patheticgirl43

a lot of these are kind of sad

Thanks everyone for all of the feedback. So, since I have been reading all of this I have started to look more into everything. I got the paperwork so that i could start a non profit and I have been working on writing up a proposal and a mission statement so I can start looking at possible grants and then creating a board. I know that this isnt something that is normally talked about on this board, but I just wanted to post it here because most of the people on this site are or know local artists in whatever form. And because I would be dealing directly with local artists I wanted input to see if anyone would even be interested in this. But! with the legal junk we have been talking about. Because finger print clearance cards are somewhat expensive I could do background checks. They are like 20 dollars less a person. Also, my dad has to run them for his work constantly and I would have access to their database which makes it even cheaper then that. So. I think I am going to actually do this. I took this year off of school and it will be nice to have something to devote so much time to. So please continue with the feedback, suggestions, and concerns because it is helping a lot.

definitely think it's a great idea. although i'm sure there may be a lot of legal and potential insurance stuff that has to be looked into for someone to spend time with a child. not to mention possible background checks on volunteers so nothing sketchy goes down and ruins the whole thing for everyone.

what he said

ps hi samantha!

Hi justin

and maybe if the parents were involved i could side step some of the legal stuff? i dont know yet. again, its just an idea. I mean I actually want to do this. I think I could do this. I just need enough people on board first to get some of the grants/donations in order to get all of the legal crap worked out.