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Sunday, December 12, 2004
Bright New Futures
Building community. Two words that require compassion, volunteerism and a spirit of enterprise -- the very attributes that characterize what's best about America.
Burien-based New Futures builds community by helping families better meet educational challenges. Program participants live in some of King County's largest low-income apartment complexes.
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Building community means better scores; reading scores have gone up by a grade and a half in just under a school year. And the parents of the children show a similar rise in confidence.
For a quarter-century, Seattle Post-Intelligencer readers have donated generously to the newspaper's annual Readers Care Fund drive, generating more than $5 million for local charities such as New Futures.
Susan Hautala, an associate professor of oceanography at the University of Washington, explains her volunteering: "I am rewarded by my work with New Futures in the heart, not the head."
The heart, not the head, is often the driving instrument in building community.
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