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September 13, 2004 - Free Tutoring for DC Kids
September 9, 2004 - Citiwide nominated for TouchDC.org
June 7, 2004 - Free Harvard tuition to low income families
June 7, 2004 - Presidential Freedom Scholarships for student community service
May 27, 2004 - Mercedes-Benz USA Launches Scholarship Program
April 23, 2004 - Anthony Chuukwu Receives Recognition form the AVAPL/APA Leadership Conference
December 12, 2003. - Citiwide Receives 30 Donated Computers from the American Psychological Association
December 9, 2003 - Citiwide Participates in Federal Computers For Learning Initiative
October 2003 - Citiwide Staff Attends Various Conferences
September 26, 2003 - Citiwide Founder Anthony Chuukwu Honored with a National Community Service Award
September 24, 2003 - Summer Program, College Summit Training, and New English Conversation Classes
September 12, 2003 - Citiwide Hosts College Summit National Headquarters Training
September 5, 2003 - Citiwide Wishlist
August 5, 2003 - Citiwide Summer Camp Students Visit Hillwood Museum and Gardens
July 15, 2003 - Phil Shapiro Assigned as Literacy Leader/Life Long Learning Coach
July 10, 2003 - Citiwide to Host Adult and Family Literacy Initiative
June 30, 2003 - Jason King to Mentor Citiwide
June 24, 2003 - Citiwide Kicks Hunger
February 7, 2003 - Giving to Citiwide is Easier than Ever!
January 15, 2003 - Citiwide Selected for the Strengthening Partners Initiative
January 15, 2003 - Citiwide Partners with Pre-Paid Legal
If you or someone you know has children in one of the DC Public Schools listed below, they are entitled to up to $1,570 of FREE tutoring. Click here to download the application. The application must be returned to the child's school.
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Elementary Schools
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Middle/Jr. High
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High Schools
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Bancroft
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Backus
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Anacostia
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Benning
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Browne JHS
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Ballou
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Bowen
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Eliot
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Bell
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Brightwood
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Evans
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Cardozo
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Bruce-Monroe
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Fletcher-Johnson EC
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Coolidge
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HD Cooke
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Francis
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Dunbar
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Ferebee-Hope
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Garnet-Patterson
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Eastern
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Fletcher-Johnson
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Harris, PR
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Luke C. Moore
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Gage-Eckington
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Hart
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M.M. Washington
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Gibbs
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Hine
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Roosevelt
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Green
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Jefferson
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Spingarn
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Houston
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Johnson
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Wilson
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Ludlow-Taylor
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Kramer
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Woodson
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McGogney
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Lincoln
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Miner
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MacFarland
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Learning Centers
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Moten
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Ronald H. Brown
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Eliot Center
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Plummer
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Shaw
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Prospect Learning Center
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Powell
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Sousa
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Sharpe Health School
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Raymond
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Stuart-Hobson
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Taft Center
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Reed
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Terrell, RH
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Moten Center
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Savoy
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Winston EC
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Stanton
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Terrell, MC
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Truesdell
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Tubman
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Tyler
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Van Ness
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Walker Jones
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Webb
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Wilkinson
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Winston EC
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For additional information, you can call 202/635-1233.
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Citiwide has been nominated to be featured on TouchDC.org for the 2004-2005 year. TouchDC.org is a broad coalition of funders, nonprofit umbrella organizations, and media partners who share the goal of encouraging citizens in the Washington region to become regular donors to local nonprofit organizations providing critical services here in our community. Through TouchDC.org, powered by Network for Good, donors are able find out about the great work of our local nonprofits and have a safe and convenient way to give and to volunteer.
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Harvard is offering free tuition for students that have a family income below $40,000. If you are a mentor or have nieces and nephews who might be interested, please give them this information. If you know anyone/family earning less than $40K with a brilliant child near ready for college, please pass this along.
Harvard's Tuition Announcement Highlights Failure of Prestigious Universities to Enroll Low-Income Students, March 1, 2004
Harvard University announced over the weekend that from now on undergraduate students from low-income families will pay no tuition. In making the announcement, Harvard's president Lawrence H. Summers said, "When only 10 percent of the students in elite higher education come from families in lower half the income distribution, we are not doing enough. We are not doing enough in bringing elite higher education to the lower half of the income distribution." This initiative puts severe pressure on other well-endowed colleges and universities to adopt similar measures. Some commentators believe that Harvard's announcement was made in response to Princeton University's decision six years ago to eliminate all tuition charges for families earning less than $40,000 (adjusted annually to take inflation into account) and its subsequent decision three years later to substitute all student loans with outright grants.
