Grant Proposal / DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE
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Jehan Semper, Organizer
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Many gifted and talented people, Virtuous Dreamers, possessing true genius and potential as well as genuine desire to rise to a higher purpose, live their lives deeply immersed in the mundane activities that support mere sustenance. Cognizant of their gifts, but encumbered by their circumstances, these Virtuous Dreamers live each day praying for the opportunity to walk a path that cultivates their talent and realizes their true self.
It is Jehan Semper's belief that the Virtuous Dreamer with the ability to glean the cure for cancer, from the existing books and data within the scientific and academic community, is busy working at McDonald's. However, when given three years at DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE and the freedom and time to study the existing scientific material independently, with the blessing of new, innovative and unbiased thought, that Virtuous Dreamer will be well on their way to saving lives. One who contributes such value to the world community is that Virtuous Dreamer's true self and it is to this purpose that Virtuous Dreamer would choose to devote their life.
DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE will provide these gifted and talented people, Virtuous Dreamers, with the opportunity to become their best selves. With the DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE SUCCEED SCHOLARSHIP, a Virtuous Dreamer can live at DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE, with all expenses paid, for up to three years while they study, learn, improve and positively change any life condition, skill or talent that will equip them to fulfill the depth of their potential.
During its first three years of operation, DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE would provide five Virtuous Dreamers with the opportunity to achieve a complete evolution of life path for just $150,000USD or $30,000USD each. Considering that an investment of $150,000USD, from which just one accomplished student could achieve similar goals at many educational institutions providing comparable, individualized three year courses of study, the DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE SUCCEED SCHOLARSHIP would be a preferred route in the development of a truly gifted and talented person for whom crafting skill from aptitude at DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE would be just a matter of time and lead to achievements that elevate the lives of the world community.
Jehan Semper, Organizer, is one such Virtuous Dreamer. Recognized as gifted and talented during her childhood but mired in responsibilities and ideology that would act to deter the realization of her best self, Jehan's numerous opportunities to fulfill her potential blossomed to achievement when provided with an environment that included the factors for success simultaneously, specifically: tools, home and time. Equipped with the materials necessary to study, a stable place to live and given the freedom and time to invest her complete heart and mind in the subject of her choice, Jehan has since achieved every goal to which she has devoted her thoughts.
Jehan has true interest in and empathy for similarly gifted and talented people longing for the freedom and time to craft skill from aptitude and become the person they would choose to be. Jehan has true experience with the Virtuous Dreamer's perception of life and thus true desire to assist Virtuous Dreamers with creating lives they would choose to have, which contribute to society in ways that the Virtuous Dreamer has always believed they could.
Everyone can succeed when they understand. Everyone can understand when they invest the time. It is the goal of DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE to provide gifted and talented people, Virtuous Dreamers, with the most valuable resource they have to realize their potential and become the person they would choose to be: time. And, this goal, giving the gift of success to a Virtuous Dreamer, is a goal from which we would all benefit.
EXECUTIVE BIOGRAPHY
JEHAN SEMPER, Organizer
jehan.semper@gmail.com / 929.266.5764
Jehan made her career in technology for more than 15 years with the majority of time invested in the Pacific Northwest. Jehan earned a Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy & Law from City University of New York.
Jehan is a veteran of Occupy Wall Street, having lived and worked within the original encampment at Zuccotti Park in the Canyon of Heroes in New York City. She has invested the majority of her time since 2011 raising awareness about the universal nature and commonality of human needs and evangelizing the path of true loving kindness as conceptualized by the teachings of Jesus, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Jewish texts.
Jehan's path of spiritual development is practicing monastic austerity and solitude. Inspired by a conversation with Toni Packer while visiting Springwater Center in Rochester, New York, Jehan has lived simply with as few possessions as possible since 2008, travelling the United States as a nomadic nun, bartering work for lodging and food as well as sitting on the streets of large cities as a street beggar, avoiding the amassing of wealth for its own sake.
