Just over seven years ago, the Building Tomorrow story began with a special Christmas in Kampala delivery. Today, seven Building Tomorrow academies are on holiday [...]
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December 27, 2011
From Key Club to Doane, my experience with Building Tomorrow.
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I first learned about Building Tomorrow during my senior year of high school. Evie Sue Ward, my classmate and district governor, made Building Tomorrow her [...]
December 16, 2011
Education is…
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Words of advice from Sarah Namirembe, Head Teacher of the Building Tomorrow Academy of Kiyamba:
“Education is important and when you train a woman, you train [...]
December 9, 2011
Hip-Hop & Engineers
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They say smiles are contagious but the students I met at Lutisi brought that statement to a new level. I couldn’t help but smile, no [...]
November 29, 2011
Raise the Roof
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You’re probably getting more emails about online shopping deals this week than you care to count. But we’re pretty sure you haven’t seen a deal [...]
November 24, 2011
We’re thankful for…
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…energetic students, teachers, supporters and partners in the US; community volunteers, government leaders, teachers and dedicated staff in Uganda; donors around the world; … the [...]
November 16, 2011
BT Construction Team
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We’re Building Tomorrow. Literally. Check out our construction team in Uganda!
November 10, 2011
Boreholes & Mango Trees
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7 November 2011—Determined to have a borehole operational before the start of construction on a new Building Tomorrow academy, the village of Lukindu in the [...]
November 9, 2011
Small Towns, Big Hearts
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A small high school in a small town in Washington State has teamed up with One Day’s Wages in an effort to fund the construction [...]
November 3, 2011
For the love of toilets.
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Little gets me as excited as showing up to one of our sites and seeing a pit latrine take shape. That might sound crazy, but [...]
November 1, 2011
Five Years of Building Tomorrow
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We celebrated our 5th birthday with a full house at the ArtsGarden in downtown Indianapolis last Friday and it was a HUGE success. We couldn’t [...]
October 28, 2011
We’re 5 Years Old.
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A little more than five years ago, I set out to name a vision of engaging young people in the United States in the quest [...]
October 21, 2011
Gita – The Whole Story
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In the fall of 2005, Jason Franasiak, recent graduate of the College of William & Mary, enrolled in the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine. [...]
October 19, 2011
Jonah & Sande
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Meet Jonah (13) & Sande (14 – pronounced like “Sunday”); two students at the Building Tomorrow Academy of Buwasa, supported by Global Playground.
Sande is [...]
October 14, 2011
You’ve met George…now meet his sister.
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A while back we introduced you to George, a then 16 year-old who had made quite a name for himself in the village of Kiyamba, [...]
October 11, 2011
Meet Agnes
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Last week I found myself sitting amongst a group of kids doing my best to communicate in Luganda, which I’ll admit wasn’t very good, when [...]
October 6, 2011
Matching Gifts Multiplied
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A couple of months ago, One Day’s Wages, an organization devoted to eradicating extreme global poverty, awarded Building Tomorrow their largest matching grant to-date: $30,000 [...]
October 3, 2011
1.2 Million Reasons to Smile
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One awesome evolution of the Building Tomorrow model has been the willingness of communities to make significant investments in the idea of a community supported [...]
September 30, 2011
Building Tomorrow’s Five Year Commitment
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New outreach to benefit more than 18,000 students.
INDIANAPOLIS — Building Tomorrow, Inc., an Indianapolis-based social-profit enterprise has announced a new commitment to construct a [...]
Party Time at Hope College
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Here’s some creative fundraising for you: in addition to selling bricks through Building Tomorrow’s OneBrick Campaign, students at Hope College in Holland, Michigan organized a [...]
September 28, 2011
Proud.
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About a year ago, Building Tomorrow teamed up with the Jukes Foundation for Kids to provide ten scholarships for students to continue their studies following [...]
September 27, 2011
Welcome to the team, Edward!
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A couple weeks before each visit I make to Uganda, I send our in-country team a list of meetings, visits and other important things I [...]
September 22, 2011
Run, Miles. Run!
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Building Tomorrow is a big fan of athletic fundraisers. Aside from our national campaign, Bike to Uganda, where students attempt to bike the distance from [...]
September 20, 2011
Happy (belated) Birthday, Christine!
