A conversation with Milam Newby and Nancy Pollard on their work with Friends of the Children, a national youth mentoring organization, and its life-changing impact on kids facing adversity. For more ...

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DECATUR, Ill. (WCIA) — It’s graduation season, but not everyone is celebrating the end of their schooling. Some are crossing the finish line of their time with a unique, transformative program that ...

Connecticut is often regarded as a “land of opportunity,” home to some of the wealthiest communities in the nation. Yet, behind this prosperity lies a stark contrast—a state where poverty is ...

In 1967, a farmer stood in a field in Punjab, India, holding seeds that looked no different from those his father and grandfather had planted. But these seeds (stocky, disease-resistant wheat ...

Very few, if any, people want to be poor. But unfortunately there are quite a lot, if not a maddening abundance, of things you can do to become — or stay — poor. Poverty isn’t a choice so much as it ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Last year, Catholic Charities of the Coastal Bend launched a transformative program aimed at reducing poverty and breaking down barriers in the community. Circles of the ...

For years, Rasheeda Shankle was counting pennies, living paycheck to paycheck. As a single mother, all the money she earned at her minimum-wage job went to pay for day care, food and low-income ...

To promote Promise Neighborhoods that will offer “cradle to college” services to help children in troubled communities do well in school so they can enter college and find a career.

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With its striking murals and a mission as colorful as its walls, The Fledge has become more than just a community center in Lansing’s Eastside — some residents call it a cornerstone of the ...