Staples Foundation Grants

The Staples Foundation offers grants three times a year in amounts of up to $25,000. Grants are awarded to local nonprofit tax-exempt organizations that use the funding to help students, especially disadvantaged youth, with job skills and education. The Staples Foundation emphasizes teaching, training, and inspiring in order to provide educational growth opportunities for all. The next grant application deadline is December 7, 2007. Check the Staples Foundation site after that for 2008 deadlines.

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[Arlan Berglas]

The Pass It On Student Mentoring Program is an after-school program where older students (one year apart) mentor younger students. Although students are only one year apart in age, when it comes to a subject such as reading or math, the students may be three years apart in grade level.

The Pass It ON Student Mentoring Connection game www.aunitedworld.org/mcg.asp is a communication game that the mentors and proteges play.

For more information about the game check out the May issue of Personal Development Magazine (Issue 3).

We are looking for local as well as national sponsors for this program.

Every student 4th - 12th grade will have an opportunity to be a mentor and to have a mentor.