INDIVIDUAL GIVING IS NEEDED TO MAKE CERTAIN ALL CHILDREN ARE READY TO READ UPON ENTRY INTO KINDERGARTEN.

If there were 100 children in a neighborhood, 100 children should show up ready for kindergarten ready to read. This solution would be new beginnings for many problems our society faces. Individual adults can deliver the gift of Early Reading Skills, and at the same time the skills of Choice, Civility, Character Development and Freedom of Speech.

Truly this is about adults individually giving these assets to age 3-6 children. If a parent doesn’t give the gift of early reading, someone else must or the child and society bears the deficit. The real issue (giving) is never further away than the family and the adults in the neighborhood, including parents, principals, executive directors, the faith-base, business and the general public. Times are changing, it is increasingly noticed when the neighborhoods do not create next steps like security, ethics, economics, growth jobs, and safety defined by the world economy. It is pay now or pay more later for those who have the gift to give. Children have no say in what they miss. There are significant paybacks for everyone when gifts are used to prevent children from falling behind. Families, extended families and substitutes, with only a little help, can make the commitment to at least the ready-to-read Pre-K level.
Giving a child freedom of speech is a secular activity, no matter who gives it. The Good Samaritan did not hold back because the government gridlocked over a 16 percent internal rate of return investment. This should be an acceptable enough story to guide what we must do today. Walk on by, in your own neighborhood, or fix it! Some of the neighborhoods need outside help- simply more capacity to deliver. Many in the faith-base know they have these opportunities and a purpose to give. Everyone can see the common good in the Good Samaritan. But, who is calling out for the need to GIVE at this level? Principals? Faith-Base? Executives? Districts? State? Federal Agencies?

The Ultimate Character Development Network centers from the public school and MAKES CERTAIN the neighborhood delivers 100% of the children ready-to-ready in kindergarten. It actually starts the collaboration with character development in grades K-3. Ultimately the Pre-K children also understand words like please, excuse me, thank you and others like fair, happy, and working because of the stories being read and told. See http://ulticharnetwork.blogspot.com/, including a discussion of Giving it Forward in the neighborhood. The sole purpose of the character development materials at http://www.usavalues-character.org/ is for schools and effective communities to pull this together for the children and themselves. These gifts are at least three times blessed.

USA VALUES – CDP, Character Development Programs promotes truth; 1) The gift of Early Reading Skills (the FIRST value) is required for ALL age 3–6 children before they start kindergarten; 2) This individual gift is the key to opportunity; 3) The gift is the most effective and lowest cost approach to preparing at-risk children for opportunities; 4) The principal is vested in 100% of the children starting kindergarten ready-to-read. CDP is a 501(C)(3) business expecting to link families, paid volunteers, early childhood learning and faith-base resources, schools, corporations and agencies to first deliver 100% of the children to be ready-to-read starting in kindergarten. For other press releases and commentary that encourage a response, see http://chardevelactivity.blogspot.com/.

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Press Contact: Thomas Wolfgram… Phone: 763-550-0769
Company Name: USA VALUES-CDP, Character Development Programs
Email: tdw.usavalues@comcast.net
Website: http://www.usavalues-character.org/

America! “Pay-it-Forward!” Power Education’s Innovation! with the NEW MONEY

The USA is coming together with NEW MONEY. Effective citizens, in power, now have it or are in position to receive it. The NEW MONEY is from the Job Creation Act of 2004. It is a “gift” from the Government in 2004 …to arrive in 2005-2010 and beyond. Briefly, the Federal Government set up future investments in domestic job creation with funds that were earned, earmarked and located offshore for foreign investment by the US multinational corporations. Additionally, the government demonstrated a belief in Corporate America’s effectiveness in job creation and trumped the bet with new tax deductions for the domestic manufacturing expenses of all corporations to provide even more cash for job creation and growth.
· Multinationals repatriate excess levels of foreign earnings almost tax free (estimate totaling $350 billion, one-time in 2005-06)

