Non Profit Organizations New England

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While you're grilling dogs and burgers this Memorial Day Weekend, we suggest you take a moment to visit Homes For Our Troops, Inc. from Taunton, Massachusetts.  The non profit organization was founded by builder John Gonsalves and is devoted to designing and building homes for returning war veterans with serious disabilities and injuries.  While they've attained considerable success in helping many vets, the needs are, tragically, all too great.  All kinds of help-grant writers, building suppliers, plumbers-is needed.  Click the site and find for a way to help.  

Death With Dignity Vermont is a not-for-profit political action organization in Shelburne.  The group, founded and operated by former and current medical professionals and others, has a bill before the State Legislature that is based on Oregon Death with Dignity Act.  The group's goals, and that of the proposed law, would achieve the following:

- Guarantee that all adult Vermonters have legal end-of-life choices
- Assure that mentally-competent persons who are terminally ill have the right  to  choose the manner and timing of death
- Avoid the pain of unwanted tubes and machines that merely prolong the dying process

Serving All New England

Regardless on what you think about the war in Iraq, we suggest you visit Homes For Our Troops, Inc. from Taunton, Massachusetts.  The non profit organization was founded by builder John Gonsalves and is devoted to designing and building homes for returning war veterans with serious disabilities and injuries.  While they've attained considerable success in helping many vets, the needs are, tragically, all too great.  All kinds of help-grant writers, building suppliers, plumbers-is needed.  Click the site and find for a way to help.  

With the motto of Philanthropy made simple  Giving New England (GNE) works to identify and promote opportunities for organized philanthropy throughout the New England region. Concentrating on Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire, they look to encourage what's called engagement giving among a wide variety of donor groups.  The site offers information on donation opportunities, examples of what has be done and professional consultation.

Earth Share is a collaboration of environmental and conservation organizations that works on environmental education and in support of member charitable by giving through workplace campaigns. The national organization is based in Washington DC, but local employers in our region can learn more about providing environmental giving opportunities for employees by contacting Earth Share of New England. 

The Yankee District of the American Rose Society is actually composed of ten societies in all six New England states and in farther north in Quebec, Canada. A non profit organization that was founded in 1940, the Society works with local chapters, other national districts and the national organization to promote the proper growing of all kinds of roses in New England.  Obviously this is a good place to learn about roses and to pick up words of wisdom on dealing with what can be at times, some thorny issues.  

The New England Organ Bank is the oldest independent organ bank in the country, serving as the federally-designated organ procurement organization for all or part of the six New England states and interestingly enough, for Bermuda as well.  

A  not-for-profit agency, their mission is to recover, preserve, and distribute organs and tissues for transplant through its nine offices located in the region.  Donation coordinators are available 24/7 to respond to potential donors and their staff provides family counseling, tissue typing tests for compatibility and works with over 170 acute care hospitals to maximize donations.  The site includes a search program, information on becoming a donor and wonderful pictures of people who are alive today because of others.

Creative Capital is not located in New England but this innovative and important foundation supports the Arts community here and elsewhere in the country.  This well established,  non profit foundation invites all artists to apply for a supporting grant, most of which are targeted at innovative work that may not attract traditional funding. 

Opportunity NOCs is a job listing service for New England's nonprofit employers and a wonderful resource to find a job in the region's non profit sector.  The service publishes a biweekly newsletter, distributed to more than 4,000 organizations and individuals, which is reproduced at the site about a week after publication.  Many job postings have active web or email links. 

Angel Flight New England is a nonprofit serving New England with free flights for patients and moving donations of blood, organs and tissue to where they are needed quickly.  

The New England Small Farm Institute, is a non-profit that supports farmers and sustainable agriculture. 

The Executive Service Corps of New England is a regional, non-profit in Boston that assists other non profit organizations in achieving their goals. 

The Community Research Initiative of New England is a non profit created by people with HIV, physicians and health care providers.  It promotes the study of HIV and related therapies, seeks to make treatments and access available to affected people and provides education and outreach programs. 

Alaskan Malamute Rescue Of New England, a volunteer organization dedicated to finding new homes for homeless malamutes.

The New England Center for Children  is one of the nation's leading, non profit centers for working with children with autism and other disabilities.   Keyed to their efforts education and individual treatment.

