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Professor Diane GerowProposal draftB. M. Roby
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Cultural Kaleidoscope
An Organization to Conduct Cultural Diversity Workshops in Schools
5/15/2012
Barbara M. Roby
Mailing List of potential sponsors, internationally interested businesses, people and churches
Bart's Heating and Cooling
Spangler Candy Company
Ohio Art
Titan Tire
Local City Councils
Chamber of Commerce
Churches
Local schools
Local college
Local churches and prayer places
Mailing the proposal to these people and places will give a better idea of how much interest there is in the community and if sponsorships and donations will be sufficient to get the program off the ground and to keep it going without having to ask for too much help from a grant. Grant money could then be used for expansion and to cover unforeseen issues and expenses that might arise.
Cultural Kaleidoscope
A group of people named Talent has many colors formed
An organization for deepening cultural knowledge and understanding by conducting workshops in schools year around culminating in a Cultural Fair at the end of the year
List of members of Talent Has Many Colors, the core group of the organization
Founder/Director /Research Barbara M. Roby
Website Advisor and development: David Stark
Donations coordinator Charlotte Hall
Connections and publicity: School Principal
Volunteer coordinator PTO
Music and dance coordinator Jacob Harper
Arts, Crafts, decorations Barbara Roby/respective cultures
Spiritual Advisors Respective Spiritual Leaders
Additional Advisors: Evelyn Musser: Korea
Calvin Banks Philippines
Anita Bunting: Germany
Kitana Phoutanav Phillipines
Owner and staff of local Chinese restaurant
Owner and staff of Mexican Restaurant
Letter of Transmittal
Cultural Kaleidoscope
Talent has many Colors
106 Main Street
Kunkle, Ohio 4353
June 20, 2012
Julie S. Hanahan
[email protected]
Dear Miss Hanahan
Thank you for the opportunity to submit a proposal to address the need of introducing cultural diversity with all its aspects into our community. My proposal outlines many ways to provide information about cultures in our area and ways to promote better understanding amongst students, parents and the whole community and therefore minimize bullying, misunderstandings and friction in schools and workplaces. Another plus will be easier adjustment to today's global work-environment and keeping jobs in the community due to higher knowledge of cultural backgrounds of members of the international concerns.
Our community encompasses many cultures, and I have read on your biannual report, that you created a website to promote knowledge of Ohio's heritage, which will be a great foundation to build on in schools and adding the traditions that are new whenever more people come to our area.
(OAC partnered with: Cityfolk, ThinkTV and the Ohio Humanities Council to create the Ohio Traditions website (www.
ohiofolkarts.org).)
Another fact that persuaded me to ask your organization for considering my proposal is that your organization conducted a tour of several areas to promote International Music and Performing Arts in seven communities across Ohio, one of these communities was the community that my proposal pertains to, Bryan, Ohio.
"Performed free concerts and outreach activities in a variety of community and faith-based venues"
My proposal provides detailed ideas of how to introduce cultural diversity into the community through specifically themed workshops about arts, crafts, music, geography and specifics about other cultures into the community, with the culmination being an annual fair, that brings everyone together to participate and show off the collected efforts from all workshops, with varied foods, music performances and stalls decorated in the country's colors, that display culturally specific items.
Another point in favor, as mentioned in the beginning, is that there are many globally interested businesses in our area, in whose interest it would be to have their employees knowledgeable about customs and habits that can influence business relations.
I am looking forward to your comments and advice on how to finalize this proposal. A pre-proposal has already been submitted to the principal of a local elementary school, who used it to incorporate a dance from the Philippines into a grandparents program, because a little second grader comes from there. He was very interested in using the whole idea of incorporating Cultural Diversity in his school. I also have the support of many young parents; the children's library section is very interested as well and asked to be part of it.
Based on what I read on your website I am looking forward to working with your organization, you have so much experience that will be very helpful, if you could share it with me, so I can make this program a success and a recurring program every year, I would be very grateful. This program could be expanding to more schools, maybe even a spinoff into businesses in an altered version, when foreign partners are coming to visit and a quick session is needed to avoid social or business practice faux pas.
