CHOICES Education Group Launches New Site with Online Donation Capabilities.New website allows individual donors to help keep teens "into" school SEATTLE -- The CHOICES Education Group, a Seattle-based social enterprise, announced today it launched a new website to provide online donation capabilities. The site design was donated by Mark Privett from Wattfarm and can be found at www.choices.org. "Every school day 7,000 students become dropouts. Our new site affords us the resources to stem this appalling statistic," said Leo Leo, in astronomy Leo [Lat.,=the lion], northern constellation lying S of Ursa Major and on the ecliptic (apparent path of the sun through the heavens) between Cancer and Virgo; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac. Muller Mul·ler , Hermann Joseph 1890-1967. American geneticist. He won a 1946 Nobel Prize for the study of the hereditary effect of x-rays on genes. Mül·ler , Johannes Peter 1801-1858. , Executive Director of the national not-for-profit. "Individual donations to CHOICES will make it possible to serve thousands of teens nationwide before it's too late. In fact, at a cost of less than $5 per student, a donation of only $150 will serve a single classroom. The CHOICES Workshop is currently being delivered to 1,000 teens every school day ... and it works." CHOICES is an interactive decision-making workshop that empowers teens to achieve academic success in pursuit of their career and life aspirations aspirations npl → aspiraciones fpl (= ambition); ambición f aspirations npl (= hopes, ambition) → aspirations fpl . In two hour-long sessions, business and community volunteers take students through real-world exercises on academic self-discipline, time and money management and goal setting. Through their social enterprise business model, the CHOICES Education Group licenses CHOICES to businesses, chambers of commerce and service clubs for an annual program fee based on the number of classes served, and then provides the training, materials and support needed to implement and manage the program in local communities. CHOICES is a powerful tool for building and sustaining effective business-education partnerships in local communities. Volunteers from the business community facilitate the program, bringing their real-life experiences right into the classroom and serving as positive adult role models for the students. Major business partners include Nordstrom, Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. , Russell Investment Group Russell Investment Group is an investment firm with global reach, providing investment products and services to individuals and institutions in 44 countries. A pioneer in multi-manager investing, and the creator of Russell Indexes, Russell manages more than US$200 billion in assets and Verizon. About The CHOICES Education Group The CHOICES Education Group is an independent 501c (3) nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. social enterprise started in 1985 with initial funding from Pacific Northwest Bell Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company provided telephone services in the states of Oregon, Washington, and northern Idaho. Pacific Northwest Bell was created on July 1, 1961, when the Bell telephone operations in northern Idaho, Oregon, and Washington state were split off (now Qwest Communications
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