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Business of Giving: Bailing Out Our Schools – September 18th, 2009

Right now, everyone is focused on finding the cure for our current economic crisis. Bailouts, recovery plans and billion-dollar loans hopefully will get our economy back on firm footing soon. But we also need to look at the long-term, big picture of what will propel our economy into the future. And I believe that can be accomplished by reinventing the driver of our success: a world-class education.

If you look back at our nation’s history, our wealth was not built solely by great ideas. Rather, it also came from a very well-educated workforce created by created by world-class public schools. Children of immigrants who arrived on our shores 100 years ago received an education that lifted them from poverty to the working class and beyond. That influx of new workers built factories and invented and perfected new technologies. Workers on the assembly line could earn a comfortable living.

For the past 2 decades, the factory jobs that created prosperous lives for so many across much of America have been disappearing. The only way we can uplift the children and grandchildren of the working class and prepare them for a different future is by putting a renewed focus on world-class education.

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C. Warren Moses, CEO

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Children's Aid Society in New York Presents MinyanLand to Promote Importance of Financial Literacy – July 24th, 2009

Photo by Ben Russell

Photo by Ben Russell

We all know the importance of the three Rs in education – “reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic”. But also knowing how to earn, save, spend and give money -financial literacy – seems more important than ever in this era of foreclosures, credit card debt and recession.

Surprisingly few social work schools offer specialized financial literacy in their curricula, as addressing this challenge by offering workshops to struggling families on dealing with banks, credit problems and avoiding potential frauds.

And now, in 2009, New York’s most innovative children’s and family services provider has teamed up with Minyanville Publishing and Multimedia, a leading financial media company, to spread the message of financial literacy for children.

Minyanville has brought its virtual community and game site “MinyanLand” to The Children’s Aid Society’s Frederick Douglass Center in Manhattan. The web site, geared to 8-10 year olds, teaches the importance of earning, saving, spending and giving through interactive games and activities.

The CEO of New York’s Children’s Aid Society, C. Warren Moses, also contributes a bi-weekly column about the “Business of Giving” on the Minyanville website:

“Many families come to the Children’s Aid Society looking for tools to help their children lead richer, more productive lives,” said Moses. “MinyanLand is free and available to anyone who can go online with a computer. The financial literacy tools available…give our children accessibility to knowledge they can use for a lifetime.”

So you might add a fourth R to the schooling list now: “responsibility.” Fiscal responsibility might be the most important R of all - and learning how to use it, via an education in financial literacy, is a lesson that will last a lifetime!

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New York's Children's Aid Society Fights Stress and Generations of Poverty – July 22nd, 2009

cas7-22In the 1850s in New York City, orphan asylums and almshouses were the only “social services” available for homeless children. But Charles Loring Brace, the founder of  The Children’s Aid Society, was determined not to choose between the squalid slums and New York City streets or the orphan asylum. He was convinced that the institutional care of the day stunted and destroyed children, and decided that all children needed families in order to grow into happy and productive adults.

Sociologists have studied and described the constant stress of poverty. By lifting a generation of New York City children out of the stress of poverty, The Children’s Aid Society was lifting future generations from poverty too. The challenge remains today, as reported in a Cornell University Study, and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  The studies found that there is an adverse relationship between poverty and memory, demonstrating that the stress of poverty can affect the way that a child’s brains develops.

Believing that healthcare, education and a wholesome family atmosphere were the keys to brighter futures, The Children Aid Society’s progressive ideas have translated into far-reaching services and reforms for poor and homeless children, working women and needy families. Through the work of The Children’s Aid Society, needy New York City children and families have avoided much of the daily stress and suffering of poverty, and over the last 150 years, generations have been lifted up.

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New York's Children's Aid Society Teens Speak Out-On Education – July 6th, 2009

Fourteen teens from community schools and centers across The Children’s Aid Society
visited City Hall on April 30th

casvistit7-3It was Martin Luther King, Jr. who said “Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.”  Well, intelligence and character were certainly in abundance when local teens from The Children’s Aid Society community centers and schools voiced their opinions, insight and concerns on educational issues at a recent visit to City Hall.

These articulate young men and women participated in an interactive discussion with New York City Deputy Mayor for Education and Community Development, Dennis Walcott, on topics such as municipal government control of the NYC school system, parental involvement, overcrowded classes and gang violence.  It was a win-win exchange of ideas. The students gained an appreciation for the role that government plays vis-à-vis their education, as well as a sense of empowerment in knowing that their collective voice is being heard. The Deputy Mayor was duly impressed by the young people whose educational best interests he, in his official capacity, is entrusted.

This visit to City Hall grew out of the fifth annual Youth Speak Out on Education Conference, held in February 2009 and presented by Children’s Aid and the Audrey Miller Poritzky Education Fund for Children. Students researched, wrote and performed lively presentations on a topic of their choosing – the New York City school environment and academic success. As in years past, Deputy Mayor Walcott attended the Speak Out and invited these motivated teens to City Hall for a more in depth conversation.

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