KIDS WITH A CALL INC
TAMPA, FLORIDA

By 2010, Ms. Carpenter developed her own non-profit 501(C)(3) program, ‘Kids With A Call, Inc.’ This new program had the same components as Voices of Wellswood but was offered to children and youth not only in the Wellswood area, but in other communities as well. Because of this program, Ms. Carpenter has played a major role in keeping over 200 students safe and engaged during the weeks when they are out of school for the summer. It would be impossible to keep hundreds of students engaged without the help of faithful and dedicated partners who share the mission of the program: To build strong character skills in children and youth so that they exert ‘Benevolence, Ethics, Self-worth, Trustworthiness’- their BEST! Ms. Carpenter is a volunteer for the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. This program is a nonprofit, 501(C)(3) organization whose mission is to help children reach their potential through professionally supported, one-to-one relationships with measurable impact. Ms. Carpenter meets with her Little Sister once a week for an hour. Ms. Carpenter uses the professional services of Mr. Howard Mc Knight, P.A. CPA for preparing and filing the specific forms to the IRS on behalf of Kids With A Call, Inc. MISSION Special thanks to all of our donors and volunteers for their help and support in making Kids With a Call such a great success. Kids With A Call, Inc. (KWAC) is a year-round afterschool and Out-of-School Time (OST) program that will engage children and youth ages 5 to 15 in the Tampa Bay area, in enrichment activities in music, chorus, art, readers’ theater and martial arts. The curriculum lessons are designed to promote literacy and critical thinking skills, teach discipline, promote teamwork, camaraderie, responsibility, and patriotism, enhance racial and cultural understanding, and promote physical and spiritual strength. Planned field trips will promote careerism and performing before an audience will help to create a sense of value. The economic impact of not engaging students and having them drop out of school is staggering. Research released in 2007 showed that among 20-year olds in the U.S. today, more than 700,000 of them dropped out of high school. Reports from Levin, Belfielf, Muenning and Rouse announced that the government could collect “$45 billion via extra tax revenues and reduced costs of public health, of crime and justice and in welfare payments” if we engaged and retained just half of those students and guided them to graduation. The National Dropout Preventive Center has identified 15 effective strategies that have the most positive impact on the dropout rate. Top on the list of effective strategies is ‘After-School Opportunities’. Kids With A Call, Inc was founded by a Hillsborough County Public School educator, Joycelyn Carpenter in 2009 in an effort to continue to provide Out-of-School time (OST) programs to children and youth in the Tampa Bay area. Your contributions will help 35 to 40 students aged 5-15 every year when they are out of school for 8 weeks! We truly thank you for donating to this non-profit 501C(3) summer program. Thanks! MISSION MISSION