Welcome to the Good News Fridays segment! Each week here on Geek Alabama, Good News Fridays will feature something good, wholesome, positive, and overall something great. After a long and stressful week, we all need something good to read or watch on Fridays! Enjoy a heartwarming post below.

They’ve been lifting kids out of poverty for 50 years. Now, they have Harvard-grade proof.

A new study from economists Jamie Gracie and Benjamin Goldman shows Communities in Schools (CIS) is among the most cost-effective programs for raising the lifetime earnings of low-income students ever studied.

So… I wanted to know more. Founded by a guy who was kicked out of high school and calls himself the real-life Forrest Gump, he managed to build an organization serving 2 million kids across 29 states.

We traveled to San Antonio, TX not just to see CIS in action – and show you how you can put their insights to work in your own community – but to throw all the people that do this important work a party.

This is the first episode of DREAM ON, a show about the people rebuilding the American Dream, place by place, project by project.

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