Note: A Fillet Mignon Love Story will be available for viewing again after my project is finished. For those who haven't read this earlier, it had to be removed due to having an important link to it not going where it should due to blog being temporarily set to private.
A lot has been going on that has distracted me from getting my project done. Hopefully, it will be finished within a week's time--and the sooner the better.
In the meantime, I would like for you to start thinking about what you might be doing in August.
Also, please sign at least one of the following petitions to make Youth Outreach Day a recognized event taking place the second Saturday of every October. . .
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/enact-youth-outreach-day
http://homelessness.change.org/actions/view/enact_youth_outreach_day
http://petitions.tigweb.org/enactyouthoutreachday
Thanks for taking the time to read this, and I hope that you're having a great weekend!
Showing posts with label Hartsaw. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hartsaw. Show all posts
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Monday, May 31, 2010
Who Am I?
Ainsley Jo Phillips from Anderson, Indiana USA
I've been with IYN even before its beginning, having first met Russell on January 15, 2007 at a discussion site called Duno. Therefore, I've watched it grow from a field of dreams to where it is today--and it's still getting better and better!!!
When I was in better health (though my health was starting to deteriorate even at that time so that doing this was a challenge), I could be seen on a regular basis at places like Dollar General and Family Dollar buying various items to be put into flat-rate, shirt-box-size mailing boxes to be sent to Russell for distribution to at least some of the near-4000 young people who are living outside in San Diego. When I went there, to the post office, and to other places as well, I would pass out information sheets about IYN.
Near the end of May 24, 2009, I was taken to ER and was admitted to a room very early on May 25. Diagnosis was lymphedema with a three-bug MRSA infection going on. I was there for a little over a week with follow-up care given (initially) at home and (later) at the clinic.
This is an incurable-but-manageable condition, and I've made a considerable amount of progress in managing it. However--as I'm still in the stage where I'm only wearing bandages instead of shoes--I'm not going in and out of stores these days, though I hope to be before the year is over.
However, I still manage to stay active in IYN as best as I can. One way is to make a regular (pre-programmed) monthly donation. I also still share information with people both online and in real life. This is done in a number of ways with two of those being my chapter website and my IYN-themed blog. Their names are listed below as clickable links...
I've been with IYN even before its beginning, having first met Russell on January 15, 2007 at a discussion site called Duno. Therefore, I've watched it grow from a field of dreams to where it is today--and it's still getting better and better!!!
When I was in better health (though my health was starting to deteriorate even at that time so that doing this was a challenge), I could be seen on a regular basis at places like Dollar General and Family Dollar buying various items to be put into flat-rate, shirt-box-size mailing boxes to be sent to Russell for distribution to at least some of the near-4000 young people who are living outside in San Diego. When I went there, to the post office, and to other places as well, I would pass out information sheets about IYN.
Near the end of May 24, 2009, I was taken to ER and was admitted to a room very early on May 25. Diagnosis was lymphedema with a three-bug MRSA infection going on. I was there for a little over a week with follow-up care given (initially) at home and (later) at the clinic.
This is an incurable-but-manageable condition, and I've made a considerable amount of progress in managing it. However--as I'm still in the stage where I'm only wearing bandages instead of shoes--I'm not going in and out of stores these days, though I hope to be before the year is over.
However, I still manage to stay active in IYN as best as I can. One way is to make a regular (pre-programmed) monthly donation. I also still share information with people both online and in real life. This is done in a number of ways with two of those being my chapter website and my IYN-themed blog. Their names are listed below as clickable links...
Sugar Fork Creek Chapter of Madison County
My Helping Hand Journal
My Helping Hand Journal
I hope that my words here will get across that there's something that nearly everybody can do when it comes to helping with our mission, so I'd like to encourage anybody who happens to read this message to check out our various websites and other examples of online presence and think of one or more ways that you might like to participate in our mission. A countless number of young people in many parts of the third rock from the sun are counting on you!!!
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Message From Tj Harris. . .
Tj is part of IYN's Online Management Team. On top of that, he's also our Advisor & Cousultant. He leads a busy life even beyond IYN activities but still manages to do an excellent job of making sure that things are running smoothly along with getting the word out about us.
He has written something at Care2 about how to do searches and make purchases using igive, and I have copied what he wrote into my notebook.
The advertisement for the book you see with it in my notebook has nothing to do with his announcement except for the fact that it's a book that Russell recommends to be read. If you buy this particular book by clicking on the button, it will also personally help me out. However, I'd like to see you do at least some of your shopping and searching using the igive/isearch links and banner that goes with this entry.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
I'm Passing On Message I Received From Russell. . .
This is the new IYN advertisement that I have been posting in several San Diego, California classifieds, we have received several responses of people planning to attend.
I just renewed all of these ads today.
This upcoming meeting should go well and give IYN a solid infrastructure in San Diego.
The advertisements will continue and the orientation meetings will continue every month.
In the very near future I will be targeting high schools and colleges.
Just to keep you updated from my end.
Russell
The average age of these kids has been determined to be between the ages of nine and fifteen. Each of these kids have their own story of why they are homeless among those stories are throwaway children by parents who could no longer afford them, mental, physical and sexual abuse at home or school.
The kids that are able to survive street life have their own way of surviving chief among them is selling their bodies to survive both female and male, theft and everything thrown in between. Many of these kids do not have a clean set of clothes, no personal hygiene items, no way to shower and go without food for days.
They sleep with the elements, rain, snow, cold, hot, four legged predators and needless to say two legged predators as well. How am I sure of this at the age of nine when my parents deserted me I was one of these kids.
One thing that you can count on with these kids they spend a great deal of time being afraid, scared, lonely and crying.
How can we not be there for these kids in every possible way?
If you are a San Diego, California resident.
The Invisible Youth Network does a monthly orientation for all new volunteer applications where your questions will be answered and you will have a wide choice of available volunteer opportunities.
The orientation for May 2010 is scheduled for Friday, May 14, 2010 between the hours of 5:00 - 7:00 PM on the outside dining area of Beach City Market which is located on the street level facing First Avenue at Horton Plaza in downtown San Diego, California this will include three hours of validated parking in the Horton Plaza Garage.
If you would like to attend this orientation please confirm by return e-mail.
High School Students and College Students are encouraged to participate.
For an overview of the Invisible Youth Network please visit our website at:
Invisible Youth Network Website
http://www.orgsites.com/ca/iyn/
Please help us make a difference in these kids lives!
--
Russell T. Hartsaw
Founder & Chairman
Invisible Youth Network
National Website:
http://invisibleyouthnetwork.net/default.aspx
San Diego, California Headquarters Website:
http://www.orgsites.com/ca/iyn
Youth Resource Center
http://www.orgsites.com/ca/invisibleyouth/index.html
Thursday, April 8, 2010
This Is NOT The Time For Procrastination!!!
