Help Support DEPAC

 

If you’re like most people, you want to support the causes that are important to you. However these days, it can be difficult to find the money or the time. That’s why the Delphonse Education and Performing Arts Center (DEPAC) is so excited to be a member and participant organization of the “Compass for Your Cause” program. Through Compass for Your Cause, you’ll be able to support DPEAC even more by doing something you do virtually every day, use your check card for everyday purchases.

Here’s how it works:

1. Open a new BBVA Compass checking account and tell your BBVA Compass Banker to apply our organization code 83717. BBVA Compass will pay us a royalty of $50 for your account opening by October 30, 2010.

2. Apply for a BBVA Compass Visa Check Card tied to your account. BBVA Compass will pay us a royalty of 0.25% of the purchase amount of every signature-based purchase you make with your card. You can even personalize your Check Card with a special DEPAC design to show your support.

How the funds add up:

Example:

100 of DEPAC's friends and members enroll in the program and open checking accounts:

100 x $50 = $5,000 in initial royalty payments

Over the course of one year, you each make an average of $500 in qualifying Check Card purchases.

$500 x 12 months = $6,000 a year

$6,000 x 0.25% = $15

$15 x 100 members = $1,500

$5,000 + 1,500 = $6,500

How to get started:

1. Open a BBVA Compass checking account when BBVA Compass visits us onsite, or at any BBVA Compass Banking Center, or by calling 1–800-COMPASS. When you open your account, be sure to include DEPAC's five-digit code 83717.

2. Apply for a BBVA Compass Visa® Check Card. Once the card arrives, visit us online at www.bbvacompass.com/go/makemycard to personalize your card.

3. Start using your check card! Just make sure you sign for purchases or hit "credit" when you use it, so your purchases will qualify for this program. If you are already a BBVA Compass customer, simply tell your banker to update your account to include our organization’s code 83717. You can also do this by calling 1-800-COMPASS

To get started, connect your current accounts and for more information on the program and policies, visit: http://www.bbvacompass.com/go/yourcause

Closing The Achievement Gap

In a report performed by the Institute of Educational Science entitled "How Black and White students in Public Schools Perform in Mathematics and Reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress" stated that the past half century has witnessed considerable gains in educational attainment in the United States. Although scores have increased for both Black and White students, on average Black students do not perform as well as their White peers.

In 2007, mathematics scores for both Black and White public school students in grades 4 and 8 nationwide, as measured by the main NAEP assessments of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), were higher than in any previous assessment, going back to 1990. This was also true for Black and White fourth-graders on the NAEP 2007 Reading Assessment. For grade 8, reading scores for both Black and White students were higher in 2007 than in the first reading assessment year, 1992, as well as the most recent previous assessment year, 2005.

White students, however, had higher scores than Black students, on average, on all assessments. While the nationwide gaps in 2007 were narrower than in previous assessments at both grades 4 and 8 in mathematics and at grade 4 in reading, White students had average scores at least 26 points higher than Black students in each subject, on a 0-500 scale. 

 The educational gap between Black students and White Students continue to slowly decline as Educators, Teachers, Politicians, and Government continue to search ways to help close this gap sooner. For more information on this issue, please visit http://nces.ed.gov/, or for more information on the Delphonse Education and Performing Arts Center please visit www.mydepac.com.

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