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What Do Kids Love?
February 13, 2018
Category: General Info
This time last year we polled a few CIS partners, volunteers, and staff to find out what they love. This year, we posed this same question to students, from kindergarten...
Blog Tag: CIS
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Robin Greymountain: A Passion for Making Things Work In Schools (and on ships!)
January 30, 2018
Category: Pop Quiz
Welcome back to the POP QUIZ! This is a regular, yet totally unexpected, feature where we ask students, parents, staff, our friends, and partners to answer a few questions about...
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John Oliver: Listening to that still, small voice
January 23, 2018
Category: Uncategorized
Welcome back to the POP QUIZ! This is a regular, yet totally unexpected, feature where we ask students, parents, staff, our friends, and partners to answer a few questions about...
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April Rocco: Striking The Right Balance in Teaching & Life
January 9, 2018
Category: Pop Quiz
School is back and so is the POP QUIZ! This is a regular, yet totally unexpected, feature where we ask students, parents, staff, our friends, and partners to answer a...
Pop Quiz: Dr. Jim Zhu
December 12, 2017
Category: Volunteers
Welcome back to the POP QUIZ! This is a regular, yet totally unexpected, feature where we ask students, parents, staff, our friends, and partners to answer a few questions about...
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Dropping In
November 28, 2017
Category: ProgramsVolunteers
“I’m here for the first time and I’m here to work. I want to get my C up to a B in math.” “I’m here because my mom thinks that...
In This Season of Thanks and Giving
November 21, 2017
Category: General Info
As I busy myself with upcoming preparations, like menu planning and making out a grocery list, and debating if it would be best to shred or slice zucchini for a...
Mike Stoddard: People Focused
November 14, 2017
Category: Pop Quiz
We recently met up with Mike Stoddard at BASIC, where he is chief operating officer of the human resources consulting company that has been named to Inc. magazine’s list of...
Millie’s Mittens
November 7, 2017
Category: Volunteers
There is always a good reason not to give. We don’t have enough time or money or time. We think somebody else will step up or do a better job...
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...