The Harvard announcement indicates that the Princeton plan has had some success in drawing to Princeton some of the high-achieving, low-income students who typically went to Harvard. Each year The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education gathers figures from the U.S. Department of Education relating to the percentage of students at the nation's leading colleges and universities who receive federal financial assistance under the Pell Grant program for low-income students. These figures provide a good measure of the institution's relative success in enrolling students from the bottom economic sector of the nation's families.
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[Editor's note: These scholarships offer an excellent opportunity to recognize students whose community service builds the global community or makes the global-local link!]
From Youth Service America's National Service Briefing:
Two students from every high school in the United States are eligible to receive $1,000 Presidential Freedom Scholarships in recognition of their outstanding service to the community. The annual college scholarship program, which will award up to eight thousand scholarships, is administered by the Corporation for National and Community Service's Learn and Serve America (http://learnandserve.org) program. The program itself provides half of the award, which must be matched with $500 from a community organization, civic group, or business and secured for the student by his or her high school. Students must meet the following eligibility requirements: be a high school junior or senior during the 2003-2004 academic year; have contributed at least one hundred hours of community service within the twelve months prior to applying; be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident; attend a public, private, charter, or parochial school located within one of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, a U.S. territory, tribal unit, or Department of Defense school; and plan to attend an eligible institution of higher education in the U.S. For more information, visit: http://www.nationalservice.org/scholarships. The deadline: July 16, 2004.
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Deadline: June 11, 2004
Mercedes-Benz USA has launched a national scholarship program to provide educational assistance to students who will be the first in their families to attend college. The program, Drive Your Future: The Mercedes-Benz USA Scholarship Program, will make $500,000 in funding available to students through support from MBUSA and the fundraising activities of its dealers.
Graduating high school seniors who will be the first in their families to attend college or vocational school are invited to apply for one-time, $2,000 scholarships. Three students in each state will receive scholarships in addition to students from various youth organizations. More than 250 scholarships will be awarded in 2004.
Scholarship applicants will be evaluated based on academic achievement (a grade-point average of 3.0 or higher), financial need, demonstrated leadership, and participation in school and community activities. Honors, work experience, goals and aspirations, and unusual personal or family circumstances will also be considered.
Detailed program information and application forms are available from the Mercedes-Benz USA Web site.
View the RFP
View additional RFPs in education
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The APA/AVAPL joint conference ended on April 25, 2004. The conference was held at the Crystal City Marriott. Nearly 100 members of the VA Psychologist Leaders, Fellows and Interns attended. Also in attendance were: Acting Under Secretary for Health on VA, Jonathan B. Perlin, M.D., Ph.D., MHSA, FACP, APA President, Diane Halpern, Ph.D., APA Past President, Pat DeLeon, Ph.D., J.D., Executive Director for Professional Practice, Russ Newman, Ph.D., J.D., Joint House/Senate staffers on VA Subcommittees on Health.
One of the highlights of the conference was an award presentation given to Anthony Chuukwu for exemplary service on behalf of the AVAPL/APA Leadership Conferences.
It read:
Association of VA Psychologist Leaders
"Certificate of Appreciation - For exemplary service on behalf of the AVAPL/APA Leadership Conferences - Anthony Chuukwu - Is being acknowledged by the Association of VA Psychologist Leaders for his dedication and expert assistance in planning and organizing the conferences. His attention to detail has made it possible for each conference to be better than the last.
Given at AVAPL/APA Leadership Conference VII, Washington, DC on this 23rd day of April, 2004."
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Citiwide staff picked up 30 donated Windows 98 computers from the American Psychological Association today. These computers will be distributed for free home use by elementary school students at Citiwide's partner school, Elsie Whitlow-Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School. Citiwide and Stokes School share the belief that education is the key to personal and community empowerment.
Students who receive donated computers from Citiwide will also receive free computer training and academic instruction via Citiwide's after-school program. The goal of this after-school program is to bring strongly expanded learning opportunities to students who might otherwise not have these opportunities. The intended outcome of this project is higher academic achievement for all students at Stokes School.