Sometimes, I think that the word, procrastination, was coined with me in mind.
However, I DO have an excuse for procrastinating: I have so many things going on that they all have to take a number and wait. This means that some things get done promptly, while other things get done not quite so promptly--or not promptly at all. When certain things get done later than sooner, I'm seen by others (and even myself) as procrastinating.
What I'm talking about in this blog-entry is one of those things where there should be no procrastination if at all possible and, if not, as little as possible.
I want to tell you about what it's like living in my skin at this particular moment. It's the skin of a person living with lymphedema--and during one of those not-so-good times that I'm dealing with surface wounds from blistering. In order for these wounds to close before they become deep and infected, I'm having to spend more time in bed than on the computer at this time.
However, I believe that this is something that must be shared here before I can even think of getting back into bed.
In other words I mustn't procrastinate when it comes to sharing this very important message!!!
As I've just said, I know what it's like to live in the skin of somebody who deals with that chronic condition known as lymphedema--or, at least, I know what it's like for me. However, I don't know what it's like to live in the skin of a child-abuser. However, there seems to be plenty of people who have or do live in these skins. I'm also blessed to have never lived within the skin of an abused child--except for on three occasions that I can think of, and none of the abuse came from family members.
Here are those three times:
(1) Hit hard on the top of the head by one teacher when I was four years old.
(2) Hit hard on the top of the head by another teacher when I was nine or ten years old.
(3) Forced (by two teachers) to participate in that dreadful game known as Red Rover.
A little later down the page, I'm going to share a video--and let me warn you that most of the pictures are pretty graphic. They would make my three personal cases of child-abuse look pretty petty in comparison.
However, let me state here that my three cases of child-abuse were neither petty nor trivial.
No child should think "I was only tasered by a cop when I was throwing a tantrum, but it could have been worse, so I have no right to complain."
No child-abuse should be trivialized. No child should be told to suck it up.
Some people think that the solution to stop child-abuse is stiffer prison sentences. There are even some of the "some people" who would like to see the death penalty (which I personally oppose 100% of the time) be a possibility.
While I think that there are people who have gone so far downhill that they need to be restrained in order to keep the rest of society safe, I don't really think in terms of punishment for the sake of punishment--that is, to separate the "good" people from the "bad" people. I'm more interested in making bad behavior stop than I am in the punishment mindset.
Although there will, likely, always be a need to keep some people separated from mainstream society, I think our prisons are far too full of people who have been sent there when problems would have better been solved by resources that didn't involve incarceration.
First, however, we have got to encourage people to take advantage of those resources when they need to.
Here is a favorite resource of mine: Parents Anonymous
Parents who join a local group of this organization get the kind of help they need when it comes to coping with parenthood.
Sounds like a great deal--so, why aren't more child-abusers showing up to take advantage of this?
Simple!
They aren't ready to see themselves as failures when it comes to parenting--and they shouldn't have to!
If they were to go to Parents Anonymous meetings, they wouldn't find a bunch of failures there. Nobody in that organization is interested in finger-pointing, and they don't see these parents as failures or "bad" people.
Most parents don't want to be "bad" people or failures. None of us (parents or not) want to be bad people or failures.
The parents who don't take advantage of organizations like Parents Anonymous when they either feel as if they're about to lose it or else already have are the ones who don't want to have to face the facts that they are bad and/or failures (their own perception of themselves helped along by our judgmental society), so they think, I'll do better next time. However, they end up doing worse, and, now, they're really ashamed.
Instead, they need to think: I'm having these feelings, but that doesn't make me a bad person or a failure. However, I need to get help in coping before I do something to my kids that I'll really be sorry for.
If people would just understand that good people can do bad things, if they don't have the resources to help them through bad patches, they would be more willing to get professional help, and everybody would end up better for it.
April is Child-Abuse Awareness Month. However, we should be aware of this issue and doing what we can to make it stop 24/7 and 365.
If you're having trouble coping, please don't be hesitant to get help.
If you notice that a friend or family member is having trouble coping, do what you can to lighten their load, and show them this page.
When encouraging another person to seek help, talk to them as an equal instead of placing yourself high above them and looking down on them.
You might not have "been there" yourself, but imagine what it would be like to be so overwhelmed that you're ready to take it out on anything that's handy from the cat to the crying baby. If you were to find yourself feeling that way, how would you feel? Likely, that's how the person who's actually feeling that way is feeling.
If we were quicker to extend hands than to point fingers, I believe a lot of child-abuse would never ever get around to happening--and, when it comes to child-abuse, that's an act we should procrastinate on indefinitely!
However, I DO have an excuse for procrastinating: I have so many things going on that they all have to take a number and wait. This means that some things get done promptly, while other things get done not quite so promptly--or not promptly at all. When certain things get done later than sooner, I'm seen by others (and even myself) as procrastinating.
What I'm talking about in this blog-entry is one of those things where there should be no procrastination if at all possible and, if not, as little as possible.
I want to tell you about what it's like living in my skin at this particular moment. It's the skin of a person living with lymphedema--and during one of those not-so-good times that I'm dealing with surface wounds from blistering. In order for these wounds to close before they become deep and infected, I'm having to spend more time in bed than on the computer at this time.
However, I believe that this is something that must be shared here before I can even think of getting back into bed.
In other words I mustn't procrastinate when it comes to sharing this very important message!!!
As I've just said, I know what it's like to live in the skin of somebody who deals with that chronic condition known as lymphedema--or, at least, I know what it's like for me. However, I don't know what it's like to live in the skin of a child-abuser. However, there seems to be plenty of people who have or do live in these skins. I'm also blessed to have never lived within the skin of an abused child--except for on three occasions that I can think of, and none of the abuse came from family members.
Here are those three times:
(1) Hit hard on the top of the head by one teacher when I was four years old.
(2) Hit hard on the top of the head by another teacher when I was nine or ten years old.
(3) Forced (by two teachers) to participate in that dreadful game known as Red Rover.
A little later down the page, I'm going to share a video--and let me warn you that most of the pictures are pretty graphic. They would make my three personal cases of child-abuse look pretty petty in comparison.
However, let me state here that my three cases of child-abuse were neither petty nor trivial.
No child should think "I was only tasered by a cop when I was throwing a tantrum, but it could have been worse, so I have no right to complain."
No child-abuse should be trivialized. No child should be told to suck it up.
Some people think that the solution to stop child-abuse is stiffer prison sentences. There are even some of the "some people" who would like to see the death penalty (which I personally oppose 100% of the time) be a possibility.
While I think that there are people who have gone so far downhill that they need to be restrained in order to keep the rest of society safe, I don't really think in terms of punishment for the sake of punishment--that is, to separate the "good" people from the "bad" people. I'm more interested in making bad behavior stop than I am in the punishment mindset.
