Companies for Causes Delivers on First Promise of Support for Literacy Program at Washington, D.C.’s Eastern Senior High School

Students at Washington’s newly-renovated Eastern Senior High School received an early Christmas gift on November 28th with the delivery of almost 1,000 new books for their individual classroom libraries. Before year end, they will receive a second installment of books as well as custom bookshelves for their classrooms. The gift from Companies for Causes was the first step in an effort led by some of the community’s CEOs to help boost students’ literacy skills and turn around Washington’s lagging high school graduation rates. Read more >

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Companies for Causes CEOs decide together which pressing issues to tackle through their collective philanthropy. To launch the CFORC model in the Greater DC region, member CEOs decided to focus their first efforts around improving high school graduation rates. The District of Columbia was selected as a natural place to start, and it quickly became apparent that Eastern High School, in Ward 6, was a perfect public high school to partner with.

Some alarming facts:

• More than 5,000 schools in the United States are chronically failing.
• The District of Columbia is home to 25 high schools; 5 of these are considered among the nation's lowest-performing high schools.
• Why High School Graduation Rates?
• Why Eastern High School?
• Book Wish List
• Press Release

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...to inspire hundreds of great high school students!

We are a group of socially-minded CEOs who know that working together with the public and nonprofit sectors, we CAN fix the social problems of our region--and we WILL!

Our inaugural project will be about education, improving student lives and increasing graduation rates. And all of our work will help our community soar.

Please visit our website, come to one of our meetings, get on our mailing list, give us a call! GET INVOLVED. Target your philanthropy with us and have an impact.