 Anyone who has the free State Farm Neighborhood Assist Facebook
application can vote until April 22 for the NH-M Technology Project
to help bring $25,000 to New Holland-Middletown. To vote for NH-M
Technology Project, go to
https://apps.facebook.com/
sf_neighbor_assist/. Anyone voting is
allowed up to 10 votes per day.NH-M Community Supports Education
is committed to raising $80,000 to purchase a combination of laptops
and tablets plus infrastructure and software to help build skill
sets in the NH-M District 88 K-8 students. The grant money, along
with what the committee has raised so far, would move the total to
two-thirds of the project funding.
In addition, the NH-M Community Supports Education committee will
host Running with the Mustangs on April 13. The event includes a 5K,
Kid's Run, Phyllis Blaum memorial, food, 50-50, raffles and a live
auction. For details, see publicity links at the end of this
article.
Three thousand submissions were received through State Farm
Neighborhood Assist, a youth-led philanthropic program that empowers
communities to identify issues in their neighborhood. At least one
cause was received from every eligible state, district and province
in the United States and Canada. Then, the State Farm Youth Advisory
Board, a diverse group of 30 students who are passionate about
social responsibility, reviewed the submissions and selected 200
finalists based on criteria they created.
Once the Youth Advisory Board selected the top 200, the program
connected each cause with a local nonprofit that can help solve the
problem. Forty-three states and Canadian provinces have causes in
the top 200.
On April 29, the top 40 vote-receiving causes will be announced
on the Facebook app and a $25,000 grant will be awarded to the
affiliated nonprofits.
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to providing auto insurance quotes, their 17,800 agents and more
than 65,000 employees serve 81 million policies and accounts -- more
than 79 million auto, home, life and health policies in the United
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companies. State Farm is ranked No. 43 on the Fortune 500 list of
largest companies. For more information, visit
http://www.statefarm.com/,
or in Canada visit
http://www.statefarm.ca.
The State Farm Youth Advisory Board is comprised of 30 students,
ages 17-20, from across the United States and Canada who serve a
two-year term. They are a diverse group of full-time students at
high schools and universities. Each member commits about 15 hours a
month to the board and participates in three face-to-face meetings
per calendar year. Their directive is to implement a $5
million-a-year signature service-learning initiative to address
issues important to youth and communities. The board is completely
autonomous and youth-driven, and it funds projects focused on
board-selected issues that affect youth. The board will fund the 40
grants awarded through the State Farm Neighborhood Assist program
with a portion of its $5 million funding in 2013. For more
information on the Youth Advisory Board, visit
www.statefarmyab.com.
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Family Fun
Day publicity
5K publicity
[Text from
State Farm Neighborhood Assist news release received from Karen
Davison] |
