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Greetings!
MCB Award Competition entry forms and permission statements are starting to arrive. If your community has not submitted these forms yet, please do so postmarked by
June 30, 2009. All entry materials may be found on the MCB Web Site. To assist you, we have also placed project books and a project disk from different population communities on the Web Site. Reminder: project books or disks, adult and youth leadership nominations, and the contact list are due postmarked by
July 31, 2009.
We want to be sure that you are using the 2009 Project Book guidelines and entry materials as you prepare for the MCB Award Competition. You will find them here again from the May "Community Matters" Newsletter. This information is also available on the MCB Web Site, where it may be entered online, or printed and then filled out. You will also find reprinted here the 2009 Calendar of Events so that you will have that information readily available.
Missouri Community Betterment's address remains: 1702 Cedar Ridge Way, Branson West, Missouri 65737-9278. Telephone 417-334-3474 and Fax 417-334-3475. MCB's email is mcb@iland.net and the Web Site is
http://mocommunitybetterment.com.
Please use this information for all correspondence with Jan Simon and Missouri Community Betterment.
In this issue of Community Matters
2009 MCB Calendar of Events
Project Book Examples
Plan to Attend the 46th Annual MCB Conference
Join the "Friends of MCB"
MCB Judges Needed!
2009 MCB Award Competition
Please Visit MCB Sponsors
2009 MCB Calendar of Events
To assist you in planning for the 2009 MCB Conference, we would like to give you the following information:
Project Entry Form and MCB Permission Statement Form Deadline - June 30, 2009.
Project Books, Adult and Youth Nomination Forms and Community Contact Form Deadline - July 31, 2009.
MCB Judges Make Community Visits September 14-17, 2009.
MCB Conference, Capitol Plaza Hotel, Jefferson City, October 18-19, 2009.
Project Book Examples are available on the MCB Web Site
MCB wants to
provide communities with as much
assistance as possible as they prepare
for the 2009 MCB Awards Competition. MCB
has placed three copies of Project Books
and one disk format from different
population categories on the
MCB Web Site.
These examples
will give new or reactivating
communities and neighborhoods a starting
point as they assemble information and
put their project books together. For
the communities and neighborhoods that
have participated in the MCB Awards
Competition for many years, these will
be examples of how other community
organizations compose their project
books. Communities can then determine if
they would like to try a new style of
community project presentation.
If you would
like to use this MCB resource,
please go to the
MCB Web Site and
review the Project Book examples,
then start working on your community
project book or disk in the style
you choose to use. The pages
following each project may be filled
with newspaper articles, photos, or
other documents that provide more
information about the project.
Remember, the project book is the
first opportunity that the MCB
Judges will have to learn about your
projects before they actually visit
your community or neighborhood.
The community
project book may be submitted
electronically. As an example, a
Power Point presentation, Word
documents, or Excel documents may be
submitted as the electronic project
book entry. One paper copy
of this electronic presentation must
be submitted to MCB for use by the
MCB Judges, and for display at the
Annual Conference.
Plan Now to Attend the 46th Annual MCB Conference!
The MCB Adult and Youth Planning
Committees have worked hard to select
timely topics and outstanding speakers
for the 46th Annual MCB Annual
Conference. The conference will be held
again this year at the Capitol Plaza
Hotel in Jefferson City. Events will
start on Sunday evening and conclude
with the Awards Banquet on Monday
evening.
MCB strongly encourages all
Missouri communities to enter the 2009
Awards competition. If it is not
possible this year, please plan to send
community representatives to the Annual
Conference. It is a wonderful
opportunity to meet people from other
community betterment organizations,
review community Project Book entries,
visit with vendors that can assist your
community with future projects, and hear
great speakers on community topics of
great interest to both youth and adults.
Mark October 18-19, 2009 on your
calendars and plan to attend the
46th Annual MCB Conference. MCB will
be featuring topics and speakers in
our upcoming MCB newsletters. Watch
the excitement build as we celebrate
MCB: Where Every Community
Matters!
The Friends of MCB Want You To Join Us
Please consider becoming a member of the "Friends of MCB." For your $50-$249 membership, your name will appear on the MCB Web Site, in the MCB Annual Conference Program and other printed materials, as well as being introduced at the MCB Conference Luncheon and Banquet, and receiving a MCB lapel pin.
Please send your membership dues to:
Jan Simon
MCB Executive Director
1702 Cedar Ridge Way
Branson West, Missouri 65737
For more information about the "Friends of MCB," please contact Jan Simon at 417-334-3474 or at mcb@iland.net. You may also download the Friends of MCB membership form at the MCB Web Site.
MCB Judges Needed!
If you, or someone you know is
interested in being involved in judging
Missouri communities and neighborhoods,
please contact MCB Executive Director
Jan Simon at 417-334-3474 or at
mcb@iland.net. Judges
will meet in Columbia on Sunday
afternoon, September 13 for judges'
training. The judging process starts
Monday, September 14, and concludes
Thursday, September 17.
Judges will visit communities and
neighborhoods across the state that will
be divided by population. Expenses
during the judging week are paid by MCB.
This is a wonderful opportunity to get
to see the communities, meet their
membership, and hear about their
exceptional projects.
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2009 MCB Award
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The 2009 MCB Award Competition Materials are now available on the MCB Web Site.
There are NO entry fees again this year. MCB is able to keep participation costs low due to having received the NAP Grant, and because of generous donations from our sponsors.
The 2009 MCB Project Book or Projects Disk will have the same format as last year. The book should contain a maximum of 38 pages. Section One should have a maximum of 13 pages. Section Two should have no more than 25 pages, and should feature no more than five (5) projects. (If a community is submitting their project book on a disk, one paper copy must be submitted to MCB for display at the 2009 Conference.)
The 2009 MCB Conference Theme is "MCB: Where Every Community Matters."
Communities entering the 2009 MCB Awards Competition must plan to have a local representative from their community attend the 2009 MCB Annual Conference October 18 and 19 in Jefferson City to accept any recognition or Award(s) that may be bestowed on the community.
If you have any questions, or need any assistance, please contact Jan Simon at 417-334-3474 or at mcb@iland.net.
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