Put a Smile on!

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Jeffrey H

Hyndman, PA

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The Problem

With the “Put a Smile On!” project we plan to serve many communities. We plan to serve Cumberland, Maryland by visiting Lion’s Manor, Sacred Heart Hospital, The Allegheny County Nursing Home and Memorial Hospital. We will serve the Meyersdale and Hyndman Areas by walking in parades, going to the Maple Festival, walking around the town, going to sporting events and visiting restaurants. In 3 years we will be traveling to children’s hospitals around the United States to distract the kids away from the hospital atmosphere. With this project we will put an end to loneliness. 1.5 Percent of Americans commit suicide because they think that people do not care about them but with “Put a Smile On!” those people will realize that someone does care about them. This will NOT be one of those projects that go on for a few months and then never happen again because I will personally see that “Put a Smile On!” will be at an event AT LEAST once a month but probably we will go out a couple of times a week! This will be a great project that will reduce stress and hardships in our area and will also show people that someone cares and that all they need to do is Put a Smile On!

Plan of Action

The “Put a Smile On” Project is talked about through the community as being “a wonderful idea” and my friends have said that they will help me but we need money! The first step that we will take in building our project is to become a non-profit organization. If we became a non-profit organization then we could receive a lot of money. We have looked on many corporate websites for funding for our project but all of them require you to be a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization but the expenses for a lawyer to do the paperwork and for the fee to get the paperwork looked at by a government official costs a lot of money. As soon as we become a non-profit organization then we could receive a lot of funding through these major corporations! After we become a non-profit organization then we will buy some of the costumes and buy some of the gift packages and go around the local area then we will buy more costumes and more gifts and go travel around the country to Children’s hospitals. When we are done visiting the children’s hospitals school will be starting back up and in our spare time we will go to parades, sporting events and walk around town greeting everyone we see and then when summer comes we start hitting the children’s hospitals again because there will be new kids to entertain. We will keep buying more costumes and more gifts and maybe even start having shows to raise money for the children’s hospitals!

Project Updates

Starting on April 26th, 2008 we will be going to local hospitals, nursing homes, senior citizens centers, The Pittsburgh Children's Hospital and other places to put on plays, skits, talent shows and more to make our audience laugh and enjoy life! During some shows we will share a bible story with the people and we will give away stuff. We look forward to putting on costumes just to put a smile on the people that we are trying to entertain and we hope that you will join us to entertain someone who needs a smile in their day!

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