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Spokane: Deepening the Dialogue

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IS THIS THE SPOKANE YOU WANT?

Join the Discussion at East Central Community Center

We’ve all heard that Spokane is a great place to raise a family. But, Spokane Regional Health District’s recent health equity report paints a different picture of Spokane County. Health inequities affect us all, and it’s time to do something about it. Numerous local agencies are banding together to host Health Equity in Spokane: Deepening theDialogue. Join us for this free event and help be a part of the solutions.

October 10, 2012 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm

East Central Community Center 500 S Stone St, Spokane, WA 99202

Light refreshments served.

For more information, please call 324-1542

Visit: http://www.srhd.org/healthequity

Realize the Dream Scholarship

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Application Deadline – 5 PM on Monday, June 18

The deadline to apply for the Realize the Dream Scholarship is just one week away. Please help us continue to spread the word! This scholarship is specifically targeting undocumented students who will graduate from Washington State high schools in 2012.

At least 100 scholarships will be awarded for the 2012-13 academic year and recipients will receive up to $5,000 for these one-year scholarships.

The Application Deadline is June 18, 2012 at 5 p.m.
www.collegesuccessfoundation.org/realizethedream

Realize the Dream Scholarship Resources:
Frequently Asked Questions – FAQs
Informational Student Flyer
Mandatory Affidavit & Information for Undocumented Students

If you or your students have any additional questions, please contact a member of the Scholarship Services team at 877.655.4097 orscholarshipservices@collegesuccessfoundation.org.

Steve Thorndill
Director, Scholarship Services
College Success Foundation

The deadline to apply for the Realize the Dream Scholarship is just one week away. Please help us continue to spread the word! This scholarship is specifically targeting undocumented students who will graduate from Washington State high schools in 2012.

At least 100 scholarships will be awarded for the 2012-13 academic year and recipients will receive up to $5,000 for these one-year scholarships.

The Application Deadline is June 18, 2012 at 5 p.m.
www.collegesuccessfoundation.org/realizethedream

Realize the Dream Scholarship Resources:
Frequently Asked Questions – FAQs
Informational Student Flyer
Mandatory Affidavit & Information for Undocumented Students

If you or your students have any additional questions, please contact a member of the Scholarship Services team at 877.655.4097 orscholarshipservices@collegesuccessfoundation.org.

Steve Thorndill
Director, Scholarship Services
College Success Foundation
The deadline to apply for the Realize the Dream Scholarship is just one week away. Please help us continue to spread the word! This scholarship is specifically targeting undocumented students who will graduate from Washington State high schools in 2012.

At least 100 scholarships will be awarded for the 2012-13 academic year and recipients will receive up to $5,000 for these one-year scholarships.

The Application Deadline is June 18, 2012 at 5 p.m.
www.collegesuccessfoundation.org/realizethedream

Realize the Dream Scholarship Resources:
Frequently Asked Questions – FAQs
Informational Student Flyer
Mandatory Affidavit & Information for Undocumented Students

If you or your students have any additional questions, please contact a member of the Scholarship Services team at 877.655.4097 orscholarshipservices@collegesuccessfoundation.org.

Steve Thorndill
Director, Scholarship Services
College Success Foundation

Subject: College Bound Update: Road Map Region

We are pleased to provide the latest update on our Road Map College Bound students for the Road Map Region (please see attached).  Students will be in school for less than a week we thank you for every effort you are making to sign-up the remaining eligible 8th graders. We know that getting these last applications can be extremely difficult.  We sincerely appreciate all of your hard work and efforts.

In the Road Map Region 1,001 eligible 8th grade students (21%) have yet to complete a College Bound Scholarship application.  From this number, we can assume some lag time for the pledges most recently submitted as the HEC Board is in the process of compiling piles of applications from around the state.  Thanks continuing to persist with last push efforts—it truly makes a difference.