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This 25 (now 26 year-old) donated her birthday to Building Tomorrow via One Day’s Wages “Birthday for a Cause” campaign. Every dollar she raised [...]
September 19, 2011
University of Notre Dame School of Architecture – Building Tomorrow
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Original article in University of Notre Dame School of Architecture Newsletter, September 19, 2011
Building Tomorrow is one of the newest student groups at the School [...]
filed under: News — Tags: architecture, design, kyeitabya, notre dame, sentigi, students, usa — admin @ 10:44 am
September 16, 2011
Here We Go!
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Do you remember the day you realized, ‘wow, I’m a big kid now?’
That’s the feeling coming over us all right now in the Building Tomorrow [...]
September 13, 2011
Notre Dame Design:Build
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In the fall of 2008, Elijah Pearce, a then undergraduate in the University of Notre Dame’s School of Architecture, reached out to Building Tomorrow. Elijah [...]
September 8, 2011
BT Featured in The Daily Texan
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The UT chapter of Building Tomorrow hosted a lecture this past Wednesday by the organization’s founder, George Srour.
September 7, 2011
BT Across the US of A.
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Our college chapters & young supporters are back in action with big plans for the upcoming semester. Kicking things off by making a big splash [...]
September 6, 2011
Labor Day Lemonade Stands
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Hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend! We’re especially excited about how Braden Stelljes celebrated in Williamsburg, VA: a lemonade stand for BT!
Needs and Deeds
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Design between architecture’s practice and academy for areas in need.
By: Angie Schmitt for AIArchitect, Architect Magazine
Imagine you have a $48,000 construction budget [...]
September 2, 2011
UT Tabling for BT
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Kappa Kappa Gammas at the University of Texas at Austin are back on-campus and tabling to support BT. Next week they’re hosting our very own [...]
August 30, 2011
A School Day in Uganda
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While our students in Uganda are currently on break and won’t be back in school until September 15th, we thought you might like to take [...]
August 25, 2011
What’s in your backpack?
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Students across the country are headed back to school this week. And even if you don’t have kids or siblings of your own, it’s a [...]
August 23, 2011
If this is what 13 year-olds are up to, the future looks brighter.
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Building Tomorrow is founded on the belief that young people are not only full of potential for the future but highly capable of doing great [...]
August 18, 2011
BT, It’s Been Real
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Whether we want to believe it or not, the summer is almost over. Today is the last day in the office for us interns here [...]
August 16, 2011
Corn, Corn, and More Corn.
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Last Friday, BT was given a pretty great opportunity to work the corn booth at the Indiana State Fair to benefit our cause. A team [...]
August 12, 2011
#PhotoOfTheDay
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We often explain the work of BT using words to describe the schools we build, the US students who work hard to raise money and [...]
August 10, 2011
It’s Our Job Now…
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“…to appreciate what we have and work to better opportunities for others.”
It is our mission at Building Tomorrow to engage youth in philanthropy and help [...]
August 8, 2011
A Read-a-Thon for Education
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This summer we’ve made a point to tell the incredible stories of our BTers and what they’re doing to change the world. One such inspiring [...]
August 4, 2011
the BT Chip-In, sponsored by ExactTarget
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Calling all Indiana Golfers – Close out the summer golf season at the Building Tomorrow Social Investment Council’s 2nd Annual BT Chip-In, sponsored by [...]
August 2, 2011
#BTweetathon
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If you follow us on twitter, maybe you’ve heard a little bit about today’s #BTweetathon. Here at Building Tomorrow, we’re serious about the cause for [...]
July 29, 2011
Moment of Obligation – $1.81
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Building Tomorrow’s Founder & Chief Dreamer, George Srour, shared with us what he considers to be his “moment of obligation” – the point at which [...]
July 27, 2011
Tubasanyukidde
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As the school year approaches, our BT chapters are hard at work. Chapter leaders are making arrangements for call-out meetings, fundraisers, and other activities on [...]
July 25, 2011
Unrecognized Talent
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As the world’s youngest nation, Uganda is a country full of hope and promise. It is a country geared towards a bright future, one that [...]
July 22, 2011
At Home and Abroad
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Lately, our critics have asked us why we choose to work in Uganda when there is so much need at home. The education system in [...]
July 20, 2011
A Birthday Wish for Education
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Every year we wait impatiently to celebrate the one day that is all about us – our birthday. Most birthdays revolve around cake, a song, [...]