During these ten years of austerity and solitude, Jehan has lived a life primarily supported by way of true loving kindness received in the form of coins and dollars placed in her begging bag. Jehan's life as a street beggar is commemorated in the documentary film Orca: A True Story. Filmed during Summer 2017, Orca: A True Story describes Jehan's path to return to a "normal" life after having lived as a street beggar in the years after Occupy Wall Street.
Jehan is a baptised Mormon, having converted during 1996 after studying with Missionaries while living in the United Kingdom. Physically, Jehan is female but in her heart and soul, she is male. Jehan practices celibacy in observance of her religious ideology and monastic path.
Jehan was recognized as a gifted student in 1982 after reading and explaining the meanings of a grouping of words school officials believed she would have no way of knowing or understanding while registering for third grade at PS 108. Consistently testing several grade levels beyond her current grade on standardized tests within the New York City public school system, Jehan perceived school as an activity designed to pass the time.
Jehan attended Philippa Schuyler School for the Gifted and Talented in Brooklyn, New York from which she was dismissed during the 8th grade for truancy. While repeating the 8th grade at IS 218, from which she was also truant, Jehan successfully auditioned to study voice and performance at Fiorello H. Laguardia High School of Performing Arts and received an acceptance letter from prestigious Stuyvesant High School, both located in New York, New York. Making certain to acknowledge Jehan's successful audition, Laguardia's letter gently communicated their concern that although school officials believed Jehan to be talented, truancy would negatively affect the opportunity.
Jehan registered to commence 9th grade at Stuyvesant High School during the Summer of 1989.
Jehan's school absences, which eventually developed into truancy, started after the birth of her siblings in 1982. Jehan's mother entrusted the responsibility of caring for the younger children to Jehan because their father was a heroin addict who routinely ventured to destinations unknown while Jehan's mother was working. This condition, being the primary caregiver of her younger siblings, the associated absences and the derivative truancy, continued until 1991 when Jehan let go of the dream of an Ivy League education, choosing to sit for the GED instead of continuing the path to graduate from Stuyvesant High School.
On her 17th birthday, Jehan promptly signed the documents to cease attending high school, sat for the GED at the first available opportunity and after earning a score of 315, which qualified her to apply to a four year university of her choice, and her mother's refusal to allow Jehan to attend college while living at home, Jehan started on the path of escaping her childhood home.
Jehan arrived at Oneonta Job Corps during October 1991 with the desire to become an electrician, a path divinely diverted by a temporary placement in the Business Clerical trade, which became permanent when Jehan was introduced to a computer. Jehan promptly matriculated at State University of New York at Oneonta in Spring 1993 and started experimenting with something called HTML.
In January 2000, Jehan started working as a Web Developer at Amazon.com in Seattle, Washington.
During the days that Jehan chose truancy instead of attending school, Jehan invested her time at the library reading books and studying the subjects and literature of her choice until the school instructed the library to insist that she not study there during school hours. Instead of participating in her preferred activity of reading, Jehan started a regimen of walking for hours each day, an activity she also implemented during the first year of her "training" and odyssey as a homeless person in New York City.
Jehan believes that given a more peaceful childhood home, there is good reason to believe that Jehan would have successfully graduated from Stuyvesant High School. Jehan also believes that although she has lived a life blessed by intelligence and intellect, her level of success was obviously affected by her environment as well as her perception and response to her environment.
Jehan Semper is now an actress, singer, artist, writer, director and filmmaker as well as a lifetime web developing nerd. It is Jehan's desire to provide similarly gifted and talented people, Virtuous Dreamers, with an environment that leads toward success.
PURPOSE
DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE will provide gifted and talented people, Virtuous Dreamers, with the opportunity to become their best selves. A Virtuous Dreamer can live at DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE for up to three years while they study, learn, improve and positively change any life condition, skill or talent that will improve their lives by way of the DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE SUCCEED SCHOLARSHIP.
