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This season,
Get Cozy With CAN
| Education Edition - October 2022 | |
Featured Image: Dion and Nate during After School Program at Bryant Community Center | |
Thanks to a generous donor, CAN is able to match every donation now until the end of 2022, up to $100,000! | |
This means you have the opportunity to DOUBLE your impact! | |
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As the weather is just starting to get a bit chillier, let's break the ice!
Get to know CAN even better by exploring the programs that make up our Education Pillar.
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Our After School Program (what we like to call ASP) is one of the programs that makes CAN, well... CAN!
This year, 162 students participated in ASP. That means 162 students joined us at our 6 community centers for nutritious meals, help completing homework, reading and study time, free-play and exercise, enrichment activities, healthy relationship building, and so much more!
At CAN, we aim to meet our students where they are at. This photo depicts Alora, a 6-year-old CAN student, reading a book, and looking quite cozy! That day, she chose to read independently. But each day, students have the opportunity to participate in academic time in whichever way is best for them! This could be reading as a group, with a partner, or one on one with a mentor to practice their skills!
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With 90 participants, CAN's 2022 Educational Summer Camp, Our Friend, Earth, went off without a hitch and was such a blast - for campers AND staff!
Summer camp offers experiences like healthy relationship development, learning through first-hand experiences, developing a sense of community, and creating magical memories!
At CAN, summer camp is a time for all the above plus healthy meals, mindfulness, exercise, social-emotional development, and more! Our thoughtfully curated themes allow us to create a fun camp experience while building on knowledge and experiences from each week of camp.
Pictured is Khloe, a CAN camper, building her own terrarium in week 2 after learning all about biodiversity in week 1!
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CAN Art & Design was founded in 2015 by Joan Binkow and originally started at just one of our sites! Now, an integral piece of our education programs at ALL of our sites, we couldn't imagine a time without it!
CAN Art & Design lessons are facilitated at least once a week at all of our After School Programs, and every single day during our Educational Summer Camp! During Art & Design, students are encouraged to learn through experimentation. Mentors assist and guide students through each lesson, but each child has the opportunity to explore their own ideas about art, design, and everything in between!
Want to see for yourself what a CAN Art & Design lesson is like?
Try this one at home!
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CAN's Teen Program is getting a makeover!
You might be familiar with our summer program for teens called Youth Works, which gives students ages 14-17 an opportunity to earn money, learn work-readiness skills, and explore career options during the summer. Well, we have been hard at work developing a
year-long teen program!
Harrison Metzler (left), pictured with CAN teen, D'Lorean, has been partnering with teen ASP participants, CAN mentors, and LimeLight, LLC, for the past 6 months to generate ideas and determine what our teens want out of a program designed just for them! Stay tuned for more info on the development of our new teen program!
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Give by mail: PO Box 130076, Ann Arbor, MI 48103 | |
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Do you shop at Kroger?
Do you have a Kroger Plus card?
Take advantage of their Community Rewards program and donate to CAN when you use your Kroger Plus Card! Just login to your Kroger account, under "account summary", scroll down to Community Rewards. Then search for CAN by typing in our
organization number:
SJ915
Once CAN is enrolled, Kroger will donate to Community Action Network every time you use your
Kroger Plus card!
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Buying gift cards this season?
Consider purchasing through www.raiseright.com
A percentage (2%-20%) of each purchase
goes to CAN with our code:
B7JKTSJ298XC
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Doing some holiday shopping on Amazon?
www.smile.amazon.ch/38-2792610
Use this link and Amazon will donate 0.5% of your purchase directly to CAN!
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Community Action Network partners with children, youth, and families from under-resourced Washtenaw County neighborhoods to create better futures for themselves and improve the communities in which they live. | | | | | |
