Greenberg Reaches
Out to the Community
By Dean Woodley (November 29, 2006)
What if I told you that I know someone who is
the founder and leader of a charity with a goal to help poverty-stricken
children in the D.C. area? You
probably wouldn’t think much of it because, after all, there are
many adults out there who want to help out in the community, so
what’s new?
What’s new is that the person to whom I am
referring is in fact a student at our own school. Sara
Greenberg, a senior, is the founder of The Foundation for Youth
at Risk, Inc., a growing and officially recognized non-profit
organization (complete with a Board of Directors and Advisors)
which focuses its fundraising on helping at-risk children in
D.C. “D.C. is a poverty-stricken
area, and it’s very close to us, so I feel like we should help
out,” said Sara.
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The organization will donate all of its profits
to other D.C. charities, such as D.C. SCORES, an organization
with the goal of keeping kids active and off the streets through
soccer and other sports and academic activities, and Sara expects
more charities and organizations to be added to that list as
more funding becomes available. In
order to support donations and other efforts, Sara’s father,
who also helped start the organization, has given her a list
of family friends to whom she has sent brochures informing them
of her efforts. Sara expects this to be the primary source
of funding for the project.
In addition, she says that she is planning to
invite the entire GM community to help in fundraising efforts
events, such as a senior-supported fashion show, which she intends
to stage in a few months. |
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Senior Sara Greenberg is
in the process of setting up a foundation to raise funds for
youth at risk. (Photo by Andy Pribulka)
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