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National Headquarters

SALF 9950 W. Lawrence Ave Ste 300

Schiller Park, Illinois 60176-1216
Ph: (847)928-9683
Fax: (847)928-9684
Toll Free: (888) 892-0606
Save A Life Foundation Website: www.saIf.ore

Carol J. Spizzirri
Founder/President AD
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August 5, 2005

Chicago Board of Education

Arne Duncan
Chief Executive Officer
125 South Clark
Chicago, II, 60603

Dear Mr,

We are pleased to submit this funding request to Chicago Board of education

for the amount of $25,000. Out of the eighty Chicago Public Schools we were in last year, we
anticipate an eighty-five percent request for additional training to other grade levels.

As our country continues to prepare for the possibility of terrorist attacks the Save A Life
Foundation is a committed leader in preparing families and communities by teaching basic Life
Supporting First Aid skills to children.

We are excited about maintaining our partnership between Chicago's Board of Education and
Ronald McDonald House Charities. Our youth need the services we provide and your support
will continue to sustain our communities with vital life saving knowledge.

Carol J. Spizzirri
Founder & President

C: Dane Neal, Nattonal Pollcy Director

Mekazin Alexander, National Program Director
 Grant request by:

SAVE A LIFE FOUNDATION

Schiller Park, IL

From
Chicago Public Schools

August 2005

Proud partner of U.S. Homeland Security

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Save A Life Foundation's Mission

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 Save A Life Foundation's Mission

"Training and developing "Bystanders", especially children, as volunteers equipped with Life
Supporting First Aid skills (LSFA) to aid in an emergency".

HISTORY

Save A Life Foundation was established in 1993 in the aftermath of a fatal motor vehicle crash
involving Christina Jean Spizzirri who bled to death because first responders were not equipped
with basic skills to maintain her life until professional help arrived. Christina's mother, Carol
Spizzirri founded the organization to prevent this tragedy from happening to anyone else. In
1994 Carol's efforts lead to the passage of a Illinois state mandate requiring all police and
firefighters to be trained in life supporting first aid skills prior to graduation from their academy
and the passage of federal appropriations to pay for that training. Meanwhile, joining Spizzirri's
cause to train the masses in Pre-EMS skills were world-renowned emergency experts Peter
Safar, M.D. (Father of CPR), Henry Heimlich, M.D. (Heimlich maneuver) and other emergency
medical service (EMS) professionals to establish SALF's Medical Board.

BACKGROUND

Injury remains one of the top killers in America, effecting over 2.4 million children who
needlessly die each year. 50% of these lives could have been saved if prompt aid were
administered prior to emergency medical service arrival. Lessons learned early in life establish
the behavioral patterns of a lifetime and become a part of a person's core beliefs and values.
SALF has chosen to focus on teaching young people basic life support techniques which
includes calling for the ambulance (without abandoning the patient), use of an automatic
external defibrillator (AED), clearing a deep airway obstruction, external hemorrhage control,
positioning for shock and unconsciousness (coma), CPR, infectious disease and biological
precautions.

The goal of the SALF is to heighten public awareness of the critical importance of early
intervention in any medical emergency. To promote LSFA training techniques with youth who
can use these practical skills to perform the necessary interventions. Therefore significantly
decreasing mortality and morbidity due to injury or illness and reduce the astronomical costs to
society in caring for injured or ill patients. The SALF programs help produce more responsible
young people by providing them with knowledge, confidence, and a desire to come to the aid of
others in traumatic situations.

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All of SALFs programs have been carefully developed to provide age appropriate learning and
have been evaluated for accuracy. SALF student educational programs deliver a high quality
product at no cost to the child.

SALF monitors the effectiveness of its training by having each student answer test questions on
a Scantron card which is then processed into SALF's data collection system for comparison.
Through this process, we have found that after three months the average child retains 97
percent of their training skills and a 57 percent increased desire or willingness to assist others in
a medical emergency. The Chicago Board of Education discovered the effectiveness of SALF's
training in 1998 and passed a Resolution to include SALF's programs as part of the school's
curriculum.

In 2000 Congress identified the need to prepare children to deal with injury and the treatment of
injuries until emergency medical service providers can arrive on the scene of an incident. An
appropriation was granted through Centers for Disease Control to expand SALF's training.
Since that time the Foundation has taught nearly 1 million children and has been endorsed by
many medical groups, national associations and hundreds of school officials. In 2002 SALF
became an affiliate of Illinois Homeland Security and in 2003 a partner of the Office of U.S.
Homeland Security's Citizen Corps and Medical Reserve Corps. SALF continues its partnership
with the U.S. Conference of Mayors, many state municipal leagues including Illinois Municipal
League and works with community leaders to prepare their children and citizens against
unexpected man-made, natural or personal disasters.

The SALF has developed a plan of action to expand its programs by being incorporated within
hospital emergency departments, fire and police departments, county public health departments
and major universities throughout the state of Illinois. Currently SALF has three Illinois
branches, St. James W.R. Albrecht Hospital, Pontiac, IL, Alexian Bros. Medical Center, Hoffman
Estates, IL, Anderson Hospital, Maryville, IL and in the state of Wisconsin, Florida and
Pennsylvania.

We anticipate successful achievement among the youth involved in this project and upon
completion they are better prepared to identify, and when called upon apply SALF's practical
Life Saving First Aid training skills to real life situations. No child or adult is excluded from the
possibility of an emergency occurring in his or her lifetime as witnessed on 9-11.

