With nearly half of all college students dropping out over unpaid debts of as little as $1000, PIPs Education Fund is meeting the urgency of the moment with an innovative, tech-enabled, action-study pathway that helps low-income students overcome barriers to equity in education while learning the power of individual action and community engagement.

What Possible Difference Could It Make, Vol.5: Recycling

I know what you are going to say. We’ve known for decades “what difference recycling can make,” so why is it still so darn hard?  Yes, we know, recycling is good for the planet, and yes, it also is good for the economy. In a single year, according to the Recycling Economic Information (REI) Report,

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What Possible Difference Could It Make, Vol.5: Recycling

PIPs for School Scholar: Lutfia C.

Lutfia C. is working toward her PhD in public health at the University at Buffalo. She was born in Bangladesh but now lives in Buffalo with her mom and  brother. She wants to pursue a career as an environmental  health educator.  That may explain why, as a PIPs for School Scholar, she found refilling one’s

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PIPs for School Scholar: Lutfia C.

What Possible Difference Could It Make, Vol. 4: Reusable Water Bottles

Yuck is all I can say. According to our friends at Beyond Plastic, “We are all ingesting roughly a credit card worth (5 grams) of plastics each week.” A recent study found microplastics, which research has shown “act as endocrine-disrupting chemicals,” are contained in a stunning 93% of the globally-sourced bottled waters they tested, at twice the levels

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PIPs for School Scholar: Daneyda G.

Daneyda (Danny) is passionate about school, her mom, and helping others. “Mostly it’s my mother,” she explains. “Because thanks to her I have this great opportunity to be in this place right now and to be studying,” something she acknowledges her mother wasn’t able to do in her home country. Danny talked recently with Tamera

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PIPs for School Scholar: Daneyda G.

The Power of PIPs

BY THE NUMBERS

PIPs’ unique platform is prompting engagement in beneficial actions and helping students persist in school. To date:

$ 147K

in Grants Awarded

325

Scholars

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417 tons

Carbon Saved

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