09/22/2013
September 5, 2013
Dear Veterans & Friends:
Re: WP100 Hosting Their Monthly Fundraiser at Tequila Cowboy for TCCI, Tuesday, 9/24/2013 from 530pm to 8pm, 550 South Rosemary Avenue in City Place, Downtown West Palm Beach, FL 33401
We are once again happy to be working with your organization... this month's Happy Hour for a Cause will benefit the Children's Coalition. It will take place Tuesday September 24th at Tequila Cowboy in City Place from 6-8 pm. A donation of $10 for WP100 members and $15 for non-members will be collected at the door and Children's Coalition will receive the proceeds
Please inform your board and direct everyone to our website www.westpalm100.org to RSVP.
Thank you for your support and let me know if you have any other questions.
Katherine Kress
Executive Director
West Palm 100
www.westpalm100.org
Our organization, TCCI (The Children's Coalition, Incorporated), has been collecting veterans’ accounts of their military service since 2005 through our adoption of the Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. This project has proven to be a pathway to not only honor our veterans but it has proven to be a conduit that leads to healing them by giving our vets an avenue to express themselves regarding their military experience. Many of them share memories about some very brutal moments in their lives while serving to protect our country. We have involved many teens in this project since its inception regarding the role we have taken.
We are asking you to attend the WestPalm100 event and keep helping us to make a difference in the lives of veterans and their families.
We have determined that the cost for each interview is $330.00. This cost includes man-hours involving searching out and screening veterans for the interview, paperwork or intake, Audio/Visual log, travel time to and from locations, including residential facilities at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, near the Riviera Beach and West Palm Beach border line, to veterans homes in many cases. Additionally, there are unforeseen costs including equipment repair and upkeep, setup, digital HD shooting, download and burning to disc each interview which subsequently leads to shipping to the destination in Washington DC where the interviews are maintained for posterity at the LOC. A copy is also given to each veteran and their family.
We have 122 interviews listed at the link provided to us by the Library of Congress in Washington DC. You can view the list at the following web site:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/search?query=The+childrens+coalition&field=affiliation
Please visit our web site at and share our contact info with veterans and their families so we can reach more candidates for interviews:
http://tccipbc.org/Veterans_History_Project.html
2012 – 2013 Activities for the Veterans History Project
No. of Youth Total Individuals
Cultural Event/Activity Served (if any) Served
19 495 564
From October 2013 to the present we completed (15 Students participated) Interviews with Veterans who served our country honorably. 54 have been completed. The locations where they were completed varied as follows:
TCCI Home office (Palm Beach County)
American Legion in North Miami (Dade County)
Veteran's Homes (Palm Beach County)
Veterans Affairs Medical Center (Palm Beach County). However, we discovered the VAMC services veterans from the (7) seven surrounding counties including Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie, Indian River, Okeechobee, Highland, Glades and Hendry.
Due to school and work schedules, we were only enabled to work with 15 students to teach the actual multimedia curriculum. We recruited students from Palm State College, Palm Beach Lakes HS, and Conniston Middle. We presented the project to a total of 495 students, alongside their JROTC Palm Beach County School Board Teachers at Lake Worth High School, Atlantic High School, William T. Dwyer High School and Boca Raton High School. This brings the total served (audience, interviewees, youth interviewers participation) to 564 individuals for this fiscal year.
MISSION STATEMENT: Serve and save the community using the tools of Arts and Technology. FOCUS: The focus of The Children's Coalition Inc. is to create an immediate and long-term positive impact in the lives of at-risk youth & U.S. Veterans and their families by providing a platform for interaction and hands-on education in media arts and technology. VISION STATEMENT: The promise of The Children's Coalition Inc. is to cultivate children to interface/interact with U.S. Veterans and their families, become self-reliant and contributing members within their community by developing skills, opening doors, and providing economic opportunities.
Sincerely,
Carlton G. Cartwright
CEO & Founder
