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Charity Outreach Program
In May of 2008, Encore Entertainers presented our first Charity Outreach production. It was a production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown presented at the Rolling Hill Covenant Church Community Center. The entire project was conceived by Encore student, Chris Truman who was only 16 years old at the time. With a teenage cast of many of Chris’s close friends the production raised over $3,000 for Friends of Angels, an organization that helps families with Autistic children.
 Encore is grateful to Chris for allowing us to partner with him to make a difference in the lives of others. His passion and leadership has already inspired other Encore Charity Outreach projects. We know that as the years go on, Chris’s influence and leadership will continue on for generations of Encore students to come.
Sarah Kovar was a cast member in Chris’s Outreach production and was so inspired him that she approached Summer and asked what she had to do to put on an Outreach production to raise money for Breast Cancer research. Sarah’s mother is a breast cancer survivor and she wanted to create a project that would honor her mother and all women who have battled cancer. After over a year of planning and hard work, Encore Entertainers presented their 2010 Charity Outreach Production of Quilters which was produced by Sarah. Proceeds from the production were donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure.
Encore has been so inspired by both Chris and Sarah that we have made it part of our mission statement to do a Charity Outreach project every year. We have learned the value of our students having the opportunity to use their talents to assist their community and others around them.
For the year 2011, Encore selected Safety Kids to be our Charity Outreach project. Safety Kids is a thirty minute musical that teaches kids about safety. With a cast of 15 kids, Encore is touring this production, free of charge, to various elementary schools around the South Bay. It is an honor to watch our students use their talents to teach these young kids valuable lessons about safety that could save their lives!
For 2012, we have not selected what our Charity Outreach program will be. We are always open to new ideas. Do you have a favorite organization that you’d like to help? Your idea could be our next project!
Check back to find out what Encore will do next!
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