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| Date: From: Subject: | 8/3/2011 4:58:00 PM Home School Legal Defense Association Home School Foundation Report July/August 2011 |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== Home School Foundation Report July/August 2011 Dear Friends of the Home School Foundation, Every day we are blessed to be able to reach more homeschool families and bring encouragement and support to their journey. Thank you for your prayers and support for us in this mission--it makes all the difference in these precious families' lives. In this Foundation Report, two funds are scheduled for open enrollments, Combined Federal Campaigns are kicking off, and we tell a story about HSF sending help to Hungary! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Because You Helped We are blessed to serve some amazing families at HSF. For everyone who has prayed or given to support our mission, the thank-you's we receive are for you, too! "It is so encouraging to know there is help out there for special needs children in the way of education, and a Christian education at that! Thank you Jesus! We are so grateful that HSF is doing something and we want to extend a huge thank-you for what you are doing for our family!" --Dawn E., Special Needs Children's Fund --------------------------------------------------------------------- Testing in Hungary The Foundation helped fund a trip to provide testing and support to several homeschooling families in Hungary. The sessions brought together nine children for three mornings of standardized testing, which is required annually for many international homeschoolers. Read the full story: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11965 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Widows Fund Open Enrollment Do you know a widow who is struggling to make ends meet while homeschooling? If so, please invite her to contact the Foundation. We want to help. Direct her to our website http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11979 or have her contact us online http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11966 or by phone at 540-338-8688. We yearly help hundreds of homeschooling widows and are always trying to reach more with support and encouragement so they can continue their conviction to homeschool. The fall enrollment period runs from August 1 to October 1. Apply to the Widow's Fund: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11967 Give to the Widow's Fund: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11968 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Needs Children's Fund Open Enrollment The Special Needs Children's Fund offers assistance to HSLDA member families (who have been a member for at least six months) who are struggling with the financial burden of meeting their child's special learning needs. This fund helps with special therapies, equipment, testing and specialized materials. The fund is open for applications for the month of August. Please contact http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11966 us to see if you are eligible for this fund. Apply to the Special Needs Children's Fund: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11969 Give to the Special Needs Children's Fund: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11970 --------------------------------------------------------------------- HSF Ambassador Program Matching Funds The HSF Ambassador Program is a volunteer network that is expanding across the country. To encourage local fundraising, HSF is matching the first $2,000 contributed into each state's Ambassador Fund for the first 10 states that reach this goal. These monies will be earmarked for use in the respective state and may be designated to help specific needy families now or in the future. Contact http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11966 us for more details. See Where Ambassadors Are Volunteering: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11971 Learn More about the Ambassador Program: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11972 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Combined Federal Campaign Donations HSF is a qualified charity for the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC No. 10535). If you are, or know, a federal government employee looking for a charity to support, please consider the Home School Foundation for this year's campaign and pass the word along to others. It is only through donations from compassionate individuals and families that we are able to assist those who come to us for help. Thank you for considering the Home School Foundation for your designated CFC giving (CFC No. 10535) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Give While You Shop for Curriculum Here's a great way to help homeschoolers any time you shop online: purchase materials online from a company that gives to the Home School Foundation. All you have to do is go to Clicks for Homeschooling and click on the link to the store of your choice. Then you shop just like normal, and the store will track that you came from the HSLDA site and give a percentage of what you spend to the Foundation. Learn More: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11973 --------------------------------------------------------------------- HSF Prayer Needs Please keep the Foundation and those we help in your prayers. We cannot function without God's help and guidance, and the people we help need His grace and comfort far beyond what we can give. A few ways you can be purposeful about prayer for HSF: > We post a Prayer Family of the Week on our Facebook page http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11974 . Please check regularly to "meet" the family and pray for them throughout the week. > Make HSF's website your homepage so that every time you get online you are reminded of your fellow homeschoolers in need and to pray for them. > Look for prayer needs listed in this bi-monthly Foundation Report e-newsletter. A few specific prayer needs for the Foundation: > Widows: Please pray for our Widows Fund enrollment period, from August 1 to October 1. We want to reach more homeschooling widows this fall than ever before! > Special Needs Children: Please pray for the families contacting us with Special Needs Children during August--that we would be able to discern the needs and help encourage and bolster these families as they take care of their children. > Ambassador Program: Please be in prayer for the growth of the Ambassador Program. More volunteers are signing up, but we need leaders who will spearhead projects and fundraisers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Give in Honor or Memory of a Loved One The Foundation welcomes love gifts given in honor or memory of an individual. The following gifts have recently been given: June P. Lunceford in memory of Rose Pollard In honor of Kathleen W. Carper's decades of service to homeschoolers in SC Carolyn Cunningham in honor of John G. Cunningham's birthday John and Carolyn Cunningham in honor of Joanna Toso's high school graduation Marry Norris in honor of Ashley and Alyssa Carr's graduations In honor of Molly Nystrom To give in honor or memory of an individual, please go here http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11975and click the "donate in memory/honor of an individual" dropdown. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Stay Updated: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube Join the growing number of supporters of HSF on Facebook http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11971 & Twitter http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11976 to stay in touch with what HSF is doing and ways you can be involved. Invite your friends so they too can learn about the Foundation's work. Also check out our videos on YouTube http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11977 and follow our channel to stay updated when new videos are posted. If you are interested in giving to help support the Home School Foundation's mission, please do so here http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=11978 . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> For as little as 33 cents a day... There's not much you can get for 33 cents a day. Why not put your money toward peace of mind for yourself, your family, and their future? More reasons to join HSLDA... http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=1110 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ====================================================================== The HSLDA E-lert Service is a service of: Home School Legal Defense Association P.O. 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