Friends of the Home School Foundation, A new school year has begun, and the Foundation is working hard to help as many homeschoolers as it can start out the year on a strong footing. Thank you for all your prayers and support!
Essay Contest Deadline Extended!
Homeschoolopoly Game Helps Homeschoolers in Need!
Group Grants Awarded
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Essay Contest Deadline Extended! The 2007 Essay Contest deadline is fast approaching. The date by which entries must be postmarked has been moved back to Monday, November 5, to give students an extra weekend to work on their entries. So get those fingers typing!
Students must write an essay answering one of the following questions:
Category 1 (students ages 7-11): If there was one person in the world you could help, who would it be, why would you help them, and how would you help them?
Category 2 (students ages 12-15): If you could choose to make a small difference in the world at large or a big difference in one person's life, which would you choose and why?
Category 3 (students ages 16-19): Describe an admirable quality or admirable position of a person with whom you largely disagree.
Go to the HSLDA website for more details on the essay contest rules/guidelines as well as tips from past judges on how to write an outstanding essay.
Proceeds from this contest will go to the Home School Foundation’s Special Needs Children Fund.
Homeschoolopoly Game Helps Homeschoolers in Need Creators of Homeschoolopoly, Greg and Pamela Berthume, did more than just create the world’s first homeschool board game; they are using their small business as a tool to bless needy homeschoolers across the nation.
The Berthumes are working with the Home School Foundation to provide free Homeschoolopoly board games to many of the families that HSF assists!
To read the full story, and to get your own game.
Group Grants Awarded The Home School Foundation wrapped up the summer by awarding nearly 70 grants to homeschool groups across the nation—most of which participate in HSLDA’s group discount program. The grants help these groups provide their members with services such as graduation ceremonies, science lab equipment, music equipment, scholarships for financially needy families, and many, many other projects.
Here is a note from one of the groups we helped:
“God is indeed good! His provision through you is a blessing, and we thank you. The grant you sent us was timely and needed. I had a chance to purchase music last weekend and picked out what I thought would be appropriate for the bands to play right after Christmas for a concert coming up. I paid for it out of my own pocket, knowing somehow God would supply the need. Two days later, I was informed of the grant. It covers the music I chose, and these pieces will be used not only for our concert, but we will take them with us to be adjudicated next spring at our state Homeschool Band Festival.
“Thank you for your generosity and following after God.”
—Valley Home Schoolers
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