To whom this may concern,

My name is Scott Jenkins. The most important thing to me is my family. Life can be unfair and unexpected setbacks aren’t uncommon. However, sometimes a real stroke of bad luck can completely relegate you to rock bottom. My mother was killed in the 1995 Alfred  P. Murray Bombing  in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. A mother who raised four kids with a husband that wasn’t successful at keeping a job or steady income, she did well. After my mother (Christi Y. Jenkins) was found my world was obliterated. As the youngest of three siblings, I was the outcast. Only my mother could understand me. As a security measure she left her family with a great life policy and should’ve set my family up for success. My Dad was the beneficiary of half and we were left with half split into four ways. I’m short, my Dad spent the majority of my funds at casinos around the State of Oklahoma. To make things worse or better I should say, he was banned from all casinos in Oklahoma. My siblings were setup and taken care of as far as vehicles, dental, wants and needs. I was promised and received only an apology. After High School, I went on to college and gained my B.A. then went even further to gain a Trade School Licensure all on my own. Nothing could stop me even after a serious car accident during my studies for my B.A., I walked and used the bus system to finish. Skipping to the present, I lost everything. My job was lost due to being incarcerated without being charged for a crime but for missing a payment in another county for a case that was closed in 2017. My now toxic ex girlfriend was dead set on ruining my life because I was leaving her and focusing on what’s most important to me. In short, she stole my car keys out of my car concealing this theft by asking for cigarettes before I left the apartments we shared. I didn’t notice at all. I found out when I was finished washing and vacuuming out my car at a car wash near our apartment. I called the police which amounted to nothing as she wouldn’t answer the door or any more of my phone calls after she told me she threw them in a field. Eight hours later I bypassed our apartment door locks and found her sleeping. I woke her up and asked for my keys, which turned into a loud verbal argument. I decided to walk away and call an emergency locksmith as I was walking back to my car. Seven police cars surrounded me and arrested me in false allegations of violence. After the police found her allegations to e in fact, false I was to be released. However, the was this warrant from another  county about missing a payment. The officer apologized but had to book me in the count jail with a bond of $100. I spent 24 days in jail. Once released, I had nothing but my clothes and my wallet. My phone was stolen which directly resulted in my job being terminated. I later found that my ex girlfriend had taken my phone as the officers left it where I placed it near the vacuums at the car wash where my car was parked. And since she had my keys, she stole even more of my property and filed an EPO five days after I was still incarcerated. It took me a while to get somewhere to call my brother for a ride to get back into the city and call my employer. A stranger gave me a ride which still brings tears to my eyes. Finally, my brother let me use his phone so I could use the internet to lookup my managers phone number and call about what happened only to be told he terminated my position on hour before I called him. I did call in jail but no one answered. Went to find out about my car, the dealership got it out of impound and immediately resold it before I had a chance to recover it. This was a real stroke of bad luck. I get the neglect about the fines owed.  But to lose everything was just mortifying. Living in Oklahoma makes commuting bus bus difficult depending on where you’re located. I’m at the mercy of an old high school friend that’s giving me time to gather myself. I appealed the termination which was approved. And was denied unemployment which was my plan to get back into another vehicle. This is where I’m asking for help as I work hard and the only thing that’s preventing me is a vehicle. I have no money and can’t get back to work without a vehicle. I need help and will get back to work to support my three kids and rebuild after leaving an incredibly toxic relationship. Thank you for reading, your time and consideration.

Respectfully,

Scott

This is our story; My wife and I are in our 60s and our children have all moved away from home. We are both retired and are on a fixed income. Most of our children have moved to distant states to where we do not get the opportunity to see them very often. Travel expenses and hotel prices prevent us being connected with our children and family in the way that we desire. Not only do the kids live far away, but my wife’s family lives in Vermont, and we rarely get to see her siblings or her father of 86. We miss our children terribly and my wife really needs to spend time with her daddy. We both lost our mom’s a while back. We feel as if there is an empty hole in us, that can only be filled by Family. We see the opportunities for time together slipping away because of our financial restrictions. None of us are getting any younger. And we know that our health over time we most likely decline, preventing us from travel. I am diabetic and my wife has RA, of which either or both could cause us major issues over time. So, our time is NOW. We have decided that we wish to purchase a small travel trailer. We want to have many journeys visiting family and seeing this beautiful country.  So much to do and see. Unfortunately, we have been trying to save for this small Travel Trailer and can’t seem to fit it into our tight budget. We’re not looking to buy anything fancy. We are hoping to buy a small pull along 14’ Camper. But even a used one would cost around $10,000. And, we just don’t have that kind of money. By the time we saved that much it could be years. We have wonderful dreams of travel, but it may only stay a dream. We will both hate to look back at our lives someday with sadness and regrets of dreams unfulfilled and lost opportunities. We desperately need your help. Please, if you are able, help us fulfil our dreams. Help us raise the money to purchase a small camper. Your generosity would be a true blessing to my wife and me, and our families. We would, more than you know, be forever grateful. Thank you all, so very much, for helping to make our dreams come true.

