WCN Transmedia Group supports The I’m BOOKed!™ Initiative is a grass roots reading campaign created by DreamMart International, LLC

WCN Transmedia Group supports The I’m BOOKed!™ Initiative is a grass roots reading campaign created by DreamMart International, LLC.  Anyone Remember The Reading is Fundamental advertisements from times gone by.   Reading and Writing is not only Fundamental it is a life skill that is required beyond sports, entertainment, video games, television everything.   WCN Transmedia is therefore supporting The I’m BOOKed!™ Initiative and am asking all my readers to join us.  Join the Community and Take the Challenge.

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Over and Above there is a special need and personal appeal that I am making to everyone reading this post.  We need gifts for achievers.  Please join today and follow the Social Transmedia Revolution. Please contact the organization and Donate your Time your Talent and your Money to this worthy cause.

It Pays to Read!

The I’m BOOKed!™ Initiative is a grass roots reading campaign created by DreamMart International, LLC to get kids hooked on books. In 2003 a study in 37 countries by the Programme for International Student Assessment found that the most important factor for academic success was the amount of time pupils spent reading books, magazines, newspapers and websites. But, reading books makes the biggest difference, according to this and other studies. So, we are bringing together strategic business, education, faith & philanthropic partners to pilot this initiative in Atlanta’s Pittsburgh Community.

Our initial goal is to identify 50 youth, ages 10-17, from Gideons Elementary, Parks Middle & Carver High – all Pittsburgh schools. We are issuing the I’m BOOKed!™ 30-Day Challenge to read a book and receive $100! We want to harness the power of inspiration to create a nation of book addicts…starting in Atlanta, Georgia! But, it doesn’t stop there. In addition to a love of reading, the I’m BOOKed!™ Initiative is designed to teach productivity and asset management, all vital skills for success in learning and life.

Our Objectives:

• Get students hooked on books by capturing the power of inspiration!
• Foster a sense of belonging by rallying parents and other adults to engage students as they participate in the I’m BOOKED!™ 30-Day Challenge
• Promote financial literacy, asset management and college savings
• Expose students to concepts and experiences that unleash the students’ ability to dream

DreamMart International, LLC is helping people to connect to their dreams and each other to make a difference. The ability to dream is a fundamental human endowment that fuels achievement. We not only learn from books, but books can inspire us to dream. Will you join us to make the dreams of Pittsburgh youth a reality?

We need:

• …25 authors to donate 2 books and partner with 2 students during the I’m BOOKed!™ 30-Day Challenge
• …50 readers to accept the I’m BOOKed!™ 30-Day Challenge
• …corporate partners to sponsor the I’m BOOKed!™ Initiative
• …community organizations to provide companion services
• …individuals to donate at least $100.00 to reward one student
• …volunteers to lead I’m BOOKed!™ Reading Circles during the I’m BOOKed!™ 30-Day Challenge

Let’s teach the students in Pittsburgh Community Schools that It Pays to Read!

Rodney Walker Rose From Kindergarten Special Ed to Top 1% of His Morehouse Class

Dream Mart International, LLC has partnered with Morehouse Senior, Rodney Walker, to teach kids that It Pays to Read. Dream Mart’s I’m BOOKed!™ Reading Initiative is a grass-roots effort started by Dream Mart International, LLC to get students hooked on books in spite of the academic challenges they may face.

Rodney Walker, a Chicago native, is the founder and CEO of Forever Life Music and Video Production; a company that creates custom videos and songs for special events. With the support and guidance from the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), Rodney has competed for and won various business plan competitions. In 2008, Rodney placed second in the NFTE National Competition in New York City. Currently, his company serves as a work-study program for Morehouse College. Along with his production company, Rodney also travels around the country to speak at public high schools and conferences about the importance of education and entrepreneurship for minority youth.

Given the obstacles placed before him as a foster child, Rodney struggled academically and socially in school. From kindergarten on, he was placed in special education, repeated the 4th grade due to poor academic performance, and finished his freshman year of high school with a 1.3 GPA. However, after joining the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, a youth business program of high school students, Rodney became motivated to start a business using the skills learned in the course. With the help of NFTE’s mentors and teachers, he became further motivated to apply himself academically. He graduated from high school with a 2.4 GPA, and was accepted to Morehouse College on academic probation. Since being accepted, he remained determined and focused. He joined tutoring programs, study groups, and campus organizations to help with his studies and course work.

Today, Rodney is a college senior. He is a JP Morgan Scholar, UNCF Scholar, and an honor student, set to graduate in the top 1% of his class. And this Saturday, October 8th, Walker will speak to 50 students from Atlanta’s Pittsburgh Community who accepted the I’m BOOKed!™ 30-Day Challenge during the I’m BOOKed!™ Launch Party on Saturday, October 8, 2011 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at the Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center at 965 Dewey Street SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30310.

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Obama’s Job Council files its Interim Report: Taking Action,Building Confidence 5 Common Sense Initiatives to Job Creation and Competitiveness

While the Political System continues to drag down the Hope we Can Believe in Obama continues to do his job.  With an opportunity today for the Senate to take up the Jobs Act will they.  Look at the Interim Report from the White House‘s Jobs Council.

To remind you here is the speech he gave on Jobs in Durham North Carolina on June 13, 2011.  Still Multi-Tasker in Chief, Obama continues to ignore the critics and quietly get the job done.  From dealing with Terrorism doing something no other President has done on their watch.

This is an Interim Report that should be reviewed by both the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street Movements. The essence

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of the support Small Business can expect from the White House is clear. Making it easier for Small Business to access capital from Wall Street is a step in the right direction. We would love to see and report on the Presidential Contenders and their teams reports.  Oops is there one?  Post it here if you can list a plan that any of them have from Cain to Perry or whomever the flavor of the week is.  Or do they think they can run on dragging down a President who took the Lemons that Bush and Cheney left and is making Lemonade. Pay close to the Bi-Partisan Jobs Council Congress.  Vote for the American Jobs Act and let’s get the job done for America and the World.

What we like most of all about this report is its title 5 Common Sense Initiatives to Jobs Creation.  If only we can use the Common Sense Label above being Republican, Democrat Independent, Liberal or Conservative.  I like tea and coffee and several times a day I may fall into anyone of those categories based on the issue.

Here is another common sense approach for Americans of African Descent.   The Civil Rights to Platinum Rights Jobs Movement launched by International Goodwill Ambassador Oscar J. Webb.  We call him the Architect, a Booker T. Washington Leader.  Mostly Unsung I have had the pleasure to know his heart for Israel and Americans, especially those of African Descent who have gotten the short end of the stick for far too long .

Why should President Obama meet with this leader?

Because he is the only Civil Rights Era Business Leader who understands that to save America we need to Build Africa.  As I was studying and reviewing history I remember in 1988 when Jesse Jackson Ran for President and the pride we all feel today that Barack Obama is the President of The United States at the same time the United Nations proclaimed 2011 THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR FOR PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT.

Thank you Ambassador Webb for all you do personally for the people of Israel and America.  Now is the time for the emergence of new leadership in media to get your story told.  We at WCN would not have known anything about this Resolution had it not been from you.

Link to the most important International Public Policy Statement for Africans Globally.

Official UN RESOLUTION 64/169

Link to Full Report

INTERIM REPORT PRESIDENTS COUNCIL FOR JOBS AND  COMPETITIVENESS

Sige the Petition to Tell the President to Support Jobs in America and Build Africa