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Communities In Schools of North Carolina (CISNC) announced a $25,000 grant today from GlaxoSmithKline to build awareness of CISNC’s leadership in dropout prevention. GlaxoSmithKline’s support will help CISNC engage with the North Carolina community through social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr) and increase media coverage of its successes. This will allow CISNC to teach its stakeholders and others about the impact that Communities In Schools has on American public education and will help to expand the public’s knowledge of the organization’s statewide impact.

Communities In Schools of North Carolina (CISNC) today announced grants totaling $55,000 from State Farm, SunTrust and Progress Energy to support its work to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. “These partners provide the financial stability for us to leverage other state and federal resources to help support our local programs across North Carolina and continue to expand our network,” said CISNC President and CEO Linda Harrill. “We are grateful for the confidence they place in our return on their investments.”

Communities In Schools of North Carolina (CISNC) announced on March 5 the release of its network data from the 2010-2011 school year in two easily-accessible documents, CISNC’s Quick Facts 2010-2011 and the 2010-2011 Impact Report. Of the 143,615 youth served by the CISNC network during the 2010-2011 school year, 52,195 were at-risk high school students. Last school year, the CIS network in North Carolina kept 98% of its students from dropping out of school. Of CIS high school seniors, 92% graduated. CIS graduates alone will save the state $6,941,000 per year in increased taxes and decreased health, social services and crime and safety costs. “Even though the state’s public high schools were allotted $236 million last year for at-risk student services and the state’s dropout rate (3.43%) was at an all-time low, 15,342 North Carolina high school students left school last year without graduating,” remarked Linda Harrill, President and CEO of CISNC. “More precisely, an average of 83 North Carolina students dropped out every school day during the 2010-2011 academic year. Every time this happens the door to a bright future shuts for that student.”

Communities In Schools of North Carolina (CISNC) today announced the release of its network data from the 2010-2011 school year in two easily-accessible documents, CISNC’s Quick Facts 2010-2011 and the 2010-2011 Impact Report. Of the 143,615 youth served by the Communities In Schools of North Carolina network during the 2010-2011 school year, 52,195 were high school students. • The event dropout rate for those high school students that were followed for their progress in school was just 1.96%. • All CIS students are identified as being at-risk of dropping out of school, hence the reason for their being referred to CIS. • Of all the CIS high school students who did not drop out last year, 305 of them were either students who had decided to leave school or had already dropped out but then chose to give school one more chance. These students entered into one of only five CIS Performance Learning Centers (PLCs) in North Carolina and graduated in the 2010-2011 academic year. • Of our CIS high school seniors, 92% graduated.

This week, from February 19 – 22, Communities In Schools of North Carolina (CISNC) co-sponsored the 24th Annual At-Risk Youth National FORUM, held at the Kingston Plantation in Myrtle Beach, S.C.