Hello –
We are so happy to announce that we will be playing a benefit to help Cooperative for Education launch their Thousand Girls Initiative on October 16th at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. Cooperative for Education (http://www.coeduc.org/) was started by Matt’s cousins, Joe and Jeff Berninger, and the Thousand Girls Initiative represents a major program expansion for the organization.
Matt wanted to share a few thoughts about CoEd:
“Almost twenty years ago my cousins Joe and Jeff Berninger quit their corporate jobs and started this non-profit. CoEd has already reached more than 150,000 kids with textbooks and computers, and now they’re taking on girls’ education. I’m excited to join the effort to keep 1,000 girls from dropping out of school, which is so common in Guatemala. I’m really proud to be a part of this amazing organization.”
According to USAID, educating girls yields a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the developing world. Yet, gender inequality in education remains an enormous issue in impoverished Guatemala.
The Thousand Girls Initiative aims to reduce this disparity by growing to reach 1,000 girls in CoEd’s Scholarship & Youth Development Program by the year 2020. In a country where the national high school graduation rate is only 18%, 95% of students who finish middle school with a CoEd scholarship go on to graduate from high school.
We hope you can join us for this special event to help an organization that is near and dear to our hearts. Tickets go on sale Friday, August 21st, at 10 am PDT here: http://ticketf.ly/1HRNvst.
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