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Help a local help three worthy groups

Kristen Caperila, local independent education consultant for Usborne Books, is helping raise money for three local groups:
  • Stepping Stone Education Center - Preparing pre-schoolers for life...One step at a time! Click on Fundraising and shop the Usborne link to help them earn 15% on all sales.
  • Buried With Dignity - This incredible organization's goal is to provide memorial stones for children in the Greater Philadelphia area whose families cannot afford them, so every child can be "buried with dignity". Visit their website and look for the Usborne Books link at the bottom of the home page, 10% of all sales placed through that link go to this wonderful organization. While visiting their site you can also make a donation directly to BWD!
  • Renaissance Academy Charter School - Click here to help the Renaissance Academy's Family School Organization. 15% of all sales will go to the FSO.
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Anonymous said…
I just wanted to say that this blog is one of the few decent ones as it pertains to Phoenixville. No whinning or crying like Buckwalter and Johns, just useful facts.

Keep up the good work.
2/18/10, 3:44 PM
JW said…
Thanks for reading!
2/18/10, 3:45 PM
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