The NCN Thanksgiving Weekend Annual Events 2014
To: The City Council
and CRA of Avon Park, FL.
From: Rev. Frank Paul
Jones aka Apostle Paul Castellano
RE: Proposal to start
Thanksgiving Weekend Annual Event
Program Coordinator:
Rev. Frank Paul Jones - (President and CEO)
E-Mail:
revfrankpauljones@thenationalcommunitynetwork.org
Phone Office: (863)
657-2407
Cell: (863) 458-0396
Date: 10 August 2014
Ella Williams -
Thanksgiving Day Dinner Host: (Vice President)
1: Thanksgiving day Dinner
@ the Blue Building: We will serve food for several hours on the
basis of eat in or takeout. I suggest
members of the National Community Network, INC. plan to eat their Thanksgiving
meal at the Blue Building as a united family. As of 10 Aug. 2014, we have $1,000
to use towards foods and supplies as a result of a local grant awarded to us by
the Wal-Mart store in Avon
Park. We will offer food and refreshments to all we
can serve based on some invitation criteria and needs, we will accept other food
donations from our staff and volunteers and request members help cook or help
support with food donations, basic cable television upgradeable if the funds
are found to pay for HBO and music. We
want this to be an all day event. It's a day of recreation and relaxation, with
no strings attached.
John Moss (Director) and
Albert Moss (Secretary) - Black Friday Event - Games for Gifts Host:
2: Black Friday Event
Games for Gifts @ the Blue
Building: We will
design several games and please think beyond bingo that our youth can play to
win Christmas gifts. We will request
funding to purchase different types of gifts that our youth can win, but will
create a limit as to how much one child can win. Our goal is to sought after at
least $2,500+ in cash and/or gifts donations. We would like more, however, we
feel we can reach at least 50 kids who can get an average of $50 per in gifts
on that day and event.
We have to search for a sponsors who will donate the needed
goods as a part of their annual services towards the needy and we can set a
criteria for who may participate based on the conditions of these grants, if
any restrictions exist. The idea is to
give kids who parents cannot afford to go shopping on Black Friday to have an
opportunity to enjoy the camaraderie of other children their ages, enjoy
refreshments, win gifts, watch cable television, listen music and we should
insure each and every child wins something worth at least $25. It's a day of
recreation and relaxation, with no strings attached.
NaQuila L. Hardy - (Promoter) Surviving in the Hood Presentation Host:
3: Surviving in the
Hood Presentation @ The Avon
Park Community
Center:
To qualify for this grant for $2,000 from the City of Avon
Park, this event must take place on Main
Street to promote Main Street, but understand Main Street
represents all of Avon
Park and it's city
residents and is not really a residential area.
With this understanding!
Therefore this event will be opened to all of Highlands County. Which might require some form of lottery if
we find quality entertainment within 2 weeks of this event to really promote
interest. Finding quality entertainment
and funding for it or getting a donated performance is the key to this events
success.
We will attempt to find a sponsor to pay for these artists
and/or sought after a donated performance in exchange for tax deductibility,
for their performance, which would therefore be revenue to our non profit
organization to be used in future grant proposals.
I think realistically we should be looking for a sponsor in
the area of about $10,000. I think we can start with people like Pepsi and
Coke, but who knows if presented properly the gates Foundation might find this
attraction a good way to gain our youth attention and be sponsors. In any case,
this is a real area of needed attention to make this event a sure success,
requiring last minute announcements for added excitement.
The $2,000 would be used for rent for both up and
downstairs, with alcohol being served upstairs in an all adult environment with the children
downstairs.
A) Upstairs we want the 51-100 deal = We plan for about 50+
guest at this time subject to change if interest increases (w/tables) for $200,
plus alcohol served = Deposit of $700.
B) Downstairs we want 101-200 Guest for $350 = We plan for
about 150 guest and this can be changed, but I think for crowd control and
better insurance offers, we should go with 150 guest.