Thank you for your time and if there are any questions to clarify anything at all, please do not hesitate to contact me either by phone at 419-576-9789 or by e-mail at TalentHas
[email protected]
Sincerely
Barbara Roby
Founder/Director, Cultural Kaleidoscope
Executive Summary
This Proposal has been developed to heighten understanding and awareness of the apparent cultures in the Bryan, Ohio area; it will foster knowledge about the people in our community and boost community spirit and working together towards the common goal of respect for one another. This will result in making our area a culturally welcome place, where everyone wants to live and be a part of, which will boost the local economy, school attendance, will rise, prejudice and profiling as well as bullying and misconceptions will diminish.
The plan is to hold bi-monthly workshops with different themes, some of them flowing over into other workshops to finish a project by combining two themes. All workshops will introduce aspects of several cultures in comparison with others, discovering similarities as well as differences from which the uniqueness of everyone can be learned and appreciated.
The budget for this year-long project will be partially funded through local sponsors and donations as well as grant money. When it comes to the costs of this program, the main cost will be for the consultant, his/ her yearly salary of overseeing and advising of these workshops, including research. The other main expense will be the assembling of the end of the year Cultural Fair and the appreciation dinner for all volunteers including certificates, plaques and gifts explicitly designed for each member of the team.
Some of the expenses will be offset by money raised through fundraisers and sale of items at the annual cultural diversity fair. This annual fair will be held at the end of the school year at a park or large hall. It will have many stalls with craft items, others with art displays. A few other attractions will include face painting for children games for children from all around the world. One planned large draw for many will be music and dance performances. These performances will include teaching visitors dances particular to different areas of the world. Also there are melodies that are played all around the world, only the words are different, these will be part of the performances, to have visitors participate in their own language.
The experiences and knowledge gained in the workshops and in the annual fair will have a lasting impression on all involved. It will show how much can be learned and gained by respect for others, knowing about their history and customs.
This plan of conducting bimonthly workshops with concentrating on specific aspects of cultures all around the world will advance the community into a more welcoming place to live in and therefore a draw for global businesses.
The overall result will be a closer community, the realization that working together can be very rewarding right away in school and workplace as well as down the road when knowledge about customs can prevent a misunderstanding or even a major rift between people.
The continuance of this program can be used in more schools, colleges and a spinoff can be carried over into getting ready for meetings with business partners from other countries.
The main points to get this program off to a great start and to be able to continue it year after year will be the setup of core volunteers, obtaining business sponsors and donations. One other large part will be the way the initial publicity is handled in creating an awareness of this program including all cultures present in our community.
A success of the first year will guarantee awareness of the benefits- further education certificates, credit for college, book published about the experiences, better more tolerant work environment, which means higher productivity- and the need to keep it going year after year.
After the first year changes can be made and some aspects may need to be adjusted. When people realize all the benefits more sponsors will participate in exchange for plaques and advertisements in brochures, donations will rise and the fundraisers will be even more successful. This will result in less and less grant money being needed and more can be put back into the program to advance and enhance it.
To be qualified to participate in these workshops it will not take a lot. Teachers and Principal will be part of it with their experiences of teaching and organizing, family members can and will be a part of by sharing their heritage, community members with travel experiences will also be helpful members. Other members will be a qualified web designer for news and program upkeep, an event coordinator and activities director, which will be all done by Volunteers chosen after meetings of interested persons, collected through informative letters mailed to local concerns and schools.
Table of Contents
Executive Summary p. 8-11
Introduction of the organization and its purpose p. 13-15
Current situation: background and basis for program p. 16-19
Project Plan p. 20-31
Mission Statement: Vision p. 20
Initial Assessment: Starting steps p. 20-21
Key deliverables: key points
Of program to be achieved p.21-22
Closing Assessment : Results p.22-23
Month by month objectives: Themes and steps p.23-25
Expanded explanation of Timeline p.25-27
Imagine: Description of a workshop p.28-29
Qualifications of core participants p.30-31
Benefits and costs p.32-34
Budget p.34-37
Conclusion p.38
Annotated Bibliography p.39-41
Special Mention p.42
Introduction
Ohio Art Council: Funding for established and emerging cultural diverse organizations: http://oac.state.oh.us/grantsprogs/guidelines/BuildingCulturalDiversity.asp
Julie S. Henahan
[email protected]
ALA American Library Association
http://www.ala.org
Kerry Ward, Executive Director of Library Administration and Management Association
Walking through a typical midsize town today provides a very different picture than it did less than fifty years ago, where most towns in Northern America looked like almost any European town, mainly people with Caucasian descent. China had mainly Asians, India, Indians, and Islanders people from the Islands and so on, just to mention a few examples.
