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December 22, 2008

Accounting Aid Society has been named Best-Managed Nonprofit for 2008 by Crain's Detroit Business. Read the story here.

WANTED: Dedicated People Who Want to Make a Real Difference In the Lives of Low-Income Families
                 Our tax training for volunteers begins January 6, 2009. Register online today!

Helpful Client Tax Guide
Here is a helpful four-page tax guide to help low and moderate income clients.
It is "A Month-by-Month Planning Guide for Preparing Your 2008 Income Taxes" and is prepared and copyrighted by Accounting Aid Society. 

See our new ad that debuted in Crain's Detroit Business.

Holiday Wish List
Accounting Aid Society is in need of in-kind items for the upcoming tax season:
        laptop compuers and USB flash drives
        office-sized paper shredders
        LCD projector and combination TV/VCR/DVD player
        printing and copying services
        snack food and botttles of water (for our more than 600 volunteers each tax season)
        clipboards and pens.
If you have eny of these items to donate, please contact Teresa Leung Lange at  tleung@accountingaidsociety.org  or call her at  313-647-9620.


Karen Newman Named Operations Manager

Karen Newman, of Ypsilanti, has joined Accounting Aid Society as Operations Manager. She is responsible for training the agecny's 600-plus volunteers, managing site operations, e-filing and reporting program results. Karen has 25 years of experience in federal government and retired from the IRS in 2005 where she worked in the Examination Division as a Tax Auditor manager. She has also worked for the Taxpayer Advocate Services and was founder and director of The Student Tax Assistance Program. She holds a bachelor's degree from Spring Arbor University in management and operations developent. 

 

Missed the October 15 Tax Rebate?
You can file for it next here. Here's how we can help.

Skillman Foundation Awards $720,000 Community Change Grant for Neighborhood Tax Centers
Centers also to establish best practices nationwide. Click here for details.


McGregor Fund Supports Accounting Aid with $150,000 Grant
Click here for details.

Read All About Us
Accounting Aid Society is occasionally featured in various news media. Click here to read some recent articles in the news.

2008 Annual Meeting and Volunteer
Celebrating a great 2008 tax season, more than 200 volunteers and supporters joined us at our Annual Meeting and Volunteer Tribute May 22 at Masco Corporation (continued below). 

 

Our Super Supervisors -- Among the celebrants were our hardworking supervisors (above) who volunteered virtually every Saturday to make sure our tax sites ran smoothly. Marshall Hunt, director of the tax assistance program, is standing in front, at left. Seated is Kathy Holka, coordinator of the homebound and summer tax programs. During the regular tax season, she also volunteers on Saturdays as the site supervisor for Accounting Aid's Northwest Activities Center tax service in Detroit.

Special partner awards were given to Matrix Human Services and Compuware Corporation. Three tax volunteers -- Kieko Terada-Tsukuda, Steven Gary, and Jennifer Stocking -- were honored for their outstanding contributions.

For more photos of our Annual Meeting and Volunteer Tribute, click here.