5 Mentors (that’s HUGE!)

15 USB sticks

15 folders

13 packages of pencils (137 pencils)

12 packs of pens (186 pens)

9 packs of highlighters (49 highlighters)

8 boxes of paperclips (hundreds of paperclips)

5 binders & Trapper Keepers

4 packs of crayons (188 crayons)

4 packs of post-its

4 rulers

3 glue sticks

Interested in doing more? You can still sign up to become a mentor, or contact Philadelphia Futures for other volunteer opportunities. If time is money, well, they’ll take that too – make a cash donation; Tmoms has already started the ball rolling with an extremely generous financial contribution, just one more reason to love the Moms! What ever you do be sure to tell them we sent you (Philadelphia Futures <3 Geeks).

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Maybe you needed a laptop for high school. Maybe you didn’t have to carry around a 5″ or 3.5″ floppy disc for each class. Maybe you used one USB drive for your whole year’s worth of homework.

Ah, the first day of high school, when all possibilities were open. When notebooks and USB drives were empty spaces waiting to be filled.  Without them, you couldn’t pass your classes. Couldn’t remember all of the stuff you were supposed to. Couldn’t cram for that history test on the bus or at lunch.

So go to Staples, rummage through your desk drawer, raid the supply closet at your job, do whatever you can to grab a PACK of notebooks, pens, or pencils. Or grab that 1G USB drive you got at that conference 5 years ago, but that you now laugh at because your bluetooth headset has more memory. Bring it to TMoms on Thursday, April 2 for G2: Geeks Who Give Game Night to donate to the kids at Philadelphia Futures.

Because they need this stuff, too. They might even pass that history test, thanks to you.

• $1.50 Pabst Blue Ribbon
• $3.00 Yards Philly Pale
• $3.00 Philadelphia Brewing Company Kenzinger
• $3.00 Hamburgers or Vegan Burgers.

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Philadelphia Futures is a local nonprofit that has been doing something about this for more than 20 years. What Futures does is match one student with one mentor, beginning in their freshman year. The student/mentor relationship continues until that student graduates high school. Futures provides academic support in the form of tutoring, SAT prep, college visits, advanced course work, and more. Apply now. They need at least 60 new mentors for their incoming class.

For the guys out there, Futures is desperately in need of male mentors. 60% of the drop outs in Philly are young men and boys. And in a city where many of these boys don’t have positive male role models, you bring an extra benefit to their lives.

As Geeks Who Give, we are all working to ensure the community continues to grow; the success of this city is dependent on the future of Philadelphia which must include equal opportunity for all. Be on the look out for more information and upcoming events from Geeks Who Give and Philadelphia Futures.

by Stephen Winkler, passionate Philadelphia Futures mentor & advocate.

Three librarians and one geek will be spinning great music to the tune of saving the eleven branches of the Philadelphia Free Library that are slated to close due to Mayor Nutter’s budget cuts.

Like the libraries this event aims to save, this event is Free and Open to the public. however, if EVERYONE in the city gave $10, Philadelphia could save the Libraries; Unfortunately, not everyone gives. What would you give to save the Libraries; to save Philadelphia?

Help The Friends of the Free Library realize a solution to the closings that, in their words, does not target low income households, children, students of all ages, the elderly, and job seekers in communities where unemployment, poverty, and illiteracy and those living on the wrong side of the digital divide are among the nation’s highest.

This event has been organized by “Concerned Library Workers of Drexel University” a group of civic-minded librarians and library students interested in doing what we can to keep these libraries open. As a part of the Save the Libraries campaign.