Today, it really does not seem to make a big difference where in the world a person lives or travels to, the mixture of cultures, histories and languages and therefore customs is astonishing. This leads towards the realization that in order for the world to function smoothly a bridge needs to be built amongst people of all countries.
America has been at forefront of the "Melting Pot" as America has been a heterogeneous society for much longer than most other countries in the world. However, as a heterogeneous society, certain divisions have existed in that immigrants would often move to culturally similar neighborhoods or barrios in order to insulate them somewhat from the world. As times have changed, we realize that this level of insulation is not good for our understanding of one another.
As mentioned in the beginning, over the last thirty to forty years the people demographics of America as well as all over the world have changed. Businesses expanded internationally, which brought with it the need to be able to understand other countries' customs, their language and their history. Travel also became less cumbersome through advancement in air travel. This made it even easier for agents and business associates to meet at places of a proposed business deal or a merger to get information first hand or to relocate to where the organization was expanding to.
This brought with it families being uprooted and put in strange surroundings. Many times the local community is not very welcoming to newcomers. This might be caused by prejudice about certain countries, preconceived opinions or people just looked or spoke differently and therefore had a hard time fitting in. Many times this stems from the parents' attitude at home towards new people.
This unwelcoming attitude does happen in schools, but also in the workplace, may it be based on religious practices, the way people talk, the way they dress, it really does not matter. Especially in America, the "Melting pot of the Nations" and the mixture of people it is made of from the beginning, tolerance and understanding should be at a high level.
Current Situation
On this note, when businesses expand and bring new people into the community, they often bring new customs with them, which might be strange to most, but with an open mind and a willingness to give everyone a chance this could be a great opportunity for the whole community to bring everyone closer together, people could learn from one another, maybe new avenues will open up for some.
Most cities have a library where people come together for reading and studying. Bryan Ohio has added a Spanish department to help people of Spanish or Mexican background with language skills and adjusting to different customs. This is another great step in the right direction, to adjust to changes in the population. The change in people demographics not only hints at but points out strongly that the original citizen of each country has to be able not to be not only a citizen in his own nation, but also to become a global citizen. This realization will greatly help in making the global community more successful and prosperous and hopefully less unrest will result from this. Being knowledgeable about others' customs will enrich everyone, learn new ways to communicate, respect, maybe medical practices will advance more. Going right along with this, it is very important to be able to greet a person correctly, who is from a different culture. Some shake hands, some nod, others it is considered rude to look directly at them, yet another country it would be rude not to. Knowledge of a simple thing like common courtesy can go a long way towards improving family-school, worker-employer relations and business deals between companies that would like to merge.
Most high schools have a multicultural day; require the study of a foreign language and the understanding of world history. It is not that we do not have outreaches toward the understanding of multiculturalism. It is that they are not enough.
There are already existing ways to promote practices like this through tours of international concerns, brochures in foyers etc., not to forget the toys made by Leapfrog and similar companies which are made bilingual, or at times multilingual. Also programs to teach small children simple words to say in different ways, games shown in programs like Dora the Explorer, Little Einsteins, where ways of different cultures are shown through example.
Already it is mandatory in high school to have two to three years of a foreign language in order to attend college. This is a valuable step in introducing other cultures through language and with that information about that country and the attached cultural differences.
Another great step has been taken at Lincoln Elementary School, a local elementary school, where a second grade Grandparents Program included music and a dance from the Philippines, a tribute to a little girl that is part of that grade.