After-school instruction will be provided by Lifelong Learning Coach Phil Shapiro and Academic Intern Byron Rey, a senior at Maya Angelou Public Charter School with strong skills in technology, along with volunteers and Citiwide staff.
December 9, 2003 - Citiwide Participates in Federal Computers For Learning Initiative
Citiwide Computer Training Center has registered as an educational nonprofit organization on the Computers For Learning web site.
Computers For Learning is a Federal initiative, established in 1996 via Executive Order 12999 from the White House, which has distributed thousands of surplus Federal computers to schools and educational nonprofit organizations. In the past, surplus Federal computers were stored in large warehouses. Now they're being put to use in our nation's schools and educational nonprofit organizations, serving important community needs.
The Computers For Learning initiative has benefitted other organizations in our neighborhood, which Citiwide applauds.
In December, 2003, the Computers For Learning web site started an expansion to include private companies who would like to distribute their surplus computers. This is an excellent development to help bridge the digital divide. Citiwide will continue to participate in this initiative and will share further news and outcomes here on the Citiwide web site.
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Citiwide Computer Training Center has registered as an educational nonprofit organization on the Computers For Learning web site.
Computers For Learning is a Federal initiative, established in 1996 via Executive Order 12999 from the White House, which has distributed thousands of surplus Federal computers to schools and educational nonprofit organizations. In the past, surplus Federal computers were stored in large warehouses. Now they're being put to use in our nation's schools and educational nonprofit organizations, serving important community needs.
The Computers For Learning initiative has benefitted other organizations in our neighborhood, which Citiwide applauds.
In December, 2003, the Computers For Learning web site started an expansion to include private companies who would like to distribute their surplus computers. This is an excellent development to help bridge the digital divide. Citiwide will continue to participate in this initiative and will share further news and outcomes here on the Citiwide web site.
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CitiWide staff attended various conferences in October 2003, including the annual Public/Private Partnerships Conference held at George Washington University, organized by the Mayor's Office of Partnerships and Grant Development and the Washington Council of Agencies. Lifelong Learning Coach Phil Shapiro also attended a conference at Rutgers University, in New Jersey, organized by Rutger's Graduate School of Education. Both Anthony Chuukwu and Phil Shapiro attended the annual Mayor's Citizen Summit on November 1, 2003. Shown below are photos from the Public/Private Partnerships Conference. Click on any of the thumbnails to enlarge.
    
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On September, 26, 2003, Citiwide Founder Anthony Chuuwku was honored with an "Outstanding Community Technology Leader Award" at the Education Braintrust Meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus. This award honors individuals who have shown remarkable leadership and initiative bringing technology and technology training to communities with low-access to technology. Congressman Major Owens, from New York, was the master of ceremonies. Anthony Chuukwu joined 30 other distinguished individuals as the first group of people to receive this annual award. Click on any of the thumbnails to enlarge.
    
   
    
  
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Lots has been happening at Citiwide Computer Training Center in the past few weeks. Citiwide finished up its summer program for elementary school children. The culmination of the summer program was a music video we made with the children, with some of them performing, some of them shooting the video and some of them in charge of the microphone and audio. If you have a high-speed Internet connection, you can view the video by clicking here. You will need QuickTime 6 to view this video. Click here to download QuickTime for free.
Can you believe the 5th-grade student playing guitar in this video never played guitar before performing in this video? She has a real talent for quickly learning new musical instruments.
The summer program also had lots of computer activities, swimming, judo and field trips to area museums, embassies and parks. It was sad saying goodbye to the children at the end of the summer, but some of them may be back next year.
In other news, in early September Citiwide rented out its computer lab for a staff training for a DC-area nonprofit, College Summit, that assists high school students to get into college. This training included a person from Chicago who joined in via speakerphone. The training progressed well with our new laptop, projector and cable-modem Internet connection.
Citiwide also recently launched a free English conversation class on Thursday evenings from 7 pm to 8:30 pm in room AG-32 in the Woodner Building at 3636 16th St. (this room is very near the leasing office in the building. After you enter the building walk down the steps, turn right at the hallway, walk all the way down towards the leasing office. AG-32 is one of the last rooms on your right.) This class uses human-interest news stories to help adults learn pronunciation, vocabulary and English expressions. The class has a few open slots if you know anyone who would like to attend. Talk to Phil at Citiwide if you'd like to attend. (202) 667-3719. We might be running a morning or afternoon session of this class, too, if there is sufficient interest. Current students hail from Ethiopia, Senegal, Bolivia and El Salvador. The class is run informally with students participating at the level, which they're most comfortable.