July 18, 2011
Meet George and Edith
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In Uganda, one child’s education is a community affair. Today we’d like to introduce two incredible and inspiring teens who have committed themselves to providing [...]
July 15, 2011
The Cost of Doing Nothing
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A lot of organizations will tell you how little it costs to make a difference towards their cause. It’s important to recognize the tangible change [...]
July 13, 2011
Drum Roll Please…
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BT Nation, get excited, because earlier this week, Building Tomorrow officially joined forces with an awesome organization called One Day’s Wages. Through this partnership we [...]
July 11, 2011
Meet Esther and Gertrude at Gita
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Over the past few weeks, we’ve shared many stories about our BT supporters in the United States. Everyone from elementary school sit-for-good participants to college [...]
July 8, 2011
Everyone is Building Tomorrow
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So you’ve browsed the “Get Involved” page on our website and identified with our cause. You’re passionate about education equality and that makes Building Tomorrow [...]
July 6, 2011
Why Are You Building Tomorrow?
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How exactly do volunteers and donors differentiate one non-profit organization from the next? We wondered, too – so here are a few statements from our [...]
July 4, 2011
Random Opportunities for Kindness
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BT supporters have come across our cause in more ways than we are even aware of, so it comes as no surprise when Ellie Chernosky [...]
July 1, 2011
You Are What You Wear
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People and societies are deliberate in choosing how to dress themselves, because clothes fill more than one role. They protect us from our environments, decorate [...]
June 29, 2011
LugaFlow Flavor
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So earlier this week we released our very first music video – a cover of “Shoop” by Salt-N-Pepa. We like to think that it’s made [...]
June 27, 2011
Build
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Maybe you didn’t know this about us, but the Building Tomorrow Team is made up of a pretty sweet (and gangster) group of people. We’ve [...]
June 24, 2011
James Wood High School
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We got an exciting letter in the mail on Monday from a young BT supporter. Emily Crawford, a Key Club student at James Wood High [...]
June 22, 2011
The Ndere Dance Troupe
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If you’ve ever traveled to Uganda, chances are you’ve witnessed a performance by the famous Ndere Dance Troupe. If not – you’re missing out.
As we [...]
June 20, 2011
The Beautiful Game in Uganda
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Athletic competition is an important part of most cultures worldwide. The popularity of such events as the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup testify to [...]
June 17, 2011
“Be serious and you will succeed”
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Building Tomorrow’s Country Director in Uganda, Joseph Kaliisa, addresses a group of P7 (7th grade) students at the Building Tomorrow Academy of Lutisi, supported by [...]
June 16, 2011
The very first Bike to Uganda
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Although our founder, George Srour, hails from the College of William & Mary, Building Tomorrow’s first official fundraiser took place at his rival school – [...]
June 14, 2011
If you’ve seen a lot of orange on FB lately…
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Then our profile picture campaign is working. So far 100 Building Tomorrow supporters have changed their profile-pictures to our logo as a way of pledging [...]
June 9, 2011
Today is Ugandan Heroes’ Day
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So we thought we’d take the time to recognize all of the incredible students and individuals who dedicate themselves to Building Tomorrow everyday. We often [...]
June 7, 2011
Storms rolling in
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Storms roll in during rainy season over the future Building Tomorrow Academy of Kyeitabya.
June 3, 2011
BT Interns on ‘TV’!
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Check out the interview one of our Social Media Interns, Estelle Rousseau, had with The Pulse Network for their “Follow Friday” series first thing this [...]
June 2, 2011
So when we say we’re Social Entrepreneurs…
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…we mean we’re in the business of making the world a better place. Social entrepreneurship is a fairly new course of action that combines two [...]
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May 31, 2011
Learn Luganda
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Building Tomorrow is launching a new Twitter campaign to help our associates and supporters learn Luganda, the most widely spoken language in Uganda. At the [...]
May 27, 2011
Changing the future starts with Building Tomorrow
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(via Matthew Tully, Indianapolis Star)
As I walked out of a restaurant recently, Jim Morris, the former head of the U.N. World Food Program, grabbed me [...]
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May 26, 2011
A is for Avocado
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Jjumba Cyprian is a soft-spoken man. Three years ago as construction began at the Building Tomorrow Academy of Gita, Jjumba took interest in the work [...]
