Two Sponsored Openings Created for Low-Income/At-Risk Youth
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
(Santa Barbara, CA)
On September 30th at midnight, the nonprofit organization Aikido Kenkyukai Santa Barbara ended its month-long Facebook Fan Drive to sponsor underprivileged and at-risk youth. During the course of the drive, people from the community came together and became fans of the group’s page to create sponsored positions for aikido training and mentoring for low-income children.
For those of you who have not been following the story, the way the fan drive worked was as follows: For the month of September, AKSB challenged Facebook members to become a fan of the AKSB Facebook page and agreed to sponsor one child from a low-income family for every twenty new fans it received. The group had 606 fans when they started the drive and grew the fan base to 654 by the end of the drive. AKSB will now accept applications from local low-income families to chose two worthy recipients of the training and mentoring.
Thank you to all our new Facebook fans who made this possible!
For more information about the program or to apply for the sponsored position, please contact 805-870-5437.
As a 501(c)(3) California nonprofit public benefit corporation, AKSB gratefully accepts donations that will help fund the sponsorship of at-risk and low-income children. You can make your donations by clicking here.
Become a fan of AKSB’s Facebook Fan Page.
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