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Bonnie CLAC

By Deborah Schachter on Saturday, December 27, 2008.

Typical car loans come at high rates of interest – even higher for people whose credit is not top-notch. So people who can least afford major car repairs and gas-guzzling vehicles end up driving unreliable cars that get bad mileage.

Bonnie CLAC gives financial literacy training and guarantees their loans – so they can afford reliable, fuel-efficient cars.

Diane Brodericks is one of those people.

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The Nature Conservancy

By Deborah Schachter on Saturday, December 20, 2008.

Anne Filson and her siblings spent summers with their grandparents in Madison, when the Ossipee Pine Barrens were abundant blueberry-picking grounds. Anne jumped at the chance to help The Nature Conservancy conserve this area.

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Marguerite's Place

By Deborah Schachter on Saturday, December 13, 2008.

Marguerite’s Place in Nashua provides transitional housing to homeless women and their children. While women are there, they can learn job skills, parenting skills and life skills to move into self-sufficiency. Kelly moved to Marguerite’s Place when her daughter was four months old.

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Canaan Historical Society

By Deborah Schachter on Saturday, December 6, 2008.

In 1834 – almost 20 years before the Emancipation Proclamation was signed -- a group of abolitionists from Canaan, New Hampshire, began a courageous and high-minded enterprise. They opened Noyes Academy, a school that would educate white and black scholars, side-by-side.

Donna Zani-Dunkerton of the Canaan Historical Society has a direct connection to the school: an ancestor of hers was one of its founders.

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