Las Comadres website Navigation
Our navigation bar is conveniently located at the top of each page as dark purple drop down menu buttons. When you place your mouse over each button, it will drop down to more buttons of other sections to visit. Dark green buttons denote additional drop down buttons that slide over to other sections to visit.
This section introduces you to our most recent web additions in the form of a site map. Our site map will give you a short description of each section and how it relates to other sections of the website.
Large headers below are linked to dark purple drop down menu buttons, and bulleted headers are linked to light purple and dark green drop down menu buttons.
A new section or announcement will be noted with a NEW tag or an UPDATED tag. A section which is not active but is in the works will be noted with a COMING SOON tag (links to under construction page).
We want your feedback, click here to send us your feedback (suggestions, ideas, praise, likes, and dislikes).
HOME
Our HOME section offers you two sections where you can get the most up-to-date Las Comadres news on our home page and Site Map/Navigation page.
- Site Map
- Navigation (You are here)—gives more detail on how to navigate Las Comadres website
Click on Site Map link above for a less detailed site map - Website Feedback Form—submit your suggestions, ideas, praise, likes, and dislikes about the website
- Navigation (You are here)—gives more detail on how to navigate Las Comadres website
Subscribe
Our SUBSCRIBE section provides easy access to our most used forms. It provides additional information about membership and to allow you to subscribe to Las Comadres, the organization, and to other activities which have a registration process.
- Las Comadres—Join Las Comadres...view the Las Comadres Network Map and use this form to join our organization. You need to use this form to change your address, your email address, telephone number, etc. Please note in the comments section, what change you made. For example, fill out the form with required information and in the comments section type in that you changed your telephone number.
- Comadrazo—View our video about Comadrazos! Everything you needed to know about a Comadrazo. If you would like to host a Comadrazo in your city, please fill out the handy form.
- Add Testimonial—use the handy form to email us about your experience(s) with Las Comadres that you want to share with others. We would love to hear from you.
- Book Club—Join a Book Club...use this form to join the Book Club in your area
- Teleconference—Register for the current month's teleconference using this handy form
- Special Interests
- COMING SOON Special Interest pages such as Kudos, Comadres fighting cancer, Vote for me
- NEW SIG or Special Interest Groups—Austin has SIGs for cooking, film, gardening, health/exercise, and an online prayer list is available for anyone to participate on their own
Events
Our EVENTS section is specifically designed to provide information about specific events both current and past.
Streaming audio links are provided for Las Comadres members and Book Club friends.
- Upcoming Events—announces upcoming National and local events
- Past Events—lists and links to archives of past National Events by year: 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, and 2006 and earlier
- In case you missed the previous teleconferences, you can buy the books and listen to the interviews with the authors through our streaming audio links.
- Book Club—lists current Book Club selection, links to 2011 Calendar, lists 2011 Book Club selections, clicking on current month's book cover selection links to information about the book, links to Join Book Club form, lists locations of participating book stores, provides information of 2012 Book Club submissions, provides history of Book Club, and lists 2008, 2009, and 2010 Book Club selections
- Teleconferences—lists 2012 teleconferences and features current month teleconference selection, links to registration form, and clicking on current month's book cover selection links to information about the book(s), author(s), and interviewer(s).
- Comadre University—learn more about courses offered through Las Comadres University.
- TPP-ACE—Las Comadres Legacy Programs Institute: Texas Public Policy And Civic Engagement Training Program (TPP-ACE formerly known as TPP-ACT)
Family
Our FAMILY section introduces you to our family of partners, supporters, and Comadre entrepreneurs. We encourage you to check out the Las Comadres specific programs they sponsor as fundraisers or sponsorships and/or visit their websites.
Click on the Sponsors, Affiliates, or Advertisers link, to fill out the handy form If you are interested in joining our family of partners and supporters.
- Sponsors—those companies who have donated to Las Comadres for general support or specific events and campaigns
- Affiliates—those entities who offer Las Comadres, as an organization, an opportunity for revenue or service/product based on membership participation in a specific program
- Kidzbusiness—part of Comadre University
- Advertisers—those companies who purchase time-based exposure to our membership
- None at this time
- Mercado—Las Comadres logoed items that will help you start conversations with others and earn revenue for Las Comadres para las Americas
About Us
Our ABOUT US section strives to answer questions about our organization, our website, our Board of Directors, testimonials, FAQ, and provide media access to press releases, photos, and other pertinent information.
Also included is a special password protected section for Las Comadres Coordinators/Facilitators which provides them with general information, forms, sample letters for launching Las Comadres, invitations to Comadrazos, etc. There is a special section to meet Book Club and Yahoo Group Coordinators as well.
- Information—History, Website History, Vision, Mission, and links to Las Comadres International Network Map and form to subscribe online
- Meet our Board—meet our Board of Directors
- Meet Coordinators
- Coordinators—password protected section for Coordinators only
- Book Club Coordinators—password protected section for Book Club facilitators/coordinators
- Group Coordinators—password protected section for Book Club facilitators/coordinators
- Photo Gallery—photo galleries of Comadres and others at events hosted at Flickr
- Testimonials—Comadres share their experiences on how Las Comadres have impacted their lives. We invite you to use the handy form to email us about your experience(s) with Las Comadres that you want to share with others. We would love to hear from you. Click here to Add Testimonial
- FAQ—Frequently Asked Questions about Las Comadres history, how to post to Las Comadres listserv, how to prepare a message for approval, etc.
- Contact Us—call us or use the handy form to email Las Comadres
- In the News—video interviews and features, and published articles of Las Comadres
- Media—media kits, logos, banners, advertisements, etc.
DIRECTORY
Our Product & Services Directory is online. Our Calendar will be located on the Directory as well as a Blog which might be changing to a new location which will be coming soon. Please visit our Product & Services Directory, Calendar, and Blog.
Please be sure to subscribe your business to market your products and services. Be sure to visit our Directory to shop with our Comadres, Compadres, and other businesses and organizations who sponsor the Latina/Latino community.
Donate
Our DONATE section provides an easy link using credit cards to donate to Las Comadres Fund (the fund is managed by the Austin Community Foundation of Central Texas). We also provide you with a physical address to send donations by check.
We also added a section on painless ways to contribute.
- Donate Form—links to Las Comadres form to notify us if you are donating online through the Austin Community Foundation of Central Texas by credit card or donating by mail with a check
- Contribute Form—links to contribute form, Painless Ways to Contribute
- Host a Comadrazo
- Introduce new Comadre(s)
- Introduce potential funder, Sponsor/Affiliate/Advertiser
- Become a Coordinator/Facilitator
- Help start a New City Network
- Place link on your website to our website (reciprocal agreement required)
- Submit other ideas, fill out Contribute Form and send!
- Air Travel—links to page explaining how using American Airlines—Business ExtrAA® Account Number 790376 helps grow Las Comadres. Whether it is via American Airlines website or through your preferred travel agent, in addition to earning Advantage miles for your own travel, you earn Advantage miles for Las Comadres at no extra cost to you!
Get Involved
This section provides some redundancy to our Donate and Subscribe sections. Support also provides some basic information about becoming a company/corporate or governmental agency supporter. We also provide Local, State, and National level Community issue involvement information, as appropriate.
- Donate—links to our Donate section
- Subscribe—links to our Subscribe section
- Support—links to Sponsors, Affiliates, and Advertisers Form
- Volunteer—become a volunteer through Las Comadres
- Resources/Links—links to different local and national level community involvement information