500,000 CHILDREN ARE IN THE US FOSTER CARE SYSTEM
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134,000 OF THOSE CHILDREN ARE AVAILABLE TO BE ADOPTED
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50% ENTER BEFORE THE AGE OF 5
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DUE TO MULTIPLE PLACEMENTS AND SCHOOLS 30% OF FOSTER YOUTH FUNCTION
BELOW GRADE LEVEL
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Bruce Wilis, Actor, Producer, National Spokesman for Children in Foster Care
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Paul Singer, CIO of Target
When Target first opened in 1962, it made a strong commitment to support and empower the communities its stores serve. Target follows up that commitment by giving back over $2 million each week to neighborhoods, programs and schools across the country. Target offers store-based grants that support projects promoting early childhood education, the arts and family violence prevention. Why? Because there is no better place to see a masterpiece than reflected in the eyes of a child; there is no greater return on investment than seeing a child excel; and because a happy home encourages a child to dream and achieve.
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Antwone Fisher, Writer and former foster youth
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Hollywood Cinema Production Resources ("Hollywood CPR") is inspired by the value of arts as a form of empowerment and a way to help disadvantaged youth who are challenged by traditional paths of learning and life. Hollywood CPR offers free vocational training in the trades and skills required for careers in the art departments of the entertainment industry to at-risk, disadvantaged, and underserved or minority youth aged fifteen to twenty-five. It also offers exposure to the operation of a professionally operated non-profit "prop house", which helps fund the program.
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The Convex Group, Inc. is a media and entertainment company that acquires and integrates unique assets to create new media networks. The Atlanta-based company owns or controls proprietary distribution and content platforms including the "HowStuffWorks" franchise and the exclusive rights to "in-lid" CD-ROM distribution, which it operates through the LidRock division.
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The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to raising awareness about the tens of thousands of foster children in this country and the millions of orphans around the world in need of permanent, safe, and loving homes; and to eliminating the barriers that hinder these children from realizing their basic need of a family.
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