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Students tackling inequality of opportunity in the U.S.
“The Final Four” — Though that phrase usually refers to the basketball tournament that ended this week with the University of Connecticut’s double crowning as NCAA champs, another exciting...
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Helping neighbors in need for 50 years
GUEST BLOGGER: Tim Esterdahl, Communications Director, Inter-Faith Community Services In 1964, our founder Maida Navis had a dream to fill the gap between federal governemnt aid and the working poor....
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And the winner is…
This week, the students in my Nonprofit Giving course at Framingham State University gave away $10,000! The recipient of this money, generously provided by the Learning by Giving Foundation, is United...
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Breaking the poverty cycle through Education
GUEST BLOGGER: Sean Finlay, Marketing & Communications Coordinator, X-Cel Education X-Cel Education, is a nonprofit education organization which provides High School Equivalency (HSE) and college...
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Fueling educational opportunity
FUEL Education believes that more low-income youth can and should attain higher education. Research and experience show that the most successful students are those who are supported by their parents...
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Expanding Opportunity for San Francisco’s Low-Income Students
GUEST BLOGGER: Melanie Rogers, Director of Development & Communications, SMART Jonathan Wang, a SMART Scholar who will attend the University of Southern California this fall, shared his story at...
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As schools reopen, let’s remember homeless students
GUEST BLOGGER: Tori Dost, Framingham State University (vdost@student.framingham.edu) Unbelievably, the average age of a homeless individual in the United States is eight years old. Too often,...
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The experience of a lifetime
I’m currently teaching a first-year college seminar, and therefore have been thinking a lot about ways to set a model for what I hope will be these students’ experience of a lifetime over the next...
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Even though winners of the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments were crowned this week, another Final Four is just beginning to heat up! The students in my Nonprofit Giving course at...
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Giving to close Boston’s opportunity gap
Earlier this week, the students in my Nonprofit Giving course at Framingham State University held a ceremony where they honored the work of the Boston-based nonprofit Bridge Over Troubled Waters. They...
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