Total Rent = $550
We will hire Lil Italy Italian Restaurant who is located on Main Street to
handle all food. We will assign a budget for food and refreshments at about
$3,000 or about $20 per person in a bulk purchase. This covers only downstairs events for the
kids. If they cannot handle all of our business in that day with a month
advanced notice, we will consider other venders as added support and added
diversity to our menus using venders on or near Main Street.
We will submit a grant at the Sebring Wal-Mart store based
on the same principles used in the Wal-Mart Avon Park Store to cover the $1,000
difference for food. Thereby allowing us
to pay about $3,000 for the catering services for the kids.
Plus we will search for other sponsors to make the event be as
enjoyable as possible. On the list of
ideas is live entertainment by a popular
artist downstairs for a one hour performance open only to all participants
of this event at closing. This would require searching for an artist willing to
support our agenda, in this case Disadvantaged Youth Development and AIDS/Crime
Prevention.
Total Food and Refreshments = $3,000 + $550 Rent + $700
Deposit that will be returned, for a total of $4,250 - $2,000 for the City -
$1,000 for Wal-Mart = $1,250 outstanding.
Insurance: We cannot carryout this event without insurance. Because we cannot afford to pay for damages in
that building due to an unforeseen riot or accident
Insurance Cost: We need three estimates. 1: Wells Fargo 2: Bank of America 3: SunTrust Bank.
We will need to come up with insurance money and about
$1,250 outstanding funds to carryout this function.
If we can find an insurer to sponsor this event by
presenting a iron proof system of security and order, we will only need the
$1,250 which $700 is refundable. Meaning our short fall will be about $550 in
other food grants which are plentiful on State Highway 27.
Program: Surviving in
the Hood Presentation
A: We will determine the proper hours to carryout this event
that would be during reasonable hours no later than 11 PM as an ending time for
the youth and by law for upstairs adults which is about 2 AM and perhaps an
after party for the performers and VIP.
B: We will update our database on all organizations and
professionals who are involved in the fields of practice and research in AIDS,
Education Grants and Programs, Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention, education and
treatment, Employment and job opportunities and other ideas are welcome.
C: We will sought after funding to carryout this event
through organizations such as The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the
Magic Johnson Foundation, with a scope of a comprehensive agenda towards bringing
AIDS research to Highlands
County. We will also do research on this area to
insure the proper information is being transmitted and is condoned by our
organization. We do not want to post any
disclaimers for our presenters. If necessary we will carryout this program
within our organization's staff.
D: We will design a presentation that will help develop our
youth into better and more responsible and productive individuals, by teaching
them things in areas of AIDS/HIV facts verse myths, drug and alcohol abuse and
prevention, understanding education as a requirement for economic growth, crime
prevention techniques, avoid peer pressure and whatever we can put together
that will not require their attention span more past 2 hours and will deliver a
meaningful and comprehensive message they will want to remember and therefore
will remember and learn a lifelong lesson.
We know they are kids and we feel if we highjack them for two hours of
intense learning, they deserve at least that much time in recreational
activities. We think catered food and a
live performance would be a fair payoffs for their undivided attention for 2
hours of their time, which may save their lives.
E: Upstairs we want to invite community leaders in the non
profit and profit sector to both discuss a vision for our future Avon Park
and our roles in it. We will require non
profit volunteers to man the doors and supervise these kids in the downstairs
event and we will document and calculate all man-hours as revenue to our
organization.
F: Funding Source for Upstairs: This will require about $50
per individual to provide professional catering services at a minimum or at
least $2,500 to cover all costs.
Costs:
A) We need printed materials.
B) Business Class Refreshments
We will announce in advance of four week if possible our
Agenda of Discussion to be known prior to meeting date and time to assure total
inclusion and participation in these meetings.
This funding resources will have to come from grants that
are set aside to redevelop communities, create economic growth and we need
grants designated towards community unification and planning and Main Street is CRA
designated area.
Thank you,
______________________________________
Rev. Frank Paul Jones - President and CEO
The National Community Network, INC.
