Articles in the Charity Category
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FAP889: Free Christmas Gifts, Financial Aid Roundup
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Financial Aid Roundup
MASFAA conference roundup parts 1 and 2.
Did you get our new FAFSA eBook?
Philadelphia loses a major scholarship.
Sunday Evening Financial Aid!
Scholarship Update
City of Philadelphia scholarships directory.
Eye on the Economy
+ How to save more money with a savings challenge
Jobcast
Internships note
Rant
+ Saving vs. investing
Free Stuff Friday
+ Free reusable grocery bag
+ TiVo cookie cutter
+ Lipstock free lip cream conditioner, which consists of watermelon seed oil, organic avocado oil and organic shea butter
+ Free Dr. Dobbs magazine
+ Betty Crocker 2009 calendar
+ …
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As we celebrate Thanksgiving this year, please consider this super-easy leftovers tip: whatever you don’t need, whatever’s extra, please donate to a local food pantry, soup kitchen, or homeless shelter. Even just an extra can of cranberry sauce or can of coffee makes a difference, and it’s so easy to do.
Don’t know where the nearest one is? Use this Google Maps query. Go to maps.google.com and type:
food pantry near your town, your state / zip code
Example:
food pantry near 02169
food pantry near Quincy, MA
You might want to call ahead and ask …
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Over dinner with Professor Mark Frydenberg of Bentley University, the topic came up about how new media could be used as part of a senior project. Here’s an idea I’d love to throw out to other college seniors and students to see what you think. We know new media is powerful. You have unparalleled access to some of the smartest people in the world, some of the most well connected. At the same time, as a college senior, you’re looking to do something to make your mark on the world …
Charity, Free Stuff, Music, Podsafe Music, Scholarship Update »
FAP867: First Marblehead, Bloomberg, Free Stuff, Becca Loebe
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Student Financial Aid News
+ Quick note that next Friday will be the last daily show, then we move to weekly
+ NASFAA: “First Marblehead Corp., (ticker: FMD) which packages student loans for sale to investors, said Thursday the volume of loans it had available for that activity dropped 66 percent in the fiscal fourth quarter,” the Associated Press reports. “The troubles have sent First Marblehead’s shares plunging from around $40 last fall. In April an organization called The …
Charity, Podcast, Private student loans, Scholarship Update »
FAP856: MEFA Rescue in the Works, Volunteering Jobcast
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Student Financial Aid News
+ Boston Globe: MEFA rescue plan? Governor Deval Patrick has asked the state pension fund to invest $50 million and will ask Harvard University and other local colleges to invest millions more to provide student loans to thousands of families struggling to pay college tuition bills that are due in the coming weeks.
+ Patrick’s 11th hour proposal, floated among key officials yesterday, would prop up the troubled 26-year-old
, which announced last week that …
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Economic stimulus checks are rolling out beginning today across America. Over $150 billion will be distributed to American citizens. Every advertiser and company in America is rolling out a campaign to get you to spend your stimulus check with them, so I figured I’d throw my hat in the ring.
Each stimulus check more or less works out to $600 per working adult plus $300 per dependent child under 17. There are some variations, but that’s more or less the standard formula.
How should you spend your check?
Pay down some debt if …
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FAP762: Free iced coffee at Dunkin Donuts, federal student loans
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Student Financial Aid News
+ Chronicle: Several financial companies that have formed partnerships with colleges in the “school as lender” program are cutting or terminating the scholarship payments they make to colleges, dealing another severe blow to a program already facing the possibility of elimination by Congress.
+ A number of lenders, including Sallie Mae, Nelnet, Citibank, and Student Loan Xpress, have notified their partner colleges in recent weeks about the reductions or terminations. Others, such as …
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Jeff Hinz started this idea and I love it, so we’re going to run with it. We’re going to have an NCAA Men’s Basketball 2008 March Madness Charity Pool.
The suggested bet is US$25 into the pool. Bets close before the 3rd round.
How to enter: post a comment on this blog post with:
Your name
Your bet
Who will win it all
What the winner’s final score will be (tie breaker)
Example:
Christopher Penn
$25
North Carolina
101 points
Alternately, you can copy and paste a link to a photo of your brackets, as I’ve done with Flickr, into the comments. …
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FAP639: Leukemia walk, default rates, social network job search, Natives of the New Dawn
Student Financial Aid News
+ Inside Higher Ed: UC Berkeley starting to offer course lectures on YouTube
+ Chronicle: The U.S. Department of Education has announced plans to end a program that its supporters say has helped drive down the default rates on student loans.
+ Under the program, the department reimburses a select group of guarantee agencies on the basis of their success in averting defaults, rather than on the basis of their collections on defaults. Congress created the …
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After the shootings on April 16, 2007, I watched as communities formed and reformed in the aftermath of the tragedy in Blacksburg. One of the most impressive and touching efforts was the For Today We Are All Hokies A Cappella tribute CD, put together by college a cappella groups across the Commonwealth of Virginia. It’s a damn good CD – all of the groups are professional quality, and the CD is a worthy buy. Two disc set for $20, proceeds go to the Hokie Memorial Fund.
For Today We Are All …
