Today is Monday, August 16th. How would you feel if by August 31st, you helped to donate $10,000 to Dislecksia: The Movie, without ever spending a dime? It could happen, with help from the Pepsi Refresh Project and Despite Dyslexia! Despite Dyslexia is running for a 250K grant in order to start a non-profit organization that will provide information and resources to dyslexics, their parents, and educators, as well as help to defray costs from tuition, tutoring, and evaluations. If Despite Dyslexia wins their grant, they will donate $10,000 to Dislecksia: The Movie! Below is some general information about the Pepsi Refresh Project, Despite Dyslexia, and how to vote in order to change the world!
The Pepsi Refresh Project is giving away over a million dollars each month to people, businesses, and non-profit that have ideas to positively impact people’s lives and communities. Over a thousand projects are in the running each month, in 6 different categories: health, arts and culture, food and shelter, the planet, neighborhoods, and education. There are four grant amounts that the projects can run for: $5,000, $25,000, $50,000, and $250,000. At the end of the month-long voting period (August 1st – August 31st in our case), the top two projects in the $250,000 category receive their grants. The top 10 leaders in the other three categories receive their grants as well.
General information on Despite Dyslexia: The mission of Despite Dyslexia is to provide hope to the dyslexic community by making others aware of the impact dyslexia has on personal, social and financial levels, providing knowledge and understanding to families of dyslexic children and working together to provide those children the education they deserve and need to succeed as our future generation.
We will provide information, training and educational tools to families of dyslexics through workshops and seminars. Fund raising and community events will promote awareness. These events, combined with grant writing, will help to ensure continual and increasing funding to help defray the costs of testing, tutoring and schooling associated with dyslexia.
10-15% of the US population has dyslexia; only 5 out of every 100 dyslexics receives support. Dyslexia can be overcome with the right resources, support and education. We want every child to succeed….despite dyslexia!
What Despite Dyslexia will do with their $250,000 grant:
| Budget Notes: Dislecksia: The Movie is currently in post-production by Captured Time Productions. It is a comical documentary directed by Harvey Hubble V, a dyslexic, to promote dyslexia awareness based on the struggles he faced growing up and how it has shaped his life.
All the information above can be found on the Pepsi Refresh Project website: www.refresheverything.com and the Despite Dyslexia page on the project site: http://www.refresheverything.com/despitedyslexia |
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| $ 70,000 | testing, tutoring and education grants |
| $ 35,000 | event production and promotion to raise further funds and awareness |
| $ 10,000 | donation to Dislecksia: The Movie (Captured Time Productions) |
| $ 35,000 | general start up fund (1 yr office space, equipment, etc) |
| $ 100,000 | salary fund to hire minimum of 2 full time employees |
Voting:
There are three ways to vote each day. You can vote for ten different projects through each method, but only once per method for the same group. Here are the ways to vote:
1. Create an account through www.refresheverything.com and vote through the website. Here is a link to a video we created on how to sign up and vote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prF7uKOv2dM
2. Text 101667 to 73774. Each project has a different 6 digit code that you can text to 73774 (Pepsi) once a day to vote.
3. Vote through the Pepsi Refresh Voting App on Facebook. Search “Pepsi Refresh Project” on facebook and “like” it, follow the prompts and search “Despite Dyslexia” and click on “Vote,” Then share to your page for your friends to vote too!
Everyone at Captured Time Productions and Despite Dyslexia thank you for your support. Please feel free to forward this information to all of your contacts. The more people that vote that greater chance we have of winning, and of helping dyslexics get the support they need! Thank you!
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Wow, how exciting to find your blog about Despite Dyslexia in the Pepsi Refresh Challenge! Thank you so much for writing a post, it means the world to us! You may know that Despite Dyslexia was one of the top 100 in the August Challenge which automatically entered us into the September running. We are up against some huge groups so all the more support we can gather would be great. Voting can be done three ways each day per person: On-line at \despitedyslexia, via the facebook app and by texting our unique code 101667 to Pepsi at 73774 Thanks to everyone! Your support is heart warming!
Marney Briggs
Despite Dyslexia
Founder