Opening the Recording
Studio & Introducing Project Creativity
It has been about a month and a half, since our announcement
concerning opening our DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) Home Type Recording
Studio to the public. Believe me when I say we are working diligently towards
this goal. And in the process we found some
new light to help us do this. We are in the process of obtaining a fiscal
sponsorship with an artistic non profit organization out of New York City. But nothing is written in
stone as of yet. But we feel confident
things will work out and for this reason we are sharing this with you.
With a fiscal sponsor we will be able to solicit tax
deductible donations and contributions from individuals, corporations,
foundations and even the government to some degree, until we get our own 501 c
3. We know we need the support of our
community as well as philanthropists from other cities to fund the program we
are introducing. And we know we must
also earn revenue as well, if we are to succeed. For this reason and because we are a non
profit organization, when we do charge people for some of our services it will
be below the market price.
I am writing this article to open a discussion forum with
the public about what will be required to carryout Project Creativity, the
problem being addressed, our solution and the benefits we offer to our
community. Please feel free to leave us a comment or some suggestions after
reading this article. We want to know
how you feel about this program.
Project Creativity
Name and Contact Information of our Organization:
The National
Community Network and Coalition of Highlands, INC
923 South A Avenue
Avon Park, FL 33825
(863) 657-2407
E-Mail:
NCNCHINC@Comcast.net
Website:
WWW.NCNCHINC.Org
The NCNCHINC Agenda beginning on October 20th - Fiscal Year
2013-14:
Services:
1: Sound Recordings Studio
2: Creative Writing Studio (Fictional and Non Fictional)
3: DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) Recording and Instruction
Workshops
4: Shows (Live Performances)
5: Sound and Video Presentations
6: Non profit newspaper and magazine
7: Job Search and Job Placement
Helping the Disadvantage Young Adults
We think the main problem in the United States today is the jobless
rate that is causing us to create a generation of hopelessness among our youth
and this is amplified in the black community.
When America in
general faces a recession the black communities in America already experienced a
depression. Our young blacks, sees Hollywood as an outlet that creates dreams about success, but
Hollywood is
often an illusion and is not reachable by most of them due to the lack of
education and this degrades their moral fiber.
Because they want something that they cannot have. Too often due to joblessness, they stay home
all day and play violent video games, listen to rap music often filled with
filthy language and watch fantasy television shows, only to end up turning to
the streets with nothing to do ("an
idle mind is the workshop of Satan"), to poison their neighbors and
themselves with drugs. And too often
this ends in violence, the loss of young lives and the incarceration of too
many. And we want to curb this!
They need to see a way out, today many of them would not and
could accept an invitation to a better way of life, because it requires
education, something many of them fear to take on the endeavor or simply do not
understand the incentive in a tangible way.
Many of these young adults are even afraid to take on the simple task of
obtaining a GED, to many of them this is not simple at all, but is a very
complex measure. Many of them are simply
afraid to fail! We have a problem called
hopelessness in America
today.
The NCNCHINC has an answer that can be of help and it is
Project Creativity. A project to assist
young adults at a disadvantage by channeling their artistic abilities in a
productive manner, which will give them the incentive to learn needed skills
like grammar and computer operations, in order to be competitive in their
artistry and in life. Thereby applying
academics to their dreams of being a star and even if they fall short of
stardom, they will gain something valuable from this program.
The NCNCHINC Project Creativity is non commercial artistic program for people 18
years old and above, operated by the National Community Network and Coalition
of Highlands, INC., which is an established non profit organization in the
State of Florida since 2009, located in the
city of Avon Park in the county of Highlands.
Though we are still pending our 501 c 3 statuses, we decided to team up with a
fiscal sponsor called Fractured Atlas
out of New York City who specializes in Artistic programs, to acquire
charitable contributions from donors who require these statuses to give freely,
in order to move this project along in a timely manner.
We own our headquarters location which is two stories tall,
without any mortgages and we would like to utilize it in the development of
artistic creations by our future clients and by doing so, give people in the
community something to do that is constructive, dream realizing and hopefully
reduce crime and prevent recidivism in the process, by giving young adults an
opportunity and hope by channeling their artistic energy in a productive
manner. Though our focus is on young
adults ages 18 to 35, we are open to all who people who desire to channel their
creative energies in productive manner.
The group we are targeting are 18 to 35 years old and we
have an emphasis on assisting young
adults who are chronically unemployed.
We want to give these young adults other options other than joining into
a life of crime, by giving them hope and a vision for their future. As we also attempt to help them develop an
interest in the many ways to become a part on the entertainment sector and a
part of mainstream society or simply develop productive hobbies they can enjoy
while learning to express themselves to others.
We want to assist them in becoming gainfully employed. By helping them in their search for
employment, while helping them develop important skills that are imperative to
the workforce. While we conduct creative
arts workshops, we want to also help them by offering them ways to apply these
skills in a competitive and profitable manner, which will allow them to become
self-sufficient.
