Crisis in Education Budget Without Letup: CHEN4All to the Rescue - First Example: Holliday-Cards

A Better Community For All (ABC4All) announces the early implementation of its program designed to bring healthy nutrition and exercise into schools nationwide while at the same time providing multiple opportunities for nongovernmental self-funding for any participating school. Creating a comprehensive solution to the epidemic health crisis in USA has led to "Community Health, Exercise and Nutrition for All (CHEN4All):" prweb.com/releases/2004/11/prweb178191.php.

Manhattan Beach, CA (PRWEB) March 23, 2005 -- A Better Community For All (ABC4All) announces the early implementation of its program designed to bring healthy nutrition and exercise into schools nationwide while at the same time providing multiple opportunities for nongovernmental self-funding for any participating school. Creating a comprehensive solution to the epidemic health crisis in USA has led to "Community Health, Exercise and Nutrition for All (CHEN4All):" http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/11/prweb178191.php. CHEN4All has been created in collaboration between Huck-Fin Environmental Education (HFEE), San Diego, CA http://www.huck-fin.com and A Better Community For All (ABC4All), Manhattan Beach, CA http://ABC4All.net. Although the CHEN4All Pilot School, Castle Park Middle School in Chula Vista, California, part of the largest high school district in the USA (Sweetwater Union High School District), will not launch CHEN4All until September 2005, the urgent need created by the increase in education budget cuts, both nationally and, in this instance, within the State of California, has provided impetus to launch the FUNdraising aspect of CHEN4All early. The details and full implementation of this program will now be developed as quickly as the cooperating parties will permit.

Two recent press releases demonstrate the urgent need facing schools both in the USA and within the State of California:

Schools bracing for Bush's budget cuts
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050209/news_1n9edbud.html

Further budget cuts for California education
http://www.theimpactonline.com/news/2005/02/10/Opinion/Further.Budget.Cuts.For.California.Education-859808.shtml

The above two press releases more than adequately demonstrate the vital need for the nongovernmental self-funding capability needed by schools throughout the USA. One does not need to find information about other states to be aware that the crisis not only has existed but is quickly worsening.

The project, Community Health, Exercise and Nutrition for All (CHEN4All) created through the collaboration between Huck-Fin Environmental Education (HFEE) and A Better Community For All (ABC4All) will offer multiple means for schools to benefit from such self-funding as a means to reverse the cutbacks either threatened or past, causing the elimination of many important programs in the arts, music and physical education.

Thus HFEE and ABC4All, together, have addressed the issues by creating: A total solution for reversing unhealthful eating habit patterns in USA: "...a comprehensive, community-based effort with the dual purpose of bringing healthy nutrition/exercise into the school setting all the while providing multiple opportunities for nongovernmental self-funding for the schools. Through this means, budget deficits can be counteracted with the reinstatement of programs in the arts, music and physical education which may have been eliminated." http://ABC4All.net/CHEN4All.htm

It is now an urgent and vital need, more than ever, based on the additional budget cutbacks that are pending, to create the nongovernmental self-funding capability which is being developed as part of the CHEN4All effort. "The time to act is now," states Burton Danet, Ph.D., Co-Founder, A Better Community For All (ABC4All). "It is no longer acceptable to continue to deprive children, families, teachers, schools, administrators of vital components to the educational process with the necessity to contend with repeated and unrelenting (and unacceptable) budget cuts. Through the ABC4All Triple Giving Program (ABC4AllGGG) http://ABC4All.net/abc4allggg.htm, the potential to develop increasing community support for schools will be enhanced by the participation of business partners being developed for CHEN4All, each of whom will offer benefits to participating schools.

First Example: Holliday-Cards
Michael McNab, Director of Marketing, Franklin Press, Inc., http://www.holliday-cards.com/site/index.cfm, 1391 Highland Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70802, mmcnab@franklin-press.com, tel: mobile: 225-772-7372 * 800.375.0504 describes a program which will bring proceeds to participating schools and will also support CHEN4All:

"Kids See Their Artwork Magically Come Alive on the Internet and on Professionally Printed Greeting Cards. Franklin Press, Inc. has launched a new educational and fundraising program available to all schools called Holliday Cards. Children create artwork at school and see it published on the Internet. At the same time, schools can earn money when greeting cards are purchased that feature the childs art. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/8/prweb147644.php"

This first example demonstrates the capability that will be developed, first locally in one community, Chula Vista, CA with the intention to create a successful model for CHEN4All that can be imported into any school district within the USA. In this example, families can purchase cards with the artwork done by their children for use as greeting cards they might purchase in local stores without any benefit to the school. Through participation with CHEN4All and the ABC4All Triple Giving Program (ABC4AllGGG), there will be developed self-funding for schools that can accumulate and counter any and all past, present and future cutbacks.

Contact
David Gray, President
Huck-Fin Environmental Education (HFEE)
P.O. Box 231014
San Diego, CA 92123
858-279-2172
858-279-3796 Fax

Burton Danet, Ph.D.
A Better Community For All (ABC4All)
P. O. Box 1624
Manhattan Beach, CA 90267-1624
310-712-5477
888-310-1661 Fax

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