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March 28 2004 - us$1,000 award for favorite writing in this online newspaper - submitted by Michael WeinAn award for your favorite writing will be made based upon the votes by you, our readers. The Michael Paul Wein Charitable Foundation will award a us$1,000 prize for any writing on any subject involving and relating to San Miguel that will have appeared (between March 10th and May 15th) in this online newspaper. The winner will be selected by the readers of this paper, themselves, in voting that will take place between April 15th and May 20th of this year. This award is IN ADDITION to the us$1,000 award discussed below under Lifetime Achievement Award.
March 11, 2004 The MPWCF announces its $1,000 award for lifetime achievement by Michael Wein Last year, the Michael Paul Wein Charitable Foundation gave us$1,000 to the Biblioteca's Stirling Dickinson Scholarship Fund at the request of Luisa Velte, the first recipient of the MPWCF's lifetime achievement award. An additional us$1,000 award is being offered again this year. While the MPWCF trustees will select the recipients of all awards, the trustees solicit the community's help in finding nominees. The trustees would like you to recommend someone for this year's award by sending an email to mpwinsma@cybermats.com.mx with your recommendation. Tell them who you recommend and why you think they should receive this recognition. Please describe fully what this person has done during his or her years here in San Miguel. This award, not coincidentally named The Stirling Dickinson Lifetime Achievement Award in honor of the person who inspired this type of selfless volunteerism, aims to bolster the concept of the volunteer work ethic in this entire community, by acknowledging both the organizations who use volunteers and the volunteers themselves. The announcement of this award will also recognize "the current year's work of other volunteers" and one organization that recruits and uses volunteers most effectively. In keeping with the concept of non-monetary volunteer work, the $1,000 award will be paid to the organization chosen by the recipient, and not to the recipient himself or herself. A suitable permanent record on the MPWCF web-site will commemorate all awardees. Nominations are also now being solicited for the annual recognition award person as well as for acknowledgement of a specific organization that handles volunteers well These, too, should be sent to mpwinsma@cybermatsa.com.mx In these instances, the description of the work of the person and/or organization should be confined to just the recent past. These latter two awards are for recognition only and do not carry the same monetary award as does the Lifetime Achievement Award. More information can be found at the foundation's website at http://smanumber1.tripod.com/toc.htm
We would be remiss if we did not refer you to an article about someone who started a number of major non-profit organizations, Stirling Dickinson and San Miguel de Allende - read it by clicking on personalities
Objectives of this page: 1- this section will contain all information written for and about "local charitable organizations" that meet the criteria described in how to write us . All information will be published in the date order of receipt, with the latest notices on top (the oldest nearer the bottom). 2- to foster more transparency regarding their operations, this space will also be available to enable all organizations who solicit funds from the public to make their financial operations more transparent by publishing information that allows the public to see how their contributions are being used. This applies to all charitable and other non-profit organizations.
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