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Finance & Office Administrator Job Posting

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:11:07 -0400

Finance & Office Administrator Job

Rate of Pay $15 per hour

Transition to Betterness (T2B) was established in 1997 and is a local non profit organization which raises funds for cancer patients and families in our community. We invite you to look through our website to learn more about our organization prior to applying for this job posting. The Financial an Office Administrator will be filling a 40 hour work week from Monday to Friday. This full time position is a one year contract.

Responsibilities as Financial and Office Administrator will be to report to the Director of Operations and T2B Board of Directors. Duties include entering accounts payable, preparing cheques for payments, ensuring collections of amounts owing, daily banking, PayPal accounts and tracking projects (functions). Other financial duties include monthly bank reconciliations, monthly preparation of financial statements, preparing audit working papers, liaison with external auditors, communication with Director of Finance and summarizing memorial donations received. Office duties will include answering the phones, opening mail, filing, maintaining meeting agendas and other office and finance duties as assigned.
Some volunteer hours will be expected.

This position requires strong interpersonal skills and organizational skills. Education and experience in accounting, as well as experience with Simply Accounting. Resumes will be accepted until Friday August 20th, 2010 at 5pm. Please forward your resume to KellyGosselin, Director of Operations for Transition to Betterness at kelly@t2b.ca or by fax (519)944-2590. Thank you for your application.

Yoga For Hope - August 28th. All proceeds to Windsor's 1st Breast Thermography Machine

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:33:25 -0400

Join the Pajama Angels and T2B for a day of peace, yoga and hope. The day will be packed with Yoga teachers from all around Windsor and North America. This will be a day to feel inner peace while making a difference in the fight against breast cancer. You can pay your registration fee on our websit through the T2B paypal account or call us at 519-944-5143 to sign up today.

2010 Firefest August 20th & 21st. Get your team registered today call the T2B office at 519-944-5143

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:40:11 -0400

Firefest will take place Friday, August 20th and Saturday August 21st 2010. This is the 9th year for this 2 day free family festival. The sizzling summer event takes place at Winsor’s Riverfront Festival Plaza. Friday Features T2B Night with the Combat Relay Races. Teams will race and the top teams will win a prestigious trophy and bragging rights for the year. Proceeds from the Corporate, Friends and Media Combat Relay Races all go directly to T2B and our ongoing programs.

Competitive and Recreation Divisions – entry fee is $200 per team. You can have 4 to 7 people per team. You can wear team shirts, colors or costumes if you would like.The RESCUE FLAG for the recreation division only allows teams to purchase a rescue flag (or two) for $20. This means if you get to a part of the course that you cannot complete a fireman will come out and rescue you and complete that leg of the relay for you. This flags can be purchased for $20 and all proceeds go to T2B.

Each Team is asked to raise as much as they can. For every $50 you raise you get 1 second off your time, this does include your initial $200 team fee. So be sure to give it your best because you would hate to win then lose to a team who beat you in the fundraising department. Remember it is all for fun, and to help T2B raise the necessary funds needed to run our ongoing adult and kids oncology programs.

Call T2B today at 519-944-5143 or email us at info@t2b.ca to sign your team up and receive your pledge sheets. It will be a smokin’ evening!

GLAMFUNKSHION RUNWAY SHOW - Thursday August 19th

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:34:53 -0400

Call the T2B office today to purchase your tickets to this exclusive event. 519-944-5143. Tickets are sold on a first come first serve basis.

T2B 2nd Annual Walk With Your Doc - Saturday July 17th 2010

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:58:40 -0400

Transition to Betterness invites you, your friends, and families to join together to participate in “Walk with your Doc”. It’s time to lace up your sneakers, and bring your Doctor, nurses, medical field staff, family and friends to take part in a fun, social, health and awareness 6k walk. We need your help to continue to run our unique oncology programs, and continue to give back and help our community.

Teammates: Doctors, Nurses, Patients, Medical Staff, Friends and Families. All are welcomed. Children under the age of 14 can participate for free.

Pledge: A minimum pledge of $20 per participant is required. To receive your pledge sheets call T2B today at 519-944-5143 or email us at
info@t2b.ca.

