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Next fundraiser is not until November 2012 to sell Carson's books.  Meanwhile, we need your support to continue operating as a mostly self-funded nonprofit.  It is your choice to decide the amount unless you plan to join and pay membership dues to our affiliate IMPRUVE.  Contact us for dues structure (monthly, quarterly, yearly):  $30 per year for discount partial membership. $60 per year for full membership with full voting rights and benefits.  Thank you.   Donate Today by PayPal or use your credit card if you don't have PayPal. It's easy. Just click on the Donate button. 

Youth advocates of BNICEH are always busy on projects:

Ramissa Maat, CAU student, model/actress, BNICEH youth member performs at No Exit Cafe--featured in News Star in Rogers Park for her Spoken Word

Photo shows former vice president and treasurer Alyce Battle who passed into transition December 2010 and worked with youth at BNICEH and rode Illinois paratransit


L to R - Battle, former secretary of BNICEH Devon Tripp (pre-w/c days, former youth leaders Ebony Tripp and Cory Martin (whose mother former secretary/VP of BNICEH Ora Martin Harris passed into transition March 2011)


Andrew Tripp also a paratransit rider assists his mother Devon at Family Defense Center Juneteenth celebration at UIC - June 2010

Tyquan Baxter at at Memorial rally of National Paratransit People's Movement Assembly (NPPMA)

Genevarenee Baxter with walker at Memorial rally of NPPMA

Some of Board of BNICEH/IMPRUVE at Lion King November 2011

Fund Raisers - Summer through Fall 2012

 "Fundraiser for IMPRUVE - $5 each----BNICEH, parent of IMPRUVE, is selling Carson's Community Day books-August through November 2012, to continue its advocacy work and prepare for Memorial Rally for paratransit riders trip May 2013. Call 773-416-7366 or 773-544-9488  www.bniceh.blogspot.com"

Worth the price for the $10 discount that Carson's gives (Limit: up to 5 ten dollar discount coupons per purchase) and discount coupons on selected merchandise 

IMPRUVE is traveling back to Washington for NPPMA Memorial Rally 2013 on behalf of paratransit riders (all ages) who have passed away since 2010.

Discount coupons good in November 2012 at any Bon Ton's, Carson's. Boston Store, Elder-Beerman, Herberger's, Younkers, P-A-R-I-S-I-A-N (in Detroit) Dates TBA

Upcoming benefit concert with composer, musician/singer Chuck Idol Sr. (guitarist on right) and the rock band he performs with - TBA

Call 773-416-7366 or 773-338-1090 email: bniceh@yahoo.com 

Or bnichevideonews-subscribe@yahoogroups.com  www.groups.yahoo.com/bnicehvideonews.     We are on facebook, too under  

1. BNICEH Dr. Maat
2. National Paratransit Peoples Movement Assembly           
3. Impruve Paratransit

BNICEH requests your help for IMPRUVE--buy Carson's booklets from us; Attend fundraisers, A

Help us get to DC to Rally for Transit Freedom and Justice Nationally for Paratransit Riders

Fundraisers for 2011 - Winter to Spring

•  Fundraiser through Sat. February 26, 2011 - Support BNICEH (parent company of IMPRUVE) in Carson's Community Day Event now through February 26, 2011.  To help BNICEH for IMPRUVE's trip to DC and general support --buy discount books for $5.  Buy discount books now from us!!!  Call 773-416-7366 or 773-255-2113. The five dollars goes directly to us when you buy from us (not while we are in the store Feb. 26). On Feb. 26, we turn over monies to Carson's from sales of  $5 coupon booklets; they share the money among all groups present in the store selling by issuing a check by mail, weeks after event ends. The $5 Discount books contain coupons up to $200 in value that include: $10 off coupons, 30%, and 50% off coupons, and other specials.  We are registered with Evergreen Plaza and Edens Plaza Carson's in Wilmette IL, but the books we are selling are good at any Carson Pirie Scott, Bon Ton, Be. 19, members can pay $15 at door rgner, Parisian across the nation.

