Act4Me Presentation & Sponsor Child Visit

March 2018 

We would like to extend a heartfelt Thank You to all of you who joined us in this year’s Act4Me fundraising challenge.  With the help of your continued support and generosity, we once again surpassed our original goal of $3,500 to raise a total amount of $4,710!  

A special Thanks also goes to Maida Berberian-Bignon, Founder and President of Act4MeMartha Poulat, Founder and Vice-President of Act4Me, and Valentina Ruiz, Managing Member of ChallengeMeNow. These wonderful ladies have helped us through every step of the process.

But most of all, we owe our thanks to our dedicated MCA families!  We could not have done this without you motivating your child to create their own individual challenge, telling family and friends know about it, helping your child work towards meeting her/his individual goal, and making generous donations.

Much gratitude goes out to all the students and their families for participating in our Act4Me fundraiser!

 The Student Council will recognize all student participants with a certificate at our upcoming school-wide meeting:

  • Anthony
  • Dakarai
  • Emilio
  • Gregoire
  • Isa & Eli
  • Joti
  • Lukas
  • Olivia
  • Sacha
  • Conor
  • Ellie K.
  • Gabbie & Giulian
  • Kathinka & Mathilde
  • Jansen
  • Jared & Zachary
  • Myles
  • Valentina P.
  • Caitlin & Nia
  • Chase
  • Eric
  • Fernando
  • Jack
  • Joao Pedro
  • Jorge
  • Marco
  • Martin
  • Mateo
  • Nicole A.
  • Nicole G.
  • Samantha
  • Sara
  • Sidny
  • Sofia Ag.

Special thanks go out to the following students and their families for their generous donations:

The Student Council will recognize each of the students listed below with a free slice of pizza and cookie during next week’s Pizza Friday:

  • Anthony
  • Chase
  • Fernando
  • Jared
  • Martin
  • Myles
  • Sara
  • Sidny
  • Zachary

The Student Council will provide the students listed below with their choice of an ice-cream party or a movie (popcorn included) during the month of March.

  • Caitlin & Nia
  • Dakarai
  • Ellie K.
  • Emilio
  • Eric
  • Isa & Eli
  • Jack
  • Joao Pedro & Olivia
  • Jorge
  • Joti
  • Lukas, Kathinka & Mathilde
  • Mateo
  • Marco
  • Nicole G.
  • Sacha
  • Sofia Ag.

The Student Council will recognize our top donor for raising $600 toward our challenge with a gift certificate to our local movie theater, to be awarded at our next school-wide meeting. 

  • Nicole A.

WAY TO GO MCA ACADEMY!!!! WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU!

 

Although our fundraiser is technically over, our challenge remains on the challengemenow.com site and children with neurological disorders continue to need therapy. Please feel free to continue joining efforts with Act4Me in helping children with neurological disorders get the therapy they need. Your choice to give is their chance to achieve!

DONATE TODAY: MCA FOR ACT4ME CHALLENGE

If the above link doesn’t work, please follow the steps below:

  1.    Go to www.challengemenow.com
    2.    Enter MCA Academy for Act4Me2017under the Search option.
    3.    Select MCA Academy for Act4Me 2017 from the Search Results list.
    4.    Select I want to donate now.
    5.    Make your donation.

February, 2017

We want to thank so many of you who joined us in our efforts to raise enough funds to help a child with developmental delays due to a neurological disorder get the therapy he/she needs. Thanks to your motivation, effort, and generosity we not only reached our goal but also surpassed it! Total raised: $5,615.00! We could not have done this without the help of each and every one of you who motivated your child to create their own individual challenge, sent out emails to family and friends informing them of the challenge, helped your child work towards meeting her/his individual goal, and made generous donations. We also would like to thank Maida Berberian-Bignon the Founder and President of Act4Me, Martha Poulat the Founder and Vice-President of Act4Me, and Valentina Ruiz Managing Member of ChallengeMeNow. These wonderful ladies have helped us through every step of the process. Although our fundraiser is technically over, our challenge remains on the challengemenow.com site and children with neurological disorders continue to need therapy. Please feel free to continue joining efforts with Act4Me in helping children with neurological disorders get the therapy they need. Your choice to give is their chance to achieve!

1.    Go to www.challengemenow.com
2.    Enter MCA Academy for Act4Me 2016 under the Search option.
3.    Select MCA Academy for Act4Me 2016 from the Search Results list.
4.    Select I want to donate now.
5.    Make your donation.

 

Much gratitude goes out to the following students and their families for participating in our Act4Me fundraiser:

 

The Student Council will recognize these students with a certificate at our upcoming school-wide meeting!

