IPA a Corporate Sponsor of the Black Star Project

Contact:
Jennifer Cumbee
IPA
847-808-5590
Jennifer.Cumbee@ipa-c.com

Buffalo Grove, Ill. (August 19, 2006) - IPA proudly announces its corporate sponsorship and partner of The Black Star Project and academic supporter of the Student Motivation Program.

The Black Star Project is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization that works around the country to help preschoolers to collegians succeed in education. The group focuses on low-income black, Hispanic and American Indian students in lower-achieving schools.

As an academic supporter, IPA will partner with two Black Star schools for the duration of the 2006-2007 school year, providing each of them with bimonthly sessions of the Student Motivation Program. Furthermore, IPA employees will volunteer as Student Motivators and share their life experiences with students at partner schools as well as Black Star schools. In addition, IPA has been invited to sit on the Student Motivation Program Advisory Board. This board, composed of representatives from partners and supporters of the Student Motivation Program, helps to determine the future of the Program.

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