Serbian-American Alliance of New England are joined by other former Yugoslavs who are concerned about the human rights and their former homeland.  One could say they represent an additional American voice on the historic conflict in the Balkan region and this nation's role there.  The site also offers insight and information on Serbian cultural activities in the region.

New England Non Profits, listed by state 

Connecticut

Since 1906 the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education has been the collective voice for the more than 1,300 locally elected school board members throughout Connecticut. Headquartered in Wethersfield, CABE is a non-profit organization whose mission is both distinct and privileged: to help board members in the ever-expanding role they are asked to perform for their communities.

We've seen the products on store shelves and even an exacting gourmet will give begrudging praise to their quality, but all that salad dressing handsomely presented by the cherry guy with the blue specks has reaped over a hundred and twenty five million dollars for charity.  Newman's Own in Westport, Connecticut has worked in supporting the arts, affordable housing, programs for children and the elderly, environment causes and hunger relief among other causes for the common good.  The site includes product listings, information on making a grant application, links to partnering organizations and, not surprisingly, items of apparel that can make a grand fashion statement.  

The company has also aggressively entered organic foods market with Newman's Own Organic Products.

Port 5 of National Association of Naval Veterans (NANV) has a fine facility in Bridgeport, Connecticut that their over 500 members use year round.  With a history that goes back to just after the Civil War, Port 5 is the last active NANV chapter in the United States.  Membership is open to active duty and retired veterans the Navy, Coast Guard and Marines as well as other military branches.   The site included pictures of recent events and an interesting history of the NANV and the Port 5.

Since 1906 the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education has been the collective voice for the more than 1,300 locally elected school board members throughout Connecticut. Headquartered in Wethersfield, CABE is a non-profit organization whose mission is both distinct and privileged: to help board members in the ever-expanding role they are asked to perform for their communities.

Positive Solutions, Inc. is a new site from a non profit in Middletown, CT.  Formed in 1998, they work to create employment opportunities for people living with HIV/AIDS.  Based on a successful program in Kent, Ohio they provide employment training and seek to pool local resources for profitable and productive enterprises.  Their goal is to have business ownership and management in the hands of persons affected by the HIV virus.  They also operate a referral service for persons ready to enter or re-enter the local workforce.   Also linked at the site is Plethora, a bartering page for trading goods and services. 

Infoline 2-1-1 is an innovative service for people in Connecticut who need help.

Maine

The Maine Songwriters Association is a non-profit dedicated to the helping that peculiar breed of creative types  who transfer their energies to combinations of music and words.  Working with songwriters to hone and promote their craft, they also seek to educate the general public, in Maine and elsewhere, about the wonderful gifts that songs and singing are to the heart and mind. 

Maine Council on Economic Education runs an interesting program call Maine Stock Market Simulation.  The idea is for students, teachers and other adults to operate-and in buy, sell or hold-a stock portfolio and learn the skills of risk management.  There is a small fee to participate but no actual funds are invested so budding stock manager reap neither the gains or experience the lost associated with stock transactions.  This is just one of many programs that the private, non-profit group conducts in Maine, for teachers and student in grades K-12.  An affiliate of the National Council on Economic Education, the site is well worth a visit, even if one is not a fan of the games played on the fields of Wall Street.

Golden Retriever Rescue of Maine is a non-profit dedicated to helping displaced purebred Golden Retrievers.  Since 1993 they've provided rescue services for this wonderful animal as a state-wide effort.  The site includes an adoption application and offers note cards with wonderful pictures.

Friends of the Doubling Point Light The lighthouse was built in 1898 on Arrowsic Island in Maine, this non profit works to preserve the lighthouse and part of the state's history.

Friends of Acadia, The National Park in Maine gets well deserved aid, of all kinds, from this non-profit organization.

United Way of Greater Portland Portland, Maine 

United Way of York County, Kennebunk Maine

United Way of the Greater Seacoast serving Rockingham County, Strafford County and Kittery and Eliot, Maine. 

Massachusetts

Founded in 1983, AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts is a not-for-profit, community-based health organization whose mission is to stop the HIV/AIDS epidemic by preventing new infections and optimizing the health of those already infected.  Through a cooperative and mutually supportive effort between over 70 staff and hundreds of volunteers, AIDS Action seeks to assist and constructively work with people of all cultures by providing services, education, advocacy and prevention.

