Donations can be made on December 8 from 12 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. by visiting http://www.roctheday.org/agency/ChildrenAwaitingParents .

Every hour throughout ROC the Day, one ROCstar donor will be chosen to receive an additional $500 added to their gift for the not-for-profit of their choice. Community members can enter their email address at ROCtheDay.org to sign up for a reminder to give and become a ROCstar on December 8.

Children Awaiting Parents is also asking supporters to submit a photo of themselves when they were 8, the average age of a child in care looking for their forever family. Photos are being uploaded onto their Facebook page. www.Facebook.com/ChildrenAwaitingParents .

Communities across the United States have hosted similar one-day online giving events in the past several years, many of which achieved millions of dollars raised for local not-for-profits. Dave Fiedler, 2012 United Way Board Chair and President and CEO of sponsor ESL Federal Credit Union, said that the goals of this event are to raise money for all local nonprofits and help community members make a difference in a simple way. “The end-of-year holiday season can be very busy,” Fiedler said, “but it’s a time to give thanks for what we have in this community and remind ourselves that we can always do more to help others. Giving to ROC the Day is the perfect way to do that.”

ROC the Day is powered by United Way of Greater Rochester with sponsorship support from ESL Federal Credit Union. Additional ROC the Day community partners include Ad Council of Rochester, Association of Fundraising Professionals, Genesee Valley Chapter, City of Rochester, Council of Agency Executives, County of Monroe, The Farash Foundation, Greater Rochester Health Foundation, The Jewish Federation, RocCity Coalition and Rochester Area Community Foundation.

To learn more about ROC the Day, or Children Awaiting Parents, visit http://www.roctheday.org/agency/ChildrenAwaitingParents .

About Children Awaiting Parents:
Children Awaiting Parents, Inc. (CAP) is a national, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization governed by a volunteer board of directors. For 38 years, we have been dedicated to finding adoptive homes for America’s waiting children. CAP’s mission is to recruit foster and adoptive families across the United States for children who have been waiting the longest for a family. Our waiting children are often older, minorities, sibling groups who wish to be placed together, or children with emotional, mental and/or physical disabilities – children who are typically categorized as “special needs” or “hardest to place.”

Media Contact:
Lisa Best
of Children Awaiting Parents, Inc.
+1-888-835-8802.

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Located at http://www.ChildrenAwaitingParents.org/AdoptionMentors.asp it gives everyone the ability to connect one-on-one with people experienced in various aspects of the field of adoption.

For more information about the Adoption Mentors, contact Peggy Soule, at peggysoule@roadrunner.com or 315.536.9710. Peggy is an adoption mentor and one of the founders of Children Awaiting Parents, the organization which helped pioneer the photo listing of children across the country.

About Children Awaiting Parents:
Children Awaiting Parents, Inc. (CAP) is a national, nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization governed by a volunteer board of directors. For 39 years, we have been dedicated to finding adoptive homes for America’s waiting children. CAP’s mission is to recruit foster and adoptive families across the United States for children who have been waiting the longest for a family.

More information: http://www.ChildrenAwaitingParents.org .

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ASE President Christopher Cotton notes: “Dr. Rouke’s extensive systems engineering experience will grow both our team’s capacity and our ability to partner on larger programs. Her recent work in alignment modeling for earth imaging systems and remote sensors is tremendously valuable to some of our current astronomy projects.”

Jennifer Rouke adds, “Joining ASE Optics brings me back into the lab, and will let me bring some of my thesis work in interferometry and optical measurements to bear. Working with this team and with this range of customer projects is an exciting opportunity.”

With outstanding credentials including a PhD in Optics from the University of Rochester, Dr. Rouke adds considerable practical expertise to the ASE optical engineering staff. Her theoretical and experimental experience at the U of R Institute of Optics included work with gradient index (GRIN) materials, fabrication of gradient-index glass, interferometric measurement of index profiles and wavefronts, derivation of birefringent GRIN ray tracing equations, and modeling of fringe patterns.

