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RandomKid (www.randomkid.org) is currently an all volunteer 501C3 non-profit organization with the mission to take the goodness of the child and turn it into goodness for the world, by helping kids help others. Founded by 12-year-old Talia Leman (me) in 2005 after uniting kids across the U.S. to report more than $10 million for Hurricane Katrina/Rita relief, RandomKid now works to educate, mobilize and empower youth to meaningfully and directly impact a broad spectrum of local, national and global needs. For more information on the positive impact children have made on the world through RandomKid, please visit www.randomkid.org/impact.asp. Kids register their philanthropic goals on our website, and through active mentoring, we help them:
- Develop highly effective ideas and plans
- Inspire and mobilize community support
- Design, manufacture and sell their own products, original art works and music to support their causes (when requested)
- Utilize our non-profit support services like media and public relations, web construction, telephone conferencing, event planning, product development and fulfillment, 501C3 umbrella coverage, and financial administration
- Hone the necessary skills to successfully complete future philanthropic desires independently of RandomKid
Our current kid-developed projects include:
- A national fundraiser for kids with cancer involving a novelty mailer
- A national fundraiser, through the sale of a kid-designed product, to rebuild the gulf (involving potentially all 50 governors).
- A national fundraiser to supply water to Africa, also involving the sale of a SUPER DUPER COOL product
- An international fundraiser to build a school in rural Cambodia (RandomKid's mini-UN)
- A national collection effort for DVDs to give to US troops overseas
- A fundraiser involving 175 malls across America to benefit Habitat for Humanity
- An adoption campaign for the Animal Rescue League
- A website for gifting people in need
Each of these projects are AMAZING, and if you want to learn more and get involved, email me through our randomkid website: www.randomkid.org. Or we can help you take your ideas OVER THE TOP!READ BELOW AND FIND OUT WHICH OF THESE PROJECTS BENEFITED FROM OUR GAMESTOP GRANT!
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Vital Stats
| Started On: | NOW | Ended On: | Fall 07, Winter 08 |
| People Involved: | 500 | People Impacted: | 300 |
| Money Raised: | $13,500 |
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Related Cause: EducationCategory: Global Impact
Tags: peer mentoring Plum 2007
Project Updates:
We applied our generous GAME STOP grant to a school we are building in Cambodia with a team of 70 kids from every U.S. state and 20 different countries. We raised $13,500, and now we are breaking ground on a school for 300 kids. We are naming our school, “FOR EACH OTHER”—a school built by kids, for kids. Everything came together beautifully with this project. Going forward I have new ideas. I would like to have this group also work as a network, so that if you need support, ideas, or assistance, you can rely on this group to give you international perspective. Right now we learn from each other about the world and fundraise. I would like to be more than that to each other. When we raised our funds, we inspired hundreds to join us, and we will be changing the course of the lives of more that 300 children in Cambodia. By the way, 100% of the GAME STOP grant went to providing textbooks for the students, and shelves to house them in.
