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High School senior Oluwanifemi Yesufu, of Laurel, MD, has been awarded a Western Illinois University Presidents Scholarship, in conjunction with the Western Commitment Scholarship.

Nonprofits provide services that millions of people rely on. And unlike businesses, they can’t generally raise prices to cover inflation’s bite.

Rethink the news: Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear and considering different views.

Rethink the news: Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear and considering different views.

Rethink the news: Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear and considering different views.

Rethink the news: Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear and considering different views.

Rethink the news: Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear and considering different views.

Rethink the news: Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear and considering different views.

By Susan Snyder, Kristen A. Graham The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Colleen McCaffrey, a senior at Northeast High in Philadelphia, spends much of her time trying to persuade her classmates to fill out federal college financial-aid forms. It’s a tougher sell this year.  ”The hardest thing is just getting to people,” said McCaffrey, who’s part of Peer Forward, a program that trains teenagers to help their peers prepare for college. “In the past, we had assemblies. We could go into homeroo...

Some worry a drop in financial aid applications means fewer low-income students are considering college Susan Snyder, Kristen A. Graham, The Philadelphia Inquirer © TIM TAI/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Strawberry Mansion High School counselor Ameera Sullivan says getting students to fill out FAFSA forms is harder in a virtual environment. Here, in February 2019, before the pandemic, she gives a hall pass to Jahmod Williams, right, after he took a school district career quest...