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A paradigm shift for heroes & heroes born with special powers

Special Heroes

A First responders boat parade is the start of EMS week Sunday May 19, 2024 on Lake Lanier and launches the TV series “Special Heroes.”

A TV series called “Special Heroes” tells the story of multiple nonprofits who share the ATLANTA VOLUNTEERS thrift and volunteer exchange that turns heroes and heroes born with special powers into Super Heroes! At the end of every episode is a one minute vignette called the “Tropical Adventure Competition”. Viewers can win one week crew positions on the boat and be part of an episode.
Many Special Heroes never get to experience a real vacation. Every episode ends with a “Tropical Adventure Competition” honoring the hero by competing to have as much fun and respite care for the family as possible!
You must be 18+ to operate watercraft in the parade, volunteer, take safety or aquatic training, or enter this website.
Donate to any of the nonprofits we list and they get 100% of the real money and you get pirate booty coins called “Loony.”

Altruistic entrepreneurs compete to turn special heroes into super heroes! A “First Responders Boat Parade” introduces novel ideas then 30 finalists build interactive commercials for the TV series called “Special Heroes.”

An interactive live-streamed boat parade introduces and launches your altruistic fun and adventure. Each boat is similar to a booth at a state fair or a float at any parade. Instead of getting tickets at the entrance of a state fair, we give you electronic points called “loony.”
Instead of walking around the fairgrounds, you live-stream to each boat in the parade. Each boat will have its own fun and adventure with games, art, exhibits, sports or performances.
A “Volunteer Coupon” lets you electronically throw loony pirate coins at the boats. Entertainment called an “Epiphany” let’s the boats throw booty, or booby prizes back.
Catfishing or bribing are comical pirate themed terms for donating and “fun raising.” 100% of the donation goes to the nonprofit you select. You then get one worthless pirate coin (called a “Loony”) for every 25 cents you donate. Since loonies are as worthless as the pirates using them, you have nothing to lose so the only rule for catfishing and bribing pirates is “You lose!”
Beware of bootyful Mermaids (servers at any restaurant) that are bootyful enough to enter a “booty contest” to “Get Loony” and lure sailors to their doom…..
Sharing fun is First Aid for stress!
According to Psychology Today, 87% of all families with “Special Heroes” ends in divorce. First Responders and Veterans have a much higher divorce rate than the general public. Combine the two and First Responder Families with special heroes almost always end in divorce. This results in the special hero ending up in a single parent family with greatly reduced care supports. The Atlanta Volunteers has a mission to support all “Special Heroes,” and their families by providing stress relieving first aid called “good ‘ol flag waving fun!”
As part of the general public, your mission is to cheerfully thank and save special heroes by sharing a laugh and a smile as you “get loony” to show your thanks to our First Responders and Veterans! Sharing fun is easy, free and of course a lot of fun.  Pirate themed Dad jokes are the starting point for comedy and good cheer as we go on to solve quality of life solutions for special heroes.
Each episode in the “Special Heroes” TV series features a different superhero and the quality of life solutions that family, friends and corporate team building produces for them.
This website catfishes your loony booty with discounts and fun! You can catfish others by creating “catfishing bait” to be part of the parade from any location!

The biggest booty wins!

Any nonprofit you choose receives 100% of your donation and we give you interactive reward points called “loonies.”

Special Heroes

You sometimes see a TV series where a team devotes a lot of time, skill and artistry competing to create a “thing” of beauty from a house, garden or old car.
What if a person was the focus of the competition instead of a “thing?”
This type of altruistic competition”, describes our TV series called “Special Heroes.”
This website crowd sources nonprofits and for profits to work together to produce results for our loved ones.

Having fun can instantly improve somebodies quality of life.

Let’s start with a pirate theme where you can dress up, tell pirate themed dad jokes and giggle as you say the word “booty”, “booby”, or things like “old oar” in as many different silly ways as you can.  Our reward points are called “Loony.”  Your goal is to “Get Loony.” You win by having the biggest booty.  Your loony good looks are judged in a “booty contest.” You can see everyone’s booty with a booty search and find out just how loony they are. You win by bribing a judge called the “Bootymaster,” vote for yourself or troll and catfish for votes. Booty rats randomly nibble on everything loony and shrink your booty as if you just walked off the plank into cold water. You can be eaten by sharks or “motor boated” with a booby prize from the Bootymaster. Pirates feed loonies to the mermaids at the petting zoo to make their booty bigger. Mermaids lure sailors to their doom with their siren song in the karaoke challenge game by catfishing them with booty and booby prizes.
“Pirate School”, teaches you the parade software, safety skills, production skills, boating skills, how to develop contests, fishing tournaments, catfishing tournaments, sea shanties, karaoke challenge games and pirate initiations. This all lets you shoot B-roll as you rehearse and take part in the TV series by throwing epic beach parties and “raft-ups” that support Heroes and your own great local causes!
We include multiple types of corporations and organizations from the community at large. Multiple point types keep non profit, for profit funds and other funds accurately separated. This lets us correctly provide tax paying employment for special heroes through their own for profit businesses and lets nonprofits focus on their mission. The Atlanta Volunteers does not use nonprofit donations to pay any salaries. We don’t have any employees, we just have a fun place to volunteer!
Each week a different Hero and quality of life solution is  presented. You can crowd source comedy or film B-roll for 30 different episodes and get non profit and for profit tax write offs for your boat, business or artistry while nonprofits get 100% of your donation.
The production and viewing of this series is interactive in a way you have never seen before, …well unless you saw it demonstrated at the boat parade or attended Pirate School!
“More activities than a state fair with a boat parade”
Supporting local nonprofits that all work together!
Imagine a pirate themed state fair with a dozen different ticket booths operated by a dozen different nonprofits at the entrance. The nonprofits all work together to create the fair that benefits all of them. You pick the booth and exchange donations or time spent as a volunteer for reward points called “loony”. “Volunteer coupons” & “Epiphanies” turn your loony booty into prizes, adventure & powerful discounts. The discounts and fun are only available to people that donate or volunteer.
info@atlantavolunteers.org
If helping people was fun, everyone would do it. Let’s have some fun!

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