We understand that we will be dealing with many clients
accustomed to street knowledge and the ways of the streets, which means they
will want to know how these things apply to real life scenarios. They will want to see how their participation
in our program, will help them be able to survive in their daily lives. So we want to develop our program, like an
assembly line or production process, whereby one thing leads to another, which
brings them closer to obtaining independence.
Therefore, we feel it is imperative that our program not only develop
skills for our clients, but offers them an opportunity to display and put into
practice the learning processes and acquired knowledge.
So by design, we have workstations that develop skills and
talents and creates tangible and intangible assets by our clients. We teach them about DAW recording studio
technology, so that they can record their ideas. We do this not to put their dreams on the
shelf, but so that they can also do live performance to share their works. With
the hope that they might be discovered by someone who can take their hopes and
dreams to another level. And not only for this reason do we promote live shows, but it is also an avenue
to creating community togetherness and recreational activities for all who
participate in and enjoy. Good
recreation is good for community!
So by design, we have workstations that develop skills and
talents and creates tangible and intangible assets by our clients. We want to teach them how to write in our
creative writing workshop, so that they can write about the things that means
something to them. Not just to put their ideas on the shelf, but we want to put
out a non profit newspaper as an outlet for them to share how they feel to the
community and abroad. Because we feel
our young adults today are among the most misunderstood. We want to produce articles that can be put
into magazine format as well, so that they can share their ideas to the general
public and learn how to profit from these skills.
And ultimately, we would love to produce movies and
documentaries that will allow them to express themselves in motion
picture. What I am describing here is a
production process, whereby one developed skill transcends into another
opportunity. Because what is lacking in
our community is opportunity. And all we
are asking is to receive community support to give these disadvantaged young
adults a chance at life.
Though Project Creativity is open to serve the entire adult population in Highlands County,
our targeted audience is the disadvantaged young adults between the ages of 18
to 35. When we say disadvantaged young
adults, we are describing the young adult population who are chronically
unemployed often due to several factors such as the lack of education, criminal
records, the lack of networks and connections, residing in redlining districts,
hopelessness as well as other personal issues, to include their psyche
(mindset) in some cases.
What Project Creativity offers to them is hope, by allowing
them an opportunity to express themselves through artistry and it also supply's
them with communications, such as multimedia.
The idea behind Project Creativity is not only to allow them to
communicate to the world they often feel and are truly misunderstood by, but to
give them tools to accomplish this.
Though it is an artistic program, it is also educational, because it is
our goal to give them instruction on how to properly get their points across to
the world outside of the "Blue
Building," in a
constructive manner, which will hopefully develop into an understanding between
them and the people they are attempting to reach. By developing their computer skills, writing
skills and the management skills, this can be accomplished.
It is our goal to make this misunderstood population,
understood and accepted by those whose doors are shut or closed to them. We want to be a pathway and a conduit to
close the chasms that prevents these
disadvantage young adults from gaining opportunities in furthering their
education, employment and even intercommunity social engagements with the rest
of the world. We want to help them
become a part of mainstream America
and put an end to the repressive behaviorisms that does not allow them to move
beyond their neighborhood's invisible gates.
We believe a lot of the problems they face are self induced and a lot of
the problems they face are due to not knowing any other way, but also a lot of
their problems they face is also due to discrimination be it racial, cultural
and otherwise and is often due to a misunderstanding in many cases.
We believe our program can reduce crime and prevent recidivism, because we plan to attract the
leaders of tomorrow in our community. We understand the posse (gang) mentality
of our youth today. We know that there a
very few leaders and a host of followers.
And one of the main problems in poor communities in our country and in
Highlands County, where you find a high rate of disenfranchised individuals, is
that often the hand full of leaders that attract posses (gangs) do not know any
other way, but to join into a life of crime to survive and often have bad
habits to support. Project Creativity is billed as a program to show them
another way.
Once Project Creativity is fully functional, we will act as
a product production chain or assembly line of sorts. By accepting young disadvantage adults into
our program, with just an idea of how to express themselves artistically, we
will be able to help them develop a plan using our workshops. And the goal is for these plans to develop
into complete sound recording productions, video productions, news articles in
our non profit newspaper & magazines as well as live performance, so that
their abilities are shared and a sense of achievement is felt by them. Because achievements are so important in
building up someone's self esteem. And
self worth is the beginning of self sustaining independence. We want to restore hope in our community,
which is something many of our potential clients never knew in these tough
economic times.
If you think this project is worth your while and support,
please continue to watch our website and the NCNCHINC wordpress.com blogs for
continued updates on our progress and agenda. We will in the future need your support
in money contributions, volunteer work and your advise, because we know we do
not have all the answers. So we humble
ourselves to the Community of Highlands County.
And we know without the support of the community, this will not work,
because we are introducing a community effort, which requires a coalition to
come together for this common cause.
Because we must not leave anyone behind if we as a community is to grow.
Frank Paul Jones
President of the NCNCHINC