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Richard's Thoughts
March 1st, 2010
April 3, 2010 is the date, 32 days from now we will have the Spring Break Outreach event at 3244 Main in downtown Kansas City. We have many obstacles’ to overcome this month to make the event a success. Naturally funding is a big concern, and we are in desperate need of funding at the present time. Let me give you an idea of where the money goes?
Tables, Chares, Clothing racks, Grills, Coffee Pots 1400 Portal Potties 400 Trash Compactor 200 Over flow Circus Tent 1200 Police Officers for Security 450 Transportation to and from the event for the poor and homeless 400
Total 4,050
Tack on another $3000 for goods we have to purchase, like food and trash bags and some hygiene materials etc... Well it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure it out. I know that everyone is tapped out right now, with the Haiti problems and now today I hear about another earthquake and my heart goes out to these other country’s, but at the same time I’m trying to focus my attention on those hurting right here in my community. We are a tax deducible 501c3 so your donations are deductible and we can use every dollar you can spare,. We try to get a lot of this material donated but the truth is although we get a discount on some of the items no one has just donated the equipment it takes to do the event in the 20 years we have been doing the event.
The majority of the funding we have received over the years has been from the religious sector of our community, and the general public. We get no government grant money and no one on the staff of care of poor people gets paid a dime for the work they do. Everybody including myself is a non paid volunteer. I would like to ask those reading this blog to take several action steps for us this month to help us with this spring break event.
1. If you can make a financial gift please do, no matter the size, every dollar counts
2. Please download the flyers off our site and post them at your work, religious institutions, and clubs and hand them out.
3. Go online and help us by spreading the word on the social networks and the online blogs events notices.
4. If you have a band talk to other bands and see if you all could get together and do a fund raising event for us
I know if my community comes together like in the past 20 years we will make it work
Richard
February , 24th, 2010 Our next event is Spring Break 2010. We need alot of help to make this event happen on April 3rd, 2010. The event is being held at 3244 Main Street, in downtown Kansas City MO Please Visit our Volunteer Page to see how you can help. A special thanks goes to Rick Kappa, owner of ABC Storage, for allowing us to use this facility
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