Drew Knapp

Montclair NJ Non-Profit Awarded National Business Grant

Investing In Women has awarded a $500 “stimulus package” to a woman owned business, The Underground Railroad To Success. The URS was started by Tanisha Cunningham to teach independence to foster children. This grant will give the non-profit a chance to market their business.

Montclair NJ, November 9, 2009- Investing In Women www.iiWomen.com has awarded their first grant to a woman owned business in the USA. The recipient of the award is Tanisha Cunningham, founder of The Underground Railroad to Success (www.railroad2success.com). The URS is a non-profit that provides a service to foster children aging out of the system to live independently as adults while becoming an integral part of society. This is great for foster children and also has a positive affect on our society as a whole.

“Aging out” is the term used for children who go into foster care, but are never returned to their families of origin or adopted by others. They stay in the system until they turn 18, or graduate from high school, and for the most part, are left to fend for themselves as best they can.

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I found this charming and heartening video on Brendan King's blog:

www.agreatertown.com/needham_heights_ma/entrepreneurs_can_change_the_world_00092685

Hope it picks up your spirits in these dreary times, as it did mine.

Thought you might be interested to see some community and RE related videos on A Greater Town. With all the talk of videos these days, A Greater Town affords you a free community context in which to display them, along with text, links, still photos, logos, contact info, etc:

http://www.agreatertown.com/montclair_nj/a_walking_tour_of_center_montclair_0001226

A Walking Tour Of Lower Montclair

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