·         Auburn School District reports that Rainier Middle School has gathered 130 completed applications!  All schools are sending in completed pledges and persisting with strategies such as calling home and home visits.
·         Federal Way School District Principals have committed to pumping up recruitment efforts in the last week of school by partnering with counselors, GEAR UP staff, and other community partners.
·         Highline School District is tracking their completed applications internally and reports both Cascade and Sylvester at 100%, Pacific at 97% (6 to go) and Chinook at close to 95%.
·         Kent School District Mill Creek MS has conducted on-line sign-ups on three separate days. A school team is actively working on collecting the signature page and mailing them into the HEC Board. Other schools in the Kent SD are actively conducting small group pull outs and home-visits to collect the remaining applications.  The counselors in the Kent SD are also tracking families that opt out and their reasons for doing so–lastly, the District has also been doing auto calls.
·         Renton School District has McKnight and Dimmitt doing multiple small group sessions with the remaining students and Nelsen just finished a phone call blitz to the remaining eligible families.
·         S.Seattle Schools are opening their doors on the weekend to sign-up families.  The Mayor of Seattle will be making personal phone calls to eligible families.  Several Seattle College Access Network partners including a cadre of volunteers from the UW Dream Project have been meeting with students/calling families (and in some cases translating/interpreting).  The final BIG push will occur and 8th grade graduation ceremonies.
·         Tukwila just mailed in 30 completed applications to add to the 145 previously submitted!

Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions, about College Bound outreach in and support for your school/district. My number is 425-416-2020, 206-499-8539 (cell) or via email at sbyers@collegesuccessfoundation.org. You may also contact Marina Espinoza for support in implementing fast and efficient last push sign-up strategies.
I want to thank everyone for all that has been done and for your leadership and support. We know that the College Bound Scholarship is an awesome opportunity for our students and we don’t want to miss it!

Edward O. Prince
Executive Director
WA State Commission on African American Affairs
(360) 725-5663

Scholarship Application Deadline May 25, 2012

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The Center for Student Opportunity’s <http://www.csopportunity.org/>  Opportunity Scholarship is a $2,000, four-year renewable scholarship awarded to first-generation college students graduating in the high school class of 2012 (entering the college class of 2016) enrolling at a CSO College Partner.

Scholarship winners may serve as monthly guest bloggers on the Opportunity Scholars web blog <http://csopportunityscholars.org/>  to share insight and perspective about their transition to college and successes thereafter.

ELIGIBILITY:
∙Current high school (or home-schooled) seniors attending school in the United States.
∙Neither parent has earned a four-year college degree.
∙Must be attending a CSO partner college or university. A complete list of CSO College Partners can be viewed here: http://csopportunity.org/college_partners/coll_partners.aspx.
∙Seek financial aid and scholarship support for college.
∙Involved in extracurricular and leadership programs in school or in the community.

Application: http://www.csopportunity.org/scholarship/
 Deadline: May 25, 2012
Do not hesitate to contact Chelsea M. Jones with any questions or concerns.

Chelsea M. Jones
Outreach and Student Support Associate
Center for Student Opportunity
4641 Montgomery Ave., Suite 513│Bethesda, MD 20814
phone: (301) 363-4224 | fax: (301) 951-7104
cjones@csopportunity.org <mailto:cmartin@csopportunity.org>  | www.CSOpportunity.org <http://www.csopportunity.org>

A Mother’s Love: Nothing Is Greater

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Delali Dogbe

For some today is Mothers Day. For some today is graduation. For Delali Dogbe it is Mothers Day. For her son Kelvin Garner it is his graduation from Whitworth College. They celebrated this day together at the North Central Care Center.

Do you remember the Whitworth freshman from Ghana whose story appeared in the March 1, 2011 issue of the Whitworthian? Since June 6, 2009 Kelvin has been semi-comatose. His mother, who left Ghana immediately when she heard of his accident, has been by his side for nearly three years.

We will be continuing Kelvin’s story later this week. Watch for future posts.

Receiving Honorary Alumnus Certificate

SUMMER YOUTH ACADEMY

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Looking for something for your kids this summer? How about 10 weeks of fun in a safe, caring environment!

Martin Luther King, Jr. Family Outreach Center

Summer Youth Academy

$470 per child, per month

10 weeks of fun in a safe, caring environment!

June 25-Aug. 31

Weekly swim & field trips

Literacy & Craft Activities

Contact: Jeani-Liz Brickner

Interim Children’s Services Director

Martin Luther King, Jr. Family Outreach Center

 

P: 509-455-8722

F: 509-455-7801

www.mlkspokane.org

 

845 S. Sherman St.

Spokane, WA 99202

 

Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Gonzaga University graduates deserve the honor of hearing him.