Although there will, likely, always be a need to keep some people separated from mainstream society, I think our prisons are far too full of people who have been sent there when problems would have better been solved by resources that didn't involve incarceration.
First, however, we have got to encourage people to take advantage of those resources when they need to.
Here is a favorite resource of mine: Parents Anonymous
Parents who join a local group of this organization get the kind of help they need when it comes to coping with parenthood.
Sounds like a great deal--so, why aren't more child-abusers showing up to take advantage of this?
Simple!
They aren't ready to see themselves as failures when it comes to parenting--and they shouldn't have to!
If they were to go to Parents Anonymous meetings, they wouldn't find a bunch of failures there. Nobody in that organization is interested in finger-pointing, and they don't see these parents as failures or "bad" people.
Most parents don't want to be "bad" people or failures. None of us (parents or not) want to be bad people or failures.
The parents who don't take advantage of organizations like Parents Anonymous when they either feel as if they're about to lose it or else already have are the ones who don't want to have to face the facts that they are bad and/or failures (their own perception of themselves helped along by our judgmental society), so they think, I'll do better next time. However, they end up doing worse, and, now, they're really ashamed.
Instead, they need to think: I'm having these feelings, but that doesn't make me a bad person or a failure. However, I need to get help in coping before I do something to my kids that I'll really be sorry for.
If people would just understand that good people can do bad things, if they don't have the resources to help them through bad patches, they would be more willing to get professional help, and everybody would end up better for it.
April is Child-Abuse Awareness Month. However, we should be aware of this issue and doing what we can to make it stop 24/7 and 365.
If you're having trouble coping, please don't be hesitant to get help.
If you notice that a friend or family member is having trouble coping, do what you can to lighten their load, and show them this page.
When encouraging another person to seek help, talk to them as an equal instead of placing yourself high above them and looking down on them.
You might not have "been there" yourself, but imagine what it would be like to be so overwhelmed that you're ready to take it out on anything that's handy from the cat to the crying baby. If you were to find yourself feeling that way, how would you feel? Likely, that's how the person who's actually feeling that way is feeling.
If we were quicker to extend hands than to point fingers, I believe a lot of child-abuse would never ever get around to happening--and, when it comes to child-abuse, that's an act we should procrastinate on indefinitely!
Thursday, April 1, 2010
B-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r. . . These Are NOT Easy Times!
My mom and I are, currently, experiencing a minor inconvenience at this time.
For quite some time now, we've had quite a struggle at making ends meet. I've just gotten off the phone from paying a bill to reconnect my gas (heat & hot water). Had I been able to afford to do it last week, this could have been done for a fraction of the cost (paying on utility in a gradual way instead of a chunk all-at-once and experiencing no disconnect). However, one week has made a major difference of several hundred dollars. It will be re-connected sometime on Monday. I would have chosen to pay off my mom's first, but she told me that I lived in a more drafty place and she would be fine--and she will be, as she's welcome to spend any nights at my place when it's too cold for her.
In the weeks ahead, we're expecting more money in from various sources, so this is only temporary for us. However, it seems like forever.
Imagine what it would be like if this were more permanent--if we didn't even have places to live.
My dad was an Army brat, so The Great Depression wasn't something that he lived with on an up-close-and-personal basis. My mom grew up in a small village in the southwest part of Central Indiana. She said that they were poor but they didn't even realize it back then. They were never hungry and had enough to share with various neighbors who needed it. As for being cold, they were cold in the usual way of alternating between facing and turning ones back on a stove or fireplace so as to heat different parts of the body at one time.
My folks were both hardworking people who retired from white collar General Motors. I'm a writer--meaning that it might be disputed re: just how hardworking I am. That's all a matter of opinion. I've worked at temporary jobs here and there, but my folks had enough to allow me to pursue my dream of teaching a world via the written word. So far, I've touched hearts and elicited both laughter and tears. I think I've made a positive difference in at least a few lives. However, my career hasn't had me laughing all the way to the bank.
I grew up in middle-class comfort. We never were an extravagant family, but my folks went to Cuba before I was born, and we've all traveled widely in every state except for Alaska as well as in Canada and Mexico.
We've lived on the same farm since early in 1954 (when I was a little over a year old) and in a three-room-and-a-bath apartment before that.
Now, my widowed mom and I have the potential to live very comfortably for the rest of our earthly lives. However--due to a variety of circumstances--this very comfortable lifestyle is still off in the future somewhere.
Even now in the ways that count, we feel very rich, as we have each other along with lots of wonderful friends and relatives, and we enjoy the simple things of life. It doesn't take too much to keep us entertained and happy.
However, for the first time in our lives, we are living in poverty and we know it.
But we also know that there are plenty of people out there who would trade their poverty for ours--that we must seem as rich as Donald Trump to them.
Counting our blessings, we remember that a furnace and water heater DO need a house in order to work. There are no gas meters attached to park benches and cardboard boxes nor are they attached to shopping carts full of a few treasured and/or necessary possessions.
The kind of poverty that has the potential to lead to homelessness isn't something belonging to a fringe group of people who "deserve" (as if it's the right of anyone to point a judgmental finger to proclaim anyone as being deserving of this) to end up like this, thanks to squandering money on booze, tobacco, drugs, and sinful living.
The faces of the poor--and, potentially, homeless--reflect all classes of people, and each individual one of them has a story to tell.
Don't worry about my mom and me. We have a lot of helpful and understanding people in our lives, so we're going to be fine in the long run--and we're still not in the worst shape now when we measure our lives by examples of where we could be.
However, there are people out there who are also good, hardworking people who never expected to ever end up in their current situations any more than we did.
If you come across these people, please help them whenever you can--and, even if you have no material means to help them, you can still help them a whole lot by simply treating them with dignity and compassion.
Please take the time to click on this link and read over the information to which you're taken.
For quite some time now, we've had quite a struggle at making ends meet. I've just gotten off the phone from paying a bill to reconnect my gas (heat & hot water). Had I been able to afford to do it last week, this could have been done for a fraction of the cost (paying on utility in a gradual way instead of a chunk all-at-once and experiencing no disconnect). However, one week has made a major difference of several hundred dollars. It will be re-connected sometime on Monday. I would have chosen to pay off my mom's first, but she told me that I lived in a more drafty place and she would be fine--and she will be, as she's welcome to spend any nights at my place when it's too cold for her.
In the weeks ahead, we're expecting more money in from various sources, so this is only temporary for us. However, it seems like forever.
Imagine what it would be like if this were more permanent--if we didn't even have places to live.
