VOLUME 3 • NUMBER 1 • MARCH 2008
Elaine Wynn Is New National Board Chairman
On November 3, Elaine Wynn stood before more than 1,100 members of the Communities In Schools family and publicly accepted the position of chairman of the
CIS national board of directors. This announcement at the 2007 CIS National Conference was the latest
stop in a journey that began in 1999 when Wynn first became a national board member...Read More
Dropout-Prevention Program Sees to The Basics of Life
Word was getting around about the new problem solver on campus. So the mother tracked her down one recent day in a makeshift office on the second floor of a Southeast Washington public school. “I don’t know if you are the right person to come to,” the mother said, “but I have this situation. I haven’t eaten in the last day and a half so that my children would have enough to eat.”...Read More
CIS of Georgia Annual Contest Helps Students Reach New Goals
More than 500 K-12 students from schools all
across Georgia competed in the sixth annual
statewide Communities In Schools of Georgia
Student Achievement Month contest. The contest,
exclusively for students served by CIS, runs from
October through January and culminates in a final
awards luncheon held in March...Read More
Governor Tim Kaine and Communities In Schools Welcome a New PLC to Richmond
Virginia Governor Tim Kaine and former Governor/
U.S. Senator George Allen recently joined Communities
In Schools for an open house at the state’s first
CIS Performance Learning Center® (PLC), located on
the campus of the Richmond Technical Center.
More than 70 people, including CIS of Virginia
Founding Director Mark Emblidge and Richmond
City Schools Superintendent Dr. Deborah Jewell-
Sherman, joined students...Read More
Success Made to Order:
A Student Success Story
Angela Wilborn is a 21-year-old food service
management student at Johnson and Wales
University in Rhode Island. She grew up in Texas,
one of four children. At age five and in kindergarten,
she was living with her grandmother and brother.
Her grandmother, faithful in honoring her commitment
to maintain this extended family and ensuring
that her grandchildren stayed out of the foster
care system, was overwhelmed...Read More
Spotlight on Success:
News Briefs from the CIS Network
CIS of Central Texas...CIS of Lee County, North Carolina...CIS of Troup County, Georgia...CIS of the Charleston Area, South Carolina Read More
CIS of Seattle and Subway Promote Healthy Choices
There’s a recipe for school success, and Communities
In Schools has been serving it up for 30 years.
It includes generous portions of adult involvement,
educational opportunity and social support.
It also includes a “safe place” and a “healthy
start” – two of the CIS “Five Basics” that each child
deserves. For the second year in a row, a partnership
between Subway, the Seattle Seahawks and CIS of
Seattle is bringing...Read More
Lunch With A Leader® 2008 Serves Up Celebrities to Keep Kids in School
Communities In Schools held its sixth annual Lunch
With A Leader® online celebrity auction February 8-18.
An impressive array of A-list names in entertainment,
business, sports and journalism donated an hour of
their time that was auctioned on eBay to the highest
bidder. High bidders can look forward to incredible
lunch experiences with the likes of...Read More
In Appreciation
As we approach the six-month anniversary of the publication of CIS founder Bill Milliken’s book, The Last Dropout: Stop the Epidemic!, our deep gratitude goes out to our friends for their generous support of the book. We send special thanks to...Read More
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