Dr. Rouke’s recent design projects have included modeling for precision mirror alignment in WorldView-2 and GeoEye-1 earth imaging systems. The addition of her systems engineering and modeling expertise will help ASE Optics to better serve its growing base of astronomy, defense, medical, and high technology customers.

About ASE Optics:
ASE Optics was founded in 1994 to provide optical engineering support for companies who couldn’t find, couldn’t afford, or couldn’t justify having an optical engineer on staff. ASE Optics “sees beyond the lens,” providing elegant optical designs that work within the system, maintaining integrity and seamlessly integrating for optimal system performance. Their optical engineers’ expertise is both deep and broad, crossing industries from security and defense to consumer electronics to medical devices.

Visit www.aseoptics.com to learn more.

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Mark Maio, co-founder of RFQ Resources, explains, “During my years working with channel resellers, I found recurring pricing data needs that no one was meeting. There was tremendous demand for reliable and real-time pricing intelligence, but channel customers didn’t have time to contact every distributor and couldn’t risk revealing their product requirements to all players. RFQ Resources meets those pricing needs easily, affordably, and anonymously.”

RFQ Resources is endorsed by NASBA – The Association of Channel Resellers (www.nasba.com). NASBA Executive Director Frank Raimondi adds, “Today’s buyers have just-in-time requirements in a volatile market, and at the same time, limited visibility to spot market pricing. The process of researching the market can be a very time consuming and bring unwanted exposure. In line with NASBA’s goals of providing empowering services for resellers, RFQ Resources offers an innovative way for Resellers to quickly and anonymously collect spot market pricing from Mainstream Distributors to meet their procurement goals.”

The RFQ Resources process was designed for ease-of-use. Buyers anonymously post their specific requirements while sellers respond with equally specific anonymous bids. A secure site is provided for identity exchange to efficiently facilitate deal closure, while prospective buyers capture real-time street price data regardless of actual purchasing activity.

The current lineup of Distributors includes ASI Computer Technologies, Avnet Embedded, Americas, a division of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), Computech, SED International, and Synnex. Channel Customers pay just $19.98 per month for unlimited access to post RFQs and obtain real-time street pricing for their product requirements. There are no other fees.

About RFQ Resources:

RFQ Resources (www.rfqresources.com) is a Web-based clearinghouse for B2B buyers and sellers of computer components to arbitrate spot-market pricing. It charges only a monthly membership and takes no active or monetary part in any transaction that is consummated.

In addition to its core service of price discovery, RFQ Resources hosts an active Channel Forum (www.channelforum.com).

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ASE President Christopher Cotton notes: “Nearly thirty percent of our business involves high tech SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) projects. These exciting challenges regularly create opportunities for pilot and ongoing production programs, often in complex partner relationships. With Wade’s formal systems engineering background and his outstanding technical expertise, he is a great match for managing customer relationships like these.”

Wade Cook adds, “ASE’s hallmark is bringing diversity of thought to solving optical design challenges in innovative ways. Coming to ASE lets me bring my experience to bear in a broad range of applications, working with a team I know well.”

Cook’s military background and experience meshes closely with the emerging needs of ASE’s customers. Recent project work includes remote sensing, critical to UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) applications.

New photopolymer materials are expanding the possibilities for using holography to create ever-lighter and smaller integrated optical systems. Cook has experience in designing and making holograms for pictorial and metrology applications. ASE can now design, spec and build hologram systems, or deliver finished holograms.

Cook’s expertise in laser vibrometry enhances ASE’s extensive ability in custom metrology solutions. Featured in a recent SBIR as a means of stand-off explosive detection, laser vibrometry uses a laser to measure the frequency at which a surface is vibrating. This non-contact testing is ideal for delicate structures and harsh or dangerous environments.

Cook also brings direct LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) expertise, allowing him to design LIDAR systems for 3D mapping and data analysis. Recent work includes a partnership with RIT and MIT Lincoln Labs to accurately simulate airborne LIDAR.