My dad was an Army brat, so The Great Depression wasn't something that he lived with on an up-close-and-personal basis. My mom grew up in a small village in the southwest part of Central Indiana. She said that they were poor but they didn't even realize it back then. They were never hungry and had enough to share with various neighbors who needed it. As for being cold, they were cold in the usual way of alternating between facing and turning ones back on a stove or fireplace so as to heat different parts of the body at one time.
My folks were both hardworking people who retired from white collar General Motors. I'm a writer--meaning that it might be disputed re: just how hardworking I am. That's all a matter of opinion. I've worked at temporary jobs here and there, but my folks had enough to allow me to pursue my dream of teaching a world via the written word. So far, I've touched hearts and elicited both laughter and tears. I think I've made a positive difference in at least a few lives. However, my career hasn't had me laughing all the way to the bank.
I grew up in middle-class comfort. We never were an extravagant family, but my folks went to Cuba before I was born, and we've all traveled widely in every state except for Alaska as well as in Canada and Mexico.
We've lived on the same farm since early in 1954 (when I was a little over a year old) and in a three-room-and-a-bath apartment before that.
Now, my widowed mom and I have the potential to live very comfortably for the rest of our earthly lives. However--due to a variety of circumstances--this very comfortable lifestyle is still off in the future somewhere.
Even now in the ways that count, we feel very rich, as we have each other along with lots of wonderful friends and relatives, and we enjoy the simple things of life. It doesn't take too much to keep us entertained and happy.
However, for the first time in our lives, we are living in poverty and we know it.
But we also know that there are plenty of people out there who would trade their poverty for ours--that we must seem as rich as Donald Trump to them.
Counting our blessings, we remember that a furnace and water heater DO need a house in order to work. There are no gas meters attached to park benches and cardboard boxes nor are they attached to shopping carts full of a few treasured and/or necessary possessions.
The kind of poverty that has the potential to lead to homelessness isn't something belonging to a fringe group of people who "deserve" (as if it's the right of anyone to point a judgmental finger to proclaim anyone as being deserving of this) to end up like this, thanks to squandering money on booze, tobacco, drugs, and sinful living.
The faces of the poor--and, potentially, homeless--reflect all classes of people, and each individual one of them has a story to tell.
Don't worry about my mom and me. We have a lot of helpful and understanding people in our lives, so we're going to be fine in the long run--and we're still not in the worst shape now when we measure our lives by examples of where we could be.
However, there are people out there who are also good, hardworking people who never expected to ever end up in their current situations any more than we did.
If you come across these people, please help them whenever you can--and, even if you have no material means to help them, you can still help them a whole lot by simply treating them with dignity and compassion.
Please take the time to click on this link and read over the information to which you're taken.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Happy Birthday, IYN!!!
Today, IYN is celebrating it's third birthday!
Out in San Diego, Russell is (right as I'm writing this) over halfway through our first orientation meeting (which will be held on a regular basis in the future).
Earlier, I designed a Super Poke! Pets habitat for Throw Rug with a theme to go along with the day. Click here to visit a photograph of it.
I would like for more and more people to take a look at our three petitions to make Youth Outreach Day an officially recognized event taking place on the second Saturday of every October. Click here to see details.
One more thing, our fearless leader will be celebrating his "39th" birthday on May 14.
I would like to challenge all of you to make this period of time between March 26 and May 14 as a time to really become familiar with IYN, so please keep checking back with this blog along with going to our website and looking around.
That's all for now. . .
Out in San Diego, Russell is (right as I'm writing this) over halfway through our first orientation meeting (which will be held on a regular basis in the future).
Earlier, I designed a Super Poke! Pets habitat for Throw Rug with a theme to go along with the day. Click here to visit a photograph of it.
I would like for more and more people to take a look at our three petitions to make Youth Outreach Day an officially recognized event taking place on the second Saturday of every October. Click here to see details.
One more thing, our fearless leader will be celebrating his "39th" birthday on May 14.
I would like to challenge all of you to make this period of time between March 26 and May 14 as a time to really become familiar with IYN, so please keep checking back with this blog along with going to our website and looking around.
That's all for now. . .
Friday, March 19, 2010
13, 87, 159
These (in the order of smallest to largest amount) are the number of signatures (as of the morning of March 19, 2010, at almost 6:30, Anderson, Indiana USA time) on our three online petitions that will be sent to President Obama once we get a minimum of 1000 signatures on each one. We have a little ways to go, but I believe we can increase those numbers greatly even before Invisible Youth Network turns three years old on March 26.
The purpose of this petition is to encourage our President to officially declare the second Saturday of every October from now on to be recognized as Youth Outreach Day.
To learn more about this and to find links to our three petitions, go to:
Three Ways To Give Wonderful Advice To President Obama
Finally, you might also like to check out Countdown To March 26, 2010. Even if you happen to be reading this after that date has come and gone, what's contained within is still relevant.
Btw. . .What are you doing on March 28? In this Facebook Note (open to the public), I've mentioned a little somethng about this. I think at least some of you might find it to be of interest. Hope so!
On this note, I'll close for now! Please keep an eye on these numbers and (hopefully) be amazed at how they will keep turning into bigger numbers!
The purpose of this petition is to encourage our President to officially declare the second Saturday of every October from now on to be recognized as Youth Outreach Day.
To learn more about this and to find links to our three petitions, go to:
Three Ways To Give Wonderful Advice To President Obama
Finally, you might also like to check out Countdown To March 26, 2010. Even if you happen to be reading this after that date has come and gone, what's contained within is still relevant.
Btw. . .What are you doing on March 28? In this Facebook Note (open to the public), I've mentioned a little somethng about this. I think at least some of you might find it to be of interest. Hope so!
On this note, I'll close for now! Please keep an eye on these numbers and (hopefully) be amazed at how they will keep turning into bigger numbers!
Monday, March 15, 2010
I Just Called To Say "I Love You!"
Russell wants everybody to know--so that there can be no mistake about it--the most current contact information for Invisible Youth Network, so I'm copying and pasting it here:
Russell T. Hartsaw
Founder & Chairman
940 Park Boulevard, Suite #334
San Diego, California 92101
This same information can be found here:
along with an on-page form to fill out in case you'd rather contact our headquarters this way.
You will also--at the bottom of the page--find a place you can check in case you would like to be put on our list to be contacted re: IYN activities/news/etc.
One more thing. . .
After drawing you to this blog-entry with my catchy title, it's only fair that I deliver what might have brought you here--though I hope that finding out more about IYN was actually why you arrived here. If not, however, no problem, because you know about us now--and we hope that you'll want to stick around and learn more!
On the other hand, if you know all about IYN but haven't ever checked out this very special and talented guy, I hope you will, as he's one of the most amazing recording artists of our time!
