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		<title>Back to School 2010 &#8211; 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Donations Click here for information regarding in-kind donations of supplies and materials. Click here for information regarding monetary donations. Click here for information about how you can purchase Kits for Kids and donate the kits to CPS.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helpcps.org/back-to-school/</link>
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		<title>Meet with representatives from CSU in Ohio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Change Your World. Change Your Future. Change Your Life. Change is Central. If you have not made a decision about attending a university for fall 2010, it&#8217;s not too late. We would like to introduce you to Central State University, Ohio&#8217;s premier public HBCU. Central State University offers its students leading edge programs in urban [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helpcps.org/meet-with-representatives-from-central-state-university/</link>
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		<title>CPS Nights with the Chicago Bulls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again the Chicago Bulls have made discount tickets available to CPS students, faculty, staff, family and friends. Print out the form and fax or mail it to the Bulls. Fax number: 312-455-4191 (If you can&#8217;t open the PDF file, try downloading Adobe Reader) NOTE: The following dates available: February 2nd and 16th Please direct [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helpcps.org/bullstickets/</link>
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		<title>HOK Open House Benefits Hughes Elem.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Global design firm HOK held an Open House to showcase their new offices on March 26. As part of that event, they held a silent auction to benefit Charles Hughes Elementary, raising over $4,500 for the school&#8217;s programs. HOK employees became familiar with the school during a community service project they performed earlier in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helpcps.org/hok/</link>
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		<title>U.S. Cellular Gives $250K to IL Teachers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Cellular funded over 450 classroom projects nationwide as part of its 2009 Calling All Teachers campaign. The company worked with DonorsChoose.org around Teacher Appreciation Week May 4-8 to donate $1.1 million to meet classroom needs. Over $250,000 of the funds went to teachers in Illinois, many of whom hosted U.S. Cellular employee visitors in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helpcps.org/uscellular/</link>
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		<title>Mindovo Donates Computers to Fenger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fenger High School Donation &#8211; Mindovo.org from M I N D O V O on Vimeo. Technology company Mindovo arranged the donation of two truckloads of computers to Fenger High School, located at 11220 South Wallace Street. Carrie Healy, a Family Tree member, organized the drive for the school, which was named for her great-grandfather [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helpcps.org/mindovo/</link>
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		<title>Crane HS Alumni Fund Scholarships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of their 40th reunion activities, the Crane HSÂ Class of &#8217;69 and the Ebert Foundation donated $50,000 in scholarships to the Crane Class of 2009. Crane Alumna Chaz Ebert said, &#8220;We want these students to remember that it&#8217;s important to know where you came from and that they stand on the shoulders of those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helpcps.org/cranescholarships/</link>
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		<title>PepsiCo Rewards Student Ingenuity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In celebration of Black History Month, on Feb. 26th and 27th PepsiCo Chicago awarded the winners of two contests for CPS students: one inviting them to write an essay advising President Obama on education, the environment or the economy, and another challenging them to develop and present a new product or marketing tool. For the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helpcps.org/pepsicocontest/</link>
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		<title>Tickets to Disney on Ice for CPS Students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In January, Feld Entertainment donated 1,000 complimentary passes to Disney on Ice presents Worlds of Fantasy, which played during January and February at the Allstate Arena and the United Center.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helpcps.org/disneyonice/</link>
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		<title>Learning about oral care from Elmo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Volunteers from the American Dental Association Foundation visited 21 Chicago public schools during March and April 2009. ADA employees visited pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and first-grade classrooms and read the pop-up book Ready, Set, Brush!, which features Elmo, Cookie Monster and other Sesame Street characters and teaches proper oral care. Schools visited included Ashburn, Cook, Cuffe, Curtis, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helpcps.org/adafoundation/</link>
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