Young Scholars Program
Qualified CPS 6th graders with a GPA of 3.0, whose parents haven't completed a Bachelor's degree may be eligible for the Young Scholars Program. Applications are due March 17th. For more information on the program, go to http://oma.osu.edu/ysp/main.html or call Jack Henderson the program coordinator at (513) 363-7697.

Clothes in Abundance
We wrote a while back about Hamilton County Community Action Agency receiving a large donation of 10,000 pieces of sportswear. Here are some of the CincyAfterSchool youth from South Avondale enjoying their new clothes. Thanks so much to CAA and their generous donor.

What can $5 do?
CincyAfterSchool Director, Rochelle Morton, gave $5 to each CAS site coordinator and asked them to: "Make a difference in the life of a child." Nathan Griffin at Riverview East spent the weekend, thinking, off and on, "What am I going to do with five dollars?" Most lunches he spends in the cafeteria to "take the temperature" of the kids. Monday the temperature was turned to "crazy - like a mosh pit." Nathan usually sits at a table with a few kids in his program. "We have the most interesting conversations. I know all the in-school gossip." On this particular day, he noticed that a few of his students didn't have snacks. No one came out and said it, but I could tell that money was an issue. Snacks mean everything at lunchtime. Usually, he only has a debit card and keys. On this particular day, he had 5 dollars. "I treated the entire table. "It was a bonding moment with some of the kids in my program. It was a moment I won't forget. Who says five dollars isn't a lot of money?"