Good for You! to self-made millionaire Harris Rosen, who's used the fortune he amassed in the hotel business to help young people in the crime-ridden Orlando, FL neighborhood of Tangelo Park. Rosen created a scholarship program to pay free tuition to Florida state colleges for any students in the neighborhood. In the two decades since
Good for You! to self-made millionaire Harris Rosen, who's used the fortune he amassed in the hotel business to help young people in the crime-ridden Orlando, FL neighborhood of Tangelo Park. Rosen created a scholarship program to pay free tuition to Florida state colleges for any students in the neighborhood. In the two decades since starting the program, he has donated nearly $10 million. The high school graduation rate in Tangelo Park is now nearly 100 percent, whereas it used to be 25 percent, and some property values have quadrupled. The crime rate has been cut in half. Rosen says, “We've given these kids hope, and given the families hope. And hope is an amazing thing."
TODAY, 4/17/2013
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