TIERRE DRANE

1425 Bonito Road SW Albuquerque, NM 87105 | tdrane@unm.edu | 505-203-0693

OBJECTIVE

SKILLS &
ABILITIES

EXPERIENCE

Im a nursing student looking for a residency job in pediatric nursing.

Im hardworking and respectful. Im kind and love taking care of children. I like to cook and write
poetry.

CHILDREN CHURCH TEACHER CHRISTIAN FAMILY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH OF GOD

3/12/2005-12/22/2012

Read the kids bible stories

Did arts and crafts with kids
Sang with the kids
Gave kids snacks
CHILDCARE ATTENDANT LITTLE FLOWERS DAYCARE
2/11/2013- PRESENT

Took kids on fieldtrips

Changed baby diapers
Did arts and crafts
Had story time
Musical circle with kids
Played outside with kids

EDUCATION

RIO GRANDE HIGH SCHOOL, ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO

HIGH SCHOOL DIMPLOMA

4.0 GPA
Honors student
Honor society

UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO

Working on Bachelors Degree, Third year
3.0 GPA
BSU
Powerful Movement of Educated Sisters

LEADERSHIP

I was secretary of Honor Society in middle school then became president of the chapter in high
school.

Tierre Drane
1425 Bonito RD SW | 505-203-0693 | tdrane@unm.edu

Alzheimers Association alz.org

Alzheimer's Association National Office, 225 N. Michigan Ave., Fl. 17, Chicago, IL 60601

Dear: Alzheimers Association

My name is Tierre Drane and Im a nurse at A Place for Mom and Im writing to you
to today to request a grant of $80,00 to start an art program for our patients. Since
Alzheimers care is very expensive most families choose to take care of their loved
ones themselves. Taking care of loved ones is a hard thing to do because it hurts to
see someone who used to be so strong be consumed by this disease. I myself have
this experience because I take care of my grandmother who has Alzheimers herself.
Enclosed is a proposal for this art program and it breaks down what the money will
be used for. It also explains what exactly we will be doing in the art program and
how we will be helping the families with loved ones who have this disease. Thank
you for your time and your consideration for this program and I hope we will be
working together in the future.

Sincerely, Tierre Drane, A Place for Mom

Proposal Subject: Art program for patients with

Alzheimers
Amount Requested: $80,000/ $15,000 annually for
a year
Organization: A Place for Mom
Organization were asking for help: Alzheimers
association alz.org

Problem Statement:
Taking care of patients with Alzheimers can be very time
consuming and expensive. Thats why most families
choose to take care of their loved ones instead of sending
them to a nursing home. Nearly 44 million in the world
have Alzheimers or a related dementia and only 1-in-4
people are actually diagnosed with Alzheimers
(alzheimers.net).
Taking care of a loved with Alzheimers can take a toll on
anyone. Its very emotional to have to see someone who
has always been so strong be consumed by this disease.
I myself go through heart ache every day. My

grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimers about 5

years ago and to see her sitting there with sadness in her
eyes is really heart breaking. Most patients who are taken
care of at home just sit there while their families do their
everyday activities or taking take of them. Patients with
Alzheimers like to stay active and have activities to do so
that way they just dont have to sit and watch the day
pass by.
Project Plan:
My proposal is to create an art program that family can
take their loved to so they can have something to do
during the day instead of having to sit there all day doing
nothing. This art program will include painting on
canvases, pottery and drawing still art pictures. This
program will also include some musical arts. Since some
patients cant hold things themselves, there will be some
music they can listen to while volunteers help play
instruments and also sing with each other. We will hold
the program 4 times a week and we will also invite family
to stay and join in on the fun. Here are the steps I plan to
take to get this program created.
1. Find a building or an old art studio in the
Albuquerque area.
Since our organization is located downtown. We will
search for buildings or old studios that up for rent.
We will look between 2nd street and Copper all the
way to 4th street and Central to find a building or art
studio thats within our budget.

