Last night I had the great opportunity to dine with Jane, the Executive Director of the Sunnyside Foundation. This foundation is dedicated to supporting CS youth in Texas. She manages funds to help college students with buying books, paying rent, and I believe tuition. Sunnyside also sends kids to camp, any camp, not just CS camps. She is very keen to see DiscoveryBound ramp up in Texas. It was great to be able to share this blog with her as well as tell her about the chapters cropping up in every corner of Texas.
A proposal and grant request is being drafted to submit to Sunnyside to support these Texas chapters individually as well as providing funding to get some regional events scheduled in Texas.
Also with us was Jane's husband and a family/church friend, Sloan, who has offered to help with the existing Dallas chapter. It looks like we'll get him on the Chapter Board. The interesting thing about the Dallas Chapter is (as far as I could tell), it has been nearly single handedly run by a high school student, BJ. Well, BJ is about to head off to college and we need to get some replacements in to cover for the great work BJ has been doing and keep the chapter active and growing.
2 comments:
Did the Dallas Chapter fade out? What is the status? Did you receive a grant from Sunnyside?
The Dallas chapter is up and running. Check out the contact info on the map embedded in the left column. Thanks!
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