Charities

American Eagle works with three different charities: Jumpstart, Big Brothers Big Sisters, and the Student Conservation Association. During the holidays, AE sold scarves for these charities. A portion of each scarf bought went towards the charity. Each scarf was a different color to represent the different charity.

Jumpstart is a program that helps kids to learn since the day they begin school. It is based in Boston. They take trained college students and pair them up with pre-schoolers who need assistance. In the 2006-2007 year, Jumpstart helped nearly 12,000 children.

Big Brothers Big Sisters is a youth mentoring program. This program has been around for 104 years helping kids across the nation. They serve 5,000 communities across the United States in mentoring kids of all ages.

The Student Conservation Association is a national conservation program. With the help of high school and college students, the SCA helps to keeps parks and the environment clean now and for a long time. Over the course of one year, it is not uncommon for the SCA to put in 1.5 million hours of service to help the environment.

All three of these charities are helpful and I'm glad that American Eagle has taken a part in each and everyone of them. It's good to see that AE can help give back to the community.

Spring Break

As like most stores, American Eagle plays music 24/7. However, they also include on their CD some interviews. On this CD they include an interview with Fall Out Boy. This is simply because Fall Out Boy is performing for AE's show down in Cancun. I actually think they're playing this week, but they might have performed last week. However, if for some reason you don't like going to warm weather, or enjoy the cold weather, then you can go to Squam Valley. Here they are going to have Gym Class Heroes performing. Nevertheless, if you enjoy the warm weather and want to help the Student Conservation Association, then you should go to the Grand Canyon and Padre Island. At the Grand Canyon, the Student Conservation Association will be replanting flowers in the area. In Padre Island, they will be rebuilding the boardwalks to protect the dunes. So pick a place to go, mine would preferably a someplace warm, and have a great time. I know most of you have already gone on Spring Break already, but if you haven't, enjoy!