But…We need more...... In order to move from homogenous cultures to a heterogeneous culture, we need to devote more of a focus to learning about one another's cultures. We need to put this dialogue on the agenda. We need to devote the time and energy to this learning process that this issue truly deserves... live together, work together and thrive together...
Now to bring up a theoretical example and its' very possible positive results. For example, if a child goes home and tells the parents that there is a new student in the class from maybe Japan and shared a story from home, shows real enthusiasm, it will get the family curious and maybe ask to meet that other family. Now the families become friends, connections are made to exchange students between Japan and America. This student comes back with the knowledge of their customs and ways. Somewhere down the road there is an opportunity for a job that requires knowledge of Japanese customs and ways in order to conduct business, and voila, a great opportunity for the multicultural knowledgeable student. And where did it all start? Because one child reached out, accepted that different can be good and exciting.
This concludes that if this one case can have such an impact on just one person, how much larger the impact can be on a whole community. Therefore starting and supporting a program for introducing other cultures through teaching of their arts and crafts, music and dance, some basic games which can be often similar in many countries can only be of advantage to all involved. Children and their parents and grandparents can be proud of their heritage, show others what makes them special and everyone will feel welcome and a part of the community, that they are important in their own way.
How this plan will help in achieving the desired results:
Project Plan Section
Mission Statement of Talent Has Many Colors.... Vision
As the world becomes smaller through global travel, we are all becoming world travelers. Cultural Kaleidoscope seeks to bring the understanding of other cultures and communities through positive shared, hands-on experiences. It is one thing to read about the cuisine of other countries, and another to try these dishes. One cannot truly appreciate the treasures of other parts of the world till one participates in the dances, attempts a traditional craft or listens to traditional music. In this way, Cultural Kaleidoscope will bring the world to the children and families of the Bryan, Ohio Area in order to open up new dialogues and understanding. Our plan: teaching children and through them the families how varied and interesting the people in our community are.
Initial Assessment:
Surveys will be sent out over the summer months, the proposal will be mailed out to local schools, local globally involved businesses as well as churches and city councils to determine interest and possible sponsors and donors. This will help in determining if a grant is needed to fund the program all together or just as a backup for extra expenses.
Key Deliverables
We need a program that opens minds and hearts to the richness of the cultural diversity in our area, so our understanding and respect of one another can grow and with that the community.
In order to do this successfully and without too many interruptions in everyone's life, the following criteria have to be met
Teachers, parents and grandparents have to share their heritage
school or library offer a room for the workshops(to minimize costs)
Businesses sponsor and provide guest speakers as well as the means to put together a fair at the end of the program
And other necessities to teach the children successfully
In order to be able to reach our objective of higher respect, understanding and tolerance in our community, We plan on starting cultural diversity workshops twice a month, ending in a Cultural Diversity fair at the end of the year, where all students and their families can show their creations, play their music and perform dances as well as providing traditional dishes. This will be a great start with little expense to broaden our children's horizons, getting their families more involved with the people in the community and also getting them ready for the world after school, which is a kaleidoscope of people, their heritages, customs and beliefs.
To successfully implement this program it will take
Opening opinion surveys
Statistics into what cultures are apparent,
Informational meetings amongst volunteers
PTO meetings and council, business meetings
List of needed materials, place and times
Closing opinion surveys about changes
This will give students and their families the opportunity to learn about the world around them, how to be respectful, how to act when people with other habits and customs are apparent, and therefore ease their way into tomorrow's world.
Closing Assessment:
The following timeline is an estimate and will probably be adjusted slightly, but it provides the main steps in how the program will work. Having workshops twice a month will be enough to educate and show how many interesting people our community is made of. It gives enough time between meetings to work on projects at home, but will not overload children and families and hopefully will provide many hours of entertaining while learning to appreciate the variety in our society.
