CARA
Box 1705
Oak View, CA 93022
tel: 805-649-4746
fax: 805-649-5190
CARA@iswest.com
Be sure to mark your calendar for the 2003 CARA Summer Conference, Perfecting the Cut: the Many Facets of Prospect Research, June 11-13, 2003, at Pomona College in Claremont, CA. Always a great networking and learning experience, this year's conference will also commemorate CARA's Diamond Anniversary as an APRA chapter (1993-2003).
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The CARA Board of Directors would like to ask for your help in selecting our CARA Service Award recipients for 2003. Please be on the look out for Nominations Forms, which will be coming your way soon.
The CARA Service Award honors an individual who has contributed exceptional service above and beyond his/her regular work duties for the betterment of the advancement research profession, professional colleagues, and the California Advancement Researchers Association. CARA Service Award recipients are selected on the basis of their exceptional service to CARA and to the profession.
The CARA Service Award is a relatively new tradition; the first award was presented at the APRA Conference in Anaheim in 2000. One or more Service Award recipients are selected each year.Past recipients are Peter Wasemiller, Kim Signoret Parr, Cathy Terrones, Napoleon Hendrix III and Nancy Ellis Taylor.
Please complete a separate Nomination Form for each of the colleagues you would like to recommend for consideration as an awardee. For your convenience, please find the nominations form here.
Then fax or snail mail the completed form to Ann Smoot. Contact information is provided on the form.
No email nominations will be accepted.
The deadline for nominations is Friday, May 2, 2003.
It is the time of year to choose new Board leadership. We invite you to nominate a CARA member who you think would provide good leadership skills for the organization. And we invite you to consider running for election yourself!
CARA's strength is in its membership. We have so many talented and intelligent people who have served the organization over the years. Serving on the Board of Directors is a particularly rewarding experience, and a wonderful way to contribute to the growth of the organization and the profession overall.