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Canterbury School of Florida educates and nurtures the whole child in mind, body, and spirit in preparation for college and an honorable life as a responsible steward of our world.Core Values We foster a love of learning by discovering and celebrating individual talents and skills through engagement with exemplary teachers in distinctive academic, artistic, athletic, and extra-curricular activities.As an independent school in the Episcopal tradition, we instill and expect integrity, honesty, moral courage, personal accountability, respect, and compassion for others within the context of spiritual awareness.Respecting the diversity of others and valuing the relationships uniting us as a school community, we inspire individual responsibility and a commitment to serve.
Stagebridge enriches the lives of older adults and their communities through the performing arts. Stagebridge works to fundamentally transform american attitudes towards aging from the traditional image of decline to a new vision of continuous growth. We accomplish this with nationally recognized and award-winning creative aging programs that offer older adults opportunities for lifelong learning and participation in the performing arts. Stagebridge’s unique position as a theatre company “for, by and of” seniors demonstrates in action the many ways in which elders improve and enrich our culture and our communities.
Cranbrook Educational Community (CEC) is one of the world's leading centers of education, science and art. Comprised of a graduate Academy of Art, contemporary Art Museum, House & Gardens, natural history museum and Pre-K through 12 independent college preparatory schools, Cranbrook welcomes thousands of visitors and students to its campus each year. Founded by Detroit philanthropists George and Ellen Booth in 1904, Cranbrook's campus features the work of world-renowned architects. In 1989, Cranbrook was designated as a National Historic Landmark.
The mission of the Foundation is to continue the legacy of Jim Burke's generosity by providing opportunities for students to excel by enhancing educational development and improving learning opportunities through financial resources, scholarships, grants, seed money for programs, advocacy, and matching funds.
Our mission is to provide educational services to people who are in need in Shelby County. Re-entry reporting is a separate component that we offer to inmates at the Shelby County Government: Divisions of Corrections before exiting the compound. Our goal is to empower and serve the greater good in Shelby County but are not limited to the needs of our city. We are investing in the citizens of Shelby County, City of Memphis and our next generation of youth and adult leaders. Our focus is helping families, the homeless, inmates incarcerated, and newly exiting offender population in need. We provide support, transitional services, staffing, operations, and management for Cooling/Warming Centers, Emergency aid and short term shelter options. Efforts are successful with community partners, sponsors, grants, fundraising, donations, food drives, coat drives, clothing, gently used furniture and so forth. We promote self-sufficiency, health & wellness, educational and advocacy programs. LHTF operates under four key values: Respect, Integrity, Compassion and Excellence.
The HCCS Parent Connection is comprised of parents, teachers, faculty and staff. The purpose of the Parent Connection is to promote the ideals of the school and facilitate parental involvement. The Parent Connection assists teachers in enriching the learning experience and raises and dispenses funds for special school needs.
Since 1814, Emma Willard School has been one of the nation's leading college preparatory boarding and day schools for young women. At Emma Willard, every possible resource is dedicated to developing in students the values and skills that form the foundation of a life of accomplishment, leadership, and fulfillment. These include a love for the life of the mind, a commitment to service, courage and confidence, grace and creativity, and collaboration and friendship. Known for its rigor, the school promotes intellectual curiosity and disciplined study habits through a challenging curriculum distinguished by a wide array of advanced placement courses and electives.
The Foundation raises funds and mobilizes Brooklyn Tech alumni to strengthen Brooklyn Technical High School’s STEM programs and student opportunities. It supports curricular and facility upgrades, faculty grants, scholarships, and experiential programs to help maintain and enhance the school’s academic excellence.
TO HELP SUPPLEMENT THE FUNDS OF THE BELMONT-REDWOOD SHORES SCHOOL DISTRICT SO THAT PROGRAMS CAN CONTINUE TO BE RETAINED. THESE PROGRAMS MAY INCLUDE SUCH DISTRICT-WIDE ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS AS: MUSIC PROGRAMS, SCHOOL LIBRARIES, SCIENCE SPECIALISTS, WRITING PROGRAMS, AND COMPUTER LEARNING CENTERS.
The Horace Mann School was founded in 1887 as a co-educational experimental and developmental unit of Columbia University's Teachers College. It became financially and administratively independent in 1946, and now is a co-educational college preparatory day school enrolling students in nursery through twelfth grade. Horace Mann seeks to educate and nurture its students and to help them fulfill their potential. To attain this goal, the School provides a challenging and rigorous set of academic and extracurricular programs within a caring and supportive environment. Students are encouraged to test and learn about themselves, to develop a concern for others and to grow intellectually, physically, socially and emotionally. The School encourages students to understand that learning is a lifelong endeavor that is valuable in itself.
We fund $50 vouchers for low income 1st, 2nd and 3rd graders to buy 10 new books each at the start of each summer. It's all based on research around summer setback and the achievement gap. We'll serve over 5,000 kids in 2018!
Yeshiva High School for Girls Inc, aka Ma'ayanot, is a Yeshiva and college preparatory high school for girls dedicated to the following objectives: to foster the development of a Torah personality: -whose life decisions are guided by the values and traditions of a Halakhically committed community -who strives to build a personal relationship with God through fulfillment of מצות, study and reflection -who is committed to acting with integrity, compassion and respect in her relationships with people -whose general conduct is informed by both a love and fear of hashem to provide an academically stimulating and challenging program that: -promotes active, critical, and creative thought -fosters both the discipline and joy of learning -sharpens the student's ability to communicate articulately and effectively -encourages collaborative intellectual activity and respect for the opinions of others to provide curricular and co-curricular programs that: -tap a variety of student strengths and talents -develop the student's proficiency in the use of technology and other resources -encourage the development of leadership qualities, initiative and teamwork to foster in the student the development of: -self-awareness and self respect -a sense of responsibility for personal academic achievement -an appreciation for her ability to impact on her environment to foster in the student an awareness of: -her membership in various communities including family, school, Jewish nation, the united states and the world at large -her obligations and commitments to those communities -the centrality of Israel in her life -the rich texture of the world around her to attract teachers who: -possess superior academic credentials -demonstrate broad-based knowledge coupled with expertise in their specific disciplines -exhibit personal integrity and commitment to the philosophy of the school -employ effective pedagogic strategies to meet the individual needs of students -strive to grow professionally and to share their expertise with their colleagues