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 Executive Summary
SALF
Save A Life Foundation

SAVE A LIFE Foundation - Mission Statement

"Training and developing "Bystanders", especially children, as volunteers equipped with Life
Supporting First Aid skills (LSFA) to aid in an emergency".

The Save A Life Foundation is requesting the financial assistance for its on-going work
to provide professional training of life-support first aid skills for 10,000 grade children
within the Chicago Public Schools.

The scope of this request would include:

1. A supportive grant of $75,000 to SALF from the Ronald McDonald's House

Charities for. continuing its work in training Chicago Public Schools children to
be emergency prepared should they face an unexpected man-made, natural
or personal emergency with life supporting first aid skills.

2. The target audience of 10,000 grade children in diverse areas of Chicago's

75% Hispanic, African American and 25% socially mixed communities, with a
one hour presentation and hands-on skills practice i.e. recognizing an
emergency, activating Emergency Medical Service (9-1-1), Scene Safety
(including blood borne pathogens and bio-hazard precautions), Opening an
Airway, Rescue Breathing, Heimlich maneuver for infant, child and adult, and
introduction to an Automatic External Deliberator (AED). SALF's instructors
are fire fighters and EMS certified; bi-lingual, racially mixed and have passed
an Illinois State Police background examination.

3. Training will be scheduled between school and a SALF staff person, The
Instructors will report to the principal's office 30 minutes prior to training time,
to announce his or her arrival and proceed to the first class for training.

4. Instructors will give each student a program book, and review each step of
instruction followed by hands on practice application of each skill and when
applicable use a mannequin until the student feels comfortable in their own
performance.

5. An examination will be given immediately following the class, (average class

size 30), with each student placing their answers on a Scantron card.
Instructor will collect these cards and the classroom teacher completes the
Class Evaluation Sheet. Evaluation Sheets and cards are entered into a data
web base system and complied by the number of questions answered
correctly, school, teacher comments and Instructor. Data and Recap reports
will be available 60 days after the end of this project.

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 6. SALF is continually looking for opportunities to bring this life saving training to
children. With continued Congressional support, securing SALF's efforts in
the state budget, SALF's partnership with U.S. Citizen Corps, a community
that has a Citizen Corps Council can receive funds for SALF's program, and
continued support from business leaders. All have an investment in
emergency preparing our children, our community, and our country.

7. SALF's on going monitoring has reflected a child's interest to volunteer his or

her new skills in saving the lives of many of their teachers, family members
and fellow students. By having the Instructor from the ranks of an Emergency
Medical Service, some of our past students have changed their career
direction from crime to becoming a Chicago Firefighter, EMS and or Police
officer. We anticipate this success to continue with continued bi-yearly
training, which creates better citizenship.

SALF is a unique grassroots organization that coordinates local resources of

emergency trained professionals and its programs in an educational setting.
SALF is a registered vendor for the Chicago Public Schools and Instructors
are encouraged to offer this training to school staff for a minimal fee. These
fees generate revenue to help support additional child training for free, while
the teachers receives Illinois State Board of Education approved (1 for 1)
continued education credit hours in addition to the EMS Instructor receiving
the same to do the training.

8. The total cost of this project will be $100,000 of which SALF requests $37,500
RMHC $37,500 Global $37,500 and $25,000 from the Chicago Public
Schools.

SALF is a non-profit 501 c(3) organization that specializes in proving essential

emergency training for children and adults in life supporting skills.

SALF was the second national organization recruited by U.S. Homeland Security as a
partner with Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Citizen Corps and
Medical Reserve Corps for its Pre-EMS experience. The foundation works closely with
local municipalities in an effort to prepare it's citizens against emergencies, starting at
the school age level (K-12), by recruiting its own EMS, fire, police officials, nurses and
other health care professional, with CPR credentials as SALF instructors.

SALF actively promotes the need for emergency training and chronicles life-saving
stories of citizens in their everyday lives -— by helping their fellow citizens in their time
of need.

Since 1997 SALF has received funding through the State Department of Public Health.
Recent state budget cuts has caused SALF to be excluded, which has become a
tragedy. In turn many state legislators are appealing to return SALF to that department
while Congressional Delegates again support SALF's initiative by passing FY05 funds
through the Centers for Disease Control and corporations begin to join in support by
"Adopting" SALF methodology for their community school children.

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PROGRAM/PROJECT BUDGET

Emergency Preparing 10,000 Chicago Public School Children 2005-2006

SOURCE AMOUNT ITEM Amount %FT/PT

Government grants $

Chicago $ 25,000 Salaries

Public Schools
RMHC $ 37,500
Global RMHC $ 37,500 Project Coordinator $ 10,000 12% FT
Fundraising events $ Insurance Benefits/taxes $ 2,500
Membership income $
In-kind support $ Subtotal $ 12,500
Sub-Total Revenue $ 100,000 Child training materials w/
Scantron test/processing $ 71,000

Inst. Training Supplies/ $ 13,000

Eqpt, manikins/lungs
List Top Donors Travel $ 1,000
CPS $ 25,000 Printing & copying $ 1,450
RMHC $ 37,500 Telephone & FAX $ 1,000
Global RMHC $ 37,500 Postage & delivery $ 50
$
$
Total Income $ 100,000
Total Expense $ 100,000
Difference (Income less expense)$ 0