The Dare to Dream Project was founded in 1993 at Technical Career Institutes (TCI), a private two-year technical college located one block to the west of Madison Square Garden.  Supported by student volunteers at TCI, the program benefits charitable organizations throughout the five boroughs of New York City. Dare to Dream assists the physically challenged, the elderly, and the terminally ill. TCI Students contribute their time and skills. Since it’s inception, the Dare to Dream Project has serviced over 50 charitable organizations, many on an ongoing basis.

 
How Dare to Dream Works:

Dare to Dream solicits donations of computers from individuals, small businesses, and major corporations. TCI students and faculty repair and upgrade the computers then donate them to developmentally disabled children, physically challenged individuals and the terminally ill. In addition, Dare to Dream invites recipients’ families and people with AIDS to participate in computer training conducted by TCI Students. Computers are also given to community centers, public schools, veteran centers and hospitals.

Computer training courses have been established at Bailey House, Bronx Lebanon Hospital Special Care Unit, The Center for Children and Families, Safespace, Kings County Hospital, Rivington House, Sinergia, St. Ann’s Church and The Actors Fund. Organizations that have donated to the program include: Radio City Music Hall, The Supreme Court of New York, Metropolitan Life, Hunton and Williams and Big Apple Greeter to name a few.

Benefits to Volunteers:

Besides teaching valuable skills to approximately 400 student volunteers, the program enhances participant’s humanitarian responses and reinforces their self-esteem. It is students who can create a miracle. Volunteer activities help the students to grow and enables them to make their own dreams come true.

What you can do:

To help these dreams become realities and to perpetuate the miracle, volunteers outside of Dare to Dream are needed, as well as donations of computers, air conditioners, and other needed resources. That undoubtedly, will be Dare to Dream’s greatest miracle.

Schools, shelters, hospices, and other organizations, as well as individuals with disabilities, may apply to the Dare to Dream Project for Help.

Please contact: Robert Lubell and Dare to Dream may be contacted at TCI 320 West 31^st Street New York, NY 10001 Telephone 212-594-4000 ext 338 TCI College of Technology can be found on the web at http://www.tciedu.com