Global You Service Day Grant Application

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1 Global You Service Day Grant Application The American Legion Post 295 is a GYSD Lead Agent who is awarding $250 grants to schools and veteran s organizations to team up and create a youth led project. We invite you to propose a project that helps your community and gets students involved in service learning and becoming contributing citizens. We will award $250 for worthy projects that promote a partnership between schools and veterans similar to our Post-Crashers, schools and community organizations (such as AC Rescue Mission or the Food Bank, the Humane Society, etc.. See: postcrashers.tumblr.com/ Complete grant application questions on a separate sheet of paper. Your culminating event must take place on Global Youth Service Day 2016 between Friday, April 15 th to Sunday, April 17 th. Project Name: School: Contact Information - Project Contact Person and Information - select one person from your group to act as liaison for this grant application process. If your school is awarded a grant, this person will act as the point person for the grant selection committee and report post-grant success. If your group receives a grant, post grant success reporting will be required. a. Contact Name: b. Title/Position: c. Contact s Phone Number: d. Contact s Address e. Veteran s Organization/address/phone number/contact person that you are partnering with: f. Project Short Description - Description of your proposed Project (50 words

2 Grant Application Questions: 1. Please provide an overview or summary of your project, how will you organize it, and what will you do? Limit to 300 words or less 2. Please describe how volunteers will be used to complete this project. Limit to 200 words or less 3. Please explain how this project serves Veterans and their community. Limit to 200 words or less 4. What is the long-term impact of your volunteer project on the need you identified? Limit to 200 words or less 5. Project Budget: 6. Raised Budget - Amount of money already raised for this project (if applicable 7. Who do we make the check out to? Sharing Information: One of the most important skills for any organization is sharing your work and results with the public to raise the community s awareness and support of your work. When your work is highly visible within your community, you build community stake in your mission and affect perception about the role that youth can play. Strengthening your organization s marketing capacity by using social media, developing assets like posters and fliers, building media relationships, and creating good content through story telling are all examples of how your organization can strengthen its capacity. 8. Global Youth Service Day 2016 will take place next year from Friday, April 15 to Sunday, April 17, Describe what you will be doing as a culminating event and how you will report out your results with the community and share your results with this GYSD Lead Agency? Limit to 200 words or less Application due date: February 12, 2016, application is rolling, so submissions are reviewed as received. Return application to postcrashers@gmail.com.

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4 Harvey D Johnson American Legion Post Mill Road Northfield, NJ August 2014 Tax ID: May 7, 2015 Dear Ronnie s Garden Center, The members of the Harvey D Johnson American Legion Post 295 of Northfield in conjunction with concerned citizens, businesses, and students from Northfield Community School have held and will hold several Post Crashers events to refurbish the Post and create a large Victory Garden. The American Legion Post was built in 1920 and had its last facelift in the 1950s! It was in need of some TLC and updating. Post Crashers has been doing this. With some beautification, more members of our community will use the facility and it will become a much-needed hub of the community. The Post Crasher kick-off event was held on 9/6/14 in honor of the National Day of Service and 9/11, with subsequent Post Crasher events on September 25, on October 25 (Make a Difference Day, on November 1 and 15. The fall Post Crashes covered the interior, where crashers painted, replaced ceiling tile, replaced floor tile, renovated the kitchen and decorated with paintings and prints. In addition, the fall crashes cleared the four-lot back yard of leaves, vines, weeds and other rubbish in order to make way for a patio/outdoor area for the community and a bountiful Victory Garden that will supply much needed fresh vegetables for the needy in this community. On April 23 (Global Youth Service Day, May 9, and throughout the summer, we will create a large Victory Garden that will grow much needed fruits and vegetables for our local veterans who are in financial trouble and the local Food Bank. I know that you are aware that Atlantic County leads the NATION in job losses. A total of 9,900 jobs were lost this year with four casinos closing and another 3,300 are going to lose their jobs with the pending closing of the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. In America, 30,000 people die each day of hunger-related causes. One in five children suffer from food insecurity, 17,000 in Atlantic County. 47% of Atlantic County s youth receive free or reduced lunch. Our Victory Garden helps offer perpetual hunger relief to the poor and offers sustainability to the Food Bank. We have built nine 1 x4 x8 raised beds. The wood and soil was donated for the beds. We are purchasing tools, plants, seeds, a shed and materials for a deck with grant funds. We are hopeful that Ronnies could donate (or sell at cost flowers and shrubs to surround the shed, deck in the back yard and shrubs/flowers for the front? Please let us know if you can help in any way. Also, please check out our Post Crasher progress at We are also in the current today! (May 7 th edition Thank you for your support. Sincerely, Mr. Mark Doherty, Dr. Carol Ferguson Post 295 Commander, Post Crasher Committee Volunteer, Post Crasher Committee , Mbdoherty@comcast.net , cfergui@gmail.com

5 Victory Garden Design PicturesofrenovatingtheinterioroftheAmericanLegionPost295 Before(oldceilingtiles After

6 Wallofartcreatedbythestudents,AmericanLegionPostwithwallspaintedand ceilingtilereplaced Students working hard outside, clearing land Cleared, ready for Victory Garden.!! Sometimesitisjustfun!

7 Buildingtheraisedbeds Front,whereshrubs/flowerswillgo Studentsplantingthegarden

8 Harvey D Johnson American Legion Post Mill Road Northfield, NJ August 2014 Tax ID: March 17, 2015 Dear Mr. Peter, Thank you for your generous donation for our Post Crasher event at the Harvey D Johnson American Legion Post 295 for Friday, April 17, On April 17 (Global Youth Service Day, May 9, and throughout the summer, we will create a large Victory Garden that will grow much needed fruits and vegetables for our local veterans who are in financial trouble and local Food Bank. I know that you are aware that Atlantic County leads the NATION in job losses. A total of 9,900 jobs were lost this year with four casinos closing and another 3,300 are going to lose their jobs with the pending closing of the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. In America, 30,000 people die each day of hunger-related causes. Our Victory Garden helps offer perpetual hunger relief to the poor and offers sustainability to the Food Bank. You are making this possible with your donation and we are very appreciative of your generosity. We are planning on building eight 8 x4 x8 raised beds and four 1 x4 x8 raised beds. In order to do this we need 94 2 x4 x8 boards. Is it possible that these boards could be cedar? If not, we will be happy with any non-treated wood (apparently treated wood is not good for growing vegetables?. I don t know if you can deliver them or we need to pick them up? We would need it a couple of weeks prior to our April 17 date, to cut the wood and build the beds (we are doing that at my house, so if you can deliver, it would be to 2043 N. Shepherd Drive. Finally, we d be honored if you d or a representative would like to attend our Post Crasher recognition ceremony on April 17, 2015 at 9:00am at the Northfield Community School? You and any of your employees and/or family members are welcome to come to our Post Crasher events to see what is happening, y all are welcome to help too! No need, we have 50 young students ready and willing to get dirty! But they will not be cutting the wood! You can answer all of my questions via (cfergui@gmail.com or phone ( Also, please check out our Post Crasher progress at Thank you for your support. Sincerely, Dr. Carol Ferguson Post Crasher Committee Member Bradley Ferguson Post Crasher Committee Member