Non-profit organization Tri-CAP received a Best Practices Award for educating in financial literacy. Shown here are, from left to right, are Tikki Brown of the Office of Economic Opportunity, Arnie Anderson of MinnCAP, Lori Schultz of Tri-CAP, Janel Heinen of Tri-CAP, Lisa Drew of Tri-CAP and Hubert Reinarz of Wells Fargo.
Event recognizes Tri-County Action Program helping to end poverty
The Tri-County Action Program, or “Tri-CAP,” received a Best Practices Award for its Tax Program financial literacy initiative, “Save It, Fix It, Spend It.”
The awards go to local Community Action programs that have achieved outstanding and measurable impacts in helping low-income households achieve greater economic self-sufficiency and building partnerships across social service, government and business sectors to better meet the needs of local communities.
Tri-CAP is a private, non-profit Community Action Agency that provides services and programs that assist individuals and families in achieving and maintaining economic self-sufficiency. Tri-CAP provides these services in Stearns, Benton and Sherburne counties. Community Action changes lives every day, one person at a time.
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SCSU DECA students to compete in Washington, D.C.
Two Sauk Rapids students Taylor Biskey and Trevor Voss are two of four Central Minnesotans who are part of the St. Cloud State University DECA team competing April 16-20 at the Collegiate DECA International Career Development Conference in Washington, D.C. Biskey and Voss are competing as a team in business research. Students choose from among 24 competitive events.
Collegiate DECA prepares students for careers by integrating classroom skills with real-world experiences. The student-driven organization puts an entrepreneurial focus on marketing and sales, arts, communications and technology, business management and administration, finance and accounting, and hospitality and tourism.
Advisor Craig H. Wilson, assistant professor of accounting, predicts SCSU will earn top-three finishes. SCSU was the only Minnesota school to earn a national Community Service Award, which recognizes civic activities performed in the community.
The acronym “DECA” formerly stood for “Distributive Education Clubs of America.”
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Emily Campbell, a Sauk Rapids-Rice High School senior and daughter of Deb and Scott Campbell of Sauk Rapids, was among the more than 300 Concordia students who presented their research April 13 as part of the all-day campus-wide Celebration of Student Scholarship at Concordia College, Moorhead. Campbell’s research is entitled “Homophily Explained and Expressed: A Concordia Study that Synthesizes Mathematics and Psychology.”