A Statement from CIS National President and CEO Rey Saldaña
“The horrific death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police and resulting wave of protests across the country reminds us of a painful truth about our nation’s past and indeed the current times we live in. At Communities In Schools® (CIS™), the majority of students we serve are children of color and children […]
Group Health Foundation Equitable Response and Recovery Fund: Supporting community capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic
We, Communities In Schools of Benton-Franklin, are proud to have been selected as an Equitable Response and Recovery Fund Grantee along with 75 others. “In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and before its magnitude was known, Group Health Foundation set up a $5 million Equitable Response and Recovery Fund and deployed direct and […]
Amerigroup is All in For Kids!
Amerigroup helps our community members secure healthcare and offers a variety of resources to ensure quality care! Amerigroup has partnered with CISBF to support our Site Coordinator at River’s Edge High School with yearlong programmatic financial & in-kind donations! Thanks to Amerigroup we were able to host a Hidden in Plain Sight event and will […]
STCU is #AllinforKids by Supporting Our Work in Reducing Chronic Absenteeism!
STCU is here for good! STCU is a multi-tiered partner in that they: support us financially, support staff representation our board, support us with in-kind for our schools and partner with our site coordinators to teach our students about finances! Thank you to STCU for supporting us in various ways so we may continue to […]
CISBF Partners with Numerica & KNDU for “Beyond the Classroom” Program!
Numerica and KNDU are teaming up to present “Beyond the Classroom,” a program recognizing, teams of educators and Communities in Schools Benton-Franklin site coordinators who are working to enhance the lives of Richland, Pasco, Kennewick and Prosser students who need it the most. Numerica knows that a student’s ability to be successful is based on […]
Numerica is #AllinforKids granting CIS of Benton-Franklin $20,000!
Numerica Credit Union presented over $450,000 to 26 regional nonprofits in 2019 from the Numerica Charitable Fund. The grant program is funded by Numerica’s Skip a Pay program where members can skip a month of loan payments in lieu of a $30 donation. Communities in Schools Benton-Franklin (CISBF) – #AllInForKids CISBF works to surround students with a community of […]
CISBF awarded $236K by Benton County
$236,156.16 for Communities in Schools All in for Kids Program Communities in Schools of Benton-Franklin (CISBF) seeks to reduce and eventually eliminate gang and other criminal activity for young people in Benton County by targeting at-risk students at six schools that have the highest needs: Aimstad Elementary, Eastgate Elementary, Westgate Elementary, Highlands Middle, Marcus Whitman […]
KNDU Prevention Program Story
Richland Student Overcomes Homelessness, Graduates with Honors
At eighteen years old, Sharon was working five jobs to support herself when she received a call saying that she would have to either attend school or drop out. In a bold move, she decided to quit working and concentrate on school. Sharon entered her senior year of high school with painful memories of homelessness […]
Study Shows $11 Benefit to Community for Every $1 Invested
Posted on May 23, 2012 From Communities In Schools National Communities In Schools,the nation’s leading organization dedicated to empowering students to stay in school and achieve in life, released the results of an economic study, conducted by EMSI, one of the nation’s leading economic modeling firms. The economic model was based on a subset of […]