RATIONALE
THE STORY OF DANIEL
DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE is based on the experiences of Daniel and his companions while living in Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom. Chosen for their intellect, virtue and good character, Daniel and his companions received training in language, literature and science, skills they would eventually utilize in service to the king.
Daniel 1:3 - 6, 17 - 20; 3:1 - 97; 6:1 - 25
THE STORY OF NOW
There are many gifted and talented people, Virtuous Dreamers, whose talent and gifts are never expressed because they are so deeply mired in the mundane activities that make it possible for them to cover their rent, food and similar expenses.
The inspiration to create DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE grew from the opportunity Jehan received while living in the Mormon community in Provo, Utah during 2015. While making her home in a tent in the backyard of a Mormon church leader's family, Jehan was given a sketchbook, a pencil and plenty of peaceful time. During that peaceful time, Jehan learned that she could draw.
for example, a Virtuous Dreamer with the ability to read and understand the logic and reasoning of the material within books about quantum physics, who also possesses the desire to improve, innovate and build upon such ideas, would be likely to do so when provided with the freedom and time to meditate upon the existing scientific material in the professional and academic community.
Before receiving the sketchbook and pencil, Jehan had interest in drawing, but the truth of her aptitude and the actual drawings made their way to the page because during her time in Utah, the required factors for success were present simultaneously and those factors are (a) tools: a sketchbook and pencil; (b) home: a stable environment and (c) time: Jehan did not have to work or contribute financially to maintain the stable environment. Free to choose how to invest her time, Jehan chose to draw.
The simultaneous presence of tools, home and time are the very reason that Jehan learned that her aptitude, previously perceived as just interest, could become skill. http://DANIELSFARMHOUSE.ORG/ARTWORK
It is Jehan's belief that the Virtuous Dreamer with the ability to glean the cure for cancer, from the existing books and data within the professional and academic community, is busy working at McDonald's. However, when given three years at DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE and the freedom and time to study the existing scientific material independently, with the blessing of new, innovative and unbiased thought, that Virtuous Dreamer will be well on their way to saving lives.
OPPORTUNITY
It is the goal of DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE to provide gifted and talented people, Virtuous Dreamers, with the opportunity to devote their complete mind, heart and effort to developing, improving and expressing their talent and aptitude.
Virtuous Dreamers who have completed development of their talent and aptitude will have the skills and confidence to join the community of their chosen field of study, artistry, trade or profession to which they will contribute value.
DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE SUCCEED SCHOLARSHIP
DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE SUCCEED SCHOLARSHIP will provide gifted and talented people, Virtuous Dreamers, with the factors for success: tools, home and time. By providing these Virtuous Dreamers with three years at DANIEL's FARMHOUSE, with all expenses paid and the resources and instruments necessary to improve their life condition, talent or skill, DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE will be their opportunity realize their potential.
METHODOLOGY & IMPLEMENTATION
Virtuous Dreamers will have the opportunity to choose mentors and role models from the sphere of their chosen field of study whose positive example, paired with the investment of effort from the Virtuous Dreamer, will equip the Virtuous Dreamer to craft a path toward a goal that is achievable within three years.
OBJECTIVES
By providing Virtuous Dreamers with the success factors of tools, home and time simultaneously, DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE will assist Virtuous Dreamers with achievement of these objectives.
TALENT & APTITUDE BECOMES SKILL
Provide Virtuous Dreamers with the freedom to invest three years devoting their complete mind, heart and effort to craft skill from talent and aptitude.
ADOPT APPROPRIATE SOCIAL NORMS
Provide Virtuous Dreamers with desirable mentors and role models from the sphere of success within the community the Virtuous Dreamer's chosen field of study whose purpose will be to evangelize the merit of adapting and conforming to the norms of the desired community.