Month by Month Objectives to reach those goals:
Project Time Line
June
Surveys mailed out to teachers, churches, families and businesses
July
Examine and determine results of surveys, research what programs to be used, get sponsors, volunteers
August :first two weeks
Either special week long seminar or meetings with volunteers at a library to determine the best way to approach project with general guidelines implemented
August third and fourth week
Confirm and adjust if necessary list of names of workshops, items needed and where to get them from, make up a flier or small brochure for introduction
September week 2 and week 4
Two workshops : Fall around the world, trees and flowers, animals hibernating, migrating
October week 2 and 4
Two workshops: clothes around the world: make traditional costumes or specific clothing items important to the various cultures.(to be continued in Workshop 7 to get ready for the fair)
November week 2 and 4
Two workshops : foods around the world, how to prepare, particular food items, a traditional dish a culture is famous for or a food item not known anywhere else
Specialties from each culture participating
December 2 and 4
Holidays around the world, different ways to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, end of the year
January 2 and 4
Continuance from workshop 4, Winter around the world, activities particular in various countries, skiing snowboarding, Toboggan, ice-skating or Swimming.
February 2 and 4
Music and dance around the world
Instruments, songs, dance pieces, traditional dances, Rain dance, coming of age dance
March 2 and 4
Spring and flowers, compare fauna, find and display large map with pictures of flowers ,different and similar
April 2 and 4
Animals around the world, find animal replicas(loans from homes) or draw them, display them
( work on putting program together for end of the year fair)
May 1
Mail out fliers, send home with children
May 2-3
Collect and organize everything, last rehearsals for music pieces and dance
May week 4
Day long fair with display of projects from throughout the year, music and dance performances, foods and games.
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There are so many fairs, festivals and parades going on all year long all over the country, why not add a cultural activity fair to celebrate cultural diversity? It can start small as a school project, with teachers, families for volunteers and businesses for sponsors and grow into an annual community event.
The advantages of an endeavor like that will multiply, draw other communities' interest, boost tourism, encourage businesses to build and expand and at the bottom of it all, educate and inform, broaden horizons of everyone.
Expanded Explanations of Timeline
The first phase of this program would include surveys at schools, churches, maybe the library as well as mailed surveys to the surrounding businesses to determine the general opinion about the program.
The second phase would be based on the survey and determine and explain the necessity of introducing cultural diversity into schools and the community, this would include to find specific statistics about the area's population demographics and research accordingly what the main needs to be procured would be concerning materials, what music etc.
The reasons for the above two steps would be to prove, how much knowledge is missing in order to understand others and not prejudge people on their looks, speech or differences. This would cut down on arguments in school and at work and bullying issues might be minimized as well and respect for others will be the result.
To resume the steps necessary the next point of order would be to secure company sponsors, grants for necessary materials, costumes, food and the backing of the community leaders, who realize how a program like this can affect the whole community in a positive way, through drawing people into a friendly, open-minded area and therefore boost tourism and business to add as a bonus point. Part of this would be a summer seminar for teachers and other volunteers to be ready for the workshops sponsored by the combined efforts of the businesses.
This seminar would be part of the third to last step: the "collecting" of volunteers from amongst teachers, families and interested business owners. The family members can show their pride in their heritage by sharing their knowledge about their history, their own upbringing or stories they have been told by their parents or grandparents. This will encourage bonding, exchanging of ideas and values as well as foster the sense of togetherness and unity, understanding and mutual respect.
Now to the last two steps after successfully running this program for a whole school year a Cultural Diversity Fair will be held to draw the whole community together in providing food and entertainment from all around the world, learned in these workshops. Crafts and art, games and music and dance will provide an interesting and educational proof of what is possible when people are willing to put their differences aside, listen and learn from one another and work together.
To round up this whole project a closing survey will be distributed the same way than before, to schools, churches and businesses to determine how big a change was made.
All in all a project like this can only be of advantage to anyone who gets involved in it. It provides information about various cultures, their history, their ways of music and art, how people live, what is important to them. It broadens everyone's horizons, provides knowledge that will be helpful in fitting into a world of growing cultural diversity.
IMAGINE…
Imagine walking into a church hall or a school gymnasium drawn by music and lights after hours following an invitation from a flier a child brought home and finding about a dozen tables decorated with flags from various countries. People are milling around talking about how they are celebrating various holidays. One table is making decorations for a tree for an American Christmas; right next to them someone else is demonstrating how they decorate their tree in Japan, next to them, a table with members of a Jewish church is showing their way of celebrating Christmas with a special candelabrum and added decorations. What a colorful picture this presents, several people showing their traditions and sharing them.
