Youth Center needs votes for refresheverything project!

[ScooterMac 2]

Hey folks,

For those of you who've never heard of me (which would probably be most outside the Canada forum ), I've been on this site for what seems like forever working through the K-1 visa process to bring my amazing (now) husband to the US.

But enough about that!

I run a youth center in a rural town by the name of Albion, in Pennsylvania. We run on a shoestring budget (~40K/yr) and don't have much left over at the end of the month to do renovations, repairs, and upgrades to our equipment. We serve over 400 students a year between our afterschool middle and high school program (3-6pm is kind of a "danger zone" for unsupervised teens), monthly elementary days, and a 2-week summer learning program at a local park.

We have entered the refresh everything grant contest to try to win $50K of additional funding to renovate a current storage area into a quiet study room with computers and learning software, make one of our bathrooms handicap accessible, upgrade the equipment currently available to the students, and add a summer learning program for the middle/high school age teens. Grants are distributed based on the number of votes received by each project, and the top 10 grants in our category will each win $50,000. Unfortunatey, only those in the US are able to vote at this time.

There are 3 ways to vote, and you can vote each way once daily! You will have 9 other votes to use as well to use on other projects.

Online: http://www.refresheverything.com/nwyouthcenter

On facebook: Download the Refresh Everything voting app, and search for "Northwestern Community Youth Center"

By text: Text 102945 to 73774

If you can, please pass this information along to others who may be willing to help. We're currently sitting at 84th place 4 days into voting, so we've got a lot of ground to cover!!

Thank you!

Julie (Scooter)

[Spoom 8]

Hi folks,

I know you don't like seeing posts asking for votes and such (everyone hates em) but please at least look at what we're trying to do.

We're a youth center in a rural environment, with limited support from the local school board.

The quoted budget above that we run on includes my wife's salary. That said, none of the grant will go toward her salary.

Last month, there was an organization called The Progressive Slate that won eight out of ten spots in the $50,000 category in which we're competing. Now I'm not saying that all (or even any) of their projects were necessarily bad, but against that sort of organization we need all the help we can get.

Thanks for reading.