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Causes: Education, Secondary & High Schools
Mission: To enable parentally insecure and homeless teenagers to stay in school and graduate
Results: amazing: 90 % retention and GPA increases from 20-50%. Enthusiastically endorsed by the schools we work in and the school counselors engaged in our program
Target demographics: homeless and parentless high schoolers
Direct beneficiaries per year: 48 students
Geographic areas served: Rochester Metropolitan area
Programs: mentoring, cash stipends, clothing, hygiene and educational supplies, notes of encouragement, small gifts