May 5, 2012 — Thriver Spirit & Song Event with Special Guest, Meredith Baxter

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Join us for an enlightening, empowering evening about changing women’s lives!

Thriver Spirit & Song celebrates a growing community of women who are “thriving” (not merely surviving) after abuse and trauma in their lives.

With live music, positive energy and inspiring success stories, this event will inspire anyone on a journey of self-discovery, heightened self-esteem and healing to permanently break the cycle of violence in their lives and create a new future for themselves and their children.

The evening’s Special Guest will be actress Meredith Baxter, a Thriver Success Story! In her talk, Breaking Family Ties: Empowering Ourselves to Overcome Domestic Violence, Meredith offers her own inspiring story of courage, hope, self-acceptance and happiness.

While performing acclaimed roles on television including Family Ties and over fifty movies, Meredith has also faced domestic abuse, battled alcoholism and breast cancer, and started her own business while raising five children.

Visit thriverspirit.com for more information on the event.

Sponsor the Thriver Spirit & Song Event

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We are looking for sponsors for our Thriver Spirit & Song Event— an enlightening, empowering evening about changing women’s lives!

On May 5, 2012, Thriver Spirit & Song will feature special guest, Meredith Baxter, known for her role in Family Ties, along with live music, expressive art and Thriver Success Stories.

For more information about this special event, visit our Thriver Spirit & Song Event page.

For more information about sponsoring the event, visit Be a Sponsor or Download the Sponsorship Package.

Looking for Artists for Thriver Art Show

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Art Show Benefits CT-ALIVE

With a theme of  Thriving, So Much More than Surviving, this Art Show is part of Saturday, May 5th Evening of Thriver Spirit & Song event featuring actress Meredith Baxter. The Art Show will be viewed during the pre-event reception and intermission.

Sales:  All Art will be for sale and a portion of the sale will benefit CT-ALIVE. Artists agree to donate 30% to CT-ALIVE.

Prizes for Best of Show:  Viewers of Art will be asked to vote for their favorite piece. Three prizes will be awarded.

Delivery of Art:  Art must be delivered to Mandell Jewish Community Center, 335 Bloomfield Ave., West Hartford, CT 06117 between 12 noon and 1 p.m. on May 5. Artists will pick up unsold art after the event or make arrangements for a later pickup with Art Show committee. Art must be framed, ready to hang and certified as an original by the artist.

For additional information on the Art Show, call Darla, Art Show Committee Chairperson, at 860-803-1700 or Susan Omilian, Event Producer, at 860-236-2401 or contact her at ct-alive@comcast.net.

Download ART SHOW Entry Form and May 5th Event Flyer

Shopping for CT-ALIVE

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Shop for Cashback and Donations to CT-ALIVE

CT-ALIVE is participating in an exciting new fundraising program with its own website featuring thousands of partner stores like Sears, Best Buy, Target and more.  When you make a purchase on www.SupportCT-ALIVE.com, CT-ALIVE receives royalties and you can earn up to 35% cash back on qualified purchases.

The benefits don’t stop there. You can earn 0.5% cash back on the purchases of everyone you refer to our website.  Now you can take advantage of the ease and convenience of Internet shopping to buy the products and services you want, while feeling good about helping CT-ALIVE, a non-profit organization helping victims of violence heal, change and grow.

To get started, just follow these step-by-step instructions.

Visit Our Two Book Bin Locations!

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CT-ALIVE has two book bin locations!! We need new and used books!!!

We Need

Hardcovers, Paperbacks, CDs, DVDs, Audio books, Records, Textbooks

Funds raised through these donations will benefit the projects of CT-ALIVE helping victims of violence grow, heal and change.

*Please, no magazines, newspapers, VHS tapes, catalogs or encyclopedias.

Current Book Bin Locations

Stop & Shop Store
120 Salmon Brook Street
Granby, CT 06035

Golden Gavel Auction Plaza
149 North Road (Route 140)
East Windsor, CT 06088
For map and directions visit: www.goldengavel.com/directions.php

Bin Space is Free

There is no cost to the bin space. Providers and the contents of the bins are regularly emptied by professional staff at GOT BOOKS.

Looking for Locations

CT-ALIVE is looking for additional locations in Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Running for a Cause

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Today, Saturday October 15, 2011, Jenny finished the Hartford Marathon and she is a believer!

“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it;

if you can believe it, you can become it.”

– William Arthur Ward

Jenny included this quote in an entry on her blog Running Thriver after completing the 26.2 mile race in 5 hours, 12 minutes and 21 seconds.  Believing is BECOMING!  As a CT-ALIVE Board Member, Jenny ran in support of this organization that has helped her move her life forward after abuse.  Read her story here.

Please donate to CT-ALIVE in honor of this amazing and courageous young woman.  Your donations can help many other women thrive after abuse as Jenny has through CT-ALIVE’s Never Going Back to Abuse Project.   Click here to DONATE NOW!

Workshops Supported by CT-ALIVE

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Critical “Next-Step” for Moving On After Abuse

“Living well is the best revenge” is the theme of the My Avenging Angel Workshops™ being offered twice a year in Avon and Wethersfield, Connecticut by Susan M. Omilian of West Hartford — the workshop’s award-winning originator and facilitator.

Described by participants as “life-changing,” these workshops provide the critical “next step” for women to break permanently out of the cycle of violence and “thrive” after abuse.

Workshops are Free

Sponsored by the Hartford Hospital Domestic Violence Prevention Program, and supported by Connecticut Alliance for Victim of Violence and Their Families Inc. (CT-ALIVE), the workshops are free of charge.  Dates of the upcoming workshops are posted on www.myavengingangel.com.