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Question: Who would like to be involved as a Board Member or Core Team member for a research project that involves a new community health and wellness paradigm system?

The PCORI, Patient Centered Outcomes Research Initiative, grant requires 501(c)3 status to apply. July 24-25 is a free PCORI grant workshop in Washington, DC so I am looking for qualified stakeholders that want to joint venture or Board members that have a passion and high level diverse talents to fine-tune and finish blooming the Wellness Wellness system.

As a Level 2 Humor Academy student through The Association of Applied and Therapeutic Humor, I must declare my research project by January 2015.

I have been a sole proprietor and visionary of the Wellness Weavers local to global community health and wellness system concept with a website to try to help others to understand.

I would like to combine the AATH research project and a PCORI grant to activate and research the Wellness Weavers community health and wellness paradigm.

My father passed away after expressing years of emotional support for my mission and concept and left me money to buy a campus of historic buildings to use for the pilot project.

To stretch the money God has blessed me with a series of volunteers that have been homeless and desired to end their cycle of poverty and substance abuse. It has been a symbiotic relationship program that is ready for the next level...more structure, real business people, and those that can engage all the stakeholders to come out of their silos and work efficiently together.

Most communities and families are affected by those issues in some way.

The Wellness Weavers paradigm is based on the principles of Eco-healthy quality early childhood learning and therapeutic humor to integrate health and wellness into a Community Service-Learning system that is reciprocal with other communities in the network.

The health forms and databases for the skills and resources and projects of volunteers and members were created 5 years ago during my Core Public Health course.

I am an "immigrant" of four years to Waterville and to date have not been able to engage local public health, educational, or religious systems to come see the facilities or to dialogue with me about the concept.

It is definitely time to find the Board and Core Team that see the wisdom and potential of the Wellness Weavers paradigm and investment.
They will have strengths in my weaknesses and we will share our passion for peaceful, creative stewardship of our health, our families, our communities, and resources.

If you are inspired to join me in this project or know someone who would be, please contact me to dialogue the best next action steps.
Answer:

Thanks for contacting CTB, Helen.  Although we offer information about how to organize and work with Boards of Directors (See Learn A Skill, Chapter 4, Section 9) we do not allow recruiting through this Toolbox.   We are an information source only.  We do appreciate both your motivation to establish a nonprofit and your struggle to date.  We can only encourage you to recruit locally.

Question Date: Wed, 07/09/2014