Ms. Antoinette Brewster, founder and steward of the Mentee Education Foundation was recently recognized by members of the Kirkland, WA press for her work in Liberia. Ms. Brewster, inspired by her father, founded the Mentee Education Foundation to support the education of children in Liberia while living in Kirkland.
The Mentee Education Foundation has partnered [...]
Continue Reading →33 year-old Andrew Youn of One Acre Fund is being recognized as one of the 30 most innovative Social Entrepreneurs by Forbes magazine. The honor was placed upon him by a select and distinguished panel of philanthropists and entrepreneurs for working on one of the world’s most troublesome issues.
One Acre Fund is helping East [...]
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Greetings from Kakata! Tim and I arrived a couple weeks ago and so far it has been go, go, go. It took us a few days to figure out how things work around here. We had quite a few interesting experiences figuring out everything from what to eat, and what are the best ways to [...]
Continue Reading →Stalyon retails apparel to support philanthropic causes and has featured CfC co-founder Elijah Grindstaff in his role as musician. Stalyon promotes Global Citizens and philanthropic organizations as part of its Global Village initiative. CfC is excited to be featured by this retail concept. Please follow the link to see more of Stalyon and its feature article on [...]
Continue Reading →The beautiful photography of CfC volunteer Jason Koenig is currently being featured on Photophilanthropy. The organization is recognizing Jason’s photoessay capturing the faces of the community during the 2010 STEP school construction in Kampong Cham, Cambodia. Please follow the link to see Jason’s essay compilation for Photophilanthropy.
http://photophilanthropy.org/gallery-posts/step-cambodia/
Continue Reading →Justin Pratt and Tim Hickory took off on November 15th for Kakata, Liberia where they will be managing the construction of a school for the Mentee Educational Foundation. CfC is excited to have Justin and Tim as project managers for this project and can’t wait to see their progress over the coming months.
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CfC would like to give a big thank you to Toughbuilt Tools for their kind donation of 10 boxes of tools for our project managers to use on upcoming projects. Our project managers will now have proper tools to ensure high quality work on all of our projects. Pictured are Liberia project manager Justin Pratt [...]
Continue Reading →In June, 2011 CfC did a follow-up on the LCS project. The project has attained strong sustainability indicated by the 16% increased enrollment at the school, 25% improvement in test scores, increased school attendance and salaried teachers. This points to good acceptance by the community and Zambian Ministry [...]
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