The CJ's Bus Foundation Board is filled with passionate people with direct experience in successful design and manufacture of customized buses and meeting the unique needs of children in disaster. We have devised a deployment protocol and identified local partners in the first responder and emergency management communities. This ensures the successful deployment of CJ's Bus. We have also expanded our plan to include how CJ's Bus serves the unique corporate marketing and publicity needs for our founding sponsors.

CJ's Bus Foundation was launched on November 5, 2006, one day before the one year anniversary of the Evansville tornado.

The Foundation's mission is to raise funds to operate the 40-foot custom bus that serves as a mobile recreation unit to deploy to disaster sites nationwide in order to keep children entertained and distracted in the immediate aftermath of disasters. The Foundation expects to deploy CJ's Bus to 7-10 disaster sites per year and to coordinate the deployments with local fire and rescue and law enforcement in order to maximize the benefit of CJ's Bus to the local communities we assist.

Our goal is to immediately raise an additional $175,000 to operate and maintain the bus for the next three years. The community is invited to participate in funding the production of the actual bus. Individual, corporate, and institutional funding will be sought to cover all administrative and overhead expenses.