Triple Match Offer Through December 26

Triple Match Offer Through December 26
All gifts will be tripled up to a total of $5000

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YOUR DONATION IN ITS ENTIRETY IS INVESTED IN OUR STUDENT SCHOLARS

Donations assist full and partial-scholarship recipients with the myriad of essentials their wealthier peers’ families can afford, such as laptops, transportation to and from college, clothes for job interviews, meals, dorm and school supplies, and scholarship tuition gaps that prevent registration if not paid.

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Hopefully, we can find more support in the near future to assist this group of recipients with expenses throughout their college years, and do so as well for each year’s group of select Supplemental Scholarship award recipients graduating from DC International Charter School.

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Damaris, DC International Charter School (DCI), class of 2021, first year scholarship student at Lewis & Clark University:

When I asked in August, “As a student who we go to bat for, are you comfortable with the words “financially disadvantaged” as in “ambitious financially disadvantaged student scholars”?

Damaris thoughtfully replied, “The word financially disadvantaged doesn’t offend me because it is true and I know it is not my fault. I think the words surrounding the adjectives are important like “ambitious” and should be emphasized because in all you are helping students make a way when originally there would be no way. They have goals, dreams, and aspirations just like anyone else except their financial situation puts them a little farther away from the finish line than other students whose families are affluent....I went off on a little tangent, but in all I think the adjectives are ok with me and shouldn’t offend anyone.”

Damaris is putting her Supplemental Scholarship award to good use.

Anthony Anderson, graduate of Duke Ellington School, and Oberlin Conservatory, Class of 2022:
After receiving an iPad as a Supplemental Scholarship award Anthony wrote: “I wish to express my deepest gratitude to you and AllOutForChange.....with your support, I’ve had opportunities to travel and find the right school for me, play in my first two full length operas this past year, and even sing at Carnegie Hall this past winter. Know that you make a difference.... y’all provide a helping hand to those in need. Please, continue the good work!”  September 24, 2020.​

When I asked if he received his latest Supplemental Scholarship award for grad school application fees and travel expenses, he replied,“Yes, I have!  ...It really came right on time so I could send out my applications and pay the fees on time. Thank you again! I’m just waiting on results to hopefully schedule live auditions.”  December 7, 2021.

​For Shamaari, DCI 2021 grad, the $600 award to cover college-related expenses, is covering his commute, $18 RT, on the commuter train, DC to campus in Baltimore, MD. If he goes 3 times a week at a minimum to campus… over $200/month! And poof, there goes that award in one semester! And that math doesn’t even include subway or bus expense to get to and from the train stations. Apparently, for some commuting students, the transportation expense that they face sometimes means they give up on college.

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​“...some of the most surprising challenges are not academic but logistical. Something as simple as affordable, reliable transportation can mean the difference between a student finishing college or not." A surprising reason keeping students from finishing college: A lack of transportation, Hechinger Report, December 10, 2021

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For AOFC Anthony interviewed 5 students and young professionals who tell it like it is. When discussing student debt with Rebecca in her interview: “I’m graduating with $40,000 in federal loans,” remarks Rebecca a GWU engineering school full & merit scholarship recipient, Anthony replies, “That’s not that bad!”

For a clearer picture read any one of the illuminating page-turners from our eye opening stories page.  In  Ron Suskind’s,  A Hope in the Unseen, An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League, you’ll learn how the journey is far from mundane. I can’t imagine how Cedric Jennings would have made it without a benefactor who read Suskind’s Pulitzer Prize WSJ feature story. A caring fellow provided Jennings with $200 a month for food and expenses to add to his campus employment income, and paid for a tutor to bring Jenning’s academic skills up to speed.

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​When I read stories and meet young adults and teens with aspirations, talent and initiative like Anthony, and when I learn of the many strangers’ desire to pitch in, I trust we can make a life-changing difference for others: 1 laptop, 1 iPad, 1 award at a time.

Sincerely,
MaryAnn, Chief Engagement Officer and Founder
AllOutForChange®
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