AIDS Action accomplishes that mission by providing support services for people living with AIDS and HIV; educating the public and health professionals about how to prevent HIV transmission; and advocating for fair and effective AIDS policy at the city, state and federal levels.   AIDS Action provides free, confidential services to 2,500 men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS.

The Boston Women's Fund supports community-based organizations run by women and girls in the Greater Boston area. The organization places emphasis on working with low-income women, women of color, lesbians, women with disabilities, older women and girls who are striving to create a society based on racial, social and economic justice.

Thomas Austin Yawkey was born 21 February 1903 in Detroit, Michigan,  but as all Red Sox fans know, his claim to fame came from the City of Boston and his family ownership of the team.  The Yawkey Family Foundations received a huge infusion from the recent sale of the Red Sox supporting conservation, education, social services, health care, arts and culture, amateur sports and residents of Boston's in the inner city. The Foundations have helped support the Jimmy Fund, Rosie's Place, Massachusetts General Hospital, the United Way, the Pine Street Inn, the Greater Boston Food Bank, the Boys and Girls Club, and many other important groups.

The Rock & Roll Library (RRL) was launched on the Internet in June of 1999 as a is a non-profit organization working to promote the use of popular music in education.  To do this the library is in the process of building what they expect to be the world's largest music information archive, available for free on the Internet.  document, preserve and archive the lyrics of 20th Century songs  with accurate documentation on the composer, the recording artist and the song's social significance.  Headquartered in Boston, the site includes an event listing, message boards, tools for teachers and membership information.

Headquartered in Boston, The Third Sector New England promotes active democracy - the inclusion and participation of people in decisions that affect their lives.  A resource center for building knowledge, power and effectiveness for the non profits in the region, they provide education, direct services, partnership programs and field building services to other nonprofits.

CLASS Inc. (Citizens League for Adult Special Services) is a non profit headquartered in Lawrence, Massachusetts that seeks to empower people with disabilities to become full and active members of their community.  Serving the communities and people of Lawrence, Andover, North Andover and Methuen they provide job training and placement, on site production work, day habilitation, occupational therapy, communication skills enhancement, assertive technology assessment and equipment installation, transportation and case management. 

This attractive site includes contact information, ways to help and some wonderful photographs of joyous people helping, learning and being helped.

Headquartered in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, The Wiccan Educational Society is a non-profit organization that serves as a Wiccan educational network. The goal of WES is to provide a safe, supportive, and structured environment for eclectic Wiccans interested in developing their spiritual path through education, open rituals, gatherings, workshops, and the formation of a sacred community

From Foxboro, Massachusetts comes two sites that have a football connection, but only incidentally so.

New England Village is a community in Pembroke, Massachusetts for adults with mental retardation and it is a special place.  Operated as a non profit, the village was founded by five couples in 1972 who recognized that the special needs of their children would continue as they became adults.  Their vision has grown into a thriving center that provided supportive and enriching life experiences for residents and their families.  They also operate a vocational center in Hanson, MA, for light manufacturing and education programs.

The Parenting With Dignity™ was started in 1996 by Mac and Barbara Bledsoe with a simple commitment to improving the lives and futures of America's children by instilling positive concepts with parents.   Their innovative approach to parenting is available to anyone in a video series, in a regular newsletter and online at the web site.  The site includes details of the curriculum on parenting skills, how to order the video series and information on sponsoring a local "Parenting With Dignity" program.  There is also a linked headline service on the issues pertaining to parenting and children in the news. 

The Bledsoe's are candid in thanking their son Drew and the support they've received from the Drew Bledsoe Foundation.  The foundation's site offers additional information on helping Parenting With Dignity, news, an Internet access service-with a filtering option-and the latest on the annual Drew Bledsoe Celebrity Shootout-a golfing day to benefit the parenting program.

The Union of Concerned Scientists is often in the news because it provides a counter balance to often "spoon fed" scientific data that can be slanted for political or economic reasons.  The nonprofit is headquarter in Cambridge, Massachusetts but its membership, composed of scientists and non specialists, is truly global.  Without the benefit glamorous Madison Avenue hype, the union provides candid scientific analysis to present day issues and seeks to promote workable and practical solutions, most notably in the study of the earth's environment.  The site is highly informative and while it provides substantial details to buttress its conclusions, it does so in an attractive and easy to use format.  

