National honoree
12,000 college students learn good business includes helping others

 

Across the nation. Angela Schrock, 19, of Northeastern Junior College in Colorado, helped show a needy family how to get more for their money at the grocery.	t a time when the news from campus too often concerns binge drinking at parties, nearly 12,000 students in a business club -- Students in Free Enterprise -- spent one Saturday lending a hand to the less fortunate. In Colorado, students not only gave poor families groceries, but also took them shopping and coached them on stretching food dollars. In Georgia, students helped bankrupt people plan financial comebacks. In Michigan, they tutored Native American teens on the fine points of getting a job. In California, Kentucky and Ohio, they held career workshops.
In Missouri, South Carolina and Tennessee, they built Habitat for Humanity houses. In Arizona and 10 other states, they ran food and clothing drives. From California to Maine, they taught computer and money-management workshops. All these projects were sponsored by Students in Free Enterprise, active on 600 campuses. $10,000 award from Paul Newman will help SIFE expand volunteer projects on Make A Difference Day 1999.

Paul Newman funds awards

The actor and founder of the food company Newman's Own Inc. gives $10,000 to the charities of each of the 10 Make A Difference Day Award recipients. This is Newman's fifth year as a Make A Difference Day supporter; his contributions to local charities through this day total $500,000. He will give another $100,000 to charities of participants in the next Make A Difference Day, Oct. 23.

Newman, who donates 100% of after-tax profits from Newman's Own to charitable and educational causes.