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| 4/22/08 Volume 3, Issue 3 |
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NJ SHARES Night at the BlueClaws
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Join Us for NJ SHARES Night at the Lakewood BlueClaws!!
Join us for NJ SHARES night at the BlueClaws, Friday, June 20, 2008 at the First Energy Stadium in Lakewood, NJ.
A great night of minor league baseball and Friday Night Fireworks is guaranteed for all! Bring the family, friends and kids and join NJ SHARES for an evening of fun and friendship building!
For tickets or information about the BlueClaws game please call Jeff Ibach at our Hamilton Client Services Call Center. You can contact Jeff at 1-888-337-3339 x210 or by email at jibach@njshares.org.
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2008 National Energy and Utility Affordability Conference: Denver, Colorado
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2008 National Energy and Utility Affordability Conference: Mile High Solutions June 16-18, 2008
Adam's Mark Hotel, Denver, Colorado
NLIEC and NFFN join forces for our biggest annual conference yet!
The National Low Income Energy Consortium and National Fuel Funds Network are pleased to be partners in presenting the National Energy and Utility Affordability Conference: Mile High Solutions, which will be held June 16-18, 2008, at the Adam's Mark Hotel in Denver, Colorado.
The inaugural National Energy and Utility Affordability Conference, which combines the National Fuel Funds Network Annual Conference and National Low Income Energy Conference, will provide sessions on fund raising and building the energy safety net, as well as workshops in such areas a energy availability and sustainability, weatherization and conservation, focus on energy assistance, outreach and advocacy, Native American Issues, evolution of utility programs and services, and consumer education and services. The National Energy Assistance Directors’ Association Meeting program will include outlook for federal funding, roundtable discussion with federal officials, regional roundtable meetings on program policy issues and concerns, program design issues, discussion of development of corporate research strategies and new fuel purchasing strategies. For more information or to register online please visit www.energyandutilityconference.org or email them at conference@nliec.org.
This marks the first time the two organizations have held one, seamless event combining the two conferences they had held on consecutive days since the mid-1980s. The 2008 conference will be the largest single U.S. gathering to address the need for affordable home energy and other utilities for people with low income.
National Energy Assistance Directors’ Association:
NEADA is the primary education and policy organization for the state directors of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
National Fuel Fund Network:
NFFN convenes organizations and utilities that administer, promote and financially support charitable energy assistance programs.
National Low Income Energy Consortium:
NLIEC represents all segments of the low-income energy community and works toward coordinated solutions to low-income energy and utility problems. NLIEC is dedicated to heightening awareness of the energy needs of low-income consumers and to developing and promoting innovative programs and public-private partnerships to address those needs.
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NJ SHARES Attends NY Metro Abilities Expo
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NJ SHARES Attends
The 2008 New York Metro Abilities Expo
at the
Raritan Convention Center
NJ SHARES participated in our first New York Metro Region 2008 Abilities Expo. This regional event was extremely well attended and gave us an outstanding opportunity to reach our friends in need who might otherwise not have known about SHARES. We were able to reach families facing health issues and medical crisis with mounting medical bills and increasing utility obligations. This was an excellent opportunity to reach a population that is a good fit for NJ SHARES.
We made wonderful contacts and in partnership with Verizon we are looking forward to attending this Expo again in 2009.
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NJ SHARES Attends New Jersey Conference of Mayors
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NJ SHARES Attends
the New Jersey Conference of Mayors
April 10 & 11, 2008 Atlantic City
NJ SHARES had a wonderful opportunity to attend the 2008 NJ Conference of Mayors this April in Atlantic City. In partnership with Verizon and in conjunction with our outreach efforts to Mayors Offices, this was an excellent forum for the exchange of information and ideas. We were able to communicate on a personal level with many of the Mayors and their Council Members from around New Jersey.
We look forward to attending the NJ Conference of Mayors again in 2009!
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Communications Lifeline & LInkUp America
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Who Can Afford Not To Have A Telephone?
Verizon Communications in partnership with New Jersey SHARES makes residential telephone service more affordable in New Jersey by offering Communications Lifeline and Link Up America Services for qualified, low-income customers and program eligible clients.
Communications Lifeline provides a $13.27 maximum credit toward your monthly telephone bill including a full credit for Touch-Tone service. Communications Lifeline allows you to receive the discount by choosing Flat Rate Service, Moderate Use Message Rate Service or Low Use Message Rate Service. Link Up America provides a 50% discount on telephone connection charges. The remaining 50 percent may be billed in 12 monthly payments.
You can benefit from this service if you receive benefits from a state program (such as Food Stamps, Medicaid, or PAAD, among others) or if you are a Senior Citizen (+65) who is not participating in one of the above programs and is at or below 150% of the U.S. Census Bureau Poverty Level Guidelines.
To discover if you meet the program’s guidelines, and for full, helpful information and direction on the simple process to apply for this service, call the New Jersey SHARES Call Center at
1-888-337-3339 Monday through Friday, from 9am to 6pm.
For information on how you can offer this important service to your clients please contact Cheryl Stowell at cstowell@njshares.org
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