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Grantees | DC Social Innovation Project
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HBP’s Teen-to-Doula Program. Street Sense Digital Hope Program. Started in 2012 by students at Wilson High School, The Paper Project is a program run by local high school journalists that starts newspapers and mentors journalism students at DC public middle schools. Their vision is to increase student engagement by helping DC students find their voices and create an outlet for their expression in order to empower students to speak up and speak out for what they believe in. ScholarCHIPS is an organization...
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Wasting My Education: August 2015
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Saturday, August 29, 2015. Real Men Make Quiche. Photo by Brandie Kajino. On the first day of his Summer of Cooking, my nearly twelve-year-old son came to me at five o’clock, the appointed dinner-preparation hour, with slumped shoulders and a heavy sigh. “Mom,” he said. “Can we start the cooking lessons tomorrow? I don’t feel like making dinner tonight.”. If the boy learned nothing else for the rest of the summer, that single epiphany of empathy would have more than satisfied me. Had I been making a salt...
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Wasting My Education: Let Them Eat Baklava (A Tribute to Food For Life DC)
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015. Let Them Eat Baklava (A Tribute to Food For Life DC). 8220;Oh my… what is in. 8221; I exclaimed as I slipped into my impatiently salivating mouth another dripping forkful of creamy macaroni and cheese. My dining companion accused me of being with child, because only pregnant women savor their food with that degree of passionate abandon. 8221; inside my cheeks. I must speak with the chef. Now I order Food For Life meals because I want. I want them bad. The foundation of the Food F...
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