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Free College Money: Where to Find Scholarships

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With the cost of college going through the roof, scholarships are one of the best ways to defray those costs, because they do not have to be repaid. Scholarships are offered by organizations, companies and private donors and they often go…
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How to Help Your Children Be Successful

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As parents we want to help our children be successful, but how to go about it? We all know unemployment is much higher than it used to be a few years ago, and that is harder to find a job. The truth is that there are thousands of jobs…
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Top 10 Reasons Why Latinos Need to go to College

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Latinos need to go to college just like everyone else, for many reasons that I am about to explain. When I was growing up, there was never any question about whether or not I'd be going to college. It was a given. I knew my family expected…
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Celebrate Love Your Body Day

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You've probably done it. Looked through a magazine and wished for a celebrity's clear skin or a model's long legs. You close the latest issue, not inspired by what you learned but defeated by what you are not. And, yet, here's the thing. None…
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Home is Where You "Belong"

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Today, I want to explain how and why it is that I, once strictly an urban girl with a love of city life, have decided that small towns are better places to raise kids—or at least my kid. Even though you are all probably familiar with the…
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Mentoring Seeds Sprout

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By the time you read this, I will be back from Kansas City, where I will have given the keynote address at MANA de Kansas City's 30th anniversary celebration. MANA is a national organization for Latinas, based in Washington, D.C., but with…
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Barefoot Books Supplements Income and Promotes Diversity

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Barefoot Books was launched in 1993, by Nancy Traversy and Tessa Strickland. Nancy wanted to stay at home with her first baby. She had a degree in Business and had worked in Design as well. Tessa Strickland had been an editor at Penguin and…
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Paving the Road to Success, One Cookie at a Time

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Aymee Rodriguez-VanDyke was wiped out during the recession. In 2008 she lost all her money to her divorce, her mother died, and despite her best efforts, her personal coaching business didn’t thrive. Born in Miami, Florida, to Cuban immigrants,…
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Take the Million Moms Challenge and Help Other Mothers

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At least one woman will die while pregnant or during childbirth in the time that it will take you to read this story. And many more children—one every 20 seconds—will die of a vaccine-preventable disease. Read Related: Our Online Family:…