The Nancy News February 2014 by Cartwright Entertainment

The Nancy News February 2014

News from Nancy Cartwright

Just From Nancy…

Volume 17 Issue 1

Starting Season 26!

I am penning this on Valentine’s Day 2014! Can you believe how fast this year is going already! Last week I had the pleasure of being a presenter at the 41st Annual Annie Awards held at Royce Hall on the UCLA campus. It was a packed audience as Patrick Warburton welcomed and hosted the evening. He kept the audience laughing as he introduced the presenters, including Josh Gad and myself. Of all the award shows, this is one that the public has no idea what they are missing. From character development to music scores to editing and on and on, the hard laborers of this artistic guild get a night to celebrate and thoroughly enjoy the works of their peers. I’m going to be campaigning to get more recognition for the many voice actors that bring these animations life and emotion! In the meantime, my Happy House Good Choices® Program is hosting our 9th annual Texas Hold ‘em poker fundraiser. As always, it is at my home in Northridge and kids are invited to join mom and/or dad to do arts, crafts, play games, dance to live music and eat a good BBQ while money is being raised for HH/GC. To find out more…its all here on the www.HappyHouse.org website! I am honored to be the Fernando Award recipient for 2013, and look very forward to helping this wonderful organization—that dedicates itself to helping others—this coming year! Big plans already in the works! Fun! I am excited to go back to Ohio to perform with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra. I was invited to narrate the 1965 classic The Dot and the Line written by Chuck Jones. It will be screened behind the orchestra while I tell the story and the orchestra accompanies me with all the music, bells and whistles. And as an encore, I just might be convinced to direct a piece myself! Not to give it away…if you are in the neighborhood…see the dates on the back page. Happy New Year one and all,

Nancy

The idea that our favorite “Springfield Five” can be immortal became even more real in 2013: The Simpsons heads into production on Season #26! More than a quarter of a century! Congratulations to the writers, actors, directors, producers, executives, animators, designers, advertisers, mixers and a myriad of others who bring us this 22 minutes of awesomeness. Cheers to 26 and beyond! Yes, go ahead, have a cow, man!

A First for Nancy The Emerald City Comicon, a three day event from March 28-30, 2014, held at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, WA, has invited Nancy to attend and have some fun with the hard core fans of animation. This is the premier comic book and pop culture convention in the Pacific Northwest and Nancy will be available to pose for fan photos and for signings as well. She will also be part of entertainment industry panels. For a full overview and to get your tickets, check out the site to find the latest on everything ECCC, including lists of guests, exhibitors, artists, schedules, gaming and events! www.emeraldcitycomicon.com

A Year of Good Choices and Good Fortune Year 13 in the new millennium was a “lucky” one for Happy House. Not only was it another great year of growth for Happy House and the Good Choices Program but it was a year where we made many new friends and helped more kids and families than ever. You can read on the next pages about the extraordinary expansion in 2013 at our San Jose Chapter. Our Santa Barbara, Seattle and Columbus (OH) groups continued to deliver the Good Choices Program. Monique Williams in Ohio more than doubled her Good Choices delivery and graduates at the Linden Recreation Center and the older kids are now helping her with younger ones on the program. Her students reached out with arts and crafts gifts and visits to residents of a local eldercare facility.

interviewing the winners live at the event.

The Happy Haunted House in Inglewood

One of our most exciting new relationships is with the wonderful members of Kiwanis of Northridge. As new members we have begun participating in their activities such as Nancy’s staffers helping out at their holiday party at Northridge Hospital for 400 underprivileged kids and contributing to their annual clothes drive. We are also helping them launch their first annual poker fundraiser on June 14th! Check our Calendar and go to www.kpoker.org to sign up! Happy House continued to sponsor and deliver arts and crafts fairs (along with booklets) to hundreds of happy children at Salute to Kids events at Hansen Dam and Granada Hills, produced by the Los Angeles Anti-Gang Coalition.

We also participated in the Chatsworth Chamber of Commerce Carnival for families where we hosted the ball toss and handed out booklets that introduced families to the Good Choices program. This was a year of great expansion and we thank all the volunteers, supporters, parents and children for their participation in this program, which helps us all live happier and more productive lives.

