We’re excited to launch our first campaign, Make Every Dream Count. Make Every Dream Count is to provide 2,500 middle school and high school students in the Vancouver-Portland Metro area an opportunity to identify, build, and live their dream. The campaign is hosted by Global Giving. Our goal is to reach $25,000 by September 30, 2012. The link for the campaign: http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/make-every-dream-count/.

For every $50 donation before April 17, you’ll be enter into a drawing to win:

• (2) Portland Trail Blazers’ Tickets ($250 value) to their last game against Utah Jazz on April, 18 at 7:00pm
• Tickets are Sec: 219 Row: K
• Free food and drink till the end of the 3^rd quarter
• And yes, every $50 donation places your name in the drawing

The three rules of the drawing are to:

1. donate $50 to the Make Every Dream Count campaign;
2. be a Dream Big Community Center Facebook Fan, click here to be a fan;
3. pick up tickets at DBCC’s executive office.

Here is your chance to help our youth, support a local organization, and improve our schools. “Thank you for letting me tell you my dream,” Anonymous high school student.

Don’t forget our Volunteer Workshop is tomorrow. The workshop will be at the Clark County Public Service Center,1300 Franklin Street, Floor 6, Vancouver, WA 98660. We’ll begin promptly at 4pm. Please RSVP to info@dreambigcc.org if you’re able to make it.

Refreshments will be provided by

Imagine if you were offered a Lamborghini, 5-bedroom house, and $5,000,000, but you had to follow one simple condition- sacrifice one of your dearest pleasures for a season of time. Would you do it?

Maybe or maybe not, right?! It would depend how much you wanted those three items above. What if you choose the three items, would you make the needed sacrifice then? We have all said at least once in our life:

• “I want…”
• “I desire…”
• “I wish for…”
• “if only”

What if we said:

• “I gave up…”
• “I sacrificed…”
• “I left…”

in order to achieve, obtain, accomplish, or complete a desired outcome, we would all be in a much better and happier place. Unfortunately, that is not how we frame our goals or dreams.

Many make sacrifices everyday for years at a time. Some sacrifices are for a lifetime, some are just for a season. Some knowingly accept the sacrifice, others sacrifice unknowingly. To name off a few:

• College – sacrifice personal freedom to gain a diploma
• Marriage – sacrifice singleness to gain companionship
• Military – sacrifice life to gain freedom and independence to a nation
• Pregnancy – sacrifice physical physique to gain life
• Self – sacrifice time to gain happiness

In the law of physics, what must go up must come down. In order to gain, sacrifice(s) will need to occur. We fail to realize that success only comes to those who continuously pursue it. Your pursuit towards success should result in sheer tunnel vision to an isolated destination, without any outside distraction that may compromise your travels.

At the end of the day, can you say you’ve done all you could (including sacrifices) to make your dream come true?