I do! I do! which is why my fam­ily and I took steps in 2012 to lay down some plans. Giv­ing more of our time. Giv­ing more of our tal­ents. Giv­ing more of our money. We had the plea­sure of acci­den­tally stum­bling into a rela­tion­ship with Ethel Tay­lor Acad­emy. This school is located within a hous­ing project on the west side of Cincin­nati. This is not a des­ti­na­tion — fam­i­lies do not hope to one day say they live here. This is, instead, the end of the road. The School has 100% of the chil­dren on Fed­eral fund­ing for school lunches. The School is also a fail­ing a School — the peo­ple who work here are des­per­ately try­ing to help not only the chil­dren of Ethel Tay­lor, but their families.

On Feb­ru­ary 12, it’s NAAPID — National African Amer­i­can Par­ent Involve­ment Day. On this day, Ethel Tay­lor invites all of the school fam­i­lies to attend an evening event where they work to influ­ence the par­ents to under­stand the impor­tance of being involved in their child(rens) edu­ca­tion. More par­ent involve­ment would go a long way in help­ing this school. Our fam­ily was asked to pro­vide two laun­dry bas­kets full of clean­ing sup­plies which could be given away dur­ing the event. We took that request for two, crossed it out and changed it to 50!

In order to be able to do this we need the help of many. We were for­tu­nate to part­ner with a local com­pany who will be match­ing what raise $1 for $1 until we reach our goal. If we did reach our goal, this would mean we would have enough funds for 100 bas­kets!!! Please con­sider giv­ing even a few dol­lars. Share this with your friends and fam­ily. Be a part of help­ing to make this a suc­cess­ful event.

Here’s how you can become involved: http://www.indiegogo.com/etheltaylor

Thank you for the bot­tom of my heart.