Russell T. Hartsaw
Founder & Chairman
940 Park Boulevard, Suite #334
San Diego, California 92101
619-272-9040
invisibleyouth@gmail.com This same information can be found here:
along with an on-page form to fill out in case you'd rather contact our headquarters this way.
You will also--at the bottom of the page--find a place you can check in case you would like to be put on our list to be contacted re: IYN activities/news/etc.
One more thing. . .
After drawing you to this blog-entry with my catchy title, it's only fair that I deliver what might have brought you here--though I hope that finding out more about IYN was actually why you arrived here. If not, however, no problem, because you know about us now--and we hope that you'll want to stick around and learn more!
On the other hand, if you know all about IYN but haven't ever checked out this very special and talented guy, I hope you will, as he's one of the most amazing recording artists of our time!
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Brad & Angelina--Are You Reading This!?!
Russell is getting the word out down in San Diego about a project known as TFHY, so I thought that I would "travel" a little ways north to Hollywood and the surrounding area to see if there were any big name celebrities who might be interested in heading down that way to find out how they might be of help.
Actually, you don't have to be a big name celebrity to respond to this calling--just a V.I.P. (very important person). If you are a person, you are very important, so you qualify.
Now, all you have to do is to be able to get down to San Diego and--if you can be in attendance on a regular basis--join this task force. If you can't do that, there are other things you can be doing, depending on your resources. Here are some ideas:
The Invisible Youth Network is in the process of putting together a special project to address the estimated 4,000 homeless youth walking the streets of San Diego, California.
The project will be known as Task Force on Homeless Youth (TFHY).
THFY members will consist of volunteers from the San Diego, California community who will be looking at causes and effects of homeless youth, as well as an array of possible solutions.
THFY members will interview homeless youth and listen to their stories, keeping in mind that each kid has their own story and set of circumstances.
THFY members will interview agencies related to homeless youth and determine their effectiveness.
THFY members will interview law enforcement agencies concerned with homeless youth issues and collect their findings, suggestions and etc.
Our members will meet monthly in downtown San Diego, California, where planning, strategy and implementation will be under discussion.
We will also maintain a supportive website.
Your participation will make a huge difference in the lives of homeless youth.
Russell T. Hartsaw
Founder & Chairman
Invisible Youth Network
http://invisibleyouthnetwork.net/default.aspx
Actually, you don't have to be a big name celebrity to respond to this calling--just a V.I.P. (very important person). If you are a person, you are very important, so you qualify.
Now, all you have to do is to be able to get down to San Diego and--if you can be in attendance on a regular basis--join this task force. If you can't do that, there are other things you can be doing, depending on your resources. Here are some ideas:
- If you're a movie/TV star, elected official, athlete, recording artist, or some other kind of person with "clout," you might want to make some kind of public statement in favor of what we're doing for the simple reason that scores of people know you and, often, like to imitate you.
- If you're a reporter and/or documentary maker, you can use your talents to get the word out about our cause and why it's important.
- If you're an everyday person with a computer and you have friends in the San Diego area who might want to be part of our task force in some capacity, please e-mail them and share a link to this blog-entry.
- If you're a business owner and have something you can donate, please consider donating to some of our 4000 street youth. For example, if you own a clothing store, please take a look at our wish list and donate some items for our kids to wear. If you own a general merchandise store, you might want to donate things such as personal hygiene items, backpacks, blankets, etc. If you're a restaurant owner, would you consider putting on a cook-out for our kids to enjoy?
The Invisible Youth Network is in the process of putting together a special project to address the estimated 4,000 homeless youth walking the streets of San Diego, California.
The project will be known as Task Force on Homeless Youth (TFHY).
THFY members will consist of volunteers from the San Diego, California community who will be looking at causes and effects of homeless youth, as well as an array of possible solutions.
THFY members will interview homeless youth and listen to their stories, keeping in mind that each kid has their own story and set of circumstances.
THFY members will interview agencies related to homeless youth and determine their effectiveness.
THFY members will interview law enforcement agencies concerned with homeless youth issues and collect their findings, suggestions and etc.
Our members will meet monthly in downtown San Diego, California, where planning, strategy and implementation will be under discussion.
We will also maintain a supportive website.
Your participation will make a huge difference in the lives of homeless youth.
Russell T. Hartsaw
Founder & Chairman
Invisible Youth Network
http://invisibleyouthnetwork.net/default.aspx
Monday, March 1, 2010
Three Ways To Give Wonderful Advice To President Obama
Below find three petitions to sign that will give wonderful advice to President Obama. You will come to links to these three petitions after you read the wonderful advice that we would like for him to take from us. Please sign any, some, or all. When given the opportunity to leave a comment, it isn't required, but I hope you will, as comments will make our words all that much stronger. If you would share this message with even one friend and ask that friend to do the same, just think of the impact it would make. I believe that, working together, we can collect at least 1000 signatures for each one of these petitions!
Enact Youth Outreach Day
Enact Youth Outreach Day
Target:
Barack Obama
The President of The United States
Sponsored by:
We, the members of the Invisible Youth Network, would like to see that children all over the world are recognized. How can we do that? By having a national event.We, at the Invisible Youth Network, would like to see a Youth Outreach Day become a national event, to be held every second Saturday of October. In doing this, each community can put on a fair, cook-out, craft-sale, or other event. They would raise money for their at-risk and homeless children and also if they want, donate to an organization for the homeless and at-risk youth.
We will be writing to representatives to enact a national event on the calendar for Youth Outreach Day to be celebrated every second Saturday of October and would be most grateful of your support for this proposal. There are a lot of homeless and at-risk youth in the United States alone. In fact, it is estimated that there are approximately 1.5 million. If we can enact this event here in the USA, we at IYN believe that other nations will do so and we may start to truly address the hardships faced by homeless and at-risk youth around the globe.
Despite our motto "Advocating for America’s Youth," our endeavors are focused on all homeless and at-risk youth with no regard to their geographic location.
Mahatma Gandhi said, "You must be the change you wish to see in the world," and with that in mind, the Invisible Youth Network envisions better lives for children who cannot see it themselves.
Yours faithfully,
Invisible Youth Network
940 Park Boulevard, Suite #334
San Diego, California 92101
Phone: 619-239-0101 x 334
E-mail: invisibleyouth@gmail.com
To see and or sign petition please go here:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/enact-youth-outreach-day
Here
http://homelessness.change.org/actions/view/enact_youth_outreach_day
Or here
http://petitions.tigweb.org/enactyouthoutreachday
Although we have targeted the USA - This Can & Will go GLOBAL.
Just copy the letter above - Edit if need be for your Location - Send IT !!
