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Did you know:

Savitsky, Satin & Bacon specializes in financialmanagement services for people in the entertainmentindustry. So why did they recently make another $1,000investment in JIT? Gary Satin is the brother of BoardmemberTerry Satin. Thanks to the Satin siblings!

HEADLINES:

Meredith Masters, JIT Outreach & the Pipeline

Open House and Voices for Children

The Last Word: AWARENESS

This week JIT Program Director Meredith Praniewicz was accepted into

USDs Graduate Program in Nonprofit Leadership and Management.

The qualities they looked for? people who are already or have the potento be leaders in the nonprofit community, people with critical thinking skills,good interpersonal skills and strong writing skills.It was a highly competitive process with only 28 applicants accepted for the t

year program (including a 3 unit summer session). Congratulations, Meredit

Meredith is College Bound in 2011!

IT has also been invited to give a presentation the first Sunday

n May to roughly 30 potential volunteers at Solana Beach

Presbyterian Church, a longtime partner for My First Home.

This outreach kicks off Foster Care Month with a possibility of

more committed Champions to support JITs other programs as

we expand our reach in 2011.

COLLEGE BOUND 2011

GOAL: $65,000

TO DATE: $36,535

TARGET: $50,000 - May 1

April 11-22UCSD College Bound Drive

MayKPBS These Days segment

June 18Colle e Bound Event

Would you like to help spread awareness of our mission in

011? Contactdwells@JitFosterYouth.orgfor presentation tips

nd materials to increase our voice in the community.

Monday Memo EditionApril 18, 2011

From the JIT Executive Director

Barbara Eva (left) invited us to share the JIT story with the League of Women Vot

A second speaker, Paul Millhouse, is a former foster youth (now in his forties) whogave a detailed account of his life in- care and the

The PIPELINEubmitted:Impact Giving:Basic Needs, Farrell Foundation:Basic Needs,SDGE:JIT Ambassad

w/Playwrights Project, FOCUS:College Bound, Norris:College Bound, US Bank:College BoundDCounty Supervisors:College Bound; Dickinson: College Bound; Weingart: Capacityn Process: Rivers of Hope, Union Bank, Barney & Barney, PEERS Network

Events:Hats Off to San Diego Luncheons (4/26 & 5/19); Blanchet Designs Fashion for a CauseBenefit (5/18); JIT Fall Gala (9/18)

many struggles he faced after leaving the system.

Paul has offered to help JIT raise awareness in the future.

JIT Outreach

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THE LAST WORD:

PROGRAM UPDATES:

The first annual JIT Open House is less than a

month away! The Objective? Bring together

current and soon to be transitioning foster youth

with more than a dozen organizations with potential

resources they should know about, plus two great

JIT partner presenters (Maurice Wilson and Don

Meredith, above) to help them manage their lives

and car expenses a whole lot better. All in oneplace, all on one day, all at the Casey Family

Program Building Friday, May 13@ 4:30-7:30 pm.

Eight volunteers are still needed for the event so

please contactnsdevico@JitFosterYouth.orgto sign

up today. Or just plan to drop by on the 13th

to be

part of this special JIT experience.

Thanks to AmeriCorps VISTA Nick DeVico forplanning this new outreach effort and to our friends

at Casey for their enthusiastic support of this

collaboration during Foster Care Month.

APRIL11-22 UCSD College Bound Drive

MAY11&14 Career Horizons Session II

12 JIT Board Meeting

13 JIT Open House

14 My First Home Storage Day

18 Beginning of HopeFashion Show

Fundraiser by Stacey Blanchet Designs19 19th Gold Diggers Hats Off to San Dieg

Fashion Show and JIT Fundraiser

21 Volunteer Gathering BBQ Beach Day

JUNE

11 Phil Rivers 5K Walk and Fun Run 2011My First Home Storage Day

18 College Bound Event (SDSU)

This is only the first exciting step in a plforge a much more active relationship w

Voices so that JIT can more seamlessly c

forward the information and caring advo

that CASAs provide before youth come t

us. More on details in the weeks ahead!

What does this have to do with JIT? Its a great example of what I experience each and every week. Bonitas caus

is one I hadnt given much thought to, just as most people who hear about JIT for the first time have never had anyreason to think about transitioning foster youth. Until someone makes a point to say look at this, followed by an

this is what you can do. One person simply talking to another that eventually leads to change in a thousand lives.

So try it today. Some people can write a big check. Others have the time and talent to create a program. But its so

easy to raise awareness that anybody can do it. After all, a minute ago you had never heard of Bonita Chamberlin.

The Last Word isAwareness.

This weekend, a few of our JIT extended family attended a three-day event that came to ourattention through Maria Herman and our friends at Makua. It was an opportunity to meet and

talk with Bonita Chamberlin (left), a geologist who went to Afghanistan more than 30 years agand now cannot turn her back on the eo le and the countr she came to love.

JIT has been invited give an

overview of our services to a

audience of CASAs on May

18th

at the office of Voices fo

Children.

These days, she is marketing jewelry made by Afghan women that helps fund schools(especially for girls), teacher training, healthcare, an orphanage, reforestation and

irrigation programs. (http://www.insideafghanistan.org/about.html)

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