  • Alexander
  • Anthony
  • Baltazar
  • Chase
  • Christian
  • Delfina
  • Diego
  • Elizabeth
  • Eric
  • Gabriella
  • Giulian
  • Isabella
  • Jared
  • Joao Pedro
  • Joia
  • Jonathan
  • Jorge
  • Jorge Enrique
  • Kathinka

 

Heartfelt thanks go out to the following students and their families for their generous donations:

 

The Student Council will recognize each of the students listed below with a free slice of pizza and cookie during tomorrow’s Pizza Friday!

  • Anthony
  • Baltazar
  • Chase
  • Christian
  • Joia
  • Mehdi
  • Samantha
  • Sara
  • Sidny

 

The Student Council will provide the students listed below with an ice-cream party during the month of March.

  • Alexander
  • Delfina
  • Diego
  • Elizabeth
  • Eric
  • Gabriella
  • Giulian
  • Isabella
  • Jared
  • Joao Pedro
  • Jonathan
  • Jorge Enrique
  • Kathinka

 

 

The Student Council will provide a movie with popcorn and a drink for the students listed below during the month of March.

 

  • Jorge

 

 

Congratulations to our top donor who raised $700 through her own individual challenge! 

The Student Council will recognize Natalia with a $75.00 gift card to Paragon Movie Theater at our upcoming school-wide meeting.

 

  • Natalia

 

WAY TO GO MCA ACADEMY!!!! WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU!

March, 2016

Dear MCA Family, 

We want to thank so many of you who joined us in our efforts to raise enough funds to help Daniel get the therapy he needs. Thanks to your motivation, effort, and generosity we not only reached our goal but also surpassed it! Total raised: $4,855.00! Take a look at our progress chart below.

We could not have done this without the help of each and every one of you who motivated your child to create their own individual challenge, sent out emails to family and friends informing them of the challenge, helped your child work towards meeting his/her individual goal, and made generous donations. We also would like to thank Maida Berberian-Bignon the Founder and President of Act4Me, Martha Poulat the Founder and Vice-President of Act4Me, and Valentina Ruiz Managing Member of ChallengeMeNow. These wonderful ladies have helped us through every step of the process.

Much gratitude goes out to the following students and their families for participating in our Act4Me fundraiser:

Alexander
Anna
Anthony
Caitlin
Chase
Elias
Elizabeth
Eva
Gabrielle
Isabella
Jacob
Joao Pedro
Joseph
Joti
Kathinka
Lauren
Lukas
Madison A.
Madison N.
Mathilde
Matthew
Michael
Myles
Nick
Olivia
Samantha
Sharif
Sidny
Sophia B.
Sophie M.
Victoria D.
Victoria E.

The Student Council recognized these students with a certificate of participation.

Heartfelt thanks go out to the following students and their families for their generous donations:

Anthony
Joseph
Kathinka
Lukas
Mathilde
Samantha

The Student Council recognized each of the students listed above with a free slice of pizza and cookie during Pizza Friday!

Alexander
Anna
Chase
Elizabeth
Eva
Gabrielle
Isabella
Jacob
Joti
Lauren
Madison A.
Matthew
Myles
Sharif
Sophia B.
Sophie M.
Victoria D.

The Student Council provided the students listed above with an ice-cream party!

Caitlin
Joao Pedro
Nick
Olivia

The Student Council provided a movie with popcorn and a drink for the students listed above!

 

Congratulations to our top donor who raised $700 through her own individual challenge!

Victoria E.

The Student Council recognized Victoria E. with a $75.00 gift card to Paragon Movie Theater!

 

WAY TO GO MCA ACADEMY! WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU!

Although our fundraiser is technically over, our challenge remains on the challengemenow.com site and children with neurological disorders continue to need therapy. Please feel free to continue joining efforts with Act4Me in helping children with neurological disorders get the therapy they need. Your choice to give is their chance to achieve!

 


March, 2015

Dear MCA Family,

We want to thank so many of you who joined us in our efforts to raise enough funds to help one child with neurological disorders get the therapy he/she needs. Thanks to your motivation, effort, and generosity we not only reached our goal but also surpassed it! Total raised: $6,000.00! Take a look at our progress chart below.

We couldn’t have done this without the help of each and every one of you who motivated your child to create their own individual challenge, sent out emails to family and friends informing them of the challenge, helped your child work towards meeting his/her individual goal, and made generous donations. We also would like to thank Maida Berberian-Bignon the Founder and President of Act4Me, Martha Poulat the Founder and Vice-President of Act4Me, and Valentina Ruiz Managing Member of ChallengeMeNow. These wonderful ladies have helped us through every step of the process.

Much gratitude goes out to the following students and their families for participating in our Act4Me fundraiser:
Anna
Anique
Caitlin
Camila
Ellie
Eva
Isabella
Jack
Joao Pedro
Joia
Joti
Karina
Nia
Madison
Marlene
Martin H.
Matthew
Michael
Nasir
Olivia
Raeua
Ronin
Sacha C.
Samantha
Sasha A.
Sidny
Sollux
Sophia
Ugo
Valeria
Victoria
The Student Council recognized these students with a certificate of participation.

