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Community Relations!! Follow Me On Twitter And Delicious: @Cote_Tony [|delicious.com/chipclip12345]

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media type="custom" key="11511194" width="220" height="220" align="center" How Community Relations Is Taken Advantage Of! Many people don't know what a community organizer is or if it is even a job. ([|click here to view blog on this subject]) Some people will actually steal from organizations for sick children, starving children, lost children, etc... [|READ THIS NEWSPAPER ARTICLE FOR AN EXAMPLE] I personally don't understand why someone would steal from children and needy families. Fortunately, though, families are very touched when a helpful hand reaches out to them. [|This Blog shows how much a helpful hand can touch a family.]

Philanthropy

Over half of grants go to health research. More than 90 percent of all deaths and suffering from infectious diseases occurs in the developing world. Sub-Saharan Africa alone accounts for more than one-third of this shortage.

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MORE ON WHAT I HAVE PERSONALLY DONE!!

THE PROCESS My mom and grandma will pick me up from school and we will pick an area (somewhere in the Greater Bangor Area) and we’ll drive there. When we get to the selected area it starts with the very first business on the very first road. I’ll go in, ask for the manager or owner, and explain what Make A Wish has done for me, ending the conversation with ‘Would you or your business be interested in helping another child’s wish come true?’ I then either take the yes or the no and walk out with my head held high. We then move to the next business and start by asking for the manager or owner and do it twice a week for 2-4 hours per day. Sometimes I walk out with no money, $5, or even $200. Sometimes businesses want to do something with their employees which is great.

WHEN DO I DO IT?  Make A Wish, non-profit organization that grants wishes to children with life-threatening or chronic illnesses, holds a Walk For Wishes each year in Bangor during the month of May. I’ll start going around to businesses sometime in March and won’t stop until the day before, usually around the twentieth.

HOW MUCH DO I RAISE PER YEAR?

Each year I pull in somewhere between $9,000 and $12,000 depending on the year and what I have going on that year. So if you figure I average about $50 per business thats between 180 and 240 businesses that donate to me annually.

Long Term Goals! After High School and college I want to take over for a guy, named Jim Christie, at the Make A Wish Foundation of Maine. His job there is coordinating the charitable events for the Maine branch. Once I have enough money put aside and talk to lawyers and contractors I want to open a local organization that helps fund families who medically need to renovate their home. Whether that reason be allergies, wheelchair accessibility or whatever else the situation calls for. The problem with many families is they rent homes instead of owning them which restricts the family from being able to renovate so as part of what this organization will do is loan the family money for a down payment on a home BUT if for whatever the reason be the family moves or has to move the sum of what the organization lent them would have to be paid back in full in order to prevent a family from thinking Hey! We got a great home now we can sell it and get the extra value the renovation pumped the home up to! This organization will be named Pay It Forward.

Newspaper Articles Done On What I Have Done!

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