Onzo Guitars has been asked, to plan, in cooperation with "Nobody's Child", a concert featuring "A list Artists" including their touring bands. This event is a fund raiser for the foundation aiding foster care children.

Our function will be to plan the event along with the marketing department of the foundation.

The Everybody's Child Foundation was created in order to increase awareness about the issues confronting teenage orphans in the United States. The Foundation, funded in part by the publishing proceeds from the song, Nobody's Child, seeks to collaborate with other child advocacy organizations to find and implement sustainable solutions for 12 to 17-year-olds living in foster care or under state custody.

HISTORY
In 2007, a group of writers was given the challenge to create a song that would bring attention to the growing problem of foster teens in America. The song, entitled Nobody's Child was born and copyrighted by Christian Endeavor, the oldest youth movement in the United States
Written by Amanda Williams, Steve Clark, and Keesy Timmer, this song (sung here by Amanda) tells the story of youth aging out of foster care. We hope it breaks your heart. Working together, the recording industry could wipe out this problem and set the pace for America to care for its forgotten foster youth. To learn how you can help with this tragic issue, please call Timothy Eldred at 989.954.0591 today. Thousands of kids are counting on your compassion.

MISSION
The Everybody's Child Foundation was created in order to increase awareness about the issues confronting teenage orphans in the United States. The Foundation, funded in part by the publishing proceeds from the song, Nobody's Child, seeks to collaborate with other child advocacy organizations to find and implement sustainable solutions for 12 to 17-year-olds living in foster care or under state custody.

REALITY
"Governments do a lot of things well, raising children is not one of them." -Senator Mary Landrieu
Here are a few statistics:
1. more than 1 in 5 youth who arrived at shelters came directly from foster care
2. more than 1 in 4 had been in foster care the previous year (National Association of Social Workers)
3. between 24% & 50% of former foster care/probation youth become homeless within 18 months of leaving the system (California Department of Social Services)
4. 25% of those in prison were once in foster care
5. 70% of 17-year-olds in foster care express a desire to go to college
6. 54% will finish high school
7. 2% will earn a college degree

VISION
To see that teens aging out of foster care are properly provided with training and educational opportunities, so they are not left alone without hope.