Family Caregiver Info business plan

I'm revamping my business plan and have decided that I want to create one for my various websites, which means one for Family Caregiver Info too. I want to include things such as projects to undertake for that site - like rallying a letter campaign this November to tell Congress to be kind to caregivers and so forth. So if anyone can think of anything that might be good to focus on for caregivers in the term of over the next year or longer let me know and I'll add it into my business plan.

A few things I have planned for already that I want to focus on include:

• Create a family caregiver newsletter for my website
• Get website up and finished now that it has been moved to my server
• Set up campaign to write congress folks about family caregiver bills
• See about reviving family caregiver bills that have slipped away through congress forgetting them
• Work toward more family caregiver resources in Alaska

Know anything about writing campaigns to congress?

Anyone know anything about organizing letter writing campaigns to congress? I want to organize something for November, but Ive never done anything like that before. Any advice greatly appreciated.

My goal is to get people to send letters to congress in November reminding them of National Family Caregiver month and what it means and asking them to please support bills that support family caregivers.

I'm making notes on things that I want to do, such as get a Yahoo Group going for it, set up space on my Family Caregiver Info website next week when I revise it, and make list of congressional people's contact information. I also want to create some sample letters. Does anyone know if e-mails and comments on blogs help any?

Thank you for your time and input. :-)

Caregivers Resources

I found this while I was pinging around, but have not had a chance to look it over very well so it goes here for further investigation at a later date.

The Caregivers Resources at National Caregivers Library. They bill themselves as "one of the most extensive online libraries for caregivers that exist today."

It definitely looks like a site that deserves a closer look later on, so I want to be able to find it again to see if it is something I want to create a link from FamilyCaregiver.info to.

Looking for ideas for caregiver films

I want some assistance from anyone that has ideas to share. I want to create some stop motion films that characterize family caregiving. Does anyone have any suggestions on what would be good film-able snapshots of being a caregiver? I was thinking I would try to do some stop motion for range of motion type exercises and so forth, but I'm open to any suggestions that anyone might have. I want to create a series of films that I can upload to FamilyCaregiver.info when I get it finished. Thanks!

Wikipedia has ZILCH on family caregiver

:::gaspy!:: Wikipedia has ZILCH on family caregiver and is entertaining suggestions that it be merged with "voluntary caregiver" =-o Noooossssss... family caregiver is much much more than voluntary caregiver and should have its own entry there people! I'll be joining wikipedia tonight so that I can help sort this out and make sure that it is understood what a family caregiver is. I had always just assumed they had good coverage on it. :::sighs:::

Oh, the link...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_caregiver

Notes for my websites

I am using my blogs as a place to collect notes on things that will go onto my websites later on, since the information is going to be of interest to my readers as well as a general rule. I'm going to collect caregiver websites that I want to be revisiting for reading over and personal websites of caregivers, even sites for writers of books on caregiving since I have a writer's bio going over on A Writer's Life.

Right now I want to be able to find this link later on, so here's the first link to be held in the que.

http://www.care-givers.com/
Their first entry on their mission page:

"To provide a safe, nurturing site for all Caregivers with emotional and spiritual support."