INTERNALIZE IDEOLOGY & VALUES OF COMMUNITY
Educate Virtuous Dreamers as to the history and mythology of the community of their chosen field of study, that community's perception of value and what is considered to be worth the esteem of its members. Virtuous Dreamers will achieve internalization of community ideology and values by modeling desirable mentors and role models from the sphere of success within the community of their chosen field of study.
JOIN COMMUNITY
Assist Virtuous Dreamers with obtaining and accessing opportunities and paths to join the community of their chosen field of study in the form of (a) acceptance to an educational institution or opportunity for additional study or training customary for their chosen field, (b) employment in the desired trade or profession and (c) opportunities to perform, collaborate, live and work within the community of their chosen field of study.
SUCCESS FACTORS & STRATEGY
Virtuous Dreamers who achieve success within the DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE SUCCEED SCHOLARSHIP must be willing to choose to have a new life and live within the professional and social norms of the community for their chosen field of study. The practical effect of this decision would include a willingness to cease communicating with family members and friends during their study at DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE. Virtuous Dreamers will invest their hearts and minds to truly meditate upon and model the life path, activities, choices and achievements of their mentors and role models. The Steward will assist Virtuous Dreamers with forming relationships with members of the community of their chosen field of study.
MILESTONES & GUIDANCE
The Virtuous Dreamer's course of study will be individual and self-directed, crafted and guided by modeling their chosen mentor's life path, achievements and accomplishments. Virtuous Dreamers will be provided with every opportunity to make progress toward their goal and achieve success as conceptualized during the crafting of their course of study.
VIRTUOUS DREAMERS
ELIGIBILITY
VIRTUOUS DREAMER CHARACTERISTICS
Virtuous Dreamers are recognized as having extraordinary intelligence, talent or aptitude that is naturally occurring and would be improved by practice and an investment of effort for a specific amount of time.
ACCEPTANCE FACTORS
Virtuous Dreamers considered to be eligible for DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE SUCCEED SCHOLARSHIP must have (a) recognizable intelligence, talent or aptitude; (b) good behaviour for at least two years immediately preceding their application to DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE; and (c) willingness to commit their mind, heart and effort to developing their talent and aptitude and adopting the norms of the community of their chosen field of study.
SUCCESS FACTORS
Virtuous Dreamers who are most likely to succeed within DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE opportunity must have (a) willingness to live and study in an environment that does not include their usual influences and relationships; (b) willingness to adapt to the DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE quiet and studious environment; (c) willingness to become acquainted with people and experiences that are customary within the sphere of success of their chosen field of study.
GUIDANCE, MENTORING & ADVOCACY
Virtuous Dreamers, although gifted and possessing aptitude, may consider the social norms of their chosen field of study to be new or different than their life experience. It is the role of the Steward to advocate on behalf of Virtuous Dreamers and assist them in choosing mentors and role models who will evangelize the merit of adapting and conforming to the norms of the community for their chosen field of study and guide the Virtuous Dreamer in the process of internalizing community ideology.
REQUIREMENTS / CREATING THE ENVIRONMENT
LIVE/WORK SPACE
A residential property, or adequate space within a larger multiple use property, to accommodate five adult Virtuous Dreamers with the customary living, sleeping, working and cooking facilities which is zoned for the uses described within DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE Charitable Purpose. The first year Live/Work Space budget will be established as necessary for a cash, mortgage or gift property up to $200,000. The Live/Work Space budget for second year and beyond is $34,000USD to $38,000USD annually.
MANAGEMENT
SALARIED CONTRIBUTORS
Salaried Contributors provide services to Virtuous Dreamers and DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE as full-time resources. Salaried Contributors currently include resources performing the responsibility of Steward. Compensation for each Salaried Contributor is $12,000 annually.
STEWARD
The Steward will act as an advocate on behalf of Virtuous Dreamers to assist them in obtaining any and all services, resources and tools necessary to achieve their goal as well as provide daily operational management and coordination of maintenance of DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE. Compensation for each Steward is $12,000 annually.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
TEACHERS & COACHES
Virtuous Dreamers will be paired with a teacher or coach appropriate for their field of study and chosen goal. The teacher or coach would provide services to Virtuous Dreamers on a volunteer basis.
