Turning Point Youth Collective is a non-profit youth organization in Daytona Beach, Florida. Our mission: To provide the Daytona Beach area with resources and space for producing all-ages music events and creating music related cultural products; empowering youth through alternative leadership development opportunities including a youth-directed model encouraging leadership through open governance practices and erasing the line between the people serving and being served; to actively improve the social well-being of Daytona Beach area youth through civic engagement. We have been in our planning stages since Jan 2006 and faced some difficulty in remaining after the original organizer moved out of state to continue his college career at Amherst in Boston, MA. Around that same time a new organizer picked up where he left off and January 2008 saw an active start to the collective. Focusing on all-ages music events, youth empowerment, and civic engagement, Turning Point Youth Collective has already gained wide support from youth, community members in the arts, civic leaders, other local non-profit and grass-root organizations, and businesses alike. Our first large scale event to introduce ourselves to the community will be Saturday June 7, 2008. "Endless Summer Fest" is an all day, all-ages, all local, free, community and arts event, organized largely in part for and by youth ages 16-25--the first of its kind in the area! There are 20 confirmed music acts, 10 artists, and a number of skill shares, including a pottery wheel demonstration, and sewing workshop. The opportunity to not only give back in such a fun and positive way to our community and its youth, but also to provide future leadership and creative opportunities for the youth in this area, combined with a love for the arts is the driving force behind our organization.

A Baker's Dozen Guide to Putting on your Own All-Ages Music Festival! 1. come up with an idea for an event to introduce our collective to the community with a goal to reach a broad audience- include and open the city and businesses and adults up to the idea without disengagin the youth the festival is targeted towards, or disenfranchising anyone for that matter. 2. Endless Summer Fest- LOCAL music and art fest featuring contemporary music and young artists-including youth in every aspect of organizing, running, and particpating in the event. 3. Recruit local musicians and youth artists to participate create myspace account, flyer on local webzine, an partner with local businesses to flyer in stores (get contact info including phone + email from all interested) 4. File permit with the city 5. Find a larger organization to add our event to their existing liability insurance plan in order to fulfill requirement from Risk Management Division of City. 6. Hire an experienced youth to manage sound operations for event 7. Make Schedule of Events for the day including band schedule 7. Contact all particpants of event to reconfirm and send schedule for any conflicts and request a list of needed materials. 8. Readjust schedule for any confilcts and create an items needed list as well as calculate straight monetary need for operating costs 9. Create site plan 10. Sound engineer now oversees major communications with musicians 11. Follow up with local businesses and organizations/individuals to acquire all neccessary items and fees 12. Create a volunteer team and separate committees for the day of the event to set up, stay and help, and tear down. 13. PROMOTE PROMOTE PROMOTE!!!! media releases, radio, newspaper, fliers, websites, etc.