings in their historic building…take a look at our page even if you are not from Boston.
https://www.neighbors-helping-neighbors.com/nhn-boston-ma.html
A few upcoming events i want to mention:
We will have a table at the Rutgers New Brunswick Main Campus Job Fair on Thursday Jan 3rd.
Here is their brochure. All members can attend, and we are looking for volunteers to help us staff the free NhN table we will have there. from 9:30- 3:30pm at the Student Center.
https://www.crmpubs.com/CFGsFinal/NJCCDG_Jan13_Online.pdf
2 Years and Counting …
I am working with other Volunteers on our 2nd annual anniversary seminar and will hope to have finalized the Venue and the Guest Speaker list by end of week. We will be either at Bergen Community College or Bergen Academies. As last year when we had 320 members we ended up with 200+ attending at Ridgewood Library, one year later we have 1100 members from 8 NJ counties and 217 success stories at our last count. My plan is to have a series of speakers who can address job seekers interestes.
We will have well recognized professionals who are from each of the outreach areas we are working on to increase our membership and our networking opportunities. Government, Colleges, Business, Non Profit, Green and Sustainability, and a well traveled friend of Nhn will be presenting.
Please keep the day of Jan 25th free with thoughts of a 10-3 meeting seminar. I would need some volunteers to help me with this as we are getting short in lead time.
While is it amazing to look back and see all the great things NhN has done, we really want to look forward to the things we will accomplish in the year and years to come.
Sincerely
John R. Fugazzie MBA
Founder – President – Group Leader
Neighbors-helping-Neighbors USA, Inc.
www.nhnusa.org
