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Marymount, Los Angeles was founded at the request of the Most Reverend John Cantwell, the first Archbishop of Los Angeles. Directed by Mother Joseph Butler, the founder and visionary of Marymount Schools in the United States, five pioneering sisters of the RSHM opened the doors of Marymount, Los Angeles to twelve students on September 23, 1923. The original campus was on 28th Street, adjacent to the University of Southern California. As enrollment grew, the site proved inadequate and eight years later, Marymount moved to its present location on Sunset Boulevard, across the street from the University of California, Los Angeles. The new six-and-a-half acre campus had much to commend it: beautiful yet functional Spanish Mission style buildings with ample space for athletic and recreational facilities all set in lovely surroundings. Throughout the years, several new buildings were added, all in keeping with the original architecture of the school. In 1982, Marymount was declared a California heritage cultural monument because of its outstanding architecture in the Spanish Colonial Revival mode and its history as a cultural center for learning. With sister schools in New York, Europe and South America, Marymount gratefully acknowledges the Religious who had the vision and strength to establish an international network of schools committed to service and to women’s education. Throughout its history, Marymount has remained dedicated to the goal of providing an education that fosters the spiritual, intellectual, physical, emotional and social maturity of the whole person. Each student is encouraged to find her own voice and to challenge herself through academics and co-curricular programs coupled with a deep commitment to serving others.

The mission of JCDS, Boston’s Jewish Community Day School, is to provide a premier education that:• Nurtures each student’s capacity for intellectual discovery and decision-making within a respectful, pluralist, bilingual Hebrew-English environment.• Gives our graduates the ability to create their futures informed by Jewish values, texts and culture, and to make a difference in their communities and the world.• Kindles the flame of lifelong learning in all its constituencies and serves as an inspirational model of innovative, effective and joyful teaching and learning beyond the school.Our Core Values:• JCDS’ course of study is rigorous and intentional, yet flexible and personalized. Academic Excellence is built on strong skills, citizenship, and Jewish literacy set in a nurturing and relaxed atmosphere.• JCDS fosters curiosity, cherishes varied perspectives, engages students and welcomes every family as a partner. JCDS’ Intentional Pluralism embraces families from a broad range of Jewish expression, practice, and belief through our shared traditions, texts, and language.• In JCDS’ cutting-edge Hebrew instruction program, students experience and learn in both Hebrew and English Throughout the Day in a single, integrated curriculum, which connects our teaching units across disciplines and between Jewish and General studies.• JCDS is a Joyful Jewish Community that learns and celebrates together in rich, colorful, and meaningful ways. The creative community spirit and school mission go well beyond the walls of JCDS, for events like life cycle celebrations, Shabbat meals, and weekend soccer games.• At JCDS each child is known by the faculty and administration. A culture of caring teachers, parents, and peers supports the high aspirations of our hard working students. This Whole Child approach leads to students who grow to be the best version of themselves.

DreamYard is committed to helping transform Bronx schools and communities through the power of innovative, project based arts education. Our schools and students are based in the nation's poorest urban county, with one-third of the Bronx's residents living below the poverty line. In response, DreamYard programs are designed to challenge the cyclical systems of inequality and poverty by empowering youth to discover and develop their best possible selves and to locate meaningful paths and ways to engage with their fellow students, schools, families, and communities. As the largest arts education provider in the Bronx, DreamYard critically impacts the social and intellectual growth of thousands of Bronx youth through safe, positive and creatively challenging programs. DreamYard's team of professional artists partner with classroom teachers and community educators to help students learn how to express, write and perform their own stories. Through year-long programs offered during the school day, after school, on weekends and during the summer, DreamYard supports youth development, enhances life-long learning skills, and promotes creative thinking and expression. DreamYard artists spark an interest in education that often lies latent in our youth. The organization understands that it is imperative to direct a young person's creativity toward positive goals as we strive to develop well-rounded and engaged citizens. Through DreamYard, young people believe that they can have an impact and change their communities and society as a whole. Its projects are catalysts that help teachers and communities propel students and their families into a life-long learning process.

