Third annual 'America Is Your Park' campaign rallies residents around their community parks to vote to their neighborhood park as “America’s Favorite Park.”
As Ellsworth Park recently got its own Little Free Library, and a the parking lot was repaved at Doctors Park, here's a great opportunity to help your favorite park win up to $100,000 and the prestigious title of “America’s Favorite Park!” All city, state and national parks in the United States are eligible to win. This summer, Coca-Cola is rallying people to cast a “swing vote” for their favorite park candidate. The grand prize? A sweet $100,000, which could go a long way in checking off a few items on the parks' "To Do" list. With the click of a button, park goers can change their communities by voting for their favorite park to win the title of “America’s Favorite Park.” Also at stake is a $100,000 recreation grant made possible by …
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Ellsworth Park
600 E Ellsworth Ln, Bayside, WI
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Doctors Park
1870 E Fox Ln, Fox Point, WI
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$70,000 in support targeted to develop an urge for higher learning in children of poorer families.
It’s a classic American success story: The first child from a poor family ever to attend college. Unfortunately, statistics show that all too often, just getting to college does not equate to success for those young Americans. Compared to their mainstream counterparts, first-generation students from low-income families are four times less likely to continue in college after the first year, and only 11 percent will finish with a degree, according to a 2008 study by The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education. Cardinal Stritch University, already committed to reversing that trend, has received a $70,000 grant from the Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation to support new efforts to spark interest in college…
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Cardinal Stritch University
6801 N Yates Rd, Milwaukee, WI
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