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Grit and hope : a year with five Latino students and the program that helped them aim for college
\"Grit and Hope tells the story of five inner-city Hispanic students who start their college applications in the midst of the country's worst recession and of Reality Changers, the program that aims to help them become the first in their families to go college. This year they must keep up their grades in AP courses, write compelling essays for their applications, and find scholarships to fund their dreams. One lives in a garage and struggles to get enough to eat. Two are academic standouts, but are undocumented, ineligible for state and federal financial assistance. One tries to keep his balance as his mother gets a life-threatening diagnosis; another bonds with her sister when their parents are sidelined by substance abuse. The book also follows Christopher Yanov, the program's youthful, charismatic founder in a year that's as critical for Reality Changers' future as it is for the seniors. Yanov wants to grow Reality Changers into national visibility. He's doubled the program's size, and hired new employees, but he hasn't anticipated that growing means he'll have to surrender some control, and trust his new staff. It's the story of a highly successful, yet flawed organization that must change in order to grow. Told with deep affection and without sentimentality, the students stories show that although poverty and cultural deprivation seriously complicate youths' efforts to launch into young adulthood, the support of a strong program makes a critical difference\"--Provided by publisher.
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Millennium challenges for development and faith institutions
In 1998, Jim Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank and then-Archbishop of Canterbury George L. Carey, began an exploratory effort to strengthen dialogue and understanding between the worlds of faith and development. Centered around issues of poverty alleviation and social justice, periodic Leaders Meetings have been convened. This book reports on the most recent meeting, in Canterbury, England in October 2002, hosted by Jim Wolfensohn and George Carey. This meeting gathered together an impressive group of leaders from the world’s faith communities, key development organizations, and from the worlds of entertainment, philanthropy and the private sector. Couched within the Millennium Development Goals, recurrent themes were poverty, HIV/AIDS, gender, conflict, social justice. Participants spoke to the dual dimensions of globalization and its differential impact on rich and poor countries. Taken together, poverty, HIV/AIDS, conflict, gender concerns, international trade and global politics bind the world’s countries and peoples into a global community, underscoring the urgency of shared responsibility and partnership. As one speaker noted, the world is at a crossroads, “a turning point for humanity.” The conclusion stemming from these deliberations was more needs to be done to translate into practical reality the great potential which lies in closer collaboration between the worlds of faith and development in confronting major development issues.
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