Monique and kids in Columbus

Our Seattle Chapter participated in the 40th Northwest Folklife, a celebration of musical and artistic traditions at Seattle Center that is now the nation’s largest free community arts festival. See the sidebar for much more information about Seattle! In Santa Barbara, Nancy had the and honor to MC a fundraiser where she helped get supporters to increase their donations to the 75-year-old classic Boys & Girls Club! All the major 2013 youth awards for teens at the Club were won by GC graduates, including Youth of the Year who also taught a GC class to the younger kids! At the Laurel Street Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, Bishop Harris opened his new community center, “For Kids about Kids”—with the help of HH board member Carol Loweree—and delivers the Good Choices Program along with Literacy & Drug Ed programs to children three days a week. Kids also get hands-on participation at special events on weekends, like visting Watts Fire Station #65. Nancy and staff donated a score of dictionaries to get their Study Room up and running for the kids and we all look forward to their continued successes! The Delphi School of Santa Monica has implemented The Good Choices Program into its curriculum for 4th and 5th grade students. The class is done one day per week and then students go out and apply it in life. Also in the Los Angeles area, Nancy and Happy House, joined the LAPD 77th Officers Clergy Council members and community members to sponsor the Inglewood Scientology Community Center’s 1st annual “Haunted Happy House” event. HH’s Creative Director inspired the Center’s kids to create all the festive decorations and fun games which spread throughout the first floor and café! A great time was had by adults and youth alike! (See photo!) We also lent a hand with our friends at the West Valley Boys & Girls Club, helping to lay a Mile of Quarters, a truly remarkable event to raise funds for their programs. And Nancy helped host the Youth of the Year awards

Seattle Kids Club News The Happy House Seattle Good Choices Kids Club had a happy year! Joining up with Laurel Academy, the Club gained more members all 4 to 12 years young, and these dynamic youth lived by and spread their motto: Make good choices and be happy!

Members of the Seattle Kids Club

And boy were they active! Our kids helped the Seattle’s Children’s Hospital Garden Bloom Guild prep and pot 500 plants for their grounds in the Spring, and in the Winter they delivered 75 baskets filled with gingerbread men and snowflake crayons which they crafted themselves, along with Good Choices booklets! The CEO of the Hospital sent a beautiful letter of gratitude! The children also spent a day cleaning up a new school site culminating in15 bags of leaves and garbage—swooosh! The Kids Club participated in 8 major events including the Annual Downtown Seattle Holiday Way to Happiness booklet gift distribution; the Westlake Center downtown Seattle Fall book distribution; and finally manning their own booth at the 5th Annual Kent Int’l Festival celebrating diversity. (Kent’s residents speak 139 languages and dialects!) These kids gifted individuals with 1841 Way to Happiness and Good Choices booklets—thereby pointing the way to a less dangerous and happier life.

Changing San Jose Youth into a “Good Choices Generation” Community United, the San Jose chapter of Happy House, continues to have tremendous impact in the city with the two youth centers (Starbird and Alma) they operate for the city. At these centers, at-risk youth get the opportunity to engage in a wide range of activities such as homework tutoring, computer training, arts and crafts projects, sports, dance, music/media projects and more. The Good Choices Program not only helps youth make their own good choices, but it helps the staff communicate with the youth through the common language used in the How to Make Good Choices booklet. Disciplinary problems are much easier to handle when the kids can look at their own actions as a “good” or a “bad” choice that influences happiness for self and others. The City of San Jose has awarded the Mayor’s “Safe Summer Initiative Grant” to Community United for the past 4 years. This past summer Community United delivered the Good Choices program to 94 At-Risk youth and 57 HighRisk Youth for a highest-ever delivery of Good Choices to 151 youth in San Jose. Plus Community United continues to be part of the Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force and for the first time became a qualified agency for service delivery through San Jose BEST (Bringing Everyone’s Strengths Together) funding in the next three years. Local restaurants and groups like Paxti’s Pizza, LifeSport Fitness and Elks Lodge have joined in to help by hosting fundraisers for both centers. Channel 7 and Channel 5 News came out to the youth centers to cover the story of two Mexican wrestling stars, Lucha Libre USA, who came to talk to the kids about “bullying” thereby reinforcing what the students are taught in the Good Choices Program. Again this year, Community United partnered with the San Jose Earthquakes, who provided the Starbird youth with tickets to all their home games. One of the youth from Starbird was selected as the “First Goal” kicker for one of the Earthquakes home games for his participation in Good Choices and the homework center.

to provide funding—and increased it— for the Peapod Project, a digital-media (musical, video, graphics and dance) learning experience for all of our youth at both centers.