Coulis Family 7th Annual Pig Roast

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:40:27 -0400

Each year the friends, families and neighbors of the Coulis Family gather together for some family fun in the sun. Come rain or shine this group enjoys their familiar BBQ and friendly laughter, as they raise funds each year to help to T2B refurbish one room on the Oncology Unit at Windsor Regional Hospital. Last year their 6th Annual Pig Roast raised well over $2,000.00! A room has been named in honour of their Mother, Friend and Wife Faye Coulis. Thank you to the Coulis Family and Friends.

Good luck and enjoy the July 17th, 7th Annual Pig Roast!

T2B "GIVE OUTIDE THE BOX" Program

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:00:08 -0500

This holiday season give the gift that gives to everyone; donate to the T2B “Give Outside the Box” program. Make a donation on behalf of a teacher, loved one, boss, co-worker or friend and you can give the gift that can change a community. Just think no boxes or perfect wrapping paper needed for a donation made in honour of someone important in your life. Simplify your shopping needs this Christmas and call the T2B office (519-944-5143), or click onto our PayPal account (www.paypal.ca) and state your donation to one of our friendly office staff. Be sure to give us the address and name of the individual you are making a donation on behalf of and T2B will send them a card to notify them of your gift. Donations over $20 will receive a tax receipt which you can place in your friend’s name. All donations given to the T2B “Give Outside The Box” program will go towards or ongoing programs and will stay 100% local.

Hospital gives kids comforts of home

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:21:55 -0500

Doug Williamson, Windsor Star
Published: Friday, January 18, 2008

If Jessica Wolf were alive today, she'd love her new room.

Although Jessica did not die of cancer, her father's sister and mother-in-law both did -- in 1969 and 2002 respectively. So her family and friends at Transition to Betterness thought it fitting that room 3110 on the unit be named after Jessica, Karen Ann Wolf and Luigina Shincariol.

Eight rooms in the unit have been refurbished with eye-pleasing animal shapes on the walls, plasma TVs, CD players, PlayStations and even Wii units, all designed to make a once-sterile hospital environment comfortable and homey for children being treated after their initial cancer treatments.

Children in the unit are receiving chemo and other forms of therapy, thus avoiding the necessity of having to drive back and forth between primary cancer care facilities in London, Hamilton or Toronto. Transition to Betterness, or T2B, has been in existence for 11 years providing cancer patients with comfortable and compassionate hospital settings, working in this case in partnership with Windsor Regional to refurbish the rooms.

The project took five months and cost $250,000, paid for by fundraising and corporate sponsorships.

"It's wonderful, the atmosphere is so wonderful," an emotional John said during a tour of the brightly coloured rooms. "It's a very comfortable atmosphere for children."

Lisa Yascheshyn's sister Kerri died of cancer in 2003 at the age of 17, and would have loved the newly refurbished rooms, Lisa said.

"So much of her time was at the hospital," she said of Kerri's three-month illness. "She had friends that came in all the time -- it definitely would have meant a lot to her to have the comforts of home."

There are 22 children being treated at the unit, said Kathy Lyons, director of pediatrics at WRH. Of the rooms in the unit, four are for treatment and four are special isolation rooms for patients who need to be kept away from any possible infections.

The rooms keep "children at home," said T2B co-founder Doris Lapico. "They have their own space." She said when she first visited several years ago, she was bothered by the fact it was such a sterile unit.

"I said, 'Kids don't have a comfortable setting in this community, they need to make it feel like home,'" she said. "We are all winners; there are no losers in Transition to Betterness."

T2B Pushes Toward Goal

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:27:07 -0500

Media – Windsor Star
Date - September 28, 2005

On September 24, 2005 our newly Junior T2B committee put on a Harvest Dance to raise funds for the new paediatric oncology program. About 300 people attended for a great meal and entertainment from a couple of local young bands. A great time was had by all. There were raffles and candy apples to enjoy also. That night, the Junior committee raised $3000.00 and a job well done.

Star Columnist wins Service Award

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:26:03 -0500

Media – Windsor Star
Date - Dec 2, 2005

Karen Hall of the Windsor Star receives a very prestigious award for all of her hard work and dedication to the city of Windsor. The CanWest company gave this award to Karen because she cares about her community. When asked where she would like her donation to go to Karen chose Transition to Betterness. The donation was in the amount of $1000.00.