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Educational First Steps is dedicated to improving the quality and availability of early childhood education for economically disadvantaged children

We believe that quality, early and continuing education is the most effective way to break the cycle of poverty and change destinies. We accomplish this by running sustainable education programs for all children and youth in the Dominican Republic that can be replicated throughout impoverished global communities. It is our vision that all children in the Dominican Republic have the opportunity to receive a superior education and learn to their full potential. 

Our mission is to help immigrant families access needed services, develop self-sufficiency, and participate fully as members of the community.

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.

Inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s Waldorf education system, the mission of Desert Marigold School is to provide an educational context that emphasizes not only intellectual achievement, but also the imaginative, artistic, and moral growth of its students. By addressing their heads, hands and hearts, the school will encourage students to be life-long learners and independent thinkers as well as self motivated, self-disciplined, creative, adaptable and responsible individuals. We seek to establish and maintain a school that provides an individualized, nurturing approach to educating its students, preparing them not only for higher education, but for the rest of their lives. We will require and use an active partnership of teachers, families and the community, as well as a continued affiliation with the world-wide Waldorf movement to achieve the following goals: 1. To ensure each child’s excellence in core academic skills by providing a curriculum enlivened with the arts of painting, music, drama, movement, singing, sculpture and hand work. 2. To educate according to age and development, so that learning and growth are united. 3. To present the curriculum in multiple and integrated ways, so students have many different opportunities to learn concepts, as well as see the relationship to the larger whole. 4. To nourish the spirit of curiosity so that students continue to learn long after the end of formal training. 5. To encourage fundamental values and life skills, including responsibility, perseverance, integrity, self-discipline, trustworthiness, craftsmanship, friendship and compassion. 6. To make available this quality of education for all ethnic and socioeconomic sectors in our community.

Mundo Verde aims to foster high levels of academic achievement among a diverse group of students by preparing them to be successful and compassionate global stewards of their communities. The engaging curriculum focuses on sustainability and biliteracy.

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.

Family Connections knows that a positive family dynamic is key to a child’s success. That is why Family Connections is a family learning community focused on education and growth for underserved children AND their parents and caregivers. Our mission is to create the highest quality family learning community so underserved children and parents together become the drivers of their own success.

The mission of the Tandana Foundation is to empower individuals of various cultural backgrounds with an increased awareness of the world, other cultures, and themselves, and with an expanded sense of their possibilities; promote positive, caring interactions between people of different backgrounds and encourage consideration and lessening of global inequalities; and promote respect and responsibility toward one's self, all people, and the Earth.

The Community School of West Seattle is passionate about providing an environment that supports each child's innate desire for knowledge. With in this environment a child will have: - Freedom of choice - Trust and respect -Guidance and support So that they may be their own unique being in the world

The Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus is a human service agency offering a varied program that is Jewish in nature. It is committed to enhancing the quality of individual and family through the promotion of physical, intellectual and spiritual wellness. It provides educational and cultural programs that reflect the Jewish heritage, health related activities and many services to the community at large. Through its wide array of programs, the JCC pursues its mission of strengthening the individual, family and community.

Believing in the potential of all children, LEAP empowers Latino and other children in Durham to achieve academic success by providing a high-quality preschool and on-going support through middle school.