There’s a brand new addition to the PoP office that we wanna share with you guys! Three of our awesome high school interns recently had to return to school, but left us with a perfect gift…Our first automatic pencil sharpener!! Customized too!

A perfect gift, indeed. Especially since we have hundreds of unsharpened PoP pencils!

The PoP office has put together another fantastic webisode! This week we cover the one of a kind “S.H.I.N.E” program. Tune in and find more out more about how we’re empowering communities around the world through SHINE and let us know what you think in the comment section!
 

What an exciting honor it is to be featured by AOL! AOL Impact features a daily cause on its homepage and connects people with organizations that are “simply doing amazing things.” Tomorrow, 8/23, the AOL homepage will feature a link to our website under its Daily Impact section:

UPDATE — 8/23/11: The submission deadline has now been extended to Friday, 9/2.  Voting will take place 9/5 – 9/11.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book.
- Ernest Hemingway

 
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

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Education should consist of a series of enchantments, each raising the individual to a higher level of awareness, understanding, and kinship with all living things.

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