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TAM Welcomes AmeriCorps*VISTA Members
Tomorrow's Aeronautical Museum Announces
 
VISTA Members Will Help TAM Fight Poverty Through Education 
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Compton, CA - July 24, 2010 - AmeriCorps*VISTA members donate a year of their lives to improve communities throughout the United States, serving full-time in exchange for a small living allowance. 
In the past 40 years, over 177,000 people have served as VISTA volunteers working with local organizations to strengthen communities and help people escape poverty. Two VISTAs joined TAM this past week, and are ready to help TAM build capacity and sustainability for the Aero Squad After School Program. 
 
Introducing Kyle Conover
Kyle Conover
Kyle Conover

Kyle Conover will serve as TAM's Development Associate VISTA over the next year. As TAM plans to expand & set-up new Sky Labs in Compton parks, a larger, stronger, diverse base of resources is needed, and Kyle will develop a fund development system.
 
Kyle was raised in the northern California town of Los Banos. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy from the University of California, San Diego in 2008. Following that, he enrolled in a two year Master of Public Affairs program at Indiana University. While in Indiana, Kyle completed a two year fellowship with the City of Bloomington. He worked in the Community and Family Resources Department, and played various roles in helping the community. This included grant writing, fundraising, and event coordination. In the summer of 2009, Kyle worked for an environmental nonprofit in the San Fernando Valley. There, he helped research and write organizational policy guidelines. In May of 2010, Kyle completed his Masters with concentrations in Environmental Policy, Natural Resource Management, and Sustainable Development. 
 
Kyle loves cats and enjoys following Oakland A's baseball and the Indiana Hoosiers college basketball.
Introducing Preston Thymes
Preston Thymes
Preston Thymes

Preston Thymes joins Tomorrow's Aeronautical Museum as our Youth Outreach Coordinator VISTA where he will help TAM reach out to the community and improve a comprehensive youth and membership management & tracking system.
 
At TAM, we touch the lives of so many children everyday through our tutoring programs and flight training classes so we saw the need to refine our ability to measure outcomes and tell the story of our kids.
 
Preston previously worked for South Shore Habitat for Humanity in Boston; President Obama's Campaign in New Hampshire; and, as Public Relations Coordinator for a Domestic Violence and Homeless Shelter on California's Central Coast.
 
Preston spends his free time in Redondo Beach where he grew up and cheering for the USC Trojans where he attended college and majored in Business at the Marshall School of Business. 
 
VISTA logoDonations Needed
Help support the TAM VISTA Project by donating gift certificates that our VISTAs can use during their year of service. Some examples include gift certificates for gas, restaurants, groceries, or clothing stores.
 
Donations can be delivered to the VISTAs at TAM Monday thru Friday or mailed to TAM VISTAs, 961 W. Alondra Blvd., Compton, CA 90220. Thank you for your support! 
About Tomorrow's Aeronautical Museum
Tomorrow's Aeronautical Museum, is a non-profit organization that provides after school programs, tutoring and mentoring for at-risk youth. TAM also allows kids to earn flight lessons through performing community service.  Ten of TAM's program kids have set 12 world records in aviation. TAM was founded in 1998, and relocated to the Compton Airport in 2001.
About AmeriCorps*VISTA

In 1963, President John F. Kennedy spoke of a domestic volunteer program modeled after the newly established Peace Corps. The next year, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a "war on peverty" and signed the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. The Act created Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) and fulfilled President Kennedy's dream.
 
In 1990, President George H.W. Bush developed the Commission on National and Community Service. With the signing of the National Community Service Trust Act in 1993, President William J. Clinton developed AmeriCorps and merged the programs to create VISTA. 
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Robin Petgrave
Executive Director
(310) 618-1155
Tomorrow's Aeronautical Museum
Myra Petgrave
Project Director & VISTA Supervisor
(310) 618-1155
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