Industry News | April 9, 2011
Taco Bell, Mark Wahlberg Help Teens Stay in School
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The Taco Bell Foundation for Teens announced its "Graduate To Go" fundraiser will be held April 7-21 at participating Taco Bell restaurants nationwide. During this time, customers can donate to the graduation cause, and Taco Bell restaurants have committed to match customer contributions up to $1 million, nationwide.
The success of the 2010 national fundraiser enabled the Taco Bell Foundation for Teens to grant $2.2 million to Boys & Girls Clubs and other partner organizations that inspire teens to graduate high school. This year, the foundation aspires to surpass this goal to reach even more teens.
"We are thrilled to announce our annual 'Graduate To Go' fundraiser and the continued support of Mark Wahlberg as our 'Graduate To Go' ambassador," says Bob Fulmer, executive director of the Taco Bell Foundation for Teens. "These funds will play an integral role in supporting a number of experiential teen programs proven to help teens stay in school."
Actor and producer Mark Wahlberg serves as the "Graduate To G"o ambassador for the second consecutive year, joining the Taco Bell Foundation for Teens to promote the importance of staying in school and securing a diploma. Wahlberg will appear in an April national campaign to raise awareness and encourage support of the fundraiser. He also supports teen programs through his Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation.
"This cause is close to my heart, and I am proud to be a partner of the Taco Bell Foundation for Teens," Wahlberg says. "The real-world experiences, scholarships, and grants this fundraiser makes possible are life-changing for these teens, and the generous donations are truly helping to make a difference in America's drop-out crisis."
Throughout the fundraiser, customers are encouraged to donate $1 to help teens graduate. As thanks for their support, participating restaurants will give contributors a taco coupon. During the fundraiser period, customers can also donate online at www.graduatetogo.com. The Taco Bell Foundation for Teens will also thank online donors with a taco coupon during the fundraiser period.
"Graduate To Go" is a long-term effort to raise awareness of the high-school dropout crisis and encourage teens to get their diplomas. The initiative funds real-world experiences, such as job training and college preparation, proven to motivate teens to stay in school. Through the "Graduate to Go" initiative, the foundation funded college and business camps in more than 10 markets last year and awarded more than 350 grants and scholarships to serve teens.
"Taco Bell has given me a life-changing experience," says 17-year-old Karen Batani, a Boys & Girls Club of Wesminster member, who attended the "Graduate To Go" Business Camp and earned $30,000 in "Graduate to Go" educational scholarships. "It feels incredible to no longer have to worry about money for college. I want to ensure that I give back, since the Taco Bell Foundation for Teens has given so much to me."
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We are change.
Start of inspiration/motivation. –
- I initially started out writing a marketing project but it ended up turning into this. So. I just need some typing to influence how I am writing this page. Just start typing said my one friend, They are all staring at me as I write this here today. Some things in life are just worth trying to influence. If you know you feel like your thoughts are personally the same direction as someone elses, then stand up and write for it! I believe that this is a pretty messed up world, and the economy needs to be changed somehow. Why don’t we try and stand up and help these families with high schoolers r of 16-19 years old, this shit is blasphemy. They do not have enough economical/psychological help to raise these children. I don’t know how much it will cost but Mark Wahlberg’s life changing foundation has a fund raiser of only one dollar per person to help 1 in ever 3 teens who don’t graduate high school, to help give them what they need to succeed! This could be a way to at least look towards the future of educating the future people who will decide what happens in this world. This world is small. We are in an infinite universe, infinitely expanding. It is our job to decide what happens to our future. This could be an unstoppable innovation of educational studies. All in a good day, I am going to save this at this point. Check 1.
- What do I want on my website. This is a way to collect my thoughts and get my typing started again. I feel like everyone stares at me when I type. Because I type for so long that my thoughts are planned out way ahead of when I type because I am always a couple steps ahead of the game. + the typing lag haha :P
So. My website needs to include COD. This needs to be a quick task so that I can complete this within due time. Life is short my friend. I call you my friend because I don’t have time to waste on trying to have to trust your ass or not. It shouldn’t be that way and if you put yourself in my presence trying to flake on me, I will not allow it. I am ahead of the game and in no means am I trying to hurt anyone or drag them down. Intentions from the heart are what fuel true inspiration. I have definitely gained the psychological motivation buried within, rather than I am trying to instill it. It is much easier to sell a new car for someone who comes to the lot to buy it, rather than someone who doesn’t. It takes a long time to find true inspiration, and there are only a few ways to hold on to it. I mentally try and succeed to obtain my inspiration by a couple / but kind of a lot of tactics.
All is good because I have enabled myself to simplify them by learning from my own mistakes. I am only 19 years old, but that is why YOU, the growing teen and also PARENT, who are also growing finally, succeed in raising yourself. At a certain point in your life you have to drop aside the mistakes of your past, and of your parents past. All in a good day, I say this in love because that is my saying for when I go to sleep at night. I have a 20 minute brainstorm session before bed, and mentally remember some of the things I learned the day before. Many of the things I learn from day to day vary on the environment I’m around so it is really tough to choose what type of environment I’m in because my ADHD, mixed with some bad habits from when I was younger no longer allow me to follow trust myself in all the decisions I make. So that’s the battle of my daily mentality when it comes to even what time I wake up in the morning.
Every choice you make influences you in some way or another no matter how small it is, you will never be at the same level of opportunity you were if you didn’t sleep in past 3pm. Even the simplest tasks can influence how you behave on a daily basis. Which in the long scheme of things you missed out on a shit ton of things you could of learned the day before, a shit ton of things to make your life more beneficial and at the point where you don’t have to worry. This is only a rough age because depending on where you were given the gift of life, and the parental environment you were raised it was not your doing. You are put there on purpose because everyone is meant to succeed. Everyone is meant to grow and we are put there so we grow in a certain way so that we can all put the perfect perspective of life together making it all work out. But we are stopped because of all of the wrong perspectives out there.
People are flawed, but at the same time we are meant to be almost perfect, almost in the image of something else to the best of our ability. But you don’t have to believe in any god or greater being, you have to have the mentality of an ultimate greater good of equality, in the terms that it betters everyone, and there is no greed involved. If we can help establish everyone to the level to where they can be set free on their true fate/destiny as a person, then we can all succeed exponentially greater per person! This would be an insane revolutionary brain development process that could overall change the entire existence of civilization! Greed/Hunger/Poverty/No Books/Divorce/ADHD/Psychological Disorders/ everything can all be conquered because we were brought here and allowed as humans to work in a perfect balance of harmony. There is a flow of life that we are all capable of, but it’s a matter of wanting to be happy. Some people just don’t want to be happy, and therefore they could just be put in there own place, because all of us happy people like being happy, and you can screw off .Haha.
This is not a complete comment, but it was just some of the things I really feel inspired by and I would like to try my best to help get something going. I might not have the capital myself, but there is a saying, money is something tangible, but an idea is worth more than money itself. One idea is what can start a revolution. I want to try and help spark the idea that we can change our Future.
I would really like to know what anyone has to say about this and if they agree or not. It is evident that we can do it if we want to. Change the economy not by politics, but by the people themselves. And we, the teens of America are need to step up so that we can change the future of our amazing country.
Sincerely, Jeremiah Bunworth.
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