Check out the Sub page - Our Letter
We will be writing to representatives to enact a national event on the calendar for Youth Outreach Day to be celebrated every second Saturday of October and would be most grateful of your support for this proposal. There are a lot of homeless and at-risk youth in the United States alone. In fact, it is estimated that there are approximately 1.5 million. If we can enact this event here in the USA, we at IYN believe that other nations will do so and we may start to truly address the hardships faced by homeless and at-risk youth around the globe.
Despite our motto "Advocating for America’s Youth," our endeavors are focused on all homeless and at-risk youth with no regard to their geographic location.
Mahatma Gandhi said, "You must be the change you wish to see in the world," and with that in mind, the Invisible Youth Network envisions better lives for children who cannot see it themselves.
Yours faithfully,
Invisible Youth Network
940 Park Boulevard, Suite #334
San Diego, California 92101
Phone: 619-239-0101 x 334
E-mail: invisibleyouth@gmail.com
To see and or sign petition please go here:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/enact-youth-outreach-day
Here
http://homelessness.change.org/actions/view/enact_youth_outreach_day
Or here
http://petitions.tigweb.org/enactyouthoutreachday
Although we have targeted the USA - This Can & Will go GLOBAL.
Just copy the letter above - Edit if need be for your Location - Send IT !!
Check out the Sub page - Our Letter
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Our Most Amazing Chapter Website To Date
One of the things that IYN is doing at this time is to encourage interested parties to start chapters in their communities.
You can go here to view some of them. While some don't, most of these chapters have websites to go with them, and each one of those websites is impressive in its own way.
As for myself, I have temporarily reduced my website to two pages: a welcome page and a basic information page. My website actually contains several pages, but I've been dealing with a lot of issues to where it has been hard to focus on getting them finished (some were already finished, but the ones that weren't were starting to stand out like sore thumbs and spoil the whole look).
This week, one of my projects will be getting my website prepared for a grand re-opening. I will be announcing it in this blog when it's really up-and-going.
As I've just said, all of the websites are very good and interesting--and each one unique--but there is one that especially stands out in a crowd, and that's the one designed by Renee Bernheisel of Fulton County, Ohio.
I hope that you will take the time to check it out. Not only is the website BEYONDunique in its make-up but it also shows that a lot of participation has been generated in this area.
It's our dream that our network of chapters will grow until everywhere in the world where kids need extended hands instead of pointing fingers will be covered!
You can go here to view some of them. While some don't, most of these chapters have websites to go with them, and each one of those websites is impressive in its own way.
As for myself, I have temporarily reduced my website to two pages: a welcome page and a basic information page. My website actually contains several pages, but I've been dealing with a lot of issues to where it has been hard to focus on getting them finished (some were already finished, but the ones that weren't were starting to stand out like sore thumbs and spoil the whole look).
This week, one of my projects will be getting my website prepared for a grand re-opening. I will be announcing it in this blog when it's really up-and-going.
As I've just said, all of the websites are very good and interesting--and each one unique--but there is one that especially stands out in a crowd, and that's the one designed by Renee Bernheisel of Fulton County, Ohio.
I hope that you will take the time to check it out. Not only is the website BEYONDunique in its make-up but it also shows that a lot of participation has been generated in this area.
It's our dream that our network of chapters will grow until everywhere in the world where kids need extended hands instead of pointing fingers will be covered!
Our Sick Society--And What Is Being/Can Be Done About It. . .
Russell wrote:
Everytime I watch the news there are reports of children being murdered by their parents, child abuse, children being molested by school faculty, children being shot down on the streets and children being abducted on their way to or from school.
And much more!
What kind of sick society have we become?
If you feel so angry/frustrated/tense that you feel that there's even the slightest chance that you might take it out on your child or a child in your care, please contact Parents Anonymous or (if there isn't one in your area) a similar group that will help you through this rough patch in a sympathetic, non-judgmental way.
Even if you have already lost control and have taken/are taking your issues out on your child/child in your care, don't hesitate to seek help before the situation gets really out-of-hand. There is no shame in letting people know that you need help.
If you or anyone you know have never dealt with issues like these before, consider yourselves to be fortunate and do more than point fingers at those who do. The ills of society will be better solved through the use of extended hands instead of pointing fingers.
We need places for our kids to go and enjoy constructive activities as opposed to being left to their own resources and getting mixed up with gangs.
We need for school to be a safe and positive experience for our kids instead of one of fear, discomfort, and hurt feelings.
We need for our kids to believe--and rightly so--that there are trustworthy people to turn to and that these people will truly listen to what they have to say and do their best to offer them solutions.
We also need for troubled adults (people of any age, in fact) to know that it's okay to ask for help when dealing with negative, antisocial emotions--and we need to make sure that there are places out there where they can turn and know that they will be seen/treated as people with issues that they need help in solving instead of being seen as "bad" people.
I've said many times, and I'll say it again that it's good to imagine that you have two grown children who are both loved dearly, unconditionally, and in equal measure by you. One is the victim of a terrible crime, and the other one has committed a terrible crime. Think about what outcome you would want for each of them, and you will be well on your way to designing a society that offers real solutions to the problems we face.
Put your prayers, love, positive thoughts, time, money, and good words behind organizations such as Parents Anonymous, Invisible Youth Network, Operation Respect, Boys & Girls Clubs Of America, and others that are offering positive and empowering solutions to a troubled world!
Friday, February 26, 2010
Countdown To March 26, 2010
The following message was originally posted as a discussion topic at the IYN group at Care2.
As of this posting, we are a month away from the third anniversary of when Invisible Youth Network was launched.
Let's make this a month of conscious celebration and action. Here are some things we can be doing--some on a daily basis, others on a frequent basis, and others at least once--during the days leading up to our anniversary day (and nobody would be unhappy if you keep on doing any/some/all of them even after March 26, 2010 has come and gone).
This is addressed to all 2408 of our current members--plus any who might happen to come along afterwards. . .
Blessings!
Ainsley Jo Phillips
Management Team
Invisible Youth Network
Chapter President
Sugar Fork Creek Chapter of Madison County
Let's make this a month of conscious celebration and action. Here are some things we can be doing--some on a daily basis, others on a frequent basis, and others at least once--during the days leading up to our anniversary day (and nobody would be unhappy if you keep on doing any/some/all of them even after March 26, 2010 has come and gone).
This is addressed to all 2408 of our current members--plus any who might happen to come along afterwards. . .
- Visit our website (http://invisibleyouthnetwork.net) and take note of what we're all about.
- Share a link to our website with your friends and encourage them to visit.
- If you can afford to, donate. You will find out how by going here: http://invisibleyouthnetwork.net/helpushelp.aspx Take note that there are subdivisions to this initial link that need to be checked out. These will give you ways to donate while shopping and (which is especially good for those, like myself, who can only afford to donate occasionally) fun activities to do that will result in the receiving of donations from sponsors.
- Encourage your friends to check out this information on how to donate/cause donations to happen.
