A new program, MBF Teen Safety Matters™, was recently launched by the Monique Burr Foundation for Children to prevent child abuse and bullying among teen-agers.
Privacy Policy
The Community First Cares Foundation (the Foundation) places a high priority on protecting your privacy. This privacy policy was created in order to demonstrate the Foundation’s firm commitment to the privacy of our members and website users. This policy explains what types of information is collected by the Foundation’s website, www.CommunityFirstCares.org, and how this information is used.
What Personally Identifiable Information is Collected
Foundation guests that submit grant requests via www.CommunityFirstCares.org and individuals that sign up to receive e-communications voluntarily provide us with contact information (such as name and e-mail address). We may use this information for specific, limited purposes. You may always "opt out," either now or at any time in the future, if you do not wish to receive our messages.
IP Addresses
The Foundation uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer www.CommunityFirstCares.org, and for statistical metrics used to track website visitor traffic.
Cookies
www.CommunityFirstCares.org uses "cookie" messages to automatically help provide better services. They remind us who you are and your preferences for our website based on what you've done and told us before. The "cookie" is placed in your computer and is read when you come back to our website. Cookies let us take you to the information and features you're particularly interested in. They also let us track your usage of www.CommunityFirstCares.org, so we know which parts of our sites are most popular. You can reject cookies or cancel them by instructing your Web browser accordingly.
How Your Information May Be Used
We use your personal information to provide you with personalized service; to send e-mail alerts to you; to answer your requests; to process your membership application; etc. You may choose to opt out at any time, which will cease all communications from us. We may also use your information to track visitors to our website. This lets us see which of our features are the most popular so we can better serve our users' needs. It also lets us provide aggregate data about our traffic (not identifying you personally, but showing how many visitors used which features, for example) to outside parties.
Email Privacy
The Foundation does not provide, sell, or rent email addresses to anyone outside the organization.
External Links
www.CommunityFirstCares.org includes links to external websites. These links do not fall under the www.CommunityFirstCares.org domain, and the Foundation is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of external websites. Your use of any linked website is solely at your own risk.
Modifications
We may amend this privacy policy from time to time; please review it periodically. We maintain the option to modify this privacy at any time by electronic notice posted on our website. Your continued use of our website after the date that such notices are posted will be deemed to be your agreement to the changed terms.
Questions
Please send your questions and comments about our website privacy policy to the Foundation's Executive Director at 800.342.8416 x 8090 or [email protected].
Poverty is a silent epidemic in our schools, and many issues with attendance and academics are directly related to students not having clean clothes, shoes that fit, or the supplies they need to be successful in school. Students want to feel good about themselves when they come to school, and we want to help them have everything they need to learn. We could not have opened our first on-site classroom-sized Giving Closet without this funding and volunteer support.
Jennifer Smith, DCPS teacher and Founder of The Giving Closet Project.