2. Upon finding the building, we will need to remodel or

at least clean up the building.
We need to make sure we have enough tables and
chairs for our loved ones. Have a welcome desk in
the front so we can greet our friends and get the
loved ones sign up for program. We also need to
have a space efficient bathroom including enough
room for those in wheelchairs.
3. Get art supplies for our program.
We need canvases, paint, markers, crayons, coloring
books, stereo, different types of music, tambourines,
little wooden drums, keyboard, pottery clay, pottery
spinner, oven for pottery.
4. Get volunteers, family members, staff, art teacher
Put out fliers to get as many volunteers we can to
help assist with the patients. Also invite the family
members to stay and help in on the fun. We will need
a secretary to accept calls and get patients
registered for the program and also to be at the front
desk to greet people as they walk. We need an art
teacher to help teach how to make pottery and paint
still art pictures. Also to help with painting on the
canvases and drawing
5. Begin our art program!!
Invite all to come out and support our program. We
will hang fliers and out an ad in the newspaper. We
will try and get our story on the news so that
everyone will know about are program. We will also
add the program to our pamphlet we have for our
organization. Well have our program on Monday,
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 12pm to 2pm.
6. Review our program after a year

We will go over our books to see if the program is

going well. See if we have a lot of patients are
coming and see if the program is actually making a
difference. Well also ask the family and volunteers if
they feel like the program is making a difference and
if there are improvements that need to be made.
Qualifications:
I am involved with the organization called A Place for
Mom. We specialize in helping families with loved ones
that have Alzheimers. We have different programs we
offer for patients with Alzheimers. We have programs like
care for a patient which is where we will send a nurse
who is specialized in taking care of patients with
Alzheimers to your house if you need someone to help
care for your loved ones while you go out and run
errands. We also have the nurse can come out two days a
week to your house to help assist you in taking care of
your loved one. I myself am one of those nurses who help
assist in the care. I help take care of my grandmother
who has Alzheimers, two days a week.
Costs and Benefits:
We are requesting the budget of $80,000 to purchase the
building, remodeling the building and buying all the
supplies we need for the programs. Once we have the
program up and running we will need a budget of
$15,000 annually to pay our staff and pay for utilities like
electricity and water. We will also have a donation box at
our organization and a link on our website for donations.
People can donate money and art supplies for our
program. This project will be benefiting a lot of families in

the Albuquerque area and help benefiting the patients

themselves. Families will have a safe environment to
bring their loved so they can have a break and their loved
ones will be active in some way. The patients themselves
will have some fun making their own creations and
keeping their minds active. We may not be able to cure
Alzheimers but we surely make a difference with this
program helping out families and their loved ones by
giving them support and to let them know that they will
always have someone by their side ready to help.

Thank you very much for considering this proposal

and helping us help families with support and love to aid
in ending Alzheimers. You can reach us at 505-203-0693
or aplaceformom@gmail.com
Sincerely, Tierre Drane
A Place for Mom.
Reflection
For this proposal, the student outcomes I used the most were find and evaluate Information.
Based on their rhetorical analysis, students will gather information from professional, academic,
and government sources; they will evaluate the information they find for quality and validity and
Compose Documents. Students will develop strategies for generating content and organizing it
into a logical structure that is appropriate for their intended users; they will consider ethical
influences for the documents they compose; they will work effectively with others to create
documents. I feel like I used these outcomes the most because for my proposal I had to research
some more on Alzheimers and how much it really costs to take care of a person with it. I also

had to research things like what patients with Alzheimers can do to keep busy and places that
offer programs for them specifically. I also researched what kind of place that I could apply at
that the program I proposed would fit in their agenda. For this proposal, there was a lot of
organizing to do to make my paper make sense. I had to make a resume that pertained to the job I
wanted and the program had to proposed. I also had to make sure all the sections in my paper all
were in the right order. On the websites I looked on I had to make sure the information I found
was really valid and would fit in my paper. I also had to think about the audience and the
organization I was addressing. For this paper we had to do a peer review. I actually had to work
with someone else to make my paper more presentable. I feel like I also had to use all the other
student outcomes as well in my paper. I had to make sure that I was writing to the right audience
and make sure in was presented in a way that the reader would understand. I also was able to
experiment with different colors and pictures and videos. This proposal didnt have to be just
written text and I really enjoyed experimenting with different styles for my report. This proposal
was a great learning experience for me because I was able to learn more about Alzheimers. This
was also really important to me because my grandmother has this disease and it has really been
an emotional roller coaster for the family. Its hard to see her like that because shes always been
so strong and sassy. Now she doesnt talk much and just sits there. Sometimes she doesnt
remember who I am and that really hurts. This project has been a real eye opener for me because
I was able to learn more on how to deal with the emotional distress and how I can still spend
time with her while keeping her active. I enjoyed this project the most because it was something
important to my heart and has helped me learn more about this disease. Its also helped me
improve on my writing because I was practicing all the student outcomes and working on my
organization skills.

Works Cited

Alzheimers Association- Whats this disease and how much does it

cost?
www.alz.org
Lloyd, N, Three facts to know about Alzheimers disease,
www. agingresearch.org