About The founder of TACC Foundation

The founder of TACC Foundation, Susanne Nagy, was born and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark. She came to the U.S. at age 22 and has lived in California for 26 years.

Susanne first pursued her dream to bring her favorite Danish Holiday tradition to the U.S. 18 years ago when her children were young. She wrote an original 25-episode “Christmas” Calendar story called “The Wondertree”. The Wondertree is a fictional story about three children whose lives unexpectedly change when they are introduced to Santa’s temporary workshop inside a huge magical redwood tree. Susanne met with several large family-focused TV production companies, who loved The Wondertree project, but unfortunately they were not ready to add that format TV-series to network TV at that time.
Susanne decided to put her project away for a few years and went back to teaching and focused on raising her own two children.

In 1997 Susanne went back to school to get another education so she could support her kids better financially and in 2000 she began working as a graphic designer and a web developer. Susanne has always stayed
involved in her own children’s education, volunteering at their school or other important community activities.

In 2006, Susanne decided it was time to get back into the field of education and work in an area that she felt makes a difference in her community. In 2007 she started The American Charity Calendar Foundation and she is
incredibly excited to have come this far and launch her project this year. TACC Foundation is a non-profit organization that will raise money for charity by selling the Charity Calendar every year.

Susanne is an optimistic visionary who believes she can make anything happen, as long as she is passionate about it and makes a plan, thinks creatively, and works hard. Susanne lives in Santa Barbara, CA and says that her 18 year old son and 20 year old daughter are constant inspirations to her.


The TACC art gallery
All year, TACC will invite young artists to submit their artwork to our online art gallery (www.tacc-art.org). Our online art gallery will also be a creative and educational resource for young artists. Our gallery will premiere Winter 2008.


Choosing the 2008 TACC artist - The on-line art contest
We want to encourage young people to express themselves creatively, and each year we will launch an on-line search for a new-and-upcoming artist who will design the American Charity Calendar. Any person between the ages of 16-30 will be able to enter the on-line contest. The winner of our nationwide art contest will receive a grand prize and also receive tremendous recognition for her/his extraordinary talent. The first year’s artist is will be announced Oct. 1, 2008.


The paper "American Charity Calendar"
The winning artist’s illustration will be that year’s celebrated paper American Charity Calendar. Much like the advent calendars in many European countries, the American Charity Calendar is an exquisite piece of artwork (13” x 16”) displaying twenty-five small perforated “windows”, labeled with each day’s date, starting with December 1st and ending on the 25th. To count down the days to Christmas, the paper calendar displays that year’s particular theme. TACC’s first year’s theme: “How Winter Holidays are Celebrated in Different Cultures”.

Behind each of the twenty-five numbered hidden “windows”, is an illustration that relates each day’s corresponding televised segment. With this picture, viewers can predict how each day’s television episode might unfold. The paper Charity Calendar will be available on-line and through a variety of retail outlets a few weeks before the initial December 1st television episode.


The 2008 charity we donate to
The first year’s donations will be designated to Vitamin Angels, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing vital nutrition in the form of supplements, to developing countries, communities and individuals in need. Vitamin Angels has set its sights on the issue of childhood blindness, with plans to eliminate childhood blindness by the year 2020 through the systematic distribution of vitamin A to at-risk children.

The Charity Calendar will be packaged with an informational and educational pamphlet about the chosen charity and highlights about the featured artist. The informational pamphlet will bring more awareness to the charity and consumers will be inspired to purchase the calendar, knowing that they will support an extremely honorable cause.

TACC is a non-profit organization whose main purpose is to raise money to help children who live in severe poverty. The profits from the paper American Charity Calendar sales will each year be donated to benefit a different children’s charity such as The Children’s Defense Fund, Direct Relief, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), etc.


The Television series on YouTube
Interacting with The American Charity paper calendar is a television holiday episodic miniseries (25 episodes - starting December 1 - December 25) with a different theme every year.

The first years series will be broadcast on our website and on YouTube and consists of twenty-five 10-15-minute episodes beginning the first day of December and concluding on Christmas Day. The first year’s Charity Calendar television series is called “How Winter Holidays are Celebrated in Different Cultures”.


The audience
Although the subject matter is tailored to children 11 year and older, the episodes and the paper Charity Calendar will provide fun entertainment for the family as a whole or any other individuals who might appreciate some quirky holiday entertainment.

The American Charity Calendar (paper calendar and television series) does NOT follow or promote any specific religious ideology even though it is based on the traditional advent calendars. Our goal is to encourage families and individuals to donate to a worthy cause by purchasing the inexpensive (approximately $10 retail) American Charity Calendar, while celebrating their particular holiday tradition and embracing the holiday spirit.


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