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Tuition Gaps, Meals, Transportation, Books, & More; It All Adds Up
Take it all in...Year-end Big Picture in Videos, Student Conundrums & Fall Semester Impact-Solutions, Spring Semester Need
Video clips below shed light on conundrums interwoven into the pursuit of higher education, and the higher earnings that degree buys at the expense of burdensome debt for scholarship recipients.
Get Schooled with Mary Shaffner
Founder of DC International Public Charter School (DCI),
Celebration of Achievements Honoree
Take it all in...Year-end Big Picture in Videos, Student Conundrums & Fall Semester Impact-Solutions, Spring Semester Need
Video clips below shed light on conundrums interwoven into the pursuit of higher education, and the higher earnings that degree buys at the expense of burdensome debt for scholarship recipients.
Get Schooled with Mary Shaffner
Founder of DC International Public Charter School (DCI),
Celebration of Achievements Honoree
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Mary, choking up and teary-eyed: “I’m so incredibly thankful to MaryAnn and All Out for Change® for their support of our students. They’ve jumped in to help with funding for computers, to funding for travel and last minute needs. It’s exactly what the students need, because small funding needs can keep a kid from going to school. We’ve seen it! … Thank you, you have been instrumental in ensuring DCI alumni success as they pursue their college plans."
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Get Schooled on Campus Food Insecurity with Andy Sonn
Faculty Advisor for The Store (GW University student run food pantry)
Faculty Advisor for The Store (GW University student run food pantry)
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To understand our student scholarship recipients’ realities watch a short revealing, eye-opening presentation from our Celebration of Achievements event. Andy Sonn, speaks about campus food insecurity and other challenges students with limited financial resources face. And listen to a recent NPR Takeaway about hunger on college campuses.
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Get Schooled with the Fireside Chat Panelists
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Paola & Franklin, summer 2022 were out of the starting gate, DCI grads; Andy, a GW faculty member who knows what scholarship recipients are up against and what keeps them in the race; Cody, dedicated DCI team member for 15 years; and MaryAnn, Chief Engagement Officer & Founder of All Out for Change®, "engaging with students, learning from our conversations and emails, gives me more reason to stand behind them".
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“ A lot of people think if you give a kid a scholarship, now the kid’s set…
they’ve got everything they need. Nothing could be further from the truth.”
Chris Metzler, director of student services at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology
they’ve got everything they need. Nothing could be further from the truth.”
Chris Metzler, director of student services at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology
"To a middle-income kid from a neighborhood with two cars in every garage, it may be incomprehensible that something costing less than a few burritos at Chipotle could derail a person’s college education. But for many young people across the country — growing up in homes where there’s little left after paying rent and utilities — the challenge is painfully familiar."
When a small expense threatens a college education
Read 2 Revealing Articles About our Country's Student Debt Crisis Through the Eyes of Borrowers.
They affirm the necessity of diminishing scholarship students' debt burdens via Supplemental Scholarship Awards.
A 41 year-old program manager remarks, "I find it unbelievable that the government and private companies are making so much money from people seeking to make their lives better and contribute to society.”
A 34 year old teacher commented, "The interest rate — it should not be cheaper to borrow money from a bank for a car loan than to borrow money from the government to get an education."
Read 2 Revealing Articles About our Country's Student Debt Crisis Through the Eyes of Borrowers.
They affirm the necessity of diminishing scholarship students' debt burdens via Supplemental Scholarship Awards.
A 41 year-old program manager remarks, "I find it unbelievable that the government and private companies are making so much money from people seeking to make their lives better and contribute to society.”
A 34 year old teacher commented, "The interest rate — it should not be cheaper to borrow money from a bank for a car loan than to borrow money from the government to get an education."
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