catching up to my progress

WOW! Its been 10 days since my last blog and the days are flying by. I have been soooo busy. Starting a foundation is a huge undertaking, fortunately I have nothing but time right now being between semesters. I start school on the 7th of Jan. so I need to get in as much work in now as possible. Just what have I been doing, lets see...... I have been e-mailing everyone in the world from Oprah to Time magazine (I e-mail Oprah every day and tell them I'm not going to stop until they call me and tell me to). My main task right now is getting a 1023 filed with the IRS to get 501(c)(3) status. It's not good enough to just incorporate as a non-profit, Uncle Sam needs to approve of it. It is a 26 page application and has a zillion government type questions, you know the ones, where it takes three Ph.D. graduate degrees to figure out what they are saying! So I have retained professional help in the form of a CPA and a lawyer to assure acceptance by the IRS. So right now that is where the money I am currently raising is going, its not cheep! I researched and wrote a Press Release that I have sent out to more than 20 magazines and newspapers trying to get national attention brought to this awesome project. I know it is going to be huge and soon doors will just start to fly open for us. If you noticed on the home page, we got a little attention from CBS 2 news Chicago on Christmas Eve, the night we put our son on a plane back to Ft. Carson Colorado where he is stationed. He was supposed to leave on the 26th for Iraq, but it was put off until today the 29th. In fact he will be leaving an hour and a half from now. I have just started reaching out to the country music industry, you know how they love their soldier boys! I just need one big country star to get on board, and the rest will follow for sure. How can they not for such an awesome cause?? If you have any advice or contacts let me know......