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President's Blog
We just Finished our BOD meeting in Virginia Beach Virginia (April 2013). We Sadly had to accept the resignation of Kara from our BOD, but we brought on Jennifer Patankar as a full BOD member, who has handled our Outreach publication and will be heavily involve in our Branding and design of UBPN materials. We also welcomed back Courtney Brett Widzinski to the BOD, a former BOD member who left to start a family, but who now has some time to give to UBPN! Glad to have you back!
Our Website
We have decided to upgrade the website to the newer version of Joomla. It hopefully will allow us more functionality and ease to update the site, and add new abilities to keep the UBPN community connected. We also will upgrade our forums, which will also allow us to prevent BOT registrations which causes alot of time to be spent scouring through real and fake registrants.
Our Store and Amazon
We continue to sell awarenss items through our UBPN store. Consider purchasing a magnet or bracelet to help spread awareness!
UBPN StoreIf you do shop through Amazon, please consider using this link:
It will not cost you anything extra, and a small portion of sale goes to benefit UBPN
If you have benefited from the resources offered by UBPN, through the magazine, camp, website or message boards, please consider supporting UBPN through a donation of your time or resources. Without the community’s support, UBPN would be just another brachial plexus website, not the home it has been for so many.
Thank you for your support.
Awarenes Week 2013--How do you do that??
Awareness week 2013 is the first full third week of October-so October 20-26th 2013. UBPN is going to be producing and collecting videos from the Community who will be demonstrating how they do things. It could be shaving, buttoning shorts, tying shoes, playing golf or a musical instrument. Can you put a ponytail in with one hand? We want you to send in your videos to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . The video series will be called "How do you do that??" The videos should show how you, a person with BPI gets through your daily routines, how you spend your leisure time-sports or music, or anything that you can do that you have modified to do with one hand or with an assist from your BPI arm. Be creative, have fun with it, and keep it family friendly
Volunteers
We have asked for volunteers, and we are happy when people come forward. We are always looking for help, whether it be website review-looking for deadlinks, Reviewing drafts of Outreach, Joomla experts, Fundraisers (especially!), or people who have connections who can help get the word out.
Outreach
Jen is always looking for good stories, so if you have something to share like an inspirational story send it to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Rich Looby