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I apologize for having to Repost I didn’t ask my link.
Last October 6 2020 my fiancé and I were hit by a drunk driver Going 90. I was six months pregnant with our son and luckily because of our seatbelts we all three made it out alive. Unfortunately with me being so sick we were on a one income at the time and my Car insurance lapsed. Now we are 20,000 each in debt and I lost my car . If that wasn’t hard enough our landlord sold our House in June and gave us a 30 day notice after living there for Three years. We recently found a new home for our Family. We also have 11 year old twins one of which is A Type one Diabetic. She has also recently been in and out of the hospital. We both work full time and saving for our wedding with all these expenses is seeming impossible. Maybe with a little financial help to ease the ever growing bills we could finally save to get married. We have a date for October 8th of 2022.
My grandma who raised me passed one day before my son was born and it breaks my heart she won’t be there . So we wish to marry before his Grandmother who is in her mid Nineties is still with us.
Any help at all will be immense appreciate. Thank you to anyone who decides to help our family.

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Um where do I start. Well I’ve lived in vegas had 3 failed marriages (oops) maybe cause it’s Vegas.lol but ended up with four awsome boys and still raising one. I had to go out on disability rt before that darn virus do you some neck surgeries. But I function and ok with that. My twin brother had been layed off then fired some time ago. He was a casino Floorman for many years and I was the Engineer. Well long story short I take care of my brother and son and pretty much just ran out of money not to long into a remodeling process . I know given my situation and never being able to probably move again I just wanted to make my home more comforting and updated. Basically enjoy it more now that I’m basically stuck it it till the end. I’ve nvr asked for a hand out before but why not I’ll give it a try. Thank you in advance from the bottom of my family’s heart for any donations towards our cause.

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Hi I am Greg.

I need help raising money for a birthday and some food too. I would like to raise around $700 for everything. The pic is from one of my older birthdays but I am raising the money for my sisters birthday.

I already paid the bills this month, a plus. But I now need money for my sisters birthday. I want to raise it for her because she deserves a good one. I got a great one this year but she should have a great one too.

I would like to raise the money for my Sisters Birthday too because she hasn’t always had it easy. She had stuff stolen from her 2 years ago, the family has lost a recent loved in the past month, she had to sell some of her stuff even to make money for food, she had to leave a house she lived in all her life because of a foreclosure, and she had to miss out on events in her senior year of High School. This Birthday is a Birthday she definitely deserves.

Mostly, I want the amount I am asking because I want to buy her presents and I want her to get to go to favorite place to go to on her Birthday. Also a Birthday cake would be bought with it too.

I want to raise money for this birthday too because my sister would feel more down in her life with another disappointing birthday again too. She hasn’t even gotten gifts to open up on her Birthday since 2017. It has been very challenging for her ever since then. There has been some nights this year, 2020, and in 2019, she hasn’t even had a decent meal or hardly anything to eat at all due to financial losses in the past and this Birthday would be also very great for her to have to makeup for some of that bad time.

Most months my family lives paycheck to paycheck. We pay the bills and eat most of the time, but that is all. No fancy things like vacations or any other treats. Another reason why my sister deserves a great birthday and even a better one than the one I had.

With your generous donation, she will have the best Birthday ever and we won’t go hungry for a little while too.

Any generous donation amount that you can give will be gladly appreciated. I do have a PayPal account. My PayPal is nawes710@gmail.com.

Challenge Hope and Rescue Historic Preservation Mission

How might we reimagine education for young people in grades 6-14 to better prepare them to access career success and economic opportunity?

Reimagining the education of young people begins with igniting their curiosity, teaching them facts about their neighborhood past while appealing to their creative minds to make an innovative change to their surroundings. Through tapping into the instilled interest of a child is the key to education. Providing a hands-on approach to understanding and appreciation by developing their natural-born gifts in a process to their neighborhood stories to restore self-pride and instill an appreciation of who they are and from whence they came. The concept of “teaching houses” arises the need to nurture our youth, provide them with an urge to repair through teaching the young to appreciate the past; the success of the future seems inevitable. With these “teaching houses,” it is our goal to renovate/preserve the home of an affluent member (meaning one who had a positive impact on the area youth) and celebrate the positive nature of the community as it once was. Say, for example, The Deanwood community in Washington DC, has a wealth of history lodged within its boundaries; backbones of this community include 1) the Sheriff family (Murry’s Steaks Inc) 2) the Hall family (Coach “Sal” Hall-Cardozo Clerks 3) the Hill family (“Buck” Hill) World-renowned Jazz Musician, to name a few. . Teaching the youths, giving them career training while instilling pride and promise while restoring the home of the forgotten neighborhood heroes, presenting a piece of history in scalable size, representing all of the forgotten heroes which led to the development of the neighborhood while enriching the lives of these children and allowing them to thrive, is the mission of the organization, one home, one neighborhood at a time.