Thank you for your offer to donate to the the Dana Hills High School Girls Lacrosse team. All funds to run our program come from voluntary contributions from families, friends, and community sponsors. One hundred percent of the money we earn is used to help pay for equipment, referees, uniforms, bus transportation, and program development. We would like you to know that your donation is a very important part of our efforts to continue to build a successful lacrosse program. Our sportswomanship core standard embodies grace, integrity and spirit. We value dedication to the sport of lacrosse and bring honor of the game to all of our athletic competitions. Thank you in advance for contributing to the success of the DHHS Girls Lacrosse program. We truly appreciate your donation and support. Your donation is tax deductible: Dana Hills Foundation Tax ID # 33-0696611 Sincerely, Alejandra Moraga, Head Coach DHHS Girls Lacrosse

The NOCCA Foundation champions the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. We build philanthropic, lasting partnerships. We invest in young artists, their mentors and the community through programs that encourage educational and cultural innovation. HOW WE SUPPORT NOCCA: The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts was founded in 1973 and opened its doors to students in 1974. Today, NOCCA is Louisiana’s arts conservatory for high school students, offering intensive instruction in Classical Music, Creative Writing, Culinary Arts, Dance, Drama, Jazz, Media Arts, Musical Theatre, Theatre Design, Vocal Music, Visual Arts, and academics. Students come from across Louisiana, attending via full-day, afternoon, and after-school sessions. Admission to NOCCA is by audition, and there is no tuition. The NOCCA Foundation (formerly The NOCCA Institute) is NOCCA’s nonprofit partner, providing supplemental funding for NOCCA and advocacy for its world-class program. Some of the Foundation’s more notable endeavors include: a Student Success Program that pays for students’ classroom supplies, college application fees, required private music lessons, fees associated with important summer training programs across the country, as well as emergency food support; an Artists-in-Residence Program that brings more than 100 professional visiting artists into NOCCA’s classrooms each year; the capital campaign for NOCCA’s current home and expansion projects like Press Street Gardens; a wide array of arts classes for adults; and concert, gallery, and literary events for the community. The Foundation also oversees rentals of the NOCCA campus, making it available to arts organizations, individuals, corporations, and other groups.

The education of a child should include much more than academics, and at Calvary Schools of Holland we focus on shaping the whole child. As we walk beside our students on their educational journey, we prepare them for the challenges of life in an atmosphere that fosters a genuine love of learning.Our elementary and middle school approach to nurturing each child as an individual is drawn from the proven philosophies of world-renowned educator Charlotte Mason, who combined classical educational approaches with relationship building techniques that embody true Christian character.Our high school students learn to become servant leaders as they put teaching into practice through mentoring of younger students and weekly community service.

Help underprivileged communities build better schools and provide the best curriculum and optimum conditions for students to thrive. A world where every child and youth has equal opportunity to access free quality education, holistic in nature, fostering their social, psychological, spiritual, and academic potentialities.

Operation of a Jewish preschool, elementary and middle school for girls. 400 students enrolled during the most recent school year.

"We will build community and serve our community by partnering with parents in the education of their children, striving to develop all aspects of the student's potential. We will provide a classical Christian education, a peaceful and inspiring environment, and a high standard of expectations for our students, teachers, and leaders, all for the glory of God. Vision: We aim to produce students who learn continually, listen intently, articulate precisely, love rightly, contend gracefully, and live purposefully for the glory of God and the good of others."

The Memphis Zoo's mission is to connect people with wildlife

The Loyola Sacred Heart Foundation is dedicated to supporting the long term financial stability of Missoula Catholic schools, and to ensuring its accessibility and affordability to the greater Missoula region by inspiring donors to invest in high quality, Catholic education.

Freedom Preparatory Academy Charter Schools prepare all students in PK-12 to excel in college and in life. VISION: Freedom Prep will transform education for students of color across the South. We will prove what’s possible. We will inspire broader change. We will carry the torch of the civil rights movement and help to realize its dream.