Programs
YTA's online website hosts two main programs which are completely Internet based - thus not require very little effort and time from to participate in.
The Share & Care Club encourages teenagers to forgo a soda or a pack of gum every month, in essence, save just one dollar from his/her pocket money every month. A group of five participants would effectively raise $60 at the end of a year. Though it may not seem like a large amount, participants can forward funds to YTA select organizations that can make a huge impact. For example, each year 350,000 kids go blind due to lack of Vitamin A. Just one dollar can provide enough supplement capsules to protect 4 children from developing blindness.
The Birthday Club promotes kids to donate just 1 present on their birthday - make their special day, a special day for many others as well. Birthday kids can set up their parties through the YTA website and invite/request invitiees to participate in the program. Only the first 'x' invitees that opt to donate online, in lieu of bringing a present, will receive a special certificate that they can bring to the party. In the end, the birthday person gets to forward the funds raised to a cause and country of his/her choice.
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Famous quotes containing the word programs:
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)
“We attempt to remember our collective American childhood, the way it was, but what we often remember is a combination of real past, pieces reshaped by bitterness and love, and, of course, the video past—the portrayals of family life on such television programs as “Leave it to Beaver” and “Father Knows Best” and all the rest.”
—Richard Louv (20th century)
“Government ... thought [it] could transform the country through massive national programs, but often the programs did not work. Too often they only made things worse. In our rush to accomplish great deeds quickly, we trampled on sound principles of restraint and endangered the rights of individuals.”
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)