SPECIALIZED SKILLS CONSULTANTS
DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE will assist Virtuous Dreamers with building relationships with teachers, coaches and consultants with specialized skills and training to make certain that all Virtuous Dreamers can achieve their goal with an expeditious usage of time. Specialized Skills Consultants would provide services to Virtuous Dreamers on a volunteer basis.
EQUIPMENT
COMMUNICATION
Virtuous Dreamers will be provided with the tools necessary to achieve their goals with the same amount of convenience as the majority of people in the United States including smartphone and computer within a budget of $2,500 annually.
HEALTH & NOURISHMENT
MEDICAL, MENTAL HEALTH & COUNSELING
DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE will assist Virtuous Dreamers with accessing affordable healthcare and related services.
FOOD
DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE will provide food for each Virtuous Dreamer appropriate for their health, diet and course of study within a budget of $12,000 annually.
MARKETING
VIRTUOUS DREAMERS
Evangelism of the DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE opportunity designed to create awareness, educate and empower Virtuous Dreamers to choose DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE as a route to achieve their goal.
DONORS
Evangelism of the DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE SUCCEED SCHOLARSHIP as a valuable and worthwhile investment in the betterment of each Virtuous Dreamer and thus the betterment of society.
SUSTAINABILITY
During the first year, DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE would require approximately $40,000USD to $70,000USD to provide five Virtuous Dreamers with the DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE SUCCEED SCHOLARSHIP. During the second year and beyond, DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE would require approximately $34,000USD to $38,000USD annually.
VALUE
During its first three years of operation, the DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE SUCCEED SCHOLARSHIP would provide five Virtuous Dreamers with the opportunity to achieve a complete evolution of life path for just $150,000USD or $30,000USD each. Considering that an investment of $150,000USD, from which just one accomplished student could achieve similar goals at many educational institutions providing comparable, individualized three year courses of study, the DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE SUCCEED SCHOLARSHIP would be a preferred route in the development of a truly gifted and talented person for whom crafting skill from aptitude at DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE would be just a matter of time and lead to lives these Virtuous Dreamers would choose to have.
ANNUAL BUDGET / THREE YEARS
Message Jehan Semper, Organizer for DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE budget and expense data.
SUCCESS
Everyone can succeed when they understand. Everyone can understand when they invest the time.
Just imagine what these Virtuous Dreamers could accomplish. Imagine what these Virtuous Dreamers could achieve with aptitude, desire and three years to invest at DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE devoting their heart, mind and effort to achieving a worthwhile goal that elevates the lives of the world community and thus becoming the person they would choose to be.
During its first three years of operation, the DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE SUCCEED SCHOLARSHIP would provide five Virtuous Dreamers with the opportunity to achieve a complete evolution of life path for just $150,000USD or $30,000USD each. Considering that an investment of $150,000USD, from which just one accomplished student could achieve similar goals at many educational institutions providing comparable, individualized three year courses of study, the DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE SUCCEED SCHOLARSHIP would be a preferred route in the development of a truly gifted and talented person for whom crafting skill from aptitude at DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE would be just a matter of time and lead to lives these Virtuous Dreamers would choose to have.
The opportunity provided by the DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE SUCCEED SCHOLARSHIP is for the betterment of the Virtuous Dreamer as an individual. The opportunity strives to improve the Virtuous dreamer's perception of self, their confidence and belief as to what they can achieve and accomplish, thus elevating the quality of their individual life. This investment in the betterment of the individual is actually an investment in the betterment of society because it is only by empowering the Virtuous Dreamer that world community can enjoy the fruit of their gifts.
The DANIEL'S FARMHOUSE opportunity is successful when Virtuous Dreamers achieve and exceed what they have always believed and prayed they would. giving the gift of success to a Virtuous Dreamer is a goal from which we would all benefit.
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