Now turning around because a tantalizing smell catches the visitor's attention, a table is surrounded by laughing people making special dishes and taste testing one another's food, exchanging recipes and learning about what other people eat during the holidays.
But this is not all of it: in another corner several small groups of people are waiting their turn to practice a traditional dance or a music piece particular for the season in their culture. One group is playing a song where everyone knows the melody like Silent Night and is teaching the listeners the words in their language, forming a bond of friendship and togetherness despite their differences.
But not to forget the traditional festive wear: Check out the last corner where several people are studying clothes that are tradition to be worn on special occasions, making plans and taking notes of what is needed to make or produce these clothing items.
The excitement is barely contained, every table is curious about what the others are doing, wanting to learn more about them, wanting to be part of their activities also and sharing their own.
This picture can speak a thousand words: Teach one another about yourself, share your history and customs, it will show you how much there might be in common after all, how unique every person and their culture is, how much we can learn from one another and make the community a place everyone will want to be a part of.
Qualifications
The people involved in this project will be teachers, qualified through their job alone, parents from various cultures, who will be a big help through their backgrounds and the experiences of their lives. Another group of people as part of this organization will be representatives from various local businesses who would have an interest in this program, because it will help with the employee relations in their companies. Their background of dealing with people from all different backgrounds, with sometimes unfamiliar customs will be a valuable asset. Last but not least the director will be deeply involved in this organization. The qualifications for this are the background of being an immigrant from Germany, experiences over the last thirty years living in The United States, as well as the job experience of working in Hawaii for almost five months which opened a very different view of life, way of life. Professional Studies in Arts and Sciences. A few more aspects that are of a great asset for the director are the interest of a local elementary school principal, who asked to keep an earlier proposal for reference and further looking into an already accepted proposal. Amongst the above accomplishments the director, which is I, also has almost twenty years of Management as a plus, adding to that an almost finished Bachelor's degree in Professional Studies in Arts and Sciences, specializing in Cultural Diversity. I also have many research papers about numerous aspects of Cultural Diversity in various areas and the recommendation of a review board to attempt to publish the research papers.
Web designer: David Stark: Associates in Web design, Kaplan University
Donation coordinator: Charlotte Hall: Mother of two, connections with many parents of school children as well as connections through her studies in Legal Aid and her research plus the use of the directors research and papers from interviews of research papers of local businesses.
Music and dance coordinator: Jacob Harper Theater major
Publicity coordinator: Principal, Library Director, Church heads qualified through their jobs
Volunteer Coordinators: PTO, church councils: these people know their members and who might be interested
Spiritual Advisors: respective religious and other spiritual Leaders: asset through their jobs
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Benefits and Costs
All in all the costs to start a workshop program like this are not very great compared to the benefits that will result from a successful implementation of a Cultural Diversity Program into schools through bi-monthly workshops. Student relations will improve, parent-teacher communications will become better, and community spirit will rise due to feeling more of a part of the community, because of better understanding of others' customs and beliefs.
More tolerance amongst children, from there to families and carrying over into the community
Broadened horizons for everyone
Easier adjustment to today's multi-cultural workforce
Raising of community spirit
Friendlier and more welcoming communities
The common goal of minimizing hate-crimes and bullying as well as international cooperation for the best of all
Better communications and understanding of various customs
Advancement of community relations and business relations
Achieving these goals will be made possible mainly through volunteer work. It will be backed up through support of families, teachers and the community with its businesses. A grant especially geared towards promotion of Cultural Diversity in Ohio will help providing financial support with items and needs not covered by donations and sponsorship. The main needs are volunteers willing to spend time to participate in meetings, providing information and helping with the workshops with means from home to make them more authentic.
