Diplomas Now Wins $30 Million Education Department Grant
The U.S. Department of Education's Investing In Innovation (i3) Fund Ranks School Turnaround Initiative Among 15 Winners of Validation Grants
BALTIMORE, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Education's Investing in Innovation Fund (referred to as i3) gave its "highest ranking" to the Talent Development - Diplomas Now application from the Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University in partnership with City Year, Communities In Schools, and 14 school districts.
The application is among one of 15 highest-rated applications in the Validation category of the i3 competition, which had more than 1,700 applicants. The priority area for the Diplomas Now application was "persistently low-performing schools."
Diplomas Now is a partnership of Johns Hopkins University's Center for Social Organization of Schools/Talent Development, City Year, and Communities In Schools.
PepsiCo Foundation is the founding investor of Diplomas Now, granting $11 million since 2008. Through PepsiCo, the partnership has secured the 20% matching funds required by the Department of Education for the grant to be formally awarded.
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 AT&T Contributes $1.5 Million to Communities In Schools to Help Increase Graduation Rates for At-Risk Students
DALLAS, July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- To help combat the alarming high school dropout rate among our nation's at-risk students, AT&T* today announced a $1.5 million contribution to Communities In Schools (CIS) to enable the organization to
strengthen and advance its core program.
CIS will use this funding to significantly increase the number of school-based site coordinators who help connect at-risk-students in affiliate schools with academic support, mentoring, counseling, after-school programs, career development, intervention, health care and other resources.
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Communities In Schools of New Jersey - Camden Partners with Operation Frontline
Communities In Schools of New Jersey a 21st CCLC Program is excited to collaborate with the South Jersey Food Bank. Our after school program sites in Camden South Jersey have all joined in with Ms. Liz Gartlan and the staff from the SJFB to bring Operation Frontline to each site in Camden.
Operation Frontline is a nutrition education program that fights childhood hunger by teaching families how to make healthy and budget-wise food choices. Operation Frontline takes a cooking-centered approach to nutrition education. It brings children in touch with food and health in a long-lasting manner. The class meets once a week for 2 hours. During each class the students are getting use to cutting up vegetables and making everything from scratch, and of course they enjoy eating what they prepare.
Our Communities In Schools of New Jersey students at the Cooper's Poynt School in South Jersey were so excited about the program they worked with the computer technology teacher to design their own aprons. Operation Frontline will provide the hats. The students came up with a design for the aprons and they all decided on the vibrant red color. The students will get to keep their aprons on the final day of class. The program is a huge success and plans to return in the fall.
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Communities In Schools of New Jersey Performance Learning Center students "GIVE BACK".
St udents from the Sankofa and NWDI Performance Learning Centers collaborated to volunteer at the Community Food Bank of New Jersey to package food for the needy. Working in groups of 2-4 people the students packed various food items for homeless shelters, group homes and other various agencies that provide food and other non-perishables to less fortunate people throughout the Garden State.
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Newark Public Schools - Barringer High School students mentored by Port Authority of New York / New Jersey - Newark Liberty International Airport employees bring their future alive in pictures!
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