 Children of the Earth Foundation
2011 Fall Support Campaign Help Raise $50,000!
Dear Friends,
2011 has been a great year of powerful transformations with individuals finding their own pure connection to the Earth. The generosity of our community and your choice to support this vision has enabled this positive change in the world. Working together, we've been able to start new semester-long home school programs and a number of inner-city school programs in addition to our regular schedule and the momentum is building! To keep this going, we ask for you to continue to make the choice to support this ever more important work. Board member Carol Sylva has written a wonderful letter around this subject, which we share with you below. She has asked for 1,000 people to give $50 to COTEF this year. We are looking for 1,000 people to do this and know that the only way to achieve this goal is for us all to "pledge" a certain number of donations from our own personal networks of colleagues, community members, friends, and family. Supporting our future generations is as easy as 1-2-3! 1. Donate your $50 (or more!) at http://www.cotef.org/contact-us/support-us/donations 2. Pledge a certain number of additional donations by writing to pledge@cotef.org 3. Call, email, and get together with your community to reach your pledge goal! It would only take 100 of us to find nine other people to donate to see this work continue strongly into the future! Please forward this email throughout your networks. It will take a village to reach our goal of $50,000 by December 31st, 2011! Oh! We've created a link for your friends who are not familiar with COTEF. Click here to read more! Get your Pledge Form here! In thanksgiving, Matt Abatelli Program Director, COTEF March 2011
Dear Community, My name is Carol Sylva; I am a new board member of Children of the Earth Foundation. You can only imagine the sense of honor and responsibility I felt when I was asked to come onto the board, that they felt I could help strengthen the inner fire. I am dedicated, as I know you probably are too, to preserving Grandfathers vision and reaching as many children as possible with these teachings. On my own personal journey, faithfully listening to my path I have recently struggled with needing help. Through this process I learned to be more helpful. I was so willing to help when asked, which taught me sometimes we need to ask for help and be open to the form it comes in. So, I am asking you to help Children of the Earth Foundation. Coming onto the board made me aware of the foundations struggles, not big news a lot of non-profits struggle. What I learned though was that the weight of those struggles had fallen on the shoulders of a few people. I knew that if our community was made aware of this that people would want to help. We all need to be caretakers and stewards of Grandfathers vision. My goal is for 1000 people, families or groups to give $50. This amount will put COTEF into a position of floating on a river as opposed to paddling upstream. I know many of you already give, and we need you to continue to give annually. This is a separate plea for help to get the foundation into a healthy place. This will enable the growth of creative energy. Two separate images have come to me as I have worked on this idea. The first is that of COTEF being a seed and our community being the water and soil it needs to grow. It grows into a tree with a thousand new seeds to plant. The second was being reminded of the story Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr. “If a sick person folds a thousand paper cranes, the gods will grant her wish and make her healthy again”. I love the symbology of this story, the power of many coming together for a beautiful altruistic goal. It also reminds me of the single bird being part of the greater consciousness “the flock”. I have folded my crane I just need nine hundred and ninety nine more. In faith, Carol Sylva Donations may be made online, via mail (download mail-in form below) or by calling the office at (609) 971-1799. Instructions on how to make your own crane. Download below to print. |
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View our Video Support Us  The Children of the Earth Foundation is a (501)(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to teaching youth about stewardship of the Earth through the arts of wilderness survival, tracking, and nature awareness. We need your support.
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