(HerArtSheLoves)Community is defined as a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. For one Michigan city that characteristic would be generosity, as in the $50 million anonymous donors have spent to send the town’s high school graduates to college. Finding the funds to pay for increasing tuition costs, wading through financial aid paperwork and being stuck with mountains of school loan debt aren’t things recent graduates in Kalamazoo, MI, have to worry about thanks to a program that takes aims to give each student the shot at getting a college education, NPR reports. Since being launched by anonymous donors in 2005, the Kalamazoo Promise has spent about $50 million assisting more than 3,000 student pay for college. The program aims to pay the tuition for most students who graduate from the district’s high schools who wish to attend any of Michigan’s public universities or community colleges. One benefactor of the program, who recently graduated from Michigan State University, says that Promise lets students know they’re worthy of having an education. “The stipulations for the Promise are not, you have to have a 3.5 GPA and all these extracurricular activities,” she tells NPR.
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Ashlee Kieler, The Consumerist
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