· Multinationals repatriate excess levels of foreign earnings almost tax free (estimate totaling $350 billion, one-time in 2005-06)
o http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=repatriate+earnings+&btnG=Google+Search

o http://www.blackenterprise.com/yb/ybopen.asp?section=ybbf&story_id=74835787&ID=blackenterprise&p=1
· Rules covering portions of this “gift” have been created by the Treasury Department calling for ethical executive and BOD commitment to “pay forward” the whole dividend ($350 billion) on job creation.
o http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/reports/repatriationfactsheetfinal.pdf
o http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/reports/finalsecondrepatriationfactsheet.pdf
· All Manufacturing companies are given new tax deductions because they manufacture ($80 billion per year)-- http://www.grantthornton.ca/tax/articles/Teo-Wendy_article_10-27-04.pdf

NEW MONEY is first-things-first in the end-in-mind commitment to job creation. Demographers point out that growth will necessarily be filled in the future by at-risk children who must stay engaged (committed) to their opportunity via education. Please use these links to meet some of the influencers of the commitment, some influencers are not yet aware of this NEW MONEY.
· Neighborhoods and Neighborhood organizations
http://www.nanworld.org/; http://www.unca.org/; http://www.americaspromise.org/; http://www.charactercounts.org/
· Community Schools
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Coalition+for+Community+Schools&btnG=Google+Search
http://www.communityschools.org/
· Parents and Teachers (PTA) and Preschool Advocates
http://www.pta.org/; http://www.preknow.org/about.html
· Elementary School Principals http://www.naesp.org/

Please use Google to find:
· City Councils; Mayors; School districts; School boards; Superintendents; Principals,
· Faith-Base; Organizations like the local Y’s and Boy’s and Girl’s Clubs,
· Countywide, Statewide government and school organizations; Federal government organizations.
· Statewide and National level professional and service organizations.
· Newspapers covering the size and use of the repatriations.

Here is an example. “It's been a bonanza for pharmaceutical companies. Drug giant Pfizer Inc. alone is returning a sizable $36.9 billion in overseas profits” quoted from Black Enterprise Magazine. (Please Click Here). They had few active domestic ideas for this money until October 2004. So will they use it in the neighborhood to create future jobs for the most at-risk, poorest of the poor? Honestly, the private money to be considered in any, Give-it-forward effort will need to see solid community commitment to age 3-6 reading skills for the most at-risk. With the New Money on its way we must innovate in a way that shows year-after-year commitment.

Educators know our society has not registered the importance of the Sensitive Language Learning Period for age 3-6 children. On-point discussion with a public kindergarten teacher and the principal convinces the effective citizen that the early reading gifts must be given to all the children to make the most out of investments in the whole child and our classrooms.
Demographers say; http://www.usavalues-character.org/References/manychildren.pdf
Elementary School Principals Say; http://www.usavalues-character.org/References/ECLC_ExecSum.pdf
Kindergarten Teachers say. http://www.fightcrime.org/

When the benefits and simplicities of early reading skills are sorted out by USA citizens; AND understood to be tools against poverty; the new expectation for giving to 100% of at-risk children will arise. See http://ulticharnetwork.blogspot.com/

USA VALUES – CDP, Character Development Programs promotes truth; 1) The gift of Early Reading Skills (the FIRST value) is required for ALL age 3–6 children before they start kindergarten; 2) This individual gift is the key to opportunity; 3) The gift is the most effective and lowest cost approach to preparing at-risk children for opportunities; 4) The principal is vested in 100% of the children starting kindergarten ready-to-read. CDP is a 501(C)(3) business expecting to link families, paid volunteers, early childhood learning and faith-base resources, schools, corporations and agencies to first deliver 100% of the children to be ready-to-read starting in kindergarten. For other press releases and commentary that encourage a response, see http://chardevelactivity.blogspot.com/.

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Press Contact: Thomas Wolfgram… Phone: 763-550-0769
Company Name: USA VALUES-CDP, Character Development Programs
Email: tdw.usavalues@comcast.net
Web site: http://www.usavalues-character.org/