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Press ReleaseSAGE Learning Organization Receives Grant to Create Scholarships for High School Education in IndiaFORT COLLINS, Colo., April 20, 2007 -- SAGE (Studies Abroad for Global Education) is a unique non-profit organization, providing opportunities for North American and European high schools students to study in India. The institution's multicultural orientation was recently recognized by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, which granted the SAGE Program their 2007 Innovation Fund Award for its "Fostering Global Citizens" project.A grant of $148,000 was awarded to the Colorado-based SAGE organization (along with Friends of Woodstock School). The grant will serve to double the size of SAGE's summer program in India and to create a scholarship fund so that economically disadvantaged American students can see the wider world, firsthand. Up until receiving this grant, SAGE had been unable to provide scholarships to either the summer or full-year programs. The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation grant will now allow SAGE to provide 10 full scholarships per year to high-achieving, low-income students so that they become more globally aware and culturally sensitive. The SAGE grant was one of seven awards the foundation made in 2007, all of which funded programs of international study that held "special promise" for helping high-achieving, low-income high-school students to broaden their horizons. About SAGE: Founded in 1992, Studies Abroad for Global Education (SAGE) is a non-profit educational organization which seeks to build global awareness through a variety of high school and summer abroad programs in India. US, Canadian, and European students attend one of two schools on the sub-continent. Both long-established accredited schools have high-caliber curriculums taught completely in English. Students come from a wide range of countries, making the Woodstock and Kodai Schools alike a veritable "United Nations" of school environments. The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, based in Lansdowne, Virginia, helps high-achieving students with financial need reach their full potential through education by providing several scholarship and grant programs. http://www.jackkentcookefoundation.org CONTACT: Nathan Scott SAGE - Studies Abroad for Global Education Telephone: 888-997-SAGE (7243) nscott@sageprogram.org http://www.sageprogram.org |
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