Who does your solution serve? Please share demographic information about target participants and other beneficiaries of your program.

Our solution of the “teaching house” concept serves the economically challenged people of urban areas. Areas that once were thriving positive points in their lives but have been overtaken by distress and disparity. We intend on reaching out to the communities to find people who want to make a positive change, those who are willing to teach the youths of this era trade skills, for which they will be able to make a living wage. Our intent reinvests into the neighborhood and aids the residents to become self-sufficient as youths, young adults, and elders.

What are the desired impact and outcomes you will achieve through your program? How will you measure your performance in achieving them? *

The desired impact is to get residents involved in the success of their communities through education, participation, performance, and accountability. We strive to see all neighborhood participants become self-sufficient, positive contributors to the development of their community and beyond. Our position is to motivate all participants into genuinely caring about the community as a whole. When this happens, they will reach out to other communities and impact a ripple effect of self-appreciation, discipline, and unity. It begins with just one. Our organization will determine an assessment for success in the project through essays, observations, surveys, and comparison techniques utilizing statistics of before, during, and after the span of the program.

What is the amount of grant funding you are requesting, and how do you plan to use it? *

We are requesting $50,000.00 to ignite our project; this is necessary to begin implementing our project of influencing and teaching individuals to become self-sufficient. Tools required for recruiting the right students for learning, although everyone who wants to participate will be given the opportunity through various avenues of the program, placement within the program is what we will need to determine. Funds are appropriate for staffing, business operations, insurance, materials such as wood may be necessary, and permits; as we already have our first renovation project, we will need all of the elements required to make this program a success.

Please share the elements that excite you most or that you are eager to test, such as a component of your program design, program delivery, business model, population(s) served, partnership approach, etc

The elements of our projects that excite and drive us are to spark curiosity and operate within the young mind by participating with trade artisans in renovation, preservation, architecture, and sharing appreciation of the not-so-distant past. We want to share a “like mind” consciousness that the past orders the present and the future steps of our young people. It is not “self-minded,” but we together can create and substantiate a more gifted and influential tomorrow. Knowing that the past changes the present and projects the future of positive, thriving young adults, that are truly capable of making definitive contributions through growth.

Please share an overview of who will work on this project, including their relevant experience, and their familiarity with the populations and communities the team intends to serve.

Our organization has contacted two District of Columbia fraternal orders for assistance, The Prince Hall Free Masons and the National Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi; these groups are groundsmen with a series of professional members in almost every area that will trend. The populations and communities our team will service are urban city areas, beginning within Washington D.C. Even though the District of Columbia has its Cultural Organizations, its focus is not on the “forgotten heroes of our neighborhoods.” Renovation and preservation are areas that we want to focus. Our goal is to focus on the youth that has not had appropriate opportunities to learn the backbone of the neighborhoods in which they reside.

What stakeholder perspectives or data have informed your idea? How have you incorporated this information into your solution design? *

The uprising social divide within the region is what specifically influenced the groundwork for our organization, as all of us are Native to the DMV (District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia) area. The crime rate has raged rapidly, more so since the District of Columbia legalized gun ownership, and the use of illegal drugs is a constant killer of our youth. Therefore, bringing this program to communities is paramount to the survival of its residents and a reasonable faith effort in teaching the child to thrive. Grandparents or great grandparents influenced and solidified the neighborhoods; with the shift in cultural exchange, the gift to the community will come full circle as the youths take a stake in the renovation and preservation of specific sites, and learn from the miniature replicas of the communities, what once was and what could be soon. As the saying goes, “it takes a village.”

For qualifying applicants, we anticipate providing supports for both leaders and programs that help move the idea forward.

Are there specific optional supports that would be helpful to you as a leader and/or to your program over the next year? Examples may include peer mentoring, networking opportunities with employers, etc. *

Yes, there are support areas that, if available, would be appreciated. For example, as mentioned, networking with community leaders and educators, fund-raising, publicizing and conducting fund-raising campaigns, advertising the program for community awareness.

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