Friday, August 6, 2010

Charitable Organization

It has been a very busy few weeks and I'm finally getting back to writing. This week we started Common Cents for Autism. We are doing this in conjunction with WINGS up in Wisconsin. WINGS gives grants to families with children with autism. Common Cents is going to be both an educational and charitable endeavor. The program is going to raise funds earmarked 100% for WINGS. We are hoping to go into elementary schools, boy scouts, girl scouts, religious groups etc. and read a story about a child with autism. The story is called Charlie's Gift. The children will then receive small cardboard cannisters to fill up with coins. They will have a week to fill the cannisters up and then bring them back to school. The teacher hopefully will be able to organize a class trip to the local bank where the children will deposit the coins in an account for WINGS. We will keep track of the donated amount on our website and the class with the most donations will win some type of a prize. When the money is eventually dispersed to the families I am hoping that the class will receive information regarding to what it is being used for.

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