Hi Rosie,
 
Thank you for talking to Mary Landrieu on our behalf.  She did write some language into an appropriations letter to Bryan Samuels.  A meeting is being set up for the end of June with Bryan.  We will have to jump through a lot of hoops, but I think he will fund us,  but we won’t see any money for a year.
 
I am writing to see if you can help us once again.  I have been told by our Kellogg program officer that we need to get one or two funding partners in addition to Kellogg or they probably will not fund us again.  They have about $2,000,000 they could repurpose for replication of Hope Meadows so if we can get one or two individuals, foundations, or corporations to give us grants for $125.000 to $250,000, we would have an excellent chance of getting the two million.  I need to have these grants in place by the end of July.
 
How are all of your kids?  And do you like doing your radio show?
 
I ran across the following that you wrote to me about a year ago.  It warmed my heart.  Thank you.
 
i have never forgotten u
ur magical dream
realized
passion and productivness
organization and heart
u brenda
have sloved the foster care issue
u made a paradise

now how can we replicate it
is it possible
can ihelp
now that the nosie of stardom has quieted
my ship righted

i remember u

wanna have dinner

rosie
 
 
 
 
Brenda Krause Eheart, PhD
CEO and Executive Director
Generations of Hope Development Corporation
609 W. University Avenue
Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 363-3080
(217) 363-3082 (fax)
 
 

We had eight years of Bush and Cheney, Now you get mad!?

You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and
appointed a President.

You didn't get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate
energy policy.

You didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.

You didn't get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.
You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.

You didn't get mad when we spent over 600 billion(and counting) on said illegal war.

You didn't get mad when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in  Iraq.

You didn't get mad when you found out we were torturing people.

You didn't get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.

You didn't get mad when we didn't catch Bin Laden.

You didn't get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.

You didn't get mad when we let a major US city, New Orleans, drown.
You didn't get mad when we gave a 900 billion tax break to the rich.

You didn't get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark.

You finally got mad when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick.  Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, are all okay with you, but helping other Americans...oh hell no.

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