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu with Nelson Mandela. Both men were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

A powerful network of right-wing Catholics is trying to ban Archbishop Desmond Tutu from speaking at Gonzaga University next month.

Archbishop Tutu, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his courageous opposition to South African apartheid, is beloved around the world as a powerful voice for peace and justice. But that doesn’t matter to the extremists who’ve been waging a McCarthyist campaign of fear and intimidation on Catholic college campuses across the country.

The Cardinal Newman Society, which led the opposition to President Obama’s commencement speech at Notre Dame three years ago, is circulating a petition demanding that the President of Gonzaga University disinvite Archbishop Tutu—but so far this time they only have a few hundred signatures. Let’s make sure Gonzaga doesn’t give in to the Religious Right!

That’s why I created a petition to Thayne McCulloh, President, Gonzaga Univeresity on SignOn.org, which says:

Archbishop Desmond Tutu is a powerful voice for peace and justice, and Gonzaga University graduates deserve the honor of hearing him speak at commencement this year. Don’t give in to the Religious Right extremists who are trying to silence him.

Will you sign the petition? Click here to add your name, and then pass it along to your friends:

http://www.moveon.org/r?r=274584&id=39706-8463490-3keIT6x&t=2 <http://www.moveon.org/r?r=274584&amp;id=39706-8463490-3keIT6x&amp;t=2>

Thanks!

–Michael Sherrard, Faithful America

The text above was written by Michael Sherrard, not by MoveOn staff, and MoveOn is not responsible for the content.

Greetings From Pacific Lutheran University

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Hello!
We are excited to offer this Chamber Music Theatre Work free to the public in celebration of African American Women in Women’s History Month.  Please, will you spread the word through your network!
Thank you!
Melannie Denise Cunningham
Director of  Multicultural Recruitment
Pacific Lutheran University
Tacoma, WA  98447
253-535-8716 or 1-800-274-6758
Go on our Virtual Tour:
http://video.realviewtv.com/education/plu/

 

Desmond Tutu By Invitation Only

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SPOKANE, Wash. – Gonzaga University seniors will have the rare honor of hearing from Nobel Laureate Desmond M. Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa, as their keynote speaker at Senior Commencement May 13. Archbishop Tutu, an inspirational voice for justice, peace, truth and reconciliation throughout his ministry, retired from public life in 2010 but enthusiastically accepted Gonzaga’s invitation after being inspired by the global activism of Gonzaga’s students, faculty and alumni. Read more……

 

Will there be an opportunity to hear Desmond Tutu while he is in Spokane? If you know, please post.

Campus Champions of Change

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University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Initiative is a unique and cutting edge sustainability program that transforms grass lawns on the campus into diverse, edible, low-maintenance, and easily replicable gardens.

 

Brown University

Provides weekly shares of local, sustainable, delicious produce, bread, and dairy to Brown University staff, faculty, and students. This program originated as a means of addressing the problem that students and staff at Brown have limited access to local food from the bountiful agricultural region of Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

 

Volunteer Action Center University of Arkansas

Launched a student food pantry in February 2010 to serve the needs of students on and off campus who are in personal crisis and do not have the financial resources to meet all of their nutritional needs.

 

University of Missouri

To expose the youth of the Columbia area to new and exciting career and extracurricular activities. Since that time Dream Outside the Box has provided innumerable areas of interaction for the children to engage in.

 

Grinnell College

Campus community could sustainably contribute to world development through micro financing small entrepreneurial loans.

 

Princeton University

Realizing that young people had never been seriously and systematically involved with education reform, Bellinger and Morin founded Students for Education Reform, a nonprofit organization that supports student groups on 60 college campuses across the country and provides students a voice in the policy making process.

 

Top 6 of 15 college campuses that are making a change.  See what the White House is doing . . . . . .

Patricia Stephens Due Dies

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The New York Times

“Unsung Foot Soldiers.”

Patricia Stephens Due, whose belief that, as she put it, “ordinary people can do extraordinary things” propelled her to leadership in the civil rights movement — but at a price, including 49 days in a stark Florida jail — died on Tuesday in Smyrna, Ga. She was 72.