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500+ Pound Man Pledges To Lose 100 Pounds To Save Kids
Legacy Foundation President Jonathan F. Smith plans to lose 100 pounds in a campaign to demonstrate to youth how to be healthy and raise awareness about the troubles facing inner city youth.
KANSAS CITY, MO, December 01, 2011 /Children and Youth PR News/ -- Legacy Foundation President Jonathan F. Smith plans to lose 100 pounds in a campaign to demonstrate to youth how to be healthy, raise awareness about the troubles facing inner city youth. After leaving his job of 20 years Jonathan has decided to dedicate his life to saving kids. The organization that he founded L.E.G.A.C.Y stands for Leadership Empowerment Growth Achievement Comes from our Youth is working to develop programs to address the problems of illiteracy, youth violence and childhood obesity.
On December 7, launches LEGACY's "WE CAN'T WEIGHT" with a news conference and kickoff event at 6 p.m. at the Southeast Community Center - 3601 E. 63rd St., Kansas City, Mo., the "WE CAN'T WEIGHT" campaign starts with Mr. Smith raising funds by accepting dollar donations for each pound he loses which leads up to LEGACY's 10K/5K run where runners can join the campaign in a run to save kids. Mr. Smith started this effort because in Kansas City we recently had six youth murdered in a span of ten hours and no one is presenting any solutions. "My goal is to bring attention to the increasing problems of our youth and garner support for solutions. We can't wait to save our youth." Jonathan will be documenting his journey on the LEGACY website www.ourlegacyfoundation.org, on twitter @onemillionkids and on Facebook.
LEGACY will use the proceeds from this campaign and 10K/5K to benefit its mentoring and tutoring program with PACE (Wyandotte Mental Health) and LEGACY's 2012 summer program, which has an initiative of keeping at least 100 disadvantaged youth out of harm's way during peak violence and criminal hours. The summer program will teach the children about literacy, obesity, financial literacy, as well as prepare them for the upcoming school year.
ABOUT LEGACY
Founded in 2010, the Legacy Foundation is a non-profit organization based out of Kansas City, Mo. It exists for the purpose of teaching urban youth how to handle the responsibilities of being an effective leader in church, family, school, community, and corporate by providing resources and life skills needed to be a leader of today and well into the future. The LEGACY Foundation currently consists of a mentoring and tutoring program. It will expand to include a summer program in 2012. To learn more about Legacy, visit www.ourlegacyfoundation.org. For interviews contact Jonathan F. Smith 913-707-1906.
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Jeff Primos
LEGACY
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1510 E 100th Street
Kansas City, Mo
USA 64131
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