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This project is designed to enhance the reading, writing, vocabulary, and math skills for children from grade level K-8 in the community of Fort Valley, GA.

This is a program that will be held every summer for two weeks.

The program will be supervised by 3 certified school teachers from the local elementary and middle school. All with at least 10 years experience. Also local college students will be volunteering.

The program will start at 9:00am and will end at 12:00pm

There will be a lesson plan provided for each grade level and for each subject being taught.

Lunch sack will be provided daily.

Transportation will be provided daily.

At the end of the program there will be a trip planned for all students who attend and the trip will be supervised by all members of the staff. The trip will be in relations to education as well as a mini vacation: History, science, Starcadia, etc.

Certificates will be administered following completion of the program.

The program will consist of a maximum of 80 students and a minimum of 12 volunteers.

Additional funds for this program will come from donations and several fundraisers.

Expenses include: Several school supplies, books, a small copier, arts and craft for visual learning, food, drinks, and the trip that will be decided later.

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Help kids with their writing, creativity and English skills.

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Capitol Letters Writing Center believes that within every student lives a brilliant writer. We support and challenge those writers through workshops, tutoring, and student publications that complement the classroom goals of educators in a safe and creative environment. We strongly believe that one-on-one attention and strong writing skills are fundamental components to ensuring future success. All of our free, challenging and enjoyable programming is geared toward strengthening the ability of each student to express ideas effectively, creatively, and confidently in his or her own voice. Please visit our website at www.capitolletters.org

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I am beginning a project. The project name is not set as of now, and probably won't be until it is finally complete. I have lived and visited many areas with an outrageous homeless population that is hated, ignored, and looked down on. I would like to start this project by getting a nice recorder (continuous recording, battery life, and direct computer upload) and recording life stories from homeless men, women, and children around the United States. I would like to be able to offer them some money but I really do not have the resources myself. I was thinking about $10 to each person who contributes. I'd like to get between 40 or 50 life stories to use at least. Then I would like to write them all down and have them published as a book called "Just Like You" or something similar. I don't think many people realize that all homeless aren't that way because of drug or alcohol abuse, and I'm hoping this book will educate the public, and create a more loving and accepting community. I got this idea when I befriended a homeless man in Waco, Texas who was living in a creek bed. He had no paperwork, so I helped him to attain a birth certificate from his home town in Indiana. He was a kind man whose mother had died when he was young and left him nothing. He taught me a lot and I still see him very often, but not on the streets! I go to a university and I am hoping to have them publish this book once I have completed it, but I'm taking first things first. Any grant money would only be used to pay participants and obtain a recorder. Thank you so much for taking the time to learn about my project.

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Help launch www.TeenAmbition.org, the online magazine for people who have dreams, goals, and a desire to make a difference. TeenAmbition provides a forum for young writers, business owners, and community leaders to share their stories.

This project was started to help young adults improve their financial literacy. Anyone can learn about money, business, and the economy. These topics impact everyone’s lives, yet few people take the time to understand them. A fundamental knowledge of these issues can make it much easier to succeed in almost any venture.

With your help TeenAmbition can become a major success.

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The Diet Newsletter is a once monthly publication, where submissions are always welcome! Visit us at www.gallerydiet.com and click the pill on the left that says "Newsletter." If you're interested and think you can contribute a piece to any of the five sections, email us at Though we're based in Miami we love hearing about the arts all over the country!

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Writer's Workshop is a mentoring program that fosters a reading and writing interest in elementary and middle school students through lessons beyond the average classroom. We aim to create a network of passionate high school mentors dedicated to making a difference in their community by promoting a writing interest in students. We are primarily involved in changing and improving students’ attitude and vision of writing by help younger students develop their style by exploring the various writing genres and eventually helping them form their own.

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To see is to understand, to understand is to think, to think is to express, and to express is to grow. Our children aren't growing. They aren't being taught to think. What they take in at school has no apparent relationship to their reality. Knowledge, information, and even wisdom can be found everywhere. But, our kids must be taught to see it. They need to be able to see that they can learn, create, and that the learning process can be fun.
Read Write Action! is a program designed to use multimedia to teach students to think by turning their personal stories and experiences into written and visual media. Students will be given the opportunity to write, make short movies, and to produce radio commentaries, about the material they are learning in school and in their lives.
Two critical problems make it urgently necessary for programs like Read Write Action!: first , primarily due to Hurricane Katrina, there are no known youth programs in this community. In the city of New Orleans churches and schools were the main providers of after school and summer programs. Of the 126 public schools in New Orleans only eight were operational in August of 2006. Secondly, as life returns to New Orleans, so does crime. New Orleans is no stranger to crime. However, those who are committing the crime are getting younger and younger.It is my goal to encourage kids to shoot movies and not guns.