May 24, 2011
Why We Do What We Do – A BT Intern’s point of view
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The number of charities and organizations representing various causes can be overwhelming. The search term “non-profit organizations” itself gets 38,800,000 hits on Google. So it’s [...]
May 19, 2011
YesKidzCan!
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Here at BT, we know a good thing when we see it. And YesKidzCan! is definitely a good thing. This organization supports social entrepreneurism and [...]
May 10, 2011
Building Communities
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Last summer, Natalie Sutton founded a chapter of Building Tomorrow at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and in one year, raised nearly $36,000 with [...]
April 27, 2011
Construction at Kyeitabya
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The ring beam was recently cast at on the 1st classroom block at the BT Academy of Kyeitabya and the 2nd classroom block is beginning [...]
filed under: Photos — Tags: academies, construction, kyeitabya, notre dame, uganda — admin @ 9:20 am
April 18, 2011
The Road Ahead
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Over the last 24 hours, the Building Tomorrow staff have received a number of e-mails, text messages and phone calls wondering what we think of [...]
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April 6, 2011
Plan B
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One of the many things we’ve learned over time at Building Tomorrow is the importance of Plan B (and C, D, E, F, etc.). In [...]
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Awesome event signage
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Check out this awesome signage put up by the Building Tomorrow chapter at Davidson College for their annual “How far would you walk for an [...]
April 5, 2011
Place a brick.
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(The following is a poem written by one of our supporters, Fernanda Cámara. We hope you like it as much as we do!)
Place a brick.
Host [...]
March 28, 2011
Getting involved is easier than you think.
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As Building Tomorrow gets bigger and bigger, more people are joining this great cause. One of those many people is I, Tori Blum, the thirteen [...]
March 22, 2011
World Water Day
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Amazzi.
If you’re at a Building Tomorrow site, amazzi is a vital ingredient. Not only must jerrycan after jerrycan be filled of it to mix [...]
March 16, 2011
A mother’s smile
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Nabaseruka Specioza smiles at the opening ceremony of the Building Tomorrow Academy of Sentigi, the school she and many mothers just like her helped build [...]
March 14, 2011
What does an education cost?
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March 8, 2011
Photo of the week: Gertrude
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Gertrude Nanugga has lived in Gita, Uganda her whole life. She has seven children and eight grandchildren. While she only went to school through P3, [...]
In honor of International Women’s Day…
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Four years ago when our Building Tomorrow country director arrived for his first meeting in a tiny village called Lutisi, he was greeted by a [...]
February 25, 2011
90 Percent.
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For four years we have shared with you some pretty exciting stories—new Building Tomorrow Academies getting built, students raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in [...]
February 22, 2011
Director’s Take: Uganda’s Presidential Elections
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As elections have consumed Uganda over the last few weeks, many supporters and colleagues have inquired as to my thoughts about the elections and who [...]
February 19, 2011
Indianapolis business community pitches in for Ugandan school
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Introducing…the BT Academy of Jomba
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After cutting the ceremonial ribbon to officially declare the new…
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February 8, 2011
video of the week: Updates from Uganda!
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Check out photos & video footage from our latest trip to Uganda! Academies featured: Gita, Jomba, Kyeitabya, Kiyamba, Nakaseeta & Bubeezi! Also hear a few [...]
What can you do with a dollar?
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In 90 seconds, we can make one brick in Uganda.
In time, we’ll make 24,000 bricks.
And 24,000 bricks builds a school;
that empowers a community;
who raises a [...]
January 31, 2011
Your School Costs a Lot More Than the Ones in Uganda
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January 27, 2011
video of the week: Clark Elementary Sits for Good
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“…and even a child can make big changes, too.” Well said, Clark Elementary.
What does an education cost?
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My dad always told me that nothing in life is free. Turns out…he was right.
In 2000, the United Nations declared Universal Primary Education as a [...]
January 18, 2011
Photo of the week: Jomba’s Opening
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January 13, 2011
Six Campus Groups Receive Arthur R. Metz Philanthropic Funds for Student Projects
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January 12, 2011
Video of the week: BT + Bananagrams
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We’re pretty big fans of bananagrams, if you can’t tell. It’s a great brain-break after long days @ the office! What’s your favorite game??
And if [...]
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