Wednesday, April 22, 2009

BLACK STAR PROJECT REMINDERS...

Four Days Left until Founder's Day! Join The Black Star Project on Saturday, April 25, 2009, at 3509 South King Drive, Chicago, Illinois, as we celebrate 13 years of serving children, families and communities, 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm!

Dear Friend of Children,

More than ever, The Black Star Project needs your help as we work to educate and save our children with some of the best student, parent, male-involvement and community-support programs in the country.


Some of the programmatic highlights for The Black Star Project this year include:
The Toyota/Black Star Parent University, where we have provided more than 450 parenting courses, since the beginning of the program in 2004, in English and Spanish.
Parent Resource Fairs, where we have connected parents to more than 50 parent-improvement resources.
Parent of the Year Awards, where we honored more than 75 top parents in Chicago.
The Golden Parent Awards, where we honored the three top parents in Illinois.
The Fathers Club, which helps thousands of men bond with their children at educational and recreational venues.
The Million Father March in 475 cities with 600,000 men taking their children to school last year.
The Door-to-Door Parenting Campaign, where we distributed educational and child developmental materials in low-income, high-violence communities.
The League of Black Parents, an advocacy group working to create better Black parents.
The Black Star PTA, the first community-based PTA in Illinois.
Levels at which you may invest in the Founder's Day are:
$100.00 as a Friend of Progress
$250.00 as a Supporter of Progress
$500.00 as a Sponsor of Progress
$1,000.00 as a Champion of Progress
Please become a supporting member of The Black Star Project today and your gift will be doubled thanks to the Circle of Service Foundation's commitment to match it. You can become a member online through our website. Please visit our membership page
HERE for more information about membership levels and click HERE to become a member now!
Or you may mail your membership contribution to:

The Black Star Project
Attn: Membership
3509 South King Drive, Suite 2B
Chicago, Illinois 60653

For more information, please call 773.285.9600, email us at
blackstar1000@ameritech.net or visit our website at www.blackstarproject.org.

May You Realize Your Best,

Phillip Jackson
Executive Director

Please call 773.285.9600 for more information or to volunteer your time, talents or treasure to the cause of educating Black children, and all children.

You may send your investment in the future of children to:

The Black Star Project
3509 South King Drive, Suite 2B
Chicago, Illinois 60616
or click here to invest in our work on-line

The Black Star Scholars Educational Services
is offering
a Mandarin Chinese Language Class, a Math Masters Boot Camp and
a Reading Warriors Boot Camp

Education never stops in the world in which we live, and effective parents never stop giving their children opportunities to learn.

Most American schools do not prepare Black children to be globally competitive. The Black Star Project does! We can help ensure that your child is exposed to world-class information and skills and is ready to compete globally.
Black children who learn only Monday through Friday between 9:00 am and 2:45 pm are at a severe, competitive disadvantage compared to their international counterparts who study longer, harder, more purposefully and who get additional support from their families, schools and communities.

Black children will not be able to compete in the new global educational arena unless they are supported to match the effort and intensity of their global classmates.

Register your child for:

Class One - Mandarin Chinese Language -Students from 3rd to 8th grade will be introduced to Chinese language, culture and history from 6:15 pm to 7:45 pm, one day a week, for 6 weeks, every Thursday, beginning April 16, 2009. This class needs a minimum of 6 students and will have a maximum of 10 students. This class will end with a dinner at a popular Chinese restaurant. The cost for 6 sections is $150.00 per student.


Class Two - The Mathematics Boot Camp - This class will be offered on Sunday afternoons between 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm with a 3rd-, 4th- and 5th- grade section and a 6th-, 7th- and 8th-grade section. Each section needs a minimum of 6 students and will have a maximum of 7 students. Classes will consist of grade-level and above grade-level materials with a major focus on mastering basic mathematical operations. Classes begin Sunday, April 19, 2009. The cost for 6 consecutive 2-hour sessions is $150.00 per student.

Class Three - The Reading Warriors Boot Camp - This class will be offered on Saturday mornings between 8:00 am and 10:00 am with a 3rd-, 4th- and 5th- grade section and a 6th-, 7th- and 8th-grade section. Each session needs a minimum of 6 students and will have a maximum of 7 students. Black Star reading classes are designed to help students become aggressive, independent, successful and confident readers who are able to read, write and think critically while comprehending a vast array of materials from prose to poetry, politics to Plato. Classes begin Saturday, April 18, 2009.
The cost for 6 consecutive 2-hour sessions is $150.00 per student.
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All of the above classes will take place at:

The Black Star Project
3509 South King Drive, Suite 2B
Chicago, Illinois

To register your child or for more information, please call:

The Black Star Project
773.285.9600

Students will register on a first-come, first-served basis. The Black Star Project would like to expand our educational services to the North Side, the West Side, the Southern Suburbs, the Western Suburbs and to other parts of Chicago and Illinois. Parents are invited to stay during each class.

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