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Karma for Cara Foundation awards microgrants to youths 18 years of age and younger who spearhead exceptional service projects in their communities.  Meet Tyrin (18) from Huntington, WV whose project was the Hoops Family Children’s Hospital Fun Day. In order to provide a fun experience for hospitalized children at the hospital, Ty and volunteers visited with the children to learn more about them outside of their illnesses, made crafts together, and decorated the children’s hospital rooms. 

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Karma for Cara Foundation awards microgrants to youths 18 years of age and younger who spearhead exceptional service projects in their communities.  Meet Morgan (6) from Bowie, MD who used her microgrant to fund a Birthday Party & Community Service Day Party. This year Morgan dedicated her birthday to the Lighthouse Shelter in Annapolis, MD. At the party she & her guests packed and decorated bagged lunches for the homeless. Morgan also donated some of the presents she received to the shelter. In addition to her birthday party she organized a Community Service Day Party to which she invited her entire 1st grade class, plus other friends, and kids in her family. They packed & decorated more lunch bags. A representative from the Lighthouse Shelter attended both events to discuss the work they do in an age-appropriate manner and explain how Morgan and her friends are helping them. 

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Karma for Cara Foundation awards microgrants to youths 18 years of age and younger who spearhead exceptional service projects in their communities.  Meet Kaina (17) from Miami whose project is called One Page Closer which she initiated as a junior in high school. Kaina and volunteers supply fully stocked bookshelves/mini-libraries to low income students that include young adult books (that students are more interested in)–not necessarily just academic reading books.

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Karma for Cara Foundation awards microgrants to youths 18 years of age and younger who spearhead exceptional service projects in their communities.  Meet Isabella from Yorba Linda, CA who used her microgrant to fund a literacy intervention project called “Read a Story, Change a Life.” Using a template developed by Higher Ground Youth and Family Services, a local outreach program servicing at-risk youth, Isabella and volunteers made their project mobile. Incorporating puppet shows about reading and writing and engaging children in storytelling, Isabella hopes to engender a love of reading and writing in young children to promote equal access to literary success.