Just Need One Rebecca Lipson
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| Rebecca Lipson at the Miles School displaying the silver plate the Community Food Bank presented to all us One Can A Week folks for collecting so much food. |
After
some local and national publicity in the early days of One Can A Week,
Rebecca Lipson, a teacher at the Miles School contacted me. She wanted to get
all the students involved in donating food and some money to the food bank.
Rebecca’s
program grew quickly and over a 6- year-period, Miles donated tons and tons of
food. I know because I delivered every pound to the food bank.
Although
Rebecca moved on to the U of A after a couple of years, her fellow teachers
stepped up and kept the program going. Her energy and her spirit just lived on
at Miles.
After
some local and national publicity in the early days of One Can A Week,
Rebecca Lipson, a teacher at the Miles School contacted me. She wanted to get
all the students involved in donating food and some money to the food bank.
Rebecca’s
program grew quickly and over a 6- year-period, Miles donated tons and tons of
food. I know because I delivered every pound to the food bank.
Although
Rebecca moved on to the U of A after a couple of years, her fellow teachers
stepped up and kept the program going. Her energy and her spirit just lived on
at Miles.
Rebecca
jumped into my thoughts lately because I have a new idea involving kids,
schools and community service. I’ve been asking folks if they could help me get
an introduction to a teacher or two and I even went back to Miles to set up a
meeting but they were too busy to call me back.
Okay,
so here’s the idea in a nutshell.
One
cent for one minute of community service.
Okay,
so it’s a really big nutshell.
Below
you are going to find all the details about the concept but for right now, I
would like to mention a few things that will help you eliminate some societal
issues.
- We
monetize the high school diploma and the college degree, why not community
service.
- Nearly
all top corporate executives perform community service by writing checks,
mostly. These folks are held in high esteem for doing so.
- Corporations,
nonprofits and universities require community service involvement on their
applications.
- Most
community service is not verifiable.
- Few community service programs encourage kids to think about community service every week. One Can A Week did and now Rescued Critters Food Drive will.
- Community service makes better kids, teens, adults, seniors and businesses.
- We are in the age of parity so treating everyone equally—e.g., kids and executives—is required.
While
keeping all this in mind, here is the One Cent for One Minute of Community
Service process.
Kids
donate some change weekly in school and they earn one minute of community
service for each penny gifted. The teacher keeps a record of each donation and
then issues a community service certificate every quarter or semester for each
participating student. Then all the money is donated to PACC each week.
At the same time, corporations, universities and nonprofits associated with PACC begin to publicize their interest in the Rescued Critters Food Drive certificate. This step monetizes the community service which motivates the kids to donate consistently, year after year. Their future job searches will be made easier because they will have sought-after and verifiable community service credentials.
Please review the materials below and if someone comes to mind whom you think might be interested, please forward this email to him or her. Then let’s see what happens.
Saving Puppies and Kittens and Trees, too
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| This envelope stuck in my neighbor Kim's door confused me at first. How am I going to help her save trees if I leave her a Thank You Card? She is saving trees, I'm killing hem. Then it hit me. I can use the same envelope to thank her ... and I did. |
Too many new things for Haley
Confronted
with empty pill bottles and a lead without a hook, Haley wasn’t sure what to
do. So, she switched off her personality.
This
week we donated 9.2 lbs. of pet food and $56.79 in cash. Many folks weren’t
home this Sunday but we still collected a lot for PACC.
See
you Sunday,
Peter
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