From left to right, Chairman of the Board Daniel Rawlings, President and Treasurer, Nathaniel Bunn, Lauren Beachom (C.O.O, Board of Directors), Tiffany Pitts (Board of Directors), D'andre Freeman (Board of Directors, Graphic Designer), and Kevin Scott, (Boxing Trainer, Board of Directors).
Braddock and North Braddock Clean Up Day
(Braddock Clean Up Day, July 4th, 2009, Vice President Allene Harvey and several child participants with several bags of garabage collected from Braddock Avenue.)
On the third Saturday of every month, a number of adult volunteers will chaperone and lead children on trash litter duty. There will be refreshments and snacks for the children, and also for the adults as well. In the winter and fall time months, tea, hot chocolate, and coffee will be available. All volunteers are welcome to participate, no volunteers will be permitted to take the children out of the designated area(s) during the hours of clean up day.
The time will be noon, and the meeting place will be inside of Braddock Athletic Club. We will have refreshments there the whole time and we will focus on a different area every time. The hope for this project is to keep it consistent, and to also make sure that we are getting exposure to the children and adults taking place in the community service. The finish time will be one o’clock pm as a definite for the winter months, although during the spring months we may go out for longer to attack the trash.
Read to Feed
Starting in January, once a month a designated volunteer with act 33/ 34 clearances will read for half an hour to a selected group of children at a selected Andrew Carnegie Library. Sometimes it will be a child from our PAL National mentoring program who will read to smaller children. Here is our schedule and the way we will be reading to the children, etc.
January - American History, this month will be for background on America. For the smaller children the reading will be a children’s book about Presidents, and for the older group, the book will be about the Industrial Revolution, when Andrew Carnegie made his stake in life. Early 1800’s.
February - Black History Month - there will a reading every week with four volunteers present at each library for crowd control, book reading, and help. The books will vary depending on the library, one book I say that needs to be read is Moses: the story of Harriet Tubman for older children.
March - March will be about St. Patrick’s day. A small child’s book about leprechauns for the kiddies and the movie Leprechaun with Warwick Davis for the older kids. (joke)
April - Easter Theme
May - School’s Out Theme
June - Summer Time Theme
July - American Presidents Theme
August - Native American / Indian Theme
September - Sports Theme
October - Halloween Theme
November - Thanksgiving theme
December - Christmas Theme
These are the themes and volunteers are welcome to sign up with month call off allowed. You will have to read to the children, two books, either to adolescents, or small children. The books will need to be picked and approved by the librarians at the selected libraries. Have all of the children use hand sanitizer before and after the break for snacks after the first book. Talk to them about cleanliness and germs, etc, that will be a consistent goal in our readings as well as promoting the healthy snacks. This is a very big part of our beginning if we are able to achieve this it would be a great organizational structured milestone.
Braddock Athletic Club
Boxing training will be gone underway to start with Kevin Scott training individuals to box as well as young children. A selection of young adults from Braddock and the surrounding areas will compete in an in home completion, Silence The Violence Brawl in Braddock. This will be aired on television, and it is the start to Silence The Violence Pittsburgh, which is a collection of all the neighborhoods in Pittsburgh, mainly the urban high gun violence areas. We will meet neutrally in Penn Hills or Monroeville, the first matches will start in September 2012.
Graphic Designer D'andre Freeman and President Nathaniel Bunn talking to the kids about gun violence.
The children are free for our boxing with Insurance paid for by the Police Athletic League. The PAL also has several other ways that we can use their non profit status to help us build our credibility and renown. All children’s equipment will be paid for as in : headgear, mouth piece, boxing gloves. The rest will have to be paid for by the parent (guardian).
The child or adult participating will have to participate in the mentoring program being administered by a team of our mentors who have filled out the National Pal Mentor Packets. We need a strong group of fourteen people, we should have already had that established.
Our ways to market this boxing gym is by word of mouth, as well as posters made by graphic designer D’andre Freeman, which will be distributed through the Woodland Hills School District. The important thing is deadlines.
Our days of operation will be Monday through Friday, five to eight pm for boxing and working out. Our mentoring day as of right now is Wednesday at seven pm.
Advance Auto Carwash
Wash cars for free at all participating advance auto car washes in the area. The sign must say FREE CAR WASH, BENEFITING BOXING GYM ETC, average $50 a day. Four adults and four children can accomplish this task at synchronized right at the same time.
Wendys and Five Guys Burgers and Fries
15% of the nights if we are helping to clean up and so on.
Bake Sale at Mt Arat -
Talent Show -
Hoagies -
