See It: The Community being helped

I am 15 and starting to plan a sporting complex with my Mom and Dad and I have talked to my Mayor amung others. I live in a high violence urban area and we don't have many options for recreation and because of this many teens revert to gangs and violence on the streets. We need this indoor sports complex to give us some place to have fun with our family and friends whether atheletes or not. It also provides fun job opportunities rather than bagging groceries or something to that nature which may not be a fit for everyone. We also plan to put solar panels on this facility and there is an electric company next door to where we plan to put the facility so we conserve energy and cut down on pollutants.

In this facility there will be 3 soccer fields, a miniature golf course, batting cages, a restaurant, an arcade, and a nice atmosphere that will keep the kids off the streets and bring families together. There are 1500 participants in the Brockton Youth Soccer Assocication and many leagues of baseball in Brockton as well as 100,000 people. In speaking about this so many are excited and on board with this idea but we really need a start-up fund. Five hundred dollars would be great for putting our idea on websites for investors becasue we know everyone will support this we just need to get the idea out there. We are writing a business plan right now and are researching for potential investors. Our community really needs this to happen and this would be a great start.

See It: The Community being helped

The organization I am passionately dedicated to is Mobilize.org. Mobilize.org is an all-partisan network dedicated to educating, empowering, and energizing young people to increase our civic engagement and political participation. We operate through Mobilizer Teams who serve as our ground troops in the war against political apathy. These teams bring together local activists and leaders to help pave the highway to youth empowerment. One of the projects that I have worked on through my involvement with Mobilize.org is the Caesar Chavez 10th Grade Community Action Project. The Caesar Chavez 10th Grade Public Policy Project allows students the opportunity to make social change and influence public policy through an eight-week hands-on mentorship with alocal nonprofit organization. The program fosters creativity, leadership, and responsibility as students design, prepare and complete their own issue-influencing project. Through Mobilize.org and with the assistance of Do Something, students can continue to construct worthwhile community building projects similar to this years’ anti-gang, anti-violence interactive assembly that the students presented to their peers. Mobilize.org works hand-in-hand with the Caesar Chavez Public Policy High School to develop and complete this influential public-policy project that I am most passionately dedicated to continuing.