Global Youth Development, Inc

A 509 (a) (1) Public Charity Non-profit Corporation

&

Neighborhoods First

Non-profit Corporation

September 30, 2009  

Help M. Help, Ph.D.

President/CEO

Help Community Foundation

2313 N. Anywhere St.
Anywhere, USA 00000-0000  

RE: Non-Profit Operational Expenses  

Dear Dr. Help: 

Everyone wants cleaner and safer neighborhoods; you want this for your own neighborhood.  Another thing that affects our neighborhoods is the dummying down of our schools.  G.Y.D.I. wants to stop that practice.  We want better schools in Kansas City, Missouri.  For those reasons Global Youth Development is pleased to submit this request for your review. We look forward to a strategic alliance in our cooperative efforts to give neighborhoods what they truly deserve, a decent quality of life making neighborhoods safer.  This will be accomplished through our sister corporation: Neighborhoods First.  

What is Neighborhoods First? Several years ago Kansas City Neighborhood Alliance or KCNA supported neighborhoods but became political and began siding with the city most of the time.  Neighborhoods eventually lost interest in KCNA, and it no longer exists.  Now there is a void for neighborhoods; there has been no one to take the lead or support neighborhoods, and they have been neglected for several years.    

Neighborhoods First will take neighborhood support to a higher level than KCNA.  NF, at this time, has reached out via email to the 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd  district neighborhood association presidents.  Soon a meeting will be called with neighborhood association presidents’, 20 in the 1^st district, 11 in the 2^nd, 19 in the 3^rd. There are 108 neighborhood associations, home associations, neighborhood council presidents which have an email address, and there are three or four times that amount that don't.  There will be the creation of a neighborhood association presidents’ council in each of the six districts making up Kansas City, MO, then each neighborhood association is working to bring on the rest who have not been contacted at this time.  Each district will be asked to appoint a president in their district to sit on the board of Neighborhoods First.  This position would change depending on the membership elections in each neighborhood association.  This will be the first; Neighborhoods First is creating, a new, never before (Neighborhoods Association Presidents’ Council), in each of the six districts making up Kansas City, Missouri.   

“Neighborhoods First” will take on quality of life and safety issues for neighborhoods.  Safety issues could include speed humps on neighborhood streets, dealing with absentee landlords who neglect their properties causing the “Broken Window Syndrome” (this is what the city calls homes with broken windows or broken down cars in neighborhood streets, this is what brings in the bad elements, gangs, and drug dealers which use the abandoned homes or apartment buildings as their headquarters).  

“Neighborhoods First” working with the six district neighborhood associations presidents’ council and their thousands of members will hold the city council members responsible on the give away of Tax Increment Financing (TIF) causing hardship and higher property taxes on home owners.  This trend must stop so our city will have the funding for things like upgrading our infrastructure.  

“Neighborhoods First” working with the six district neighborhood associations presidents’ council will work with the Superintendent of the Kansas City, Missouri School District, KCMSD.  Each district will then call in their elected school board member and talk about what the school needs are.  If the school board member chooses to play the same old political backbiting game, then they will be recalled and a new election or appointment will take place.  

No one has ever called the six district neighborhood associations together to improve not only the neighborhoods, but improve Kansas City as well.  

I realize foundations have their own time schedules on when grant requests are allowed to be submitted, but this is so important to the six district neighborhoods of Kansas City and the people that live in them, and this is also through the Kansas City, Missouri School District students and parents.  

Global Youth Development in order to help “Neighborhoods First” needs to request

($ 271,979) to launch our proposed program of creating the six district neighborhood presidents’ council.  The money will be needed to purchase property for parking next to the building housing both Global Youth Development and “Neighborhoods First” and salaries for the first year, rent on meeting facilities, phones and utilities. Each employee believes this program is so important they are willing to work for no more then $20.00 dollars per hour, so management has agreed to do the same.  This would include legal council funding as well.   

• Salary support, for four positions that are critical
• Purchase of land for needed parking lot for Global Youth Development and Neighborhoods First
• Addition added on to existing building for space for Neighborhoods First

I also realize that your foundation might not be able to cover the needed monies, but any amount will help.  Right now we will have 108 neighborhood associations involved, these are neighborhood associations with the presidents having email address, but the others, once funded will be contacted via the postal service and be invited to join as well.  Once up and running then each neighborhood association will be asked to donate some of their membership monies to “Neighborhoods First” so we can continue taking on issues harming neighborhoods.

The attachment shows some of the response from neighborhood presidents who have contacted their boards and given approval to join.

Sincerely,

James E. Grow, Chairman of the Board  

Global Youth Development, Inc,

Neighborhoods First

www.gydi.org/nf

nf@gydi.org

816-377-0720