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Mentoring program helps at-risk children
Life Coaches for Kids breaks absentee cycle by Tara McLellan The statistics are staggering. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the percentage of single parent households is at an all-time high of 28.3 percent. And statistics show that with the rise in single parent households,…
Author: Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
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Six Entrepreneurs Over 60 Win $100,000 Purpose Prizes for Innovation, Extraordinary Contribution in Encore Careers
Nine Others Win $10,000 Each, as Experienced Adults Prove to be an Unexpected Source of Social Innovation SAN FRANCISCO – One winner put his mechanical know-how to work and invented a $28 machine to help rural African villagers shell peanuts more efficiently. Another, in Fargo,…
Author: Civic Ventures
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Newsmakers: Richard Barth, Chief Executive Officer, KIPP Foundation
Original Source KIPP and Teach for America are Atlantic grantees. Richard Barth, Chief Executive Officer, KIPP Foundation The Obama administration has thrown down the gauntlet to educators and legislators to fix “an education system that used to be…the best in the world, and no longer…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
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Graduating Seniors Testify to Elev8’s Strengths
VIDEO: Graduating high school seniors speak to the value of the Chicago Elev8 program they participated in during middle school. By Gordon Walek Terranisha Douglas, left, and Amber Sims, graduating seniors at Perspectives Academy in Auburn Gresham, say the Elev8 programs they experienced in middle…
Author: LISC Chicago
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Retirement With A Purpose
When Betty Otte retired in the mid-1990s, she was burned out and ready for some well-deserved rest and relaxation. For 10 years, she had worked hard managing more than a dozen weight loss centers in the Orange County, Calif., area, where she was in charge…
Author: Forbes Magazine
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