Heartfelt thanks go out to the following students and their families for going a step further and creating their own individual challenge:

Anna
Ellie
Eva
Joia
Madison
Martin H.
Michael
Nasir
Raeua
Ronin
Sacha C.
Samantha
Sidny
The Student Council recognized each of these students with a $15.00 gift card to Starbucks.

Congratulations go out to the following area for having the highest percentage of participants in the school:

Elementary School
The Student Council provided a movie, popcorn, and a drink for these wonderful students.

Congratulations to the following students for being our top donor who raised $1,010.00!
Martin H.
The Student Council recognized Martin H. with a $50.00 gift card to Paragon Movie Theater.

WAY TO GO MCA ACADEMY!!!!

Although our fundraiser is technically over, our challenge remains on the challengemenow.com site and children with neurological disorders continue to need therapy. Please feel free to continue joining efforts with Act4Me in helping children with neurological disorders get the therapy they need. Your choice to give is their chance to achieve!

 


May 21st, 2014

Our morning was filled with joy as Dorion visited with us today! Dorion is a 7 year old boy with multiple neurological challenges who will continue to receive the therapy he needs and could not have received without organizations like Act4Me, Challenge Me Now, motivated students like ours and generous donors like you; our MCA family! 

 

We sponsored Dorion two years ago and have the pleasure of sponsoring him again this year via the funds generated from our fundraiser earlier this school year. New students had a chance to meet the child their effort is going to impact and former students had a chance to see Dorion’s growth from two years ago. We will receive updates on how the therapies are helping Dorion and he will return to visit us again. The students are very happy and excited about this.

 

Although our fundraiser is technically over for this year, children with neurological disorders are in need for therapy. Please feel free to continue joining efforts with Act4Me in helping children with neurological disorders get the therapy they need. Your choice to give is their chance to achieve!

                                    dorion may 2014

 


 

October 2013

We are excited to announce that we have chosen to continue our annual charity fundraising event locally with Maida Berberian-Bignon, Founder and President of act4me. act4me is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established  in Miami-Dade County Florida, by volunteers dedicated to distribute financial assistance to local families, whose children suffer developmental delays due to a neurological disorder and are in need of additional income to pay or supplement payment for the treatment and care of their child with special needs.
 
Each child is awarded a $3,500.00 grant to cover the cost of therapy and the therapy sessions are closely monitored and followed up by act4me to ensure the child is receiving the help they need. MCA’s challenge is to raise enough money to offer a grant to one child which the students can then meet and track his or her progress. Not only are we sponsoring a very worthy organization but our students are also learning by witnessing the impact of their efforts. For the past two years, they exceeded their goal and were able to offer additional therapy to Dorion and Sara, two elementary aged children with multiple neurological challenges who received therapy for their special needs.
 
Our students had a chance to meet both Dorion and Sara! They sat in amazement and with teary eyes as they heard their parents tell their story. It was a very valuable experience for our students.    
                          

act4me with dorion

Dorion is in a stripped dark blue and orange shirt leaning on his dad.

 

act4me with sara

                                                 Sara with her parents and baby sister.

 


2012 – 2013

MCA Academy raised again this year enough funds
to sponsor one more Act4Me child

Once more this year, MCA Academy chose the local organization (Act4Me, A Chance for Therapy) as their annual fundraising endeavor. Act4Me is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established  in Miami-Dade County Florida, by volunteers dedicated to distribute financial assistance to local families, whose children suffer developmental delays due to a neurological disorder and are in need of additional income to pay or supplement payment for the treatment and care of their child with special needs.

We want to thank so many of you who joined us in our effort to raise enough funds again this year to help one child with neurological disorders get the therapy he/she needs. Thanks to your motivation, effort, and generosity we not only reached our goal but surpassed it! Total raised: $4,207! 
 
MCA academy students will be able to meet this child and track his/her progress along the year. Not only we are sponsoring a very worthy organization but our students are also learning by witnessing the impact of their efforts.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                Congratulations go out to the following students and their families for participating in our Act4Me fundraiser:
• Nick
• Athena
• Tristan
• João Pedro
• Alexandra
• Diego
• Lucia
• Raif
• Alya
• Azizza
• Eric
• Gabrielle
• Isabella
• Gabriella
• Michael
Special congratulations go out to the following students for being our top contributors:
• Alexandra
• Eric
• Gabrielle

We also would like to thank Maida Berberian-Bignon, the Founder and President of Act4Me, Martha Poulat, the Founder and Vice-President of Atc4Me, and Valentina Ruiz, Managing Member of “Challenge Me Now”.