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- HORATIO & NATASHA
- BENNETT
- FOUNDATION
Dedicated To Serve!
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A 2-Fold Community Commitment
1. A Distribution Center for Food and Care Packages for the Homeless
2. A Venue for After-school Enhancement Programs for Young Peoples
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The HNB Foundation now has a broad-based purpose and commitment -with concentration on two principal objectives:
Changing the face of hopelessness. Feeding the hungry, helping the homeless and caring for the destitute. The HNBF has been distributing food, blankets and care packages for many years, and supports COTS, Detroit Rescue Mission, NSO and The Cass Community Center. Nurturing and assisting in helping elementary students with homework, peers and parent challenges, and creating ‘after-school’ events. The HNBF has created a free online instructional website on which elementary students from all over the world can get assistance with their school challenges, either educational or personal, or both. This website is also available to ‘home-schooled’ students and parents. There is a HNBF board director assigned to each of the three principal objectives. The HNBF is a 501(c)3 organization and will provide a tax-exempt receipt for all contributions made. |
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Donate your New or USED Automobile, Boat, Home, Real Estate or most anything of value to The HNB Foundation
and receive a tax-exempt receipt for the 'Fair Market Value!'
and receive a tax-exempt receipt for the 'Fair Market Value!'
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Changing The Face Of Hopelessness
- "One Person at a Time"
The Horatio and Natasha Bennett Foundation, a 501)c)3 nonprofit entity, is committed to donate blankets and care packages to Detroit-area homeless and destitute. Currently, blankets are being given away, most to people on the streets, and to other service nonprofit entities such as: The Detroit Rescue Mission, C.O.T.S, and the Cass Community organization. The organization accepts donation of NEW blankets and 'care items' from caring donors.
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Our Most Patriotic Men & Women who served in our Wars are on the streets - HOMELESS!
Can we afford such Degrading Legacy? If you know of a VET who is homeless, please contact us on this website. www.TheHNBFoundation.Org REALLY CARES! |
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About Us
Horatio M. Bennett is a native of Jamaica, West Indies. He started his mission for the proliferation of the Caribbean culture in 1971 when he created the then-annual Detroit Caribbean Carnival. He was a radio broadcaster with National Public Radio for 12 years and a talk show host for several area radio stations. He was inducted into the Music Hall of Fame in 1984 and received the ‘Spirit of Detroit’ award. Horatio, along with his wife, Natasha, published the Caribbean SourceNews for 18 years, and are now Directors of the Horatio and Natasha Bennett Foundation – a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
Horatio and Natasha have written several books including the 'best selling "How to be a Good Person - without being religious." (www.BenTashBooks.Org). One of their earlier publications, 'A Second Chance - Unleashing the Power of Good' is being slated for a movie... The Bennetts are also dedicated and totally committed to building the first Caribbean-American Museum to serve as a testament to the achievements of Caribbean-American living in the United States. |
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The story – Pay It Forward!
The idea of The Horatio and Natasha Bennett Foundation was birthed in 2010 from a single act of kindness shown to them on a lonely stretch of highway in Tennessee. One night the Bennetts were taking one of their frequent trips to Detroit from their residence in McDonough, Georgia, when their car broke down. Standing by the roadside wondering their next move and options: should they contact relatives in Detroit – over 600 miles away or call for someone in McDonough – 372 miles – to come rescue them.
Well, as they pondered in the semi-darkness of the Tennessee hills a big black Ford Explorer approached and slowed. They watched the car passed them then made a U-turn and pulled up beside them. The driver, a man, either of an American, Arab or Asian descent rolled down his window and asked if they needed help. They were at first hesitant, they told him they could use a ride to the nearest service station. The man opened the car door and when the cautious couple peeped in they saw a lady sitting on the passenger side and two young children sitting in the back seat. “Safe enough,” they thought. They drove for about three blocks when the driver asked where were they from. They told him they lived in McDonough, Georgia, and were going to Detroit, Michigan to visit friends. The driver told them he once lived in McDonough and did recognize the street in McDonough on which the Bennetts lived. As the conversation went, the wife asked if the couple would like to be driven home, to McDonough. To make this story short, they readily accepted and that family drove that big Ford Explorer 372 miles into Georgia and pulled into their driveway.
As the grateful couple exited they pulled out a $100-dollar bill and offered it to the man whose name they now completely forgotten. The man refused to accept the money, telling the startled couple his act of helping us was his blessing, and with that he drove off, never even looking back.
