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Toy fund overcomes pandemic challenges to deliver joy to children Curbside toy pickups are among the changes made necessary by challenging times. By Staff Report Share Nonprofits have had to make lots of adjustments during the pandemic, finding new ways to operate safely and struggling to serve their communities at a time of historic needs and limited resources. The Press Herald Toy Fund is no different. An early start to the fundraising campaign, expanded coverage of the effort by the Sun Journal in Lewiston and The Times Record in Brunswick, and the generous spirit of readers who want to contribute in a difficult time are helping the toy fund meet the increased need as families struggle through the economic fallout from the pandemic. ....
Term of art is grit. but having said that let s go to jenna, who has a teacher standing by. we have teachers lined up on both sides of this room. jenna? we i have wendy coleman, who also teaches in philadelphia and sadly she has jasmine beat. she has three counselors for 1,700 students. yeah. i think that poverty is obviously the elephant in the room that we re choosing not to talk about. i think that when kids come to school and they live in violent neighborhoods or they don t have glasses or their parents are trying to figure out how to feed the family i think that makes it difficult for them to be ready to learn and it puts teachers in a very difficult situation where you re trying to help overcome the societal ills while teaching them at the same time. so we need to have resources to go into homes so that parents can make education a priority, so that we can level the playing field for all children. so the message to funders, billionaires foundations, provide wraparound ser ....