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The Foundation exist to promote and inspire reading and literacy, while honoring the legacy and memory of a teacher by the name of Joseph Riley Armstead, III, His passion for the success of children and reading is carried forward through book donations to children and scholarships offered in his name.

This school is dedicated to educating children with the most enlightened approach: well-appointed Montessori.

To provide parents with the skills, tools, and resources needed to support their children’s early education and beyond.

Julie's Family Learning Program (Julie's) was established in 1974 by the Sisters of Notre Dame in response to their experiences in South Boston with large numbers of families, mostly female-headed, living with the pervasive effects of poverty. Julie's is committed to the development of strong, healthy family functioning. The goals of the program encompass a commitment to break the cycle of poverty among low income, at-risk families. We are steadfast in providing services that enable mothers and their children become healthy, responsible, successful at life, and economically self-sufficient members of their communities.

To provide transformative care to end the cycle of homelessness for families.

The Ocean State Montesson School fosters independence, self-esteem, and a life-long love of learning by providing an academically excellent and nurturing Montessori environment for children in preschool through sixth grade.

Founded in 1988, Storyteller Children?s Center provides quality tuition-free early childhood education for homeless and at-risk children, ages 18 months through five years, as well as comprehensive support services for their families.

Raising A Reader MA partners with regional organizations to help parents with young children to develop, practice and maintain shared reading habits, which foster vocabulary and language skills essential to reading readiness. Raising A Reader MA is an evidence-based early literacy program that helps families of young children (birth through age six) develop, practice, and maintain habits of reading together at home. Our core program model, which both increases access to books and offers support for strengthening the culture of reading at home, is driven by more than 25 years of research that show the most significant factor impacting a child’s academic success is being regularly read to by a parent or other primary adult caregiver before starting kindergarten. Our vision is to equip all parents and caregivers to become agents of change, as their child’s first teachers, to eliminate the opportunity gap that impacts success in school and beyond.

SEARCH Homeless Services pursues a mission of providing hope, creating opportunity, and transforming lives.

Our mission is to enhance parent and child development with free high-quality early education. Learn. Connect. Play. Foundation (LCP) offers free preschool, Parent Education, home visits and parent support to families on the Central Coast. We engineer the school environment to meet the diverse needs of students, employ highly trained staff, pay fair wages, and partner with parents to create our unique program that builds strong children, families and community. Founded in 2015, Learn. Connect. Play. Preschool believes all children have the right to high quality early education.

Rosemount Center’s mission is to prepare children and families for their future by providing comprehensive early childhood education and family support programs in a bilingual multicultural setting.

Noe Valley Nursery School, a cooperative preschool, was started in 1969 by a group of San Francisco parents in the Noe valley neighborhood. We continue to be a community of parents interested in taking part in our children's preschool experience. All families share in the planning and operation of the school. Our parents staff the school under the direct guidance of a qualified master's-level preschool teacher. Our school is a proud and active member of the California council of parent participation nursery schools, which has also been serving San Francisco families since 1969. At NVNS, we welcome all ethnicities, religions, orientations, abilities, and backgrounds. We are one inclusive community, and we celebrate our differences.