How CIS is Like Basketball

March 5, 2019
Category: The CIS Model

Did you know the Communities In Schools (CIS) network is working in 2,300 schools in 26 states and the District of Columbia, and serving nearly 1.5 million students using a model called...

Creating Courage

February 26, 2019
Category: General Info

Courage doesn’t just happen. It takes work. Just ask the seventh through twelfth graders throughout Kalamazoo Public Schools who have chosen to participate in MLK Courage to Create. For the...

What Do You Love?

February 12, 2019
Category: General Info

We know you love seeing kids succeed. We do too! What else do you love? We polled a few CIS staff. Here is what they said:  “I love my new...

The Gift of Presence

December 18, 2018
Category: General Info

  “The gift of presence is a rare and beautiful gift. To come – unguarded, undistracted – and be fully present, fully engaged with whoever we are with at that...

Trotting out Thanks

November 20, 2018
Category: General Info

“In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it’s wiser to...

Go vote and then read this post.

November 6, 2018

“Volunteering,” someone once said, “is the ultimate exercise in democracy.” Why? Because when you choose to volunteer, you vote every day about the kind of community you want to live...