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Pascale Sykes Foundation Grantee Spotlight

February 2013

Pascale Sykes Foundation Grantee Spotlight

December 2012

Pascale Sykes Foundation Grantee Spotlight

November 2012

The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) helps low-income families with legal problems, such as housing and foreclosure cases, family law, and consumer issues

What is the Legal Services Corporation?

LSC is the single largest funder of civil legal aid for low-income
Americans in the nation. Established in 1974, LSC operates as an
independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation that promotes equal access to justice and provides grants for high-quality civil legal assistance to low-income Americans. LSC distributes more than 90 percent of its total funding to 134 independent nonprofit legal aid programs with more than 900 offices.

Pascale Sykes Foundation Grantee Spotlight

October 2012

Let’s Move! Programs

Visit: http://www.letsmove.gov/

Over the past three decades, childhood obesity rates in America have tripled. Today, almost one in every three children in our nation is obese or overweight. The numbers are even higher in African American and Hispanic communities, where nearly 40% of the children are overweight or obese. If we don’t solve this problem, one third of all children born today will suffer from diabetes at some point in their lives. Many others may face chronic obesity-related health problems like heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer and asthma.

Pascale Sykes Foundation Grantee Spotlight

September 2012

Sports, Arts, Clubs, Volunteering — Out-of-School Activities Play Crucial, Positive Role for Kids

All Work and No Play? But new research points to differences between policy makers’ focus on programs’ educational value and what most families are really seeking; Low-income and minority families much less satisfied with their children’s options When the school bell rings, do America’s middle and high school students turn… Read More