Headquartered in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, The Wiccan Educational Society is a non-profit organization that serves as a Wiccan educational network. The goal of WES is to provide a safe, supportive, and structured environment for eclectic Wiccans interested in developing their spiritual path through education, open rituals, gatherings, workshops, and the formation of a sacred community

The New England Haven for Animals is headquartered in  Boston and provides opportunities to adopt animals or support shelters and care centers in New England.  

Serve New England is a community-based, volunteer service organization that provides low-cost, quality food to New Englander who perform two hours of community service.  Headquartered in Canton, MA, they work with farmers, food suppliers and scores of local food banks to help thousands of New England families every day.   Their site includes a listing food packages, prices and links to local supporting food banks and service organizations.  

In Rowe, Massachusetts the Unitarian Universalist Rowe Camp and Conference Center provides an unusual and magical place that has been cherished by the thousands since 1924.  A place for relaxation, education, community, spiritual nurturance and love, during the summer they run a series of inspiring programs for teens and adults. In the fall, winter and spring, they host workshops by an exceptional array of teachers and workshop leaders in a small, intimate forum. 

KITE, Keys to Information, Technology, and Education is a new non profit with an ambitious global mission.  It is seeking to open the high tech paths of communication to people far removed from the systems and services we take for granted.  Founded in June, 2000 in Dorchester, Massachusetts they offer computer hardware, open source software, e-mail, translation services, training and assistance in paying for utility and satellite service to Third World community groups.

KITE's founders, Elizabeth Loveland, Connor Durflinger, and Laura Fokkena believe that unlocking information is a key element to meeting the pressing needs of the developing counties.  The organization is working to bridge the technical dived between the those with access to information and those without.   The site includes examples of information that is only available on the Internet, recent success stories, help opportunities and an announcement of their first grant recipient; the Lungujja Women's Association-an organization dedicated to helping alleviate poverty among women in Kampala, Uganda.  KITE received tax exempt status- 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization- in February, 2001.

The Witches' League for Public Awareness  was founded in 1986 by the Rev. Laurie Cabot to end the misconceptions about Witches and Witchcraft.  Forming a  "proactive" network from Salem, Massachusetts they offer educational services and up-to-date information on the political and cultural efforts to end all kinds of religious persecution.

New England Biolabs Foundation was founded in 1982 in Beverly, Massachusetts to support grassroots organizations working with the environment, social change, the arts, elementary education, and science. Grants range from $500 to $30,000.  The Foundation  mostly supports proposals from developing countries with an emphasis on assisting community organizations.  In the United States, it limits grant support to the Greater Boston Area.  In 2000 it awarded a total of just over $500,000 in grants with over half going to environmental projects.   The site included application guidelines, contact information, specific grant requirements and goals.

On May 30, 2002 The Wall Street Journal featured The Institute for Healthcare Improvement on Page One.  Founded by a physician in Boston the not-for-profit organization was created to help improve of health care systems, increase their quality and value, lower costs, broadened access and make using America's health care systems more user friendly.   

Yanice Professional Services, Corp in the Worcester, MA area is a non-profit that provides work and life skills training.  This new organization has Spring and Summer classes forming-at low or no cost-in Worcester and Rhode Island.  This site is attractive, if simple, and can be viewed in English or Spanish.  We wish them well.

Project Bread from Boston is dedicated to alleviating and preventing hunger in Massachusetts. 

Worcester County Food Bank, Shrewsbury, MA 

Woburn Council of Social Concern, Woburn, MA

United Way of Greater New Bedford, New Bedford, MA 

Greater Boston Food Bank

United Way of Massachusetts Bay

Hampshire Community United Way, Northampton, MA

New Hampshire

Since 1901, the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests has helped to protect over one million acres of forest land in the state.  Today it has over 10,000 members who work to promote conservation and good land stewardship policies.  The society runs environmental education programs in the state and works with lawmakers to maintain a balance of environmental advocacy with forest management.  