About ASE Optics:

ASE Optics (ASEOptics.com) was founded in 1994 to provide optical engineering support for companies who couldn’t find, couldn’t afford, or couldn’t justify having an optical engineer on staff. ASE Optics “sees beyond the lens,” providing elegant optical designs that work within the system, maintaining integrity and seamlessly integrating for optimal system performance. Their optical engineers’ expertise is both deep and broad, crossing industries from security and defense to consumer electronics to medical devices.

Visit www.ASEOptics.com to learn more.

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Participants can register now at www.ChildrenAwaitingParents.com and create a custom fundraising page to begin raising money to support the recruitment of adoptive families for children in foster care. The Walk is held at Ontario Beach Park in Rochester and is handicap accessible. If you live in the Rochester, NY area, please join us for the Walk. If you live elsewhere in the United States, plan a virtual Family Walk in your community with your friends and family.

Individual walkers in both youth and adult categories are eligible to win great prizes and join us for a day of family fun and entertainment. This is a fundraising event. All proceeds go to Children Awaiting Parents’ efforts to find every waiting child their forever home.

For more information on the Family Walk or Children Awaiting Parents, please visit www.ChildrenAwaitingParents.com or call (888) 835-8802.

About Children Awaiting Parents:

Children Awaiting Parents, Inc. (CAP) is a national, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization governed by a volunteer board of directors. For 38 years, CAP has been dedicated to finding adoptive homes for America’s waiting children.

CAP’s mission is to recruit foster and adoptive families across the United States for children who have been waiting the longest for a family. Our waiting children are often older, minorities, sibling groups who wish to be placed together, or children with emotional, mental and/or physical disabilities — children who are typically categorized as “special needs” or “hardest to place.”

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In 2009, CAP was also a recipient of Neotrope’s PR Grants program. Neotrope/Send2Press is also promoting CAP to its customers and other partners in order to bring additional resources together to help CAP widen its awareness in the small to medium business space.

“Children Awaiting Parents is thrilled to have the generous support of Neotrope/Send2Press,” stated Mark Soule, Executive Director of Children Awaiting Parents. “Our organization’s communications have benefited from their professionalism and we are grateful for their commitment to our mission.”

“We’ve been honored the past two years in providing promotional services for Children Awaiting Parents, in order to help them raise awareness for their good works,” said Neotrope CEO, Christopher Laird Simmons; a member of PRSA and ASCAP. “It’s my belief that there is nothing more important than nurturing all children in this country, and ensuring they have a place to grow and one day find their own places in the world. All of us need to make sure children without a real home today find someone to nurture them, and no one works harder than CAP at this goal. Hopefully our efforts have, and will, in some small way help more people learn about CAP and their generous programs.”

About Neotrope:

Since 1983 Neotrope has provided affordable targeted news dissemination Direct-to-Editors(TM), professional press release writing, and agency of record services to small and medium businesses, along with services like photography, graphic design, Web development/hosting, and search engine optimization and marketing. The company pioneered the concept of search optimization of press release content back in 1997. All Neotrope/Send2Press staff are accredited public relations (PR) professionals and/or working journalists.

Neotrope is a member of the Better Business Bureau (BBB) and BBBOnLine Program; a member of GS1 (formerly Uniform Code Council) and can generate barcodes; is listed with Bowker for ISBNs; is listed with the RIAA for ISRCs; and was an INC. 5000 company in 2009. Neotrope is a registered trademark in the U.S. and other countries.

Additional information regarding adoption programs for charity/nonprofits can be found at: http://send2press.com/nonprofit.shtml .

About Send2Press:

Celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2010, Send2Press(R) (a service of Neotrope) offers best-in-class affordable news distribution directly to working print and broadcast media, but also online and social media, and deep into search engines using proprietary Neotrope ContextEngine(R) technology. Send2Press is unique because it was the first newswire service with staff entirely comprised of accredited public relations professionals, published authors, working journalists, and marketing experts. Learn more about Send2Press(R) at www.Send2Press.com .

Send2Press will offer a special discount program to any company/organization which chooses to help support CAP, either through direct donations or sponsorship.