Teachers to conduct the workshops
Books, art materials, foods, music instruments and sheet music
Special speakers, music groups
Room to hold the workshops and a hall or park for concluding the program with an annual fair
Fliers and advertisement in local school bulletins, church bulletins and council meeting notes
Time for various meetings amongst participants
Following is an itemized budget for the general outlay of the yearlong workshops with an added section for each workshop
Most of the costs will be able to be covered through volunteers when it comes to the work and creating, time is voluntary, most schools and businesses will see the advantages it will bring them and be helpful through discounts, donations, which can be repaid through free advertising in mentioning their support in the workshop programs. What cannot be covered with sponsorship and donations will be allocated to the chosen RFP.
BUDGET
Set Expenses
Director/Founder
Monitoring Website, designing certificates, further research
Consultant
12,000/year
Web-Designer
Design and upkeep(blogs, dates, events)
2,400/year
Publicity and connections
Radio/TV spots/business sponsored: free
monthly newsletter to Volunteers, schools ,parents, businesses, churches: printing expense:$500
Volunteer Coordinator
free
Meeting place
Free(school/library/business sponsored)
Discount cards for Restaurants, craft shops, music stores, book stores, specialty stores
$500
Banner
$100
Total
$$20,900
Incentives and Rewards Budget
Volunteers
Logo T-shirts Talent has many Colors:est.10/workshop@$5=$50 times 8
Total $400
Coupons from local businesses, discount cards
Teachers, Students
Certificates for credit towards degree, extra credit for school, college credit(Publicity Director coordinates with schools and colleges, Director designs, no costs)
School, Library
Books for special cultural section :Book clubs and businesses donate, added book funds through grant $200
Businesses, Schools, Sponsors, Library, Restaurants, Donors
Plaques, Certificates est.:$500
Appreciation Banquet
Hall Rental, Entertainment, Speakers, Dinner, appreciation gift for all Participants specifically chosen for each participant( Discounts from merchants and Caterer, Hall provider)$1000
Book
Written by everyone, experiences, anecdotes, published:$500
Total
$2,600
Event expenses
Tables and chairs for each workshop
free
Workshop 1(each workshop is a two parter)
Fall around the world:
Animal and plant items from all areas, special events, Donated. Loaned or bought at discount: Materials to make them with (glue, wood sticks, paints etc.)$200
Workshop2
Clothes around the world: Dolls costumes made, small pieces like headdresses, gloves to be finished in Workshop 7for recitals:$500
Workshop 3
Foods around the world: ingredients, made in first part of workshop , "bake-sale" in second) $200 some of it retrieved in sale
Workshop 4
Holidays around the world: Christmas Hanukkah, Chinese New Year etc. Traditional food recipes exchanged and tried out, decorations made and exchanged, music and special traditions exchanged, sold at end of the year's fair: $400 some of it retrieved at sale.
Workshop 5
Continued workshop 4 , holidays
Workshop 6
Music and dance around the world: music instruments brought from home, loaned from music stores, shown in books, teach one another specific dances, rituals and music :no costs
Workshop 7
Continued with added results from Workshop 2
Workshop 8
Customs around the world, greetings, history, geography, animals, spiritual backgrounds, take turns with parents , to put it all together with earlier workshops
Final Event meeting for the Fair
Last minute details , coordination, fliers, special announcement in schools and Radio and TV$200
Total
$1,500
Annual Cultural Fair
Parking
Volunteers
Hall or Park Rental
$500 or donated
Booths Rental for displays , sales books , story- telling booths, small bandstands for dance and music
Supplied by local merchants or rented , built in shop class or as projects in Vocational Schools
$1,000
Decorations(lights, larger Flags, flowers
$200;$200;$200
Food and Ice
Food made by participants, ice either provided through donations or bought in bulk $200
Children's activities
Free Helium Balloons
[email protected]=$125
Total
$1,425
Fundraising Budget
T-shirts with logo of Organization, flags and year to sell at Fair
500 at $5 =$2,500
(Sell for $7)
Food budget for items to sell at fair
$600
Materials budget for Arts and crafts for the fair
$600
Instruments rented or loaned for performances at the fair
$300
Costume materials for dance performances ( items not already owned by groups and families of the various cultures
$200
Tickets (two kinds: Adults and students)
Print fees for 1000 =$250
Face painting for children
[email protected]=$200
Total
$4,650
Grand Total
31,075
Estimated funds raised from sales
T-shirts
$3,500
Food stands
$500
Craft items
$250
Clothing
$200
Ticket sales
$2 for adults,$1 for students/children over 6 and under 14 &1000 Tickets approx.:400 adults and 600 young people =$1400
Car washes, and other fundraising activities like carriers at grocery stores, bake and craft sales throughout the year to be determined after knowing common interests
$1000
Total estimated offset
$6850
Total financial needs
Estimated costs for first year
31,075
Offset
-6,850
Actual need without still to be determined donations and sponsors
24,225
The initial costs to launch this program are not very high compared to the long term benefits that will be accomplished with it but the costs to keep the program going will diminish through sponsorships by people and businesses that see and experience the widespread benefits resulting from teaching and promoting Cultural Diversity.
