The Carousel Network

Chronic Neuroimmune Diseases
Information & Support For Sonoma County

**Volunteers Are The Carousel Network**

The Carousel Network is an all-volunteer organization, run by people who are sick for people who are sick. The more people who pitch in and help keep the organization running, the better able The Carousel Network is to keep helping people in our community.

Board of Directors
2007-2009

President
Vice President	Loretta Beach
Secretary	Genie Dreyfus
Treasurer	Dolores Rhoads
Members At Large	Hally DeCarion Pat Geis Patricia Russell

Elections
No one nominated for President accepted the nomination, so we currently do not have anyone in the President slot.

Call for Volunteers
We need your help to keep the Carousel Network going strong. Historically, our volunteers have been people with CNDS, but we love assistance from friends and family members, too. What do we need assistance with? Just look for the bolded underlined tasks below. Please contact us carousel@cndsinfo.net if you would like to volunteer.

Description of Duties

Board Members
The board works to maintain the viability of the group, ensuring that the group and its resources can help get people the information they need to get properly diagnosed, deal with the complex treatment issues, changing state of medical knowledge, and learn to cope on a daily basis.

The President, Vice President, and Members at Large can decide amongst themselves how to divide the tasks and work with volunteers who have volunteered to do or assist with tasks.

The Treasurer processes membership checks and donations, reimburses expenditures, and maintains financial records.

Tasks
The Tasks needing someone to take them on appear in bold type.

Membership	Updates and maintains membership roster. Provides updates to newsletter volunteers. Creates and maintains membership-related forms and signs. Processes hardship waiver applications.
Librarian	Keeps books and other resources and brings them to the meetings for members to review and check-out. Contacts members who have not returned checked-out materials to arrange for return or renewal. (G. Dreyfus)
Newsletter	Creates, produces, and mails our bimonthly informational newsletter. Maintains mailing list, and works closely with person doing membership.
Meeting facilitator	Runs the monthly meeting, facilitates discussion, and presents the speaker or video.
Meeting Room Prep/Research	Opens and closes the meeting room, oversees set-up and post-meeting cleanup. Free meeting rooms that fit the needs of our membership are hard to find. Occasionally, as in the Fall of 2004, we may lose a room we have been meeting in, due to the needs of the entity who owns the room. The room search can be done by one person, but it goes easier if two or more pitch in. (G. Dreyfus)
Primary Contact Person	The primary contact person for TCN handles the bulk of the incoming phone calls from people who are sick and seeking information, and health professionals looking for support groups for their patients. Contacts are made by phone, email, and regular mail. The primary contact person should be well enough versed in the various diseases affecting members to help callers looking for referrals to other information and health resources, and to provide basic support.
Resource Directory Coordinator	Maintains the Resource Directory, updating the .doc version, converts to PDF format. Sends the updated PDF file, as well as the specific adds, updates and deletes, to the Webmaster for the online version and uploading the revised PDF file.
Speaker/Program Coordinator	Lines up speakers and videos, coordinates the calendar, sends out speaker confirmation and the thank-you letters.
Videography	Videotapes speaker meetings when appropriate. Maintains masters, boosts audio, and makes copies for the TCN Library.
Webmaster	Creates and maintains the web site. (M. Kaplan)

We thank our present, past, and future volunteers! Without you, there would not be a Carousel Network.

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Join TCN: You can join at a meeting, or fill out a membership form and mail it with your check for $20 to The Carousel Network, 122 Calistoga Road #216, Santa Rosa, CA 95409-3702. Members receive our bimonthly newsletter, email meeting reminders, and borrowing privileges from our TCN Library. TCN is supported solely by membership dues and donations. Memberships are due for renewal annually from the date joined. We thank you for renewing promptly.

Legal Disclaimer: The Carousel Network, Chronic Neuroimmune Diseases is an all-volunteer, 501(c)3 non-profit organization. We do not give medical advice, nor does TCN endorse products or treatments. Members of our group are being treated with mainstream and alternative therapies, often in combination. If you have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyaliga, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, Lyme Disease, or any other medical condition, we encourage you to work with an informed health care practitioner as you make the choices and decisions about your own treatment. You are responsible for your own health care decisions.

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