About Children Awaiting Parents:

Children Awaiting Parents, Inc. (CAP) is a national, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization governed by a volunteer board of directors. For 38 years, CAP has been dedicated to finding adoptive homes for America’s waiting children.

CAP’s mission is to recruit foster and adoptive families across the United States for children who have been waiting the longest for a family. Our waiting children are often older, minorities, sibling groups who wish to be placed together, or children with emotional, mental and/or physical disabilities — children who are typically categorized as “special needs” or “hardest to place.” To learn more visit www.childrenawaitingparents.com .

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Under Executive Service Order 13360, all Department of Defense acquisitions must set aside a minimum of 3% to prime contractors and 3% to sub-contractors for SDVOSBs, as a way of honoring their service to America. Cochran, Cochran & Yale is one of only a handful in its GSA category. The specific contract award to CCY spans five years and is for retained executive search services to any of these contractors per a negotiated GSA schedule.

Gary Baker, CCY President, notes: “While the application process was very rigorous, we’re delighted with the outcome. This designation and GSA contract not only opens the way for new customers, it helps our current ones. Many of them already do business with the federal government or have their own internal diversity requirements, so our designation as an SDVOSB becomes a valuable extra benefit of working with Cochran, Cochran and Yale.”

David Call, CCY Senior Vice-President adds: “Coincidentally this designation also marks our 31st anniversary of continuous service through boom times and bust. Today, as we see companies and professionals regain the confidence to make new moves, it’s more critical than ever to choose a partner with the commitment to individualize searches for exact needs-a CCY hallmark for thousands of successful matches.”

About Cochran, Cochran and Yale:

For over 30 years, CCY (www.ccy.com) has been delivering sustainable value to their clients through executive search nationwide. Providing top talent for every functional area of the organization-accounting, finance, engineering, HR, marketing, and general management, CCY advances their clients’ business objectives with every search. Their proven process quickly spots talent and delivers consistent results search after search.

The organizations CCY serves are diverse, and include firms within: Technology, Health/Life Sciences, Consumer Goods, Financial Services, Manufacturing, and Professional Services. Our search consultants average 17 years in search and recruiting. To learn more, visit www.ccy.com or call 585-424-6060.

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Developed as an integrated tool to put “stuck” projects back on track fast, the service blends optics expertise, engineering skill and production savvy to:
* Rapidly determine feasibility, difficulty or cost for new designs.
* Better define a problem within a larger program context.
* Troubleshoot a practical solution for a tightly-defined problem.

“In the two years we’ve offered our Discovery Service in-house, it has paid off for our customers many times over,” says Chris Cotton, ASE President. “We’ve been able to break down barriers that can cause costly delays; streamline designs to eliminate steps and rework; and bring better products to market faster.”

Representative projects include:
* Analyze tolerance of an ultra-fast laser system.
* Investigate LED spot-light instrument homogenization techniques.
* Analyze opto-mechanical tolerance for a high-resolution fluorescence imaging lens.
* Analyze laser-based sheet illumination and imaging system for zero-gravity turbulence studies.
* Develop optical specs for a medical fluorescence imaging system.
* Develop low-stress assembly technique for a polarization imaging system.
* Design linear lenslet array for controlled image diffusion.
* Develop sampling techniques for scanning optical metrology systems.
* Develop procedures for a precision optical element alignment station.
* Design IR imaging lens.
* Investigate novel imaging lens systems for horizon imaging.

To take advantage of ASE’s unique Discovery Service visit http://aseoptics.com/aseopticalservices/optical_discoveryservices/ and upload your information, or contact Chris Cotton directly, at 585-303-1574.

About ASE Optics:

ASE Optics was founded in 1994 to provide optical engineering support for companies who couldn’t find, couldn’t afford, or couldn’t justify having an optical engineer on staff. ASE Optics “sees beyond the lens,” providing elegant optical designs that work within the system, maintaining integrity and seamlessly integrating for optimal system performance. Our optical engineers’ expertise is both deep and broad, crossing industries from security and defense to consumer electronics to medical devices.

Visit www.aseoptics.com to learn more.

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