The Women's Fund of New Hampshire is a statewide not-for-profit foundation. The Fund's mission is to expand the resources available to women and girls. The fund provides grants and other support to programs and projects that address the economic, social, psychological, physical, and creative well-being of women and girls in New Hampshire.

Also in New Hampshire the Conway Area Humane Society works to build bonds between humans and animals.  Currently they are planning to construct an animal resource center to shelter and board animals and server as a learning center. 

Stonewall Farm a working New England farm in Keene, NH is a non-profit education center working to promote local agriculture and an understand of natural resources. Open year-round for picnicking, hiking on their Natural History Trail and visiting with farm animals.

In November 2002 the New England Handicapped Sports Association marked its 30th year as non-profit organization run by and for physically disabled persons who participate and compete in sports. Based at Mount Sunapee Resort New Hampshire, the group has an emphasis on winter athletics but is active year round with a wide range of sporting competitions and events.  They offer adaptive ski and snowboard lessons for people of all ages and disabilities and have an extensive inventory of adaptive devices to suit the individual needs of athletes.   

Ferret Services of Freedom is a non profit in Freedom, New Hampshire that has taken on the tasks of rescuing and sheltering domestic ferrets and educating the public about these cute little creatures.   that suffer from poor public relations.   Formed in 1995, the group offers adoption services, ferret boarding, rabies clinics and its members are happy to field questions about the animal.  The site includes the Ferret Maid Store for ferret gear, stained glass images of ferrets for sale and an extensive events listing.  (Ferret folks seem to have a good time all year long.)  

They are always looking from new ferret lovers and you can meet them every Thursday night for cleaning and laundry detail at the shelter on Mudgett Drive in Freedom.

New Hampshire Help Line receives more than 50,000 calls every year from people needing help in the state.  Founded in the early 1970s and expanded later in the decade to offer 24-hour, 365 day a year telephone service, the non profit's trained and certified specialists provide information, referrals, assistance and crisis intervention for anyone in the state.  Among the needs that the service can help answer are heath and dental care, emergency housing, drug and alcohol abuse, senior assistance and domestic violence.  For more information, see the site or call 1-800-852-3388

Global Citizens Circle!, a non profit in New Hampshire, that  fosters constructive change by assembling diverse groups of concerned individuals- from world leaders to local activists- for discussions that stimulates positive actions and that lead to enduring resolutions.

Monadnock United Way, Keene, New Hampshire 

Rhode Island

Rhode Island Workforce Literacy Collaborative tried to improve the state's workforce and literacy services to adults in Rhode Island.   Its work is especially important for workers wanting to improve their reading skills and for employers needing a productive workforce.

Started more than a decade ago, East Coast Greenway Alliance-headquartered in Wakefield, Rhode Island-is working to build a "traffic free" trail from Florida to Maine that will connect great cities, small town and open spaces for 2,600 miles. Each section of the Greenway will be easily identified by signs and guide markers to help the locals discover their community and the more adventurous find out just what is over the next hill.  It will be a corridor for walkers, hikers, nature lovers, cyclists and just regular people wanting to go quietly from A to B by something other that a motorized contraption.   As envisions now, and they are making great progress, over 80 percent of the trail will "off road" although parts will dissect major urban areas.   Someday in the not too distant future, we'll be able to take a hike from Maine and, if we're so inclined, put our toes the Florida's warm sand.  All without one revering up the car.  The site offers a wealth of information on the project, its history and opportunities to help it happen.

The Greenways Alliance of Rhode Island is the Rhode Island Affiliate of the East Coast Greenway Alliance. While the state in the nation's smallest, once its Greenway is completed Rhode Island will contribute more than fifty miles to the East Coast total of 2,600.  The site includes recent events, a progress report, contact information, proposed Greenway trails in the state and ways for other Rhode Islanders to be involved in this exciting project.

