Good News Notes: “MacKenzie Scott gave $122.6 million to Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, the national youth-mentoring charity announced on Tuesday. The gift is the latest of several the billionaire writer has given to large national nonprofits that carry out their missions through local chapters in neighborhoods throughout the country. With this latest donation,…
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Local Nonprofit Female Empowerment Organization Expands Mentoring Program
Good News Notes: “What Makes You Feel Beautiful, a Maui-based nonprofit female empowerment organization invites Maui County women ages 18 to 35 to sign up for a free, six-month mentoring program. “We’re looking for young women interested in receiving support in achieving their personal and professional goals in life,” said Monica Marrow, Executive Director of…
Destiny Jackson has been homeless and in foster care in Philly. Now 50 colleges want her.
Good News Notes: “At last, Destiny Jackson, then 13, said to herself. After the abuse and the torment she’d endured over time, someone had called representatives from Philadelphia’s Department of Human Services into her family’s West Philadelphia home. Now they’ll see what I’ve been through, she believed. Now I’ll get out. But it didn’t happen….