In the homework room renovated by the SJ Earthquakes

Community United also continued their partnership with Santa Clara University and hosted 67 university students who volunteered at the Alma Youth Center helping the youth with homework, art instruction and recreational activities. Youth participation in the Good Choices Program at CU-SJ earned many extra activities and rewards such as: • Visits to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, ice-skating, the zoo, and a professional baseball game.

City Councilman presents “Support a Gov’t Run for All the People” and students choose a council to do a project.

Luche Libre wrestler Lizmark talks about bullying

• All those who completed “The Good Choices Program” were treated to a full day at “Great America” amusement park! Other ongoing activities by both staff and youth included: • CU-SJ’s participation in many community events, giving out How to Make Good Choices and The Way to Happiness® booklets to hundreds of kids and their families: Festival in Park, National Night Out, Take Flight for Kids and Day on Bay. At the Take Flight for Kids event all of the youth who participated were able to experience their first airplane ride. Those who attended Day on the Bay were able to go kayaking on the bay. • CU-SJ hosted and prepared a delicious Thanksgiving dinner at both facilities for the youth and their families. Many volunteers from the community participated in this traditional Thanksgiving Dinner.

• Towards the end of December, CU-SJ hosted and prepared a delicious holiday meal for these families. In partnership with San Jose kids at tbe Santa Cruz Boardwalk Family Giving Tree, a local neighborhood group and with local churches CU-SJ provided over 500 toys, games and other gifts to youth in San Jose Silicon Valley Creates with Adobe and the Peapod Foundation continued delivering joy and hope to many families.

Community Relationships A City of San Jose Councilmember sent over a beautiful holiday basket for the staff to enjoy. He supports and applauds CU-SJ’s efforts and all they are doing to better the lives of youth in the community. The CU-SJ Third Annual Golf Tournament Fundraiser was held in August, which was a total success. Over 100 players came out to “golf for the cause” It was their most successful event thus far. Trader Joe’s Mountain View and Second Harvest Food Bank provided food weekly to the youth centers. CU-SJ introduced the amazing couple, Diann and Jim Cupples to Happy House while mentoring them in their Salinas, CA projects. Diann and Jim are doing very effective work in the city of Salinas (and are recognized and supported by city officials) helping to improve the lives of homeless youth, as well as those kids who fell into juvenile delinquency. CHISPA (Community Housing Improvement Systems and Planning Association, Inc., the largest private, nonprofit housing developer in Monterey County) provided a space in one of their Salinas Townhouse Development community centers to deliver the Good Choices Program to youth and a CHISPA staff person, which was highly successful and is planned for From: Marty Kassowitz marty@interestfactory.com expansion throughout many more CHISPA Development centers this Subject: Fwd: Charity Golf Tournament on Saturday, Aug. 23rd! Date: February 18, 2014 at 1:07 PM coming year. To: Golf, have fun and help kids!

San Jose Kids Talk About the Good Choice Program

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My name is Raul. I am 13 years old and I live in San Jose. This past summer, I completed the Good Choices Program at the Starbird Youth Center. Not only did it help me, but it inspired me to help my family members in making good choices. “For instance, my cousin always wanted to try drugs. But after what I learned about drugs, I told him not to. At first, he didn’t seem to care. I then explained to him what I learned in The Good Choices Program, telling him that if he tried drugs, he could get addicted and this could ruin his chances in the future (he wanted to play football and soccer). “In the end, my cousin did not do the drugs. I am pretty sure he would have if I had not talked to him and explained what I learned. “I feel very lucky that the center is here for me and that I can go there every day. Before, I was just hanging out on the streets and getting involved in bad things, and was heading toward more trouble. But now, things are different. I am getting the help I need with my homework, I get to eat the food, and I learn a lot from the staff that work here. “Even my grades have improved and I am doing so much better now. “Thank you for keeping the center open after school for me and my friends. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have a safe place to go.”

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Be kind. Be honest. Don’t tell others to give up, or (that) they are worthless. Learned to be truthful about drugs. Not to fight and pick on others. It will help me on the hardest decisions in my life.”

