Welcome to Jeff Rosen!

On behalf of the C3 Board and staff, I'm very pleased to announce that Jeff Rosen has joined our Board of Directors. Jeff brings a great deal of experience in financial management, both in the for profit and nonprofit worlds, and he will help C3 establish effective and transparent financial systems that are powerful and highly useful.

Jeff Rosen lives in Leeds, MA with his wife and three young children. He serves as the director of Finance and Administration for the Solidago Foundation. Prior to working for Solidago, Jeff worked for more than 20 years in the food sector, owning his own businesses and serving as a senior financial officer for national restaurant chains. In addition, he has worked for several food sector focused nonprofits, including the New Alchemy Institute. He is currently active with a broad coalition of organizations in the Pioneer Valley, working to rebuild the local food system by investing in sustainable agriculture infrastructure projects. Jeff is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and has a Masters of Resource Economics from the University of Maine. Jeff is an adjunct faculty member in the Green MBA program at Antioch College of New England and teaches Tai Chi in the Northampton area.

We are so excited that Jeff has joined our team, and he will help our Board provide experienced and dynamic leadership to the C3 project. Welcome Jeff!

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Join fellow Florence Savings Bank Customers and vote to support C3 today!

Florence Savings Bank is donating $50,000 to local, non-profit organizations and you get to decide where the money will go. The amount that C3 receives will be determined by the number of community votes C3 receives. Simply click on the link above and enter: 'Commonwealth Center for Change, 126 Main St. Northampton, Ma' into the electronic ballot.

Voting ends December 31, 2008.
Submit your vote today!

Storefront ART Hosts 2nd ARThappening

at the Haymarket Café

Friday November 14th, from 8pm-2am, Commonwealth Center for Change's Storefront ART program will host its second ARThappening at the Haymarket Café at 185 Main St. in Northampton.

Visual and interactive art, poetry and spoken word-not to mention world funk, hip hop, salsa, merengue and live Jazz-will come together for an incredible night of art, food, music, dancing and fun at storefront ART's November ARThappening!

Picking up where Arts Night Out leaves off, storefront ART will once again create a vibrant space for artists and the community to come together and celebrate the creativity that abounds in Northampton. Come for the poignant words of area poets and the striking imagery of local artists. Stay for the music, dancing and friends.

sliding scale $5-$25 donation at the door
$3 Beer & Wine
All proceeds will benefit Commonwealth Center for Change

The Evening's Schedule:

8pm-9pm - Reception
featuring visual art by Tasha Robbins & Dan Towers, live jazz by The Evolution Trio, and delicious food from Haymarket Cafe
9pm-10pm - Poetry
from Leah Banks, Shira Erlichman, Jamila Gore, Adam Gottlieb, Amina "Illypsis" Nia Jordan-Mendez, Kerry O'Keefe, Niamah Petigny & Anthony O. Wilson
10pm-midnight - World Flight Funk
DJ Brando
midnight-2am - Salsa y Merengue
DJ Douglas Hernandez
All Night - Art
Interactive art with Dana Wilde and Bethann Shannon, outdoor video installation by Lea Donnan, roving NCTV camera crew shooting footage for "Am I Famous Yet?"

Learn more about the participating artists at:
www.commonwealthcenter.org

This ARThappening is on FACEBOOK

still need more information? email julia@commonwealthcenter.org or call: 413.522.1319