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Enable children to be multilingual and global citizens by teaching languages and culture.

The mission of the university is to develop in its students capacities for critical analysis, aesthetic appreciation, sound judgment, and apt expression that will sustain a lifetime of intellectual curiosity, active inquiry, and reasoned independence. A Puget Sound education, both academic and cocurricular, encourages a rich knowledge of self and others; an appreciation of commonality and difference; the full, open, and civil discussion of ideas; thoughtful moral discourse; and the integration of learning, preparing the university's graduates to meet the highest tests of democratic citizenship. Such an education seeks to liberate each person's fullest intellectual and human potential to assist in the unfolding of creative and useful lives.

The mission of Lakeside School is to develop in intellectually capable young people the creative minds, healthy bodies, and ethical spiritsneeded to contribute wisdom, compassion, and leadership to a global society.  We provide a rigorous, dynamic academic programthrough which effective educators lead students to take responsibility for learning.  We are committed to sustaining a schoolin which individuals representing diverse cultures and experiences instruct one another in the meaning and value of communityand in the joy and importance of lifelong learning. MISSION FOCUSLakeside School fosters the development of citizens capable of and committed to interacting compassionately, ethically, and successfully with diverse peoples and cultures to create a more humane, sustainable global society.This focus transforms our learning and our work together.

Pacific Lutheran University is a comprehensive university with an enrollment of more than 3600 students. A member of the Associated New American Colleges, PLU is committed to the integration of liberal arts studies and professional preparation. A dynamic academic program features five professional schools and selective graduate programs that maintain a strong liberal arts emphasis at their core. PLU is the only Northwest University to be ranked within the top 15 western region universities in every "Best Colleges" survey published annually by the US News & World Report. Founded in 1890 by Scandinavian immigrants, PLU has been closely affiliated with the Lutheran church throughout its history and is now a university of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. PLU cherishes its dedication to educating for lives of service, as well as its distinguished and distinctive academic program that emphasizes curricular integration and active learning.

St. Therese Catholic Academy is a diverse, welcoming community that seeks to ignite the faith, minds and dreams of our students and to prepare them to excel spiritually, academically and socially in high school, college and beyond.

Pearl Buck Center offers people with various abilities and their families quality choices and supports to achieve their goals.

Golden Gate University was founded in 1901 and offers undergraduate and graduate programs in business and management, accounting, taxation, and law. Golden Gate University's mission is to prepare individuals to lead and serve by providing high-quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging learning environment that embraces professional ethics and diversity.

Founded in 1942, Coro's mission is to strengthen our democratic system of self-governance by training individuals who as citizens and leaders will act constructively and effectively to build up and improve their communities and societies as a whole. Using a proprietary curriculum involving sector placements, group participation, interviews, and seminars, Coro participants learn about leadership across multiple sectors, industries, and issues. Coro's training enhances participants' skills in the following areas: analysis and critical thinking; effective communication; inquiry; and ethical decision-making, among others. In its 68-year history, Coro has graduated thousands of leaders from its many programs. Coro graduates have become teachers, investment bankers, union leaders, corporate directors, activists, lawyers, journalists, and elected officials, among other professions. Coro graduates use the skills and commitment to integrity they developed to guide them throughout their life's journeys, and to strengthen our local and national democracy.

American Leadership Forum - Silicon Valley (ALF) mission is to build a better Silicon Valley community by joining and strengthening leaders to serve the common good. ALF pursues this objective by bringing together a broad cross-section of leaders who are committed to building a stronger community, by developing collaborative leadership skills to identify and deal with complex and difficult issues, and by providing leaders with opportunities to work together in ways that can make a difference.

Connecting the generations through programs that celebrate the wisdom, talents and creativity of older adults.

The John Thomas Dye School, an independent school, provides for its students a program of academic excellence, one both traditional and dynamic, with a commitment to family and community. The school encourages its students to reach their highest individual potential intellectually, artistically and physically; it nurtures their emotional, moral and social development; and it prepares them to meet the challenges of a diverse and competitive world.