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It can help you in life and helps you make good choices. Example: Be drug free, do not steal, be able to do things well and many other things that help you in this harsh life. I have been using these good choices to make my life better and to help me on my way to happiness. They have said the program works. It really does help you so much in a way that you should understand life and what happiness really is.”

Saturday, August 23, 2014 Golf tournament location: The Villages Golf & Country Club 5000 Cribari Lane, San Jose, CA 95135 Visit website All proceeds go to support youth programs delivered by:

The face of the Good Choices Generation!

Picking up the Baton The latest news says: “The Voice of Bart Simpson Meets Tchaikovsky in an Evening of Captivating Stories and Enchanting Dreams!”

Romance in Lower Mathematics. The tale is your typical “line loves dot, line loses dot, line gets dot back” story. Composer Robert Xavier Rodríguez has written a beautiful score that highlights the drama of this mathematical love story. Nancy is very excited to bring her flair for engaging voice-overs to narrate how the dot falls for a squiggle, requiring the line to change his shape to compete and win back the fickle dot.

It’s true! On the weekend of March 7th, 8th and 9th 2014 in the Mead Theatre of the Schuster Center, Artistic Director Neal Gittleman and the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra (DPO) will present Stories & Dreams in the DPO 2013-2014 Signature The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra Season’s Premier Health Classical Series. One more thing! Be prepared for a surprise guest The program includes music by Carl Maria conductor to take the stage and lead the DPO in von Weber, Robert Xavier Rodríguez, and Pyotr Tchaikovsky, with a her very own interpretation of a television theme song you are likely special appearance by guest narrator Nancy Cartwright. to recognize! That’s our Nancy, native of Dayton, Ohio and soon to deliver a very unique reading of author Norton Juster’s The Dot and the Line: A

For detailed information and to purchase tickets go to DaytonPerformingArts.org/philharmonic and click on Nancy’s photo.

Happy House Shuffles Up and Deals! Okay, believe it or not we are about to have our 9th Annual Happy House Poker Tournament on May 17th at Nancy’s house. We went a little earlier this year to, hopefully, avoid the 100 degree heat, but we will still have the cooling misters and water slide no matter what the temperature. Last year was indeed our highest ever for this tournament with over 170 players. The funds go to benefit our after school Good Choices programs up and down the state and will serve this year to open new programs in the San Fernando Valley.

If you have been to this tournament you know it’s like no other. Bring the family, seriously, and they can have a day of arts and crafts, other games, live music, shaved ice and great BBQ for all. And, we have the BEST prizes! Sign up now at www.happyhouse.org and get your seat. We have increased the price a little but for early sign ups we have also given the deepest discount ever: $75.00 if you get your seat before April 5th! Nancy calls “Shuffle up and deal!” in 2013

Call 818-882-7483.

The Reign of Honorary Mayor Nancy Now Includes Golf! Nancy has entered year ten of her amazing and benevolent tenure as the Honorary Mayor of the North San Fernando Valley! On January 31st, she officiated over the swearing in of the North Valley Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. During the same ceremony and luncheon, Nancy was presented with the statuette for her prestigious Fernando Award for 2013 honoring her as one of the leading philanthropists in the San Fernando Valley. But the event did not end there. Chamber Board Chairman, Phil Eisenstadt, announced the First Annual Nancy Cartwright Celebrity Golf Classic to be held this November 6th! Stay tuned for more news on this event!

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS • March 7, 8 and 9: Nancy will narrate “The Dot and the Line” with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra • March 28–30: Emerald City Comicon in Seattle • 26 April: Santa Barbara Boys & Girls Club Surf’s Up for Kids Dinner & Auction www.boysgirls.org • Spring 2014: The Way to Happiness International Convention. For details go to www.TheWaytoHappiness.org • May 17: Happy House Poker Tournament and Party • June 14th Northridge Kiwanis Poker Fundraiser • August 23: 4rd Annual Golf Tourney for Community United San Jose www. communityunitedsj.org

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• November 6: The First Annual Nancy Cartwright Celebrity Golf Classic at Moorpark Country Club • Sept 12-14: Hollywood Bowl celebrates the 25th anniversary of The Simpsons • Dec 5-6: 22nd Annual Christmas Stories for Hollywood PALS, Celebrity Centre International