Rhode Island Parent Information Network

United Way of Southeastern New England, Providence, RI 

Vermont

Death With Dignity Vermont is a not-for-profit political action organization in Shelburne.  The group, founded and operated by former and current medical professionals and others, has a bill before the State Legislature that is based on Oregon Death with Dignity Act.  The group's goals, and that of the proposed law, would achieve the following:

- Guarantee that all adult Vermonters have legal end-of-life choices
- Assure that mentally-competent persons who are terminally ill have the right  to  choose the manner and timing of death
- Avoid the pain of unwanted tubes and machines that merely prolong the dying process

From Burlington, Vermont Forever Young Treehouses is a  non-profit with a unique mission:  it designs and builds treehouses that everyone can use and enjoy by making "tree living" opportunity an experience all can enjoy regardless of age, physical or mental restraints.    From their mission statement, they want to let everyone see the world differently "and enjoy the freedom and peace that treehouses can provide. In a world where height and size represent strength and power, being "above it all" offers opportunities that generally are not available to everyone.  We are the club that anyone can belong to and everyone can enter!

The Vermont Student Assistance Corp. is a public nonprofit agency to help Vermonters who want to go to college or other training after high school.   They provide grants, loans, scholarships, career and education planning, and general information about affording continuing education.

The Pride Vermont Committee is a non-profit volunteer-based group whose goal is to provide a safe and supportive celebration of our individuality through  increased awareness and visibility in the State of Vermont for all Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning and Allied people within our  communities

The Vermont Center for the Book is a non profit that works to encourage and appreciate the wonders of reading.  Since 1985 they have helped to form communities of readers and to stimulate discussions about books and ideas.  The Center is affiliated with the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, works closely with the Vermont Department of Libraries, the Vermont Department of Education and others with an interest in the written word.

The Vermont Alliance of Non Profit Organizations (VANPO') is  a Public Policy Initiative. Funded through Independent Sector and the National Council of Nonprofit Associations, with the goal of increasing the capacity of nonprofit organizations in Vermont to advocate on issues of public policy.  The site includes Information for and about the more than 3000 nonprofit organizations that help to preserve and improve the quality of life and living for all Vermonter.

Make a Wish Foundation of Vermont was founded in 1989 to grant special wishes to children in the state with serious, life threatening medical conditions.  Each wish, there were 27 in 2000, costs the non profit an average of $ 5,000 and they hope to fulfill 40 wishes this year.  Funding comes from businesses, corporations, the people of Vermont-they do not solicit by phone or door-to-door and special events held throughout the state.

Since 1984, Vermont's Camp Ta-Kum-Ta has been a fun place for kids in Vermont who have cancer.  Located in on the shores of Lake Champlain in Colchester, the camp is about kids, families and scores of volunteers coming together for a week of swimming, arts and crafts, music, explorations, cookouts, dances, boat rides and the other fun things that kids are suppose to do during the summer in Vermont.  Accepting all children, tuition-free, the camp survives entirely on donations and fundraising.  Aside from information on support and activities, the site includes wonderful pictures of kids having fun.

Vermont CARES provides services to people living with HIV/AIDS, holds prevention programs for people at risk of HIV/AIDS and are a key link for HIV/AIDS information and community education for ten of the state's fourteen counties.   Headquartered in Burlington, the non profit has outreach offices in Rutland, Montpelier and St. Johnsbury.  In Colchester they maintain the state's only supported housing facility for people living with HIV/AIDS.  Care to help or donate?   See the web site.  

TrueMajority was founded by Ben Cohen, Co-founder of Vermont's Ben and Jerry’s.  A  grassroots education and advocacy project of Priorities, Inc., a non-profit, non-partisan, tax-deductible, 501(c)(3) corporation, they've a yellow Federal Budget Van that is an eye-catcher. 

TrueMajority Principles: 

1. Attack poverty and world hunger as if our life depends on it. It does.
2. Champion the rights of every child, woman & man.
3. End our obstructionism to the world's treaties. 
4. Reduce our dependence on oil and lead the world to an age of renewable energy.
5. Close the book on the Cold War and end the nuclear nightmare forever.
6. Renounce Star Wars and the militarization of space. 
7. Make globalization work for, not against, working people. 
8. Ensure equal treatment under law for all.
9. Get money out of politics. 
10. Close the gap between rich and poor kids at home. 

United Way Chittenden County, Burlington, VT

An interesting concept to halt gun violence among teenagers...

We found out about Coaches Against Gun Violence in the Christian Science Monitor.  An education program by the Alliance for Justice, it consists of dedicating a high school basketball to the goal of ending gun violence in schools and communities.  Already 15 schools in Washington, DC and other cities are participating in the program.  Click the site to learn more.