• Sat. March 5, 2011 - 1030 N. Clark Chicago IL 60610 6-11 pm , dine until 10 pm in private room, then move to play power games. Or play board games (checkers, dominoes, backgammon, Scrabble) and cards (bid whist) until 9 pm. Stay until 1 am in  Dave and Buster's. Fajita Buffet or Special Menu Upon Early Request and Payment --Raw Organic Vegan  - $35 due February 19, 2011. With $ 20 Deposit by Feb. 19. Members can then pay $15 cash or money order at door.  No personal checks. Money order, Bank check or Credit Union check.  Request flier impruve2@yahoo.com 
• Sat. April 9, 2011 - Leona's Pizza Party 6935 N. Sheridan Rd Chicago IL 60626 5:30-8:30 pm  Veggie w/tofu Skewer or Raw psychedelic salad w/avocado Vegan Option must be requested & paid in advance. Silent Auction.  Performance by Bruh Luh.  $25 due by March 31, 2011. Non-members at door $30.  Members may pay deposit of $15 by March 31, 2011 and $10 at the door.  

Sat. May 7, 2011 - Leona's Pizza Party 6935 N. Sheridan Rd Chicago IL 60626 5:30-8:30 pm Pizza Party. Veggie w/tofu or Raw psychedelic salad w/avocado Vegan Option must be requested & paid in advance. Silent Auction. Performance by Bruh Luh. $25 due by April 30, 2011. Non-members at door $30. Members may pay deposit of $15 by April 30, 2011and $10 at the door.

National Paratransit Peoples Movement Assembly formed by IMPRUVE in 2010

• Going to DC May 23-27, 2011 to rally for paratransit riders and take Declaration of Transit Justice and Freedom to Obama adminiustration, FTA, Congress and U.S. Access Board in memory of two directors who passed in 2010 in December and July respectively:

Director Emeritus Alyce Battle,  1st vice president 1999-2009 , treasurer 2005-2007

Director Emeritus Omar Basheer,   president (1992-93) and vice president 1991-92, 1994-95

 and in memory of paratransit rider Tracey Berry who passed in April 2010
and BNICEH volunteer and child welfare advocate Judith Catlin who passed in January 2010.

BNICEH and IMPRUVE Board 2008-2010: Dr. Ayo Maat, pres; Dr. Jackie Haas, Patricia Baxter, treas.; Cecelia Jackson, secy (missing: Alyce Battle (decesaed 2010), Jeanette Exom, Donna Lewis, Harold Bellamy, Joanne Tillis)

Joanne Tillis, director- At ACT One Cafe, Rogers Park 2010

Photos of paratransit riders,  other persons who are disabled, families of members, and youth who have participated in our events or events that we attend or support:

Dr. Ayo Maat, president, at NorthSide Community Federal Credit Union (NSCFCU) annual meeting Member of Board of Directors, NSCFCU





Board of BNICEH  and IMPRUVE at Lion King, Cadillac Palace Theatre, Nov. 2010

Patricia Baxter, Treasurer,  Chair, IMPRUVE Fundraising Committee

Geneva Baxter, IMPRUVE Fundraising Committee

Ernestine Standberry, Tom Babbington, Dr. Jackie Haas at rally for
fixed route public transit and paratransit re: DoomsDay fares
at State of Illinois Thompson Center 2007

Liz Bracken at RIC 2008

Cecelia Jackson, secy and vice president (on medical leave 2011),
at RIC Computer Lab 2008

Prayer vigil, IMPRUVE with Paratransit Riders  Arlington Heights IL Preaying for right action
 re: paratransit fare hikes and policy 2009

Tyquan Baxter, IMPRUVE Fundraising Committee, Tech Support
 at Loyola Park Afrikan Heritage program 2008  

Jeanette Exom, former Outreach Director, IMPRUVE, (on medical leave 2010)  at sit-in, Jan. 2008
at Currency Xchg to protest monthly paratransit pass cancellation 

Peggy McCusker at RIC 2008

Herb Hoffman at RTA rally to protest paratransit zone system 2008

Richard James at RIC 2008

Actress-model Ramissa Maat, CAU student, former member BNICEH Youth Board

Trish Hardy, vocalist with 40 years performing experience, modeling earrings by  Maat at IMPRUVE fundraiser,
Leona's  after wailing the blues from her wheelchair, November 2010