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WRITTEN BY
- Sesame Flyers International Executive
Director - Curtis Nelson
 Summer
is finally here, bringing with it lots of sun
energy, plenty of Sesame activities and the
perfect time to launch our newest initiative,
the Sesame Web letter. We are constantly driven
by the need to communicate more effectively with
the tons of supporters and potential donors, all
asking the same question; what is Sesame doing?
Thus, we have created the Web letter as a tool
to disseminate updated information to our
chairman,
board,
advisory boards,
members,volunteers,
donors, mas players,
corporate sponsors, and our truest of supporters, gently
pushed via timely email, to dynamically reflect
the updates at our website, and
our
organization.
In this issue we feature “who are our donors”,
and why do they donate to us, in an effort to
recognize and grow our member donor community.
Reflecting on the last six years, Sesame Flyers
has grown steadily in its capacity to deliver
services to the East Flatbush and Canarsie
Communities. Annually, over five thousand youth
and their families have benefited from any one
of our free programs and events. An
accomplishment we are very proud of, along with
the distinction that our agency is within the
top 7 of the 80 city non-profit Agencies that
run
Beacon Programs,
so says our main funder
NYC Department of Youth
and Community Development (DYCD).
Our restrictive government funding, however, has
far outpaced our own ability to raise the
necessary unrestricted donor generated funds for
non funded expenses, such` as our cultural
programs, our building maintenance and repair,
general support, scholarships, and under funded
programs.
We realize that the East Flatbush and Canarsie
communities have long been short on youth
services in comparison to other neighborhoods.
The resources clearly cannot meet the needs.
And although it seems to some that we are
successful, and do so much, we always seem to
still come up short; in the eyes of those who
did not receive services. There are too many
who do not benefit from our under funded
services. The four hundred
Summer Youth Employment (SYEP)
jobs we have cannot fulfill the nine hundred
applications we field. Six hundred fifty summer
camper slots at three different sites cannot
fulfill the eight hundred applications we
receive, and the need list goes on. The reality
and the expectation just do not meet.
Disappointment that we failed to deliver needed
services is never easy, but disappointment on
the face of a 10 year old who cannot get into
our under funded, over full, summer camp, or the
16 year old who did not get into our summer
youth employment program is even more difficult
to accept. We must do more. We must find a
way. Why you say? Because when you celebrate
our increasingly successful delivery of
services, you began to, rely on us to, need us
to, and most of all expect us to, deliver more
successes and more services. You just plain
expect us to do more, period. And will well,
but with your help.
Hence we must join the other non profit
agencies that share this same challenge from
their community like the Prospect Park Alliance,
and the YMCA’s, who have employed more modern
and effective donor campaigns in order to
fulfill our ever growing community needs. We
must seek out those of you individuals, who have
the capacity to become a donor member, and
support our mission. Those of you who can
appreciate the satisfaction of associating
yourself with Sesame Flyers. Those of you can
share in the pride we feel when we love a kid
today and every day. Become a
donor member
today and really celebrate with our successes to
come.
Comment On This Article Today ! -
cnelson@sesameflyers.org
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