Dear Neighbors, Please pardon any duplicate postings. The second item is one that is very close to my heart. How we raise our children will have an impact on all of us, for the 70+ years of this generation and for the generations they might impact. Giving foster children a voice could lead to education and improvement us all. Best! Liz ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Dear Friends, Please consider two remarkable projects. FIRST, treat yourself to a terrific film: TRAITOR (starring Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce), which opens this weekend. It’s a terrific thriller/drama written and directed by my dear friend and college roommate Jeffrey Nachmanoff! Hopefully you've seen some advertising for the film and are already familiar with the premise. In short, Cheadle plays a special operative working with a terrorist group that becomes the target of the CIA. It opens in theaters Wednesday, August 27th. If you want to see the movie (and support it's longevity in the theaters), please try to go during the first week of release. The movie is opening wide so there should be a local theater showing it no matter where you live. You can also check out the website: www.traitor-themovie.com SECOND, please use the Internet to vote for a Juvenile Law Center proposal titled “Foster Youth Speak Out” (FYSO) on the American Express Member’s Project initiative. Your vote—which American Express calls a “nomination”—needs to be submitted by September 1st. The 25 most-nominated projects make it to a final voting round. American Express is providing $2.5 million in funding to the five Member’s Projects that receive the most votes, with grants ranging from $100,000 to $1.5 million. If JLC’s project makes it to the final five, JLC expects to be the non-profit that implements the program. You do NOT need to be an American Express Card member to nominate FYSO—just sign in as a guest and follow directions to nominate the project. To nominate “Foster Youth Speak Out”, and see the video, go to: http://www.membersproject.com/project/view/EZCTS4 . This project could change the lives of thousands of youth. And you can help them with just a few clicks on your computer. Here’s the FYSO description: 500,000 youth are in foster care nationwide. FYSO will allow them to have their voices heard so they can advocate for safe, nurturing, permanent homes and for positive school experiences. FYSO will create an interactive web community connecting foster youth across the nation with each other and the public to improve the foster care system. Youth will get further support from volunteer lawyers, who will teach them the advocacy skills they need to transform foster care from the inside. Thanks in advance for your help with all the above, and please forward this to everyone you know :) Laval Laval S. Miller-Wilson, Esq.Senior AttorneyJUVENILE LAW CENTER1315 Walnut Street, Ste 400Philadelphia, PA 19107(215) 625-0551 ext. 108(215) 625-2808 (facsimile)website: www.jlc.org ____________________________________________________________ Click here for free search of religious schools located near you. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3oJxsDFu3JchH7WjaleW68AibiqnRGjmjJb3ExPKuJnU1eCl/
