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Raise The Nation® is about independence through Education. That is our mission, our goal, and the only platform we stand upon.

Raise The Nation was started by the team at Insanity House®, Incorporated. Insanity House researches and advocates for single parent women and their children. Research conducted by Insanity House revealed a lack of resources and supports for single parent women who wanted to continue with a post-secondary education. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 (otherwise known as The Welfare Reform Act of 1996) issued what can be viewed as punitive policies toward single parent women in general and especially toward single parent women who wanted to go to college. Student loan debt payments for single parent women was not factored in as a necessary bill to pay under the PRWORA either. Thus, Raise the Nation was started in September of 2000 in order to help address a need that the design of PRWORA could not. It took another two years for it to fully develop and was registered as a not for profit corporation in July of 2002.

Raise The Nation filed for not for profit status in January of 2003 and received it's 501 (c) (3) in December of 2003.

Raise The Nation was built on the "pot luck theory" (when everyone contributes a little there's enough for everyone). There are approximately 15 million single parent women in this country. If every single parent woman contributed $1.00 per year, we would be able to secure educational support for every single parent women who wanted it. If these women got 5 family members and 5 friends to contribute $1.00 per year, we would be able to provide financial support for education to the children of single parent women.

Raise The Nation makes distributions 2X per year, depending on our fund raising success.

Raise The Nation requires a $20 mandatory administration fee. This fee covers the paper, printing costs, stamps, legal fees, filing fees, and web hosting service.