Promoting SUCCESS Act Introduced in House
On July 29, 2010, Representative Carolyn McCarthy (NY) introduced Promoting SUCCESS Act (H.R. 5963), also known as Promoting Students Using the Camp Community for Enrichment, Strength, and Success.
This piece of legislation would direct the Secretary of Education to carry out a grant program to fund pilot projects to explore how the camp experience promotes physical activity and healthy lifestyles among children and youth, reduces summer learning loss, and promotes academic achievement. The American Camp Association is working with Representative McCarthy to advocate for the passing of this bill.
Soon, there will be a call for action by asking the community to contact their legislators.
We are a non profit organization after school program located in Texarkana Arkansas,and Texarkana, Texas we have a 6000 sq ft building we are painting and installing our Boxing ring for Amateur Golden Gloves boxing, we will register our team once we finish the ring. we are in phase two, we also go out to school in our area and perform motivation skit, plays, motivational speaking, sports, obesity fitness program for youths on our location, 4H clubs, Outdoor recreation. We volunteers for tutoring, internet research and drug and alcohol prevention counselors at the facility. Since the Boys and Girls Club closed down youths are waiting for a program such as this to start up. We started in February 2010 We have been paying the lease and utilities for the past two months, some donations are trickling in, start up for non profit its up hill the first year especially in our economy today. We have been speaking with Youth Build USA they want us to train the youths in construction, landscaping, and commercial janitorial service all of the Board of Directors have certificated in these fields. They are waiting for their next Grant approval.We need to apply for a Grant, we are faced with a lot of overhead, all staff are volunteering until we get major sponsor to give us grants for a 3-5 year projection. Can Spark Action help us to contact the right resources? If we have to get a petition signed by majority of Texarkana by our Senators and politicians I know they will listen to us.