Conclusion
All the above steps, benefits as well financial help, are a step towards moving forward as persons, and enriching families. An added benefit is that the businesses and the community as a whole will be better able to keep up with today's social developments and needs to become competitive in today world.
Questions for clarifications and to encourage further explanations would be very welcome to get this program started. This would be helpful in getting more ideas and suggestions in how to make these workshops successful and fulfill their purpose, the purpose to advance into tomorrow's world, an always changing kaleidoscope of customs, habits and heritages.
Annotated Bibliography
Pictures: retrieved October 10.2011
http://www.teachersofcolor.com/2009/04/incorporating-cultural-diversity-in-the-classroom/ Picture
http://www.google.com/search?q=pictures+of+cultural+activities&hl=en&qscrl=1&nord=1&rlz=1T4ACAW_enUS406US432&biw=1280&bih=856&site=webhp&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=1UiYTrazOMjJsQL79JDtBA&ved=0CB8QsAQ
The following links describe various games and how to play them as well as ideas for class projects which could be used for school fairs (retrieved October 5, 2011)
http://wilderdom.com/games/MulticulturalExperientialActivities.html
http://education.byu.edu/diversity/activities.html
httphttp://www.ehow.com/list_5948895_children_s-cultural-diversity-games.html://www.kidactivities.net/category/DiversityMulti-Cultural-Games-and-School-Activities.aspx
An Article that shows step by step instructions about how to teach cultural diversity in school with links for further information (retrieved October 22.,2011
http://www.livestrong.com/article/188586-how-to-teach-culture-cultural-diversity-to-young-children/
Activities (retrieved September 20, 2011)
http://www.pbs.org/kcts/preciouschildren/diversity/read_activities.html
Support site for teachers (retrieved October 5, 2011)
http://www.teachingdiversity.org.au/
A book to read online (retrieved October 5, 2011) about teaching cultural diversity
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9197&page=1
An excerpt out of a collection of programs and papers called Teaching Diversity," A place to Begin" is another great document that emphasizes that working together with families, teaching children about diversity and involving their families by asking for their participation and sharing of what they think is important in their cultures is another great testament, that a workshop program for cultural Diversity has been thought about and developed before and deemed very necessary.
"Building positive identities and a respect for differences means weaving diversity into the fabric of children's everyday lives. Working with families is an important first step in helping children accept, understand, and value their rich and varied world."
http://scholastic.com/teachers/article/teaching-quotdiversityquot-place-begin
By: Janet Gonzalez-Mena, Dora Pulido-Tobiassen
Grades: PreK–K, Early Childhood, Grades 1–2
Some information has been transferred from a former, shorter Proposal written In January of 2012 by myself
A Special Mention
Some of the ideas came from Interviews over the last few months with young parents, some from coworkers, adults as well as high school students, customers with various accents and backgrounds asking their opinions as well as my own children who all have children in school. All of them expressed their enthusiasm of a proposal like this or similar being put in action. A special Thank you to two of my coworkers Kitana Phoutavana a High School Student, who took the first Project Plan home beginning of last year and read it with her parents and showed their approval and Yvette, a mother of two elementary school children who is of Mexican descent and thought it was about time, something like this was started, These two ladies plus my College professors LuElla Putnam and Diane Gerow were a great Inspiration and driving force to put extra effort forth in research and putting this paper together and finding plenty of supporting links, footage ,reading material and programs to implement my proposal
