 "...building blocks for a society that, we hope, will lose no more Jennas."
Mentoring • Advocacy • Community Education
Click on our 10th Anniversary Logo to learn more about Jenna Foundation history.
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The Jenna Foundation is grateful to count so many fine organizations and businesses in our region as partners in our mission to build safer communities.
This was once again made clear during the week of April 5th when our foundation was supported by two successful fund-raisers. On April 7th & 8th, the Nothing But Noodles restaurant at Marshall's Plaza in DeWitt donated 15% of every guest check submitted with an event flyer, resulting in more than $300 in proceeds going to support our Mentors for Jenna program. The restaurant also donated gift cards towards raffle prizes and the foundation was represented by an information table including turtle balloons for the kids! A special thank-you goes, in particular, to restaurant manager and co-owner Patrick Hummel for his support and professionalism in making this event happen.
"A Walk to End Violence" was held on behalf of The Jenna Foundation by the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, Eta Gamma Chapter at SUNY Oswego, on Saturday, April 11th. The walk-a-thon event took place at the Oswego Junior High School track, and, despite a bright but chilly day, more than $1000 in proceeds was raised to support our programming, with many thanks to the numerous area businesses, walkers and especially the fraternity brothers who dedicated so much time and effort to support non-violence programming in their area and raise awareness about crime statistics and the services available to crime victims. Our thanks go to organizing fraternity brother Justin Stosuy for his personal investment in this event, and to our loyal, ongoing volunteers from the UPS Community Foundation, who once again made so much happen "behind the scenes."
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NATIONAL
CRIME VICTIMS' RIGHTS WEEK
April 26th – May 2nd, 2009
The Jenna Foundation will once again join with a coalition of agencies that come together every year to commemorate this important week within Onondaga County, New York.
Click here to learn more about the national event and watch for more details about our local observance for 2009.
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Jenna Foundation to Support Annual
Mountain Goat Run
The Jenna Foundation is looking forward to our first year as a "charitable partner" of the annual Mountain Goat Run, to be held on Sunday, May 3 in Syracuse, New York. This is an exciting and well-attended regional event with goals of promoting a healthy mind and body that are very much in concert with the mission of The Jenna Foundation.
In our role supporting this event, we will be promoting event participation and signing-up volunteers to help as staff. Watch this newsletter for more details very soon. For more information click on the running turtle at right to go to the event web site, or send your request to info@jennafoundation.org.
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Mountain Goat Run
May 3rd, 2009
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To learn more about this internet search engine, visit the site at www.goodsearch.com. There you will find examples of media coverage about the site and answers to frequently asked questions. If you'd like to support the Foundation with your internet searches, simply follow the on-screen instructions for setting your browser to Goodsearch and enter The Jenna Foundation for Nonviolence as your designated non-profit organization. This process only takes a few minutes and funds raised will support our Jenna's Mentors and Crime Victim Advocacy programs.
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Newsletter
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SPRING 2008 NEWSLETTER
ARTICLE HIGHLIGHT
"Executive Notes" by Janice Grieshaber, Executive Director
It hardly seems possible that, as of November 6th, 2007, Jenna had been gone for ten long years. It seems like yesterday. It seems like a hundred years ago. And now, this year, we realize the tenth year of the mentoring program established in her name and feel the same shock. How can that much time have passed? How can we have seen that many children play our games and learn our lessons – we hope.
We hope. It’s all about hope. There is no way to know how many children and how many mentors actually absorb the messages of the lessons. We can only hope that they do and that we change the thinking and thus the lives of some of the children who are mentors and mentees. That’s our goal, to change everyone involved in this program, even the adults who provide oversight.
Click Here to read the complete article.
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