Bouje Publishing Honored by The Corporate Volunteer Council of Atlanta (CVC) for Dedication to Community Service

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(Free-Press-Release.com) September 18, 2009 --

Bouje Publishing was awarded the 2009 Emerging Program Award which recognizes an employee volunteer program that is less than 2 years old and has achieved significant results. Bouje Publishing, who specializes in teaching kids business concepts and entrepreneurial skill, ran Preparing Kids for Success, a program that taught pre-teens leadership, business, and entrepreneurship skills while providing support to parents and educators. Participating students started businesses, giving up to 20% of their profits to non-profits in their communities. Additionally, the students have seen an improvement in their reading, writing, and math skills.

The Awards ceremony was held September 17th at the World of Coca Cola. Winners and Runner-ups were recognized in 4 categories. The IMPACT winner was awarded a $15,000 grant given to the nonprofit partner of their choice, and the other winners each received $5,000 grants for their non-profit partners.

Emerging Program Award

Winner: Bouje Publishing

Non-profit Partner: Junior Achievement of Georgia

Innovative/Collaborative Program Award

Winner: The Coca Cola Company

Non-profit Partner: Hand on Atlanta


Project Award

Winner: Bank of America

Non-profit: Neighbors to Family


IMPACT Award

Winner: Atlanta Gas Light

Non-profit: Cool Girls, Inc


"The nominations for this year's IMPACT awards prove that Atlanta businesses and corporations, despite a difficult economic climate, continue to dedicate themselves to giving back to the communities in which they do business," said CVC of Atlanta president and Atlanta Gas Light's Jodie Huiet. "We could not be more excited about honoring these eight companies for the excellent programs and community service projects they've undertaken in 2009."


Bouje Publishing publishes The Future Business Leaders' Series, a set of fiction adventure books that introduce pre-teens to the concepts of business and entrepreneurship. The message crosses all geographic, gender, racial and socioeconomic lines by empowering kids to reach for their dreams while learning real life lessons. The lessons covered in the series can make all the difference in a kid's future: the importance of dreaming big, protecting an idea, fighting doubts, building self-esteem, networking and achieving success. For more information visit http://www.boujepublishing.com

The Corporate Volunteer Council of Atlanta http://www.cvcofatlanta.org is a leading professional association of Atlanta area businesses that promotes employee volunteerism in the corporate sector and provides a forum for networking, learning corporate best practices, research and local trends. The CVC of Atlanta is the local arm of the Points of Light Foundation-Hands On Network, a national nonprofit, non-partisan organization. The CVC of Atlanta includes more than 75 Atlanta corporations with employee populations ranging from 10 to 32,000 employees.

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