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On September 12, Citiwide hosted a College Summit National Headquarters training session. College Summit is a nonprofit organization that works to increase number of youths who attend college.
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Citiwide has posted a wishlist of equipment and materials that will help us achieve our mission. Click here to view the wishlist and learn how you can help.
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On August 5, 2003, Citiwide Summer Camp students visited Hillwood Museum and Gardens, in Rock Creek Park.
Click here for more information out the trip.
For more information about Hillwood Gardens, click here.
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Phil Shapiro is posted to Citiwide Computer Training Center as a Literacy Leader/Life Long Learning Coach. Phil brings his wealth of experiences from being an Instructional Technology Coordinator, Arlington Public Schools 1999-2002. He was the Washington, DC Regional Coordinator, Community Technology Centers' Network 1997-1999.
This past fall Phil volunteered and taught some free workshops for DC Learns members in the Computer Training Center at MLK Library, showing them how they can put video public service announcements on the Internet to make the public more aware of their work. Phil maintained website and taught classes in QuickTime and RealVideo at nonprofit video and multimedia training center with One World Media Center from 1996-1999. Phil was a board member of Virginia Macintosh Users Group from 1999-2000.
Phil had received numerous awards as follows: Nominated for the Bender Prize for community service in 1998, received the Friends of Chevy Chase DC Library and One World Media Center awards in 1998, received annual volunteer excellence award from Arlington United Way in June of 1001. He received Special Award for Extraordinary Service to CTCNet and CTC's in June 2002. Phil has a Juris Doctor, from Howard University School of Law, Washington, DC 1986 and a Bachelor of Arts, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, 1983.
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Citiwide Computer Training Center has partnered with the Executive Office of the Mayor, DC Adult & Family Literacy Initiative and DC Agenda by hosting a Literacy Leader/Life Long Learning Coach and adopting the collaborative "Right to Proceed" Memorandum of Agreement. Citiwide was selected to participate and host the DC Agenda's Adult and Family Literacy Initiative. For more information, click here.
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Mr. Jason King, Executive Director of Turning the Page, has been selected to mentor Citiwide Computer Training Center on Fundraising tips on behalf of the Strengthening Partners Initiative ("SPI") program. Mr. King is a graduate of Duke University (B.A. 1994) and Georgetown University Law Center (J.D. 1997). For more information on Mr. King, please visit http://www.turningthepage.org/.
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Each year, 85% of the 16 million children who receive free or reduced-price lunches during the school year are at risk of going hungry during the summer months. To help alleviate this problem, Sodexho USA provides summer meals through its Feeding Our Future program to 11 major cities in the US and the District of Columbia. To launch Feeding Our Future, and to bring awareness to summer lunch programs in Washington, DC, Sodexho USA, Citiwide Computer Training Center, and a host of other community organizations celebrated with the Mayor at a community picnic and a celebrity "Kick Hunger" kickball game.
To draw attention to this year's summer food programs in the District, Mayor Anthony Williams captained a kick ball event, which took place at the Parks and Recreational Center, 3149 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20010. A select members of the DC City Council and leaders of partnering organizations, as well as selected youth from the community, filled the roster of attendees to the events. Sodexho USA is also recruited other professional athletes and local celebrities who participated in the event. The event was short but very exciting. During the game a picnic style lunch was served to all children and participants for free.
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Citiwide now participates on GuideStar, the on-line standard for nonprofit accountability. Take a look at our listing.
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Citiwide Computer Training Center selected to participate in the Mayor's Office on Strengthening Partners Initiative (SPI). SPI is dedicated to improving the immediate effectiveness and long-term sustainability of nonprofit and faith-based organizations located and providing services in the District of Columbia. Through capacity-building efforts focused on resource development, organizations will enhance both their organizational infrastructure and revenue streams.
Phase I of SPI involved 12 skills based workshops on various nonprofit management topics. Phase II of SPI is the Mentoring Component. We are looking for Mentors to provide coaching and guidance to SPI participants. Mentors will work with SPI protégé's July - August 2003.
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