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Blue Jean Friday to Benefit Thrive

This Friday, February 3rd, support your thriving community while wearing your best blue jeans to work. Blue Jean Friday is a monthly program that provides a fun, easy way to support local nonprofit organizations. Thrive has been selected as the nonprofit to benefit in February. With management consent, purchase a $2 Blue Jean Friday sticker [...]

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CAP Mentoring Facebook Badge-National Mentoring Month

  As you all may know, January is National Mentoring Month!  Next Wednesday January 11th is “I Am a Mentor” Day and we are asking for your help to raise awareness about the importance of mentoring children in our community! Thrive’s CAP Mentoring program is looking for 40 more mentors to meet the need for [...]

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Special Thanks to Zoot Enterprises for their Support of local Non-Profits!

Zoot, a leading provider of advanced instant credit decisioning and loan origination solutions, today announced that four local non-profits will be receiving unexpected year-end cash donations from the company. While Zoot provides grants throughout the year, for the past five years they have given additional unsolicited contributions to local non-profits that provide a direct and [...]

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MENTOR gives Thanks!

November 22, 2011: As part of this Thanksgiving week, MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership expresses deep gratitude to the millions of mentors and youth-serving professionals nationwide who are giving children the support and guidance they need to build productive and meaningful lives. More than three million American young people have a caring adult in their [...]

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CAP Needs YOU to Volunteer TODAY!

  APPLY NOW! to be a CAP Mentor in the Bozeman Public Schools!  

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By Willa Smith, 8th Grader, Girls for a Change Core Committee Member The media can be a good thing. It can help to spread positive messages throughout the nation and the world. It can send hope, like a weak beam of light in an otherwise, dark night, through the hearts of many. But there is a [...]

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Dad’s Corner-Being a Father

Ahh, where to begin? There are so many things to being a single father, so I want to focus on the most important part…being a father. My Dad never really had a father growing up after his father got in a winter car wreck when he and his twin sister were infants. Between working 60 [...]

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Famous Mentoring Pairs

Robin Kelley-CAP Coordinator Longfellow and Morningstar Elementary Schools Did you know many successful people in our past and currently mentor or have mentors.  Although you will recognize most of these people it doesn’t take someone famous to be a great mentor! *Aristotle mentor to Alexander the Great *Mahatma Gandhi mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King [...]

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Parenting Strategies: It’s 8am, “Hey mom/dad! I need two dozen cookies for class this morning!”

Two ways to look at this: – Run by the store on your way to school/work and drop them off at the school . You’re super! – Oh, really? “Elliot, I don’t have time to run to the store. Do you have any ideas? …”We have graham crackers and frosting.” “You could have your classmates [...]

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Volunteering: What it Means to You and Your Community

Robin Kelley-CAP Coordinator at Longfellow and Morningstar Did you know that Montana ranks 9th nationwide in percentage of residents who volunteer?  According to a recent report from the Corporation for National and Community Service, 35.5% of Montanans have volunteered an annual average of 33.5 million hours of service in each of the last three years.  [...]

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