Make Your Bid to Support Treasure Beach Foundation!
Here's your chance to buy a wonderful piece of art and help a deserving student at the same time.
Auction Ends: May 8, 2011 11:59 PM EDT
Art for Education
to benefit
Treasure Beach Foundation
A 501 (c) (3) Non-Profit Foundation
www.treasurebeachfoundation.org
Treasure Beach Foundation provides opportunities to the people of Treasure Beach, Jamaica—a rural fishing village where the residents have a strong work ethic but few opportunities.
Concentrating on educational needs, we award competitive scholarships to students for their seven years of high school. (One year of public high school for a Treasure Beach student costs roughly $2,000 U.S. per student—meaning about $14,000 to get through high school, a huge obstacle for most families in a place where the minimum wage is $1.14 an hour.) We also provide computers, software, and learning materials to the elementary school and pre-school in Treasure Beach. And, we assisted the community with materials to repair and rebuild after the major devastation caused by Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and Hurricane Dean in 2007.
No one on either our Board of Directors or Board of Advisors is paid; all their work is done on a voluntary basis. We pay no rent and incur few outside expenses. Therefore, unlike many other charities, we have absolutely minimal overhead. This means that the vast majority of the money we raise is used to benefit the residents of Treasure Beach.
All items in this online auction were donated to us for this purpose, either by the artists themselves or by serious collectors.
All proceeds from this auction will go to support our ongoing scholarship program. Because we are getting ready to award new scholarships for the sixth consecutive year—and because we continue to support all prior recipients who meet our ongoing requirements, our need for funding is growing exponentially.
Buying something from our auction will not only garner you something tangible, but you will also have the knowledge what you spent is supporting a very promising young lady or gentleman who might otherwise fall by the wayside.
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