- Sign--and, of course, encourage friends to sign--our petitions that will be sent to President Obama to encourage him to endorse Youth Outreach Day as an official event that will take place on the second Saturday of each October. To find out more about this, go here: http://invisibleyouthnetwork.net/YouthOutreachDay.aspx
- Invite others to the various IYN groups at social sites of which you're a member. If you're not a member of these groups, consider joining any, some, or all. You can find them listed (among other things) on our online directory page which you can access by going here: http://invisibleyouthnetwork.net/Onlinedirectory.aspx
- Get creative in your approach to promoting IYN and its mission. You can find some ideas for this by going here: http://mhhj.blogspot.com/2010/02/fun-and-creative-ways-to-help-our-cause.html
- Look into the idea of starting a community chapter. You can do this on your own and/or get others in your area interested in this. You can find information about this--plus check out some already-established chapters--by going here: http://invisibleyouthnetwork.net/communitychapters.aspx
- Feel free to share this message in e-mail, either by linking to it or copying and pasting it (or both). Besides initially posting it here at our group at Care2, I'm posting it other places as well (for starters, as an entry in the blog I'm keeping about IYN http://mhhj.blogspot.com/2010/02/countdown-to-march-26-2010.html) and/or sharing links to it. Feel free also to share links to it on places such as blogs, websites, sig-blocks, and profile pages.
- Are you a crafty person? Do you like to bake? Do you like to wash cars? Are you musical? Do you play sports? Are you otherwise talented? Do you enjoy participating in thons? Do you enjoy holding yard sales? These are some of many ways that you can raise funds for IYN.
Blessings!
Ainsley Jo Phillips
Management Team
Invisible Youth Network
Chapter President
Sugar Fork Creek Chapter of Madison County
Fun And Creative Ways To Help Our Cause
This is a page I'm working on to go along with another page of information. It has been posted unfinished for the purpose of creating a link to be used on the other page of information to take people to this page when it's finished. It should have the content on it that it's meant to have on it before too long. . .
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Street Outreach & Wish List
Note: The Donate button copied and pasted with the rest of Russell's message doesn't work in the body of this blog-entry, but you can visit our site to find one that does.
Being that the Board of Directors at their February 19, 2010 meeting placed high on their priority list our Street Outreach Program, I want to share with you what we have been providing these street kids in the form of survival supplies as these resources are available.
As listed on our website under donations:
Being that the Board of Directors at their February 19, 2010 meeting placed high on their priority list our Street Outreach Program, I want to share with you what we have been providing these street kids in the form of survival supplies as these resources are available.
As listed on our website under donations:
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Russell T. Hartsaw
Founder & Chairman
Invisible Youth Network http://invisibleyouthnetwork.net/default.aspx
Founder & Chairman
Invisible Youth Network http://invisibleyouthnetwork.net/default.aspx
Street Children
Tell Me Whyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro6kaQEYe2I
Monday, February 22, 2010
Now Being Sent Out To San Diego Media & Craig's List
Earlier today, I received a copy of something that Russell is sending out to all of the major medias in San Diego, California and is posting on Craig's List as well.
The purpose of this is to bring to light what is needed on a local level. However, IYN is an international organization with a mission to provide help wherever it's needed and however we can.
Of course, we can only do so much, but we'd like to do as much as possible. Much of what we're able to do depends on you the reader.
Donations help, setting up local chapters helps, and continuing to spread the word about us helps.
Please read what's posted below and contact us to find out what you can do!
In the next few minutes this will be sent out to all of the major medias in San Diego, California, including posted on craigslist.
Are you familiar with our organization, Invisible Youth Network, which was officially launched on March 26, 2007 for the purpose of reaching out to homeless youth.
If not, you might want to become familiar with us by visiting our main website at: http://invisibleyouthnetwork.net
We are currently focusing our efforts towards providing an estimated 4,000 homeless youth walking the streets of San Diego, California a youth drop in center and emergency shelter, where they will have their immediate needs addressed and where they will have access to partner resources which will help them develop the skills necessary to become a responsible and productive members of the community and society as a whole.
We are actively seeking sponsorships and partnerships, and expanding our Board of Directors and street outreach to include new members, that be you!
These young people have been failed by the adults and the systems that were supposed to protect them. We can't undo their histories, but we can give them the support and tools to have a successful future.
This is an opportunity to make a positive difference and impact in the lives of San Diego's homeless youth.
How we differ from other organizations:
The purpose of this is to bring to light what is needed on a local level. However, IYN is an international organization with a mission to provide help wherever it's needed and however we can.
Of course, we can only do so much, but we'd like to do as much as possible. Much of what we're able to do depends on you the reader.
Donations help, setting up local chapters helps, and continuing to spread the word about us helps.
Please read what's posted below and contact us to find out what you can do!
In the next few minutes this will be sent out to all of the major medias in San Diego, California, including posted on craigslist.
Are you familiar with our organization, Invisible Youth Network, which was officially launched on March 26, 2007 for the purpose of reaching out to homeless youth.
If not, you might want to become familiar with us by visiting our main website at: http://invisibleyouthnetwork.net
We are currently focusing our efforts towards providing an estimated 4,000 homeless youth walking the streets of San Diego, California a youth drop in center and emergency shelter, where they will have their immediate needs addressed and where they will have access to partner resources which will help them develop the skills necessary to become a responsible and productive members of the community and society as a whole.
We are actively seeking sponsorships and partnerships, and expanding our Board of Directors and street outreach to include new members, that be you!
These young people have been failed by the adults and the systems that were supposed to protect them. We can't undo their histories, but we can give them the support and tools to have a successful future.
This is an opportunity to make a positive difference and impact in the lives of San Diego's homeless youth.
How we differ from other organizations:
We have no paid positions, everyone is a volunteer.
We have no fancy offices or expense accounts, all volunteers work out of their home/offices.
90% of all donations go to our projects and programs.
10% of all donations go to operational expenses.
Our founder & Chairman Russell T. Hartsaw is a former homeless youth, gang member and has spent 44 years of his life incarcerated. He has been there and done that, in the process he has witnesses many youth destroyed.
For further information please contact us at invisibleyouth@gmail.com or call 619-272-9040.
For further information please contact us at invisibleyouth@gmail.com or call 619-272-9040.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Mark February 24, 2010 On Your Calendar! Why? Details Below. . .
Hi Supporter,
Over the last several months, we've tried something new (a series of time-
sensitive challenges) to
help Invisible Youth Network and all the causes listed at iGive. It's
worked better than we ever expected. To date,
we've donated over $10,000 as a result of these challenges. So we've
cooked up another challenge.
This time we're making a change suggested by many of your peers. We're
giving you
ADVANCE NOTICE of the upcoming challenge to allow time to prepare your
notifications to your supporters,
if you decide to participate.
*************************************************************************
SPECIAL CHALLENGE NOTIFICATION
The 24 hour, $1 per new member special challenge begins Wednesday, February
24, 2010 at noon Chicago time.
That is about one week from the date this e-mail was sent to you.
SPECIAL CHALLENGE NOTIFICATION
************************************************************************
To make this work for Invisible Youth Network, it'll require your
participation, but it is free and definitely easy.
********************************************
IMPORTANT OVERVIEW
For each person who joins iGive using the special link below AND visits a
participating iGive store
(there are over 700 stores (from Amazon to Zazzle, eBay to HSN and QVC) at
iGive) via iGive
between noon, Wednesday February 24, 2010 and 11:59 a.m., Thursday,
February 25, 2010,
we'll give Invisible Youth Network a dollar.
********************************************
5,000 new members, $5,000. No purchase necessary. That's 5,000 new
members for all causes, not just
yours, so it's a bit of race.
Of course, if these new members search more (or buy something at an iGive
store) they'll earn even more
money for Invisible Youth Network. Right now, we're donating a special
bonus of $5 for that first purchase plus the
usual percentage, on top of this $1 special challenge.
Here's where you come in. The only way Invisible Youth Network will get
new supporters and that free $1 (or more)
is if you invite them. Send your friends, family, and colleagues the
following link in an e-mail, tweet it, chirp it, do a
Facebook posting, put up posters, shout from mountain tops (you know the
drill) and let them know you think
Invisible Youth Network is pretty cool and deserves their support,
especially since it's free! You can even just forward
this e-mail.
This is the link:
http://www.igive.com/welcome/warm_reg_promo.cfm?c=54858
We've made tons of improvements recently, so we want lots of people to try
it out and put it to the test.
If they keep on searching or shopping after testing us out, so much the
better for Invisible Youth Network .
The details:
- Offer active between noon, February 24, 2010 and 11:59 a.m.,
Februrary 25, 2010 (Chicago time).
- New members only (never have been an iGive member previously). All
the normal rules of membership, searching, and purchasing apply, our site
has the details. Real people only, who sign themselves up. It's not fair
to hire a room full of elves who sign people up, the new member has to sign
him or herself up.
- Once we've given away $5,000 to all causes combined, the offer ends.
- The special link is important. No link, no $1.
- Visiting a store via iGive is crucial. No visiting a store via
iGive, no $1.
That's it. Don't forget to try our search yourself
(http://isearch.igive.com) as well as checking out the over 700 stores.
You may need to login or register first (personally, as an iGive member).
We sent you this e-mail because you're in our records as the cause contact,
not as a member personally.
Want to see how your group is doing, both towards the 5,000 member goal and
in general? Once the challenge starts, you can see stats at:
Visit http://www.iGive.com/html/causestats.cfm
Warmly,
Robert N. Grosshandler
Founder
Over the last several months, we've tried something new (a series of time-
sensitive challenges) to
help Invisible Youth Network and all the causes listed at iGive. It's
worked better than we ever expected. To date,
we've donated over $10,000 as a result of these challenges. So we've
cooked up another challenge.
This time we're making a change suggested by many of your peers. We're
giving you
ADVANCE NOTICE of the upcoming challenge to allow time to prepare your
notifications to your supporters,
if you decide to participate.
*************************************************************************
SPECIAL CHALLENGE NOTIFICATION
The 24 hour, $1 per new member special challenge begins Wednesday, February
24, 2010 at noon Chicago time.
That is about one week from the date this e-mail was sent to you.
SPECIAL CHALLENGE NOTIFICATION
************************************************************************
To make this work for Invisible Youth Network, it'll require your
participation, but it is free and definitely easy.
********************************************
IMPORTANT OVERVIEW
For each person who joins iGive using the special link below AND visits a
participating iGive store
(there are over 700 stores (from Amazon to Zazzle, eBay to HSN and QVC) at
iGive) via iGive
between noon, Wednesday February 24, 2010 and 11:59 a.m., Thursday,
February 25, 2010,
we'll give Invisible Youth Network a dollar.
********************************************
5,000 new members, $5,000. No purchase necessary. That's 5,000 new
members for all causes, not just
yours, so it's a bit of race.
Of course, if these new members search more (or buy something at an iGive
store) they'll earn even more
money for Invisible Youth Network. Right now, we're donating a special
bonus of $5 for that first purchase plus the
usual percentage, on top of this $1 special challenge.
Here's where you come in. The only way Invisible Youth Network will get
new supporters and that free $1 (or more)
is if you invite them. Send your friends, family, and colleagues the
following link in an e-mail, tweet it, chirp it, do a
Facebook posting, put up posters, shout from mountain tops (you know the
drill) and let them know you think
Invisible Youth Network is pretty cool and deserves their support,
especially since it's free! You can even just forward
this e-mail.
This is the link:
http://www.igive.com/welcome/warm_reg_promo.cfm?c=54858
We've made tons of improvements recently, so we want lots of people to try
it out and put it to the test.
If they keep on searching or shopping after testing us out, so much the
better for Invisible Youth Network .
The details:
- Offer active between noon, February 24, 2010 and 11:59 a.m.,
Februrary 25, 2010 (Chicago time).
- New members only (never have been an iGive member previously). All
the normal rules of membership, searching, and purchasing apply, our site
has the details. Real people only, who sign themselves up. It's not fair
to hire a room full of elves who sign people up, the new member has to sign
him or herself up.
- Once we've given away $5,000 to all causes combined, the offer ends.
- The special link is important. No link, no $1.
- Visiting a store via iGive is crucial. No visiting a store via
iGive, no $1.
That's it. Don't forget to try our search yourself
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Christmas In San Diego, California 2009!!!
Christmas In San Diego, California
San Diego, California is the home to an estimates 8,000 homeless kids, estimated by our medias.We have 4,000 between the ages of 9 - 18 and 4,000 between the ages of 18 - 21. These kids choose San Diego because of our nice weather year round.
I am pleased to announce that I have put together Christmas for these homeless kids.
We have three churches each that is going to have Christmas festivities for these kids. Church buses will be sent-out to pick-up the kids and they will be taken to one of the three churches where they will be surrounded by the Church's congregation, music, food, games and gifts.
We (the churches and I) have recruited several local merchants to participate in this event.
Each kid will receive a back pack filled with nonperishable food items, travel size hygiene items, a bed roll and gift cards for McDonald's and Target.
The games will have cash prizes.
These events will be open to the public and is being advertised, so we expect much more for the kids.
This will be an all day event and I will be making my rounds to all three of the churches.
Russell T. Hartsaw
Founder & Chairman
Invisible Youth Network
http://invisibleyouthnetwork.net
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