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Boo!
October 31, 2017
Category: General InfoPartnerships
Did we scare you? No? Well then, here are a few facts about kids in America that are plenty scary. 61,423 children are incarcerated throughout the United States. It is...
Blog Category: General Info
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Storms All Around Us
September 19, 2017
Category: General Info
Lately, it feels as if storms are all around us. Right now, the Kalamazoo community is weathering its own tragedy of the five young people who were killed in the...
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CIS Think Summer! Students Visited by Special Guest
August 15, 2017
Students recently welcomed Congressman Fred Upton to their CIS Think Summer! program at Arcadia Elementary School. Like CIS After School (which serves 750 students in 15 after school sites throughout...
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Welcome, Dr. Montgomery!
August 8, 2017
Category: General InfoPartnerships
Communities In Schools of Kalamazoo welcomes the ninth president of Western Michigan University, Dr. Edward Montgomery, who began his tenure one week ago. Western Michigan University partners with Communities In...
What is the CIS Board Reading in 2017?
July 18, 2017
Category: General Info
We know it’s important for kids to read. But we shouldn’t forget, it’s also important for our 12,000+ kids that they see grownups reading too! What have you been...
Duo Helps Students Succeed Every Day
May 16, 2017
This article was featured in our CIS Connections newsletter, The Double Issue. You can find the full publication here. What happens when you bring a Knight and Giant together? You...
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What’s Staring At You?
April 18, 2017
Category: General Info
It’s poetry month and we couldn’t let it slip by without posting a poem. Poetry isn’t afraid to handle difficult topics. Ignoring, denying, or pretending that something doesn’t exist,...
What Are CIS Partners Reading?
March 28, 2017
Category: General InfoPartnerships
We can’t get enough of what you are reading! And a number of you can’t either! Some of you have even emailed and called and stopped us on the street to...
What Are CIS Staff Reading?
March 21, 2017
Category: General Info
Last week, as part of National Reading Month, we learned what some of our Communities In Schools (CIS) volunteers are reading. (You can click here if you missed the...
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What do you love?
February 14, 2017
Category: General Info
We know you love seeing kids succeed. We do too! What else do you love? We polled a few CIS partners, volunteers, and staff. Here is what they said: ...