CHOICES Education Group Receives $30,000 Grant from Nordstrom.Donation Helps Non-Profit Serve More Than 7,200 Teens Nationwide and Brings 2007 Total Corporate Grants to $180,000 Year-to-Date SEATTLE -- The CHOICES Education Group, a Seattle-based social enterprise, announced today it has received a $30,000 grant from Nordstrom, bringing 2007's total corporate grants to $180,000. Nordstrom has designated this year's funding for use in their Midwest Region (Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri and Ohio) and their South Region (Florida, Georgia and Texas). Nordstrom has provided program grant funding for the last four years totaling $212,500. CHOICES Education Group has used these funds to deliver CHOICES to 53,000 students in 19 states (Connecticut, New Jersey, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. 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The new Nordstrom grant will engage approximately 80 local business and community volunteers as CHOICES presenters and will serve more than 7,200 8th and 9th grade students that would otherwise not have access to the program. 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. "Every school day 7,000 students become dropouts. The continued leadership from Nordstrom in committing their corporate giving resources to stem this appalling statistic statistic, n a value or number that describes a series of quantitative observations or measures; a value calculated from a sample. statistic a numerical value calculated from a number of observations in order to summarize them. is a powerful example for others to follow," 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. "CHOICES helps kids at a crucial point in their lives, when they are old enough to think realistically about their future but are young enough to still do something about it." 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 students 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. Other major business partners include Nordstrom, 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) non-profit 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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