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Vote to Help Raise Money for the Kanye West Foundation S.H.O.W. Benefit Concert in Chicago in June!
Please vote for S.H.O.W. to help raise money for the Kanye West Foundation S.H.O.W. Benefit Concert in Chicago this June! We are competing in the Pepsi Refresh Project for $50,000 to go towards security, transportation and marketing for our free concert in Chicago for inner city high school kids who improve their grades, behavior and attendance over the second semester of the school year!
http://www.refresheverything.com/show
ABOUT KANYE WEST FOUNDATION S.H.O.W
The Kanye West Foundation S.H.O.W. was created to address academic performance, attendance and behavior problems in public high schools, specifically in Chicago. Highland Park High School sophomore, David Abrams, conceived the event concept as he listened to a story on NPR about a Chicago Public School (CPS) student who was failing out of school. As an incentive to stay in school, the student’s mother offered him two tickets to a Lil Wayne concert. David turned to his mom and said, “We should do that - let’s get kids to SHOW up to school, get their grades up and put on a free concert for them.” After enlisting the help of his friend Zach Harris, a sophomore at New Trier High School, the two of them gathered their friends and founded S.H.O.W. (Students Helping Our World), eventually forming partnerships with CPS, the City of Chicago and ultimately, the Kanye West Foundation.
Last year, the Kanye West Foundation S.H.O.W. challenged students at 6 Chicago public high schools to improve their grades, attendance and behavior. In exchange for their improvement, KWF S.H.O.W. offered free tickets to see Kanye West perform at the Chicago Theatre. In an amazing demonstration of their commitment to their education, more than 2,500 students improved their grades and attendance and were in the house on June 11, 2009 to see a special Kanye West concert in their honor. The event was taped and broadcast by FuseTV providing a national television platform to help raise awareness of the important work that the Kanye West Foundation is doing to keep kids in school.
Below is Kanye West in an old Pepsi Ad
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