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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 6, 2008 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 3 - b <br />SUBJECT: Nonprofit Awareness Month <br />DEPARTMENT: Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Laura Blackmon, 245-2300 <br />Proclamation <br />Nonprofit Awareness Month Fact Sheet <br />PURPOSE: To consider a proclamation declaring November 2008 as "Nonprofit Awareness <br />Month". <br />BACKGROUND: Helena Thomas with the N.C. Center for Nonprofits has requested that the <br />Board of Commissioners declare November 2008 as Nonprofit Awareness Month. <br />This is the second year an effort has been made to designate a month as Nonprofit Awareness <br />Month. As part of a statewide collaborative effort to raise awareness about the value and <br />impact of nonprofits, the NC Center for Nonprofits is reaching out to boards of county <br />commissioners and asking them to adopt simple proclamations declaring November 2008 as <br />Nonprofit Awareness Month. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: There is no financial impact associated with approval of the <br />proclamation. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board approve the proclamation <br />declaring November 2008 as Nonprofit Awareness Month and authorize the Chair to sign the <br />proclamation. <br />