The Bennetts were still in shock but came to the realization that they had met a family of ‘angels,’ or at the least, some very good persons. It was then and there that Horatio and Natasha Bennett pledged they would never see another in need and not offer our help. That same month the ‘Good Person Network,’ started; a nonprofit organization in which people were encourage ‘to help one to help others!’
The Bennetts are still trying to locate the family after all these years, and hoped someday, somehow they will see this site and contact them, not only to be properly thanked for their unselfish act of kindness but to join them in their commitment of "helping one to help others...!" - A 'movement' they invariably started that fateful evening on that lonely stretch of road leading to Detroit - or McDonough, Georgia.
This story was included in one of the Bennett’s latest books, "How to be a Good person without being religious" (www.BenTashBooks.Org).
At any given time, in the dead of Winter or in the heat of Summer you can see the Bennetts on the streets of Detroit handing out free blankets and care packages to the homeless and destitute; a project financed from their own values.
Today the Horatio and Natasha Bennett Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit entity dedicated to '…help for as long as it can to as many as it can for as long as it can…’
The idea of The Horatio and Natasha Bennett Foundation was birthed in 2010 from a single act of kindness shown to them on a lonely stretch of highway in Tennessee. One night the Bennetts were taking one of their frequent trips to Detroit from their residence in McDonough, Georgia, when their car broke down. Standing by the roadside wondering their next move and options: should they contact relatives in Detroit – over 600 miles away or call for someone in McDonough – 372 miles – to come rescue them.
Well, as they pondered in the semi-darkness of the Tennessee hills a big black Ford Explorer approached and slowed. They watched the car passed them then made a U-turn and pulled up beside them. The driver, a man, either of an American, Arab or Asian descent rolled down his window and asked if they needed help. They were at first hesitant, they told him they could use a ride to the nearest service station. The man opened the car door and when the cautious couple peeped in they saw a lady sitting on the passenger side and two young children sitting in the back seat. “Safe enough,” they thought. They drove for about three blocks when the driver asked where were they from. They told him they lived in McDonough, Georgia, and were going to Detroit, Michigan to visit friends. The driver told them he once lived in McDonough and did recognize the street in McDonough on which the Bennetts lived. As the conversation went, the wife asked if the couple would like to be driven home, to McDonough. To make this story short, they readily accepted and that family drove that big Ford Explorer 372 miles into Georgia and pulled into their driveway.
As the grateful couple exited they pulled out a $100-dollar bill and offered it to the man whose name they now completely forgotten. The man refused to accept the money, telling the startled couple his act of helping us was his blessing, and with that he drove off, never even looking back.
The Bennetts were still in shock but came to the realization that they had met a family of ‘angels,’ or at the least, some very good persons. It was then and there that Horatio and Natasha Bennett pledged they would never see another in need and not offer our help. That same month the ‘Good Person Network,’ started; a nonprofit organization in which people were encourage ‘to help one to help others!’
The Bennetts are still trying to locate the family after all these years, and hoped someday, somehow they will see this site and contact them, not only to be properly thanked for their unselfish act of kindness but to join them in their commitment of "helping one to help others...!" - A 'movement' they invariably started that fateful evening on that lonely stretch of road leading to Detroit - or McDonough, Georgia.
This story was included in one of the Bennett’s latest books, "How to be a Good person without being religious" (www.BenTashBooks.Org).
At any given time, in the dead of Winter or in the heat of Summer you can see the Bennetts on the streets of Detroit handing out free blankets and care packages to the homeless and destitute; a project financed from their own values.
Today the Horatio and Natasha Bennett Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit entity dedicated to '…help for as long as it can to as many as it can for as long as it can…’
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"Please Help My Grades" is an ideal instrument for home-schooling, vocation and vacation-period schools, and especially for the child who faces a learning challenge on a particular subject.
"Please Help My Grades" is an educational instruction video collection specially-designed to assist learning comprehension in the classroom; dealing with such subjects as Math, Science and English. Over the months there will be specific instructions on the daily problems students encounter in today's classroom.
Although your instructor is an 25-year veteran in elementary education, "Please Help My Grades" should not be construed as the epitome for classroom instructions, but should be used only to enhance the student's scholastic pursuits.
"Please Help My Grades" is an ideal instrument for home-schooling